TODAY IN HISTORY

On Sept. 10, 1813, an American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

In 1846, Elias Howe

received a patent for his sewing machine.

In 1960, Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm eventually blamed for 364 deaths, struck the Florida Keys.

In 1979, four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Harry S.

Truman were freed from prison.

In 2015, New York State approved gradually raising the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour.

In 2016, John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, was released from a Washington mental hospital for good.