Rod Roddy(the flamboyantly dressed announcer on The Price is Right whose booming voice invited audience members to Come on down!” for nearly 20 yearsβ)β
Betsy Drake(actress)β
Events
Massachusetts Bay Colony, having outlawed Quakers, hung two who defiantly returned to the colony. They were the first Quakers to be hanged in America.β
Harvard expedition observed solar eclipse in British-occupied Penobscot Bay, Maineβ
The Treaty of San Lorenzo was signed between the United States and Spain, giving the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi Riverβ
Macy’s Department store opened in N.Y.C.β
U.S. president-to-be Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Leeβ
At 16, Jascha Heifetz made his American debut at Carnegie Hallβ
Dupont announced the invention of nylonβ
32-pound bull trout caught in Lake Pend Oreille, Idahoβ
Saturn I first launchedβ
Last performance of opera singer Beverly Sillsβ
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in a four-game sweepβ
16-foot Burmese python caught in the Florida Evergladesβ
Weather
A storm deposited snow and sleet on Mississippiβ
Eighty-three degrees F in Boston, Massachusettsβ