Also on this date
British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
In 1777,
In 1888,
poet T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
following word that President Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange saw its worst price decline since 1929.
In 1955,
In 1964,
The situation comedy “Gilligan’s Island” premiered on CBS.
William H. Rehnquist, a Shorewood, Wisconsin, native, was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.
In 1986,
In 1990,
the Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, to replace the X rating.
In 1991,
four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called Biosphere 2. (They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)
In 1996,
President Bill Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
In 2005,
Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury in Fort Hood, Texas, on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. (England was sentenced to three years in prison; she served half that time.)
In 2016,
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton participated in their first debate of the presidential campaign at Hofstra University in New York; Clinton emphatically denounced Trump for keeping his personal tax returns and business dealings secret from voters while Trump repeatedly cast Clinton as a “typical politician.”
Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who later became the oldest Oscar acting nominee as the survivor in “Titanic,” died in Los Angeles at age 100.
Speaking at a U.N. summit on new development goals, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged billions in aid to the world’s poorest countries and said Beijing would forgive debts of those worst-off.
Figures released by the Census Bureau showed that a measure of income inequality in the United States had increased in 2018 to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking.
Associated Press