The Royal Montreal Golf Club (oldest golf club in North America) was founded –
An earthquake rang bells in the Notre Dame basilica in Montreal –
An earthquake shook New York state, New England, and eastern Canada –
The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio –
Grover Cleveland elected president of the U.S. –
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s first piano recital in the U.S., Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts –
T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature –
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president of the U.S. –
Ronald Reagan elected president of U.S. –
The biggest ever solar flare, sunspot 486, saturated X-ray detectors onboard GOES satellites for 11 minutes. It was estimated to be an X40-class solar flare –
Senator Barack Obama was elected U.S. president. This marked the first time in U.S. history that an African American was elected to the position –
EPOXI spacecraft flew by comet Hartley 2 –
Weather
Tropical rains flooded the Green Mountain area of Vermont causing the worst flood in the history of the state –
