On This Day

EVENTS

In 1682, the city of Philadelphia was founded. In 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers appeared in a NYC newspaper. In 1904, the first underground NYC Subway line opened to the public. In 2005, after three weeks of criticism, Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2018, a gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th U.S. president; Emily Post (18721960), author; Joe Medicine

Crow (1913-2016), historian/author; Dylan

Thomas (1914-1953), poet/ playwright; Ruby Dee (19222014), actress; Roy

Lichtenstein (1923-1997), artist; Sylvia Plath (19321963), poet; John Cleese

(1939- ), actor/writer; Dick

Trickle (1941-2013) race car driver; Ivan Reitman (1946), director/producer; Fran

Lebowitz (1950- ), columnist;

Matt Drudge (1966- ), journalist; Scott Weiland

(1967-2015), singersongwriter; Lonzo Ball

(1997- ), basketball player.

NUMBER

6 — number of subway systems worldwide that carry more passengers than the New York City subway (Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Moscow, Tokyo and Guangzhou).