1813 – Battle of the Thames; American forces under General William Henry Harrison defeat Tecumseh’s Confederacy and their British allies led by Henry Procter near Chatham, Upper Canada
1912 – NY Highlanders last game at Hilltop stadium; beat Washington, 8-6; Brooklyn Dodgers last game at Washington Park; lose 1-0 v NY Giants
1931 – 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon and Pangborn)
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1943 – US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation
1949 – Sportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Jones’s rare spinal disease (syringomyelia) which prevent him from playing any form of golf again
1970 – MLB Championship Series both end on the same day with same score; (AL) Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3-0; (NL) Cincinnati Reds down Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; Orioles win WS, 4-1
1975 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 – “Hair” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
1988 – Israel bans Meir Kahane’s Kach Party on grounds of racism