1712 – Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800
1749 – English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States
1917 – In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay
1948 – US President Harry Truman is re-elected in an upset victory over Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
1963 – “Tambourines to Glory” opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1985 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Aqueduct Racetrack; winners: Cozzene, Life’s Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1993 – Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey
2003 – US sitcom “Arrested Development” Premieres created by Mitchell Hurwitz, starring Jason Bateman, Porta de Rossi, Michael Cera and an ensemble cast on Fox
2019 – 9th Rugby World Cup, Yokohama: South African fly-half Handré Pollard lands 6 penalties and 2 conversions as Springboks beat favourites England, 32-12 for their 3rd title