1776

Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island »

2008

Blind driver breaks land-speed record »

1862

Stuart hits Pennsylvania »

1986

Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik »

1923

A mail car explodes in a train robbery »

1793

Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia »

1776
Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Valcour Island »
1899
Boer War begins in South Africa »
1962
Pope opens Vatican II »
1968
Apollo 7 launched »

1975

Saturday Night Live debuts »

1925

Elmore Leonard is born »

1975

Bruce Springsteen scores his first pop hit with “Born to Run” »

1809

Meriwether Lewis dies along the Natchez Trace, Tennessee »

2003

Martinez-Zimmer scuffle interrupts ALCS »

1954

Viet Minh take control in the north »

1961

Kennedy ponders the Vietnam situation »

1915

Bulgaria enters World War I »

1942

United States defeats Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance »