- 1492: Cuban Natives first showed Christopher Columbus maize.
               - 1556: Akhbar the Great Mughal routed the Hindus under Hemu by
                 turning their elephants against them at the battle of Panipat in
                 the Hindu revolt.
               - 1639: The first post office in the colonies was set up in
                 Massachusetts.
               - 1854: In the Crimean War, British and French armies defeated a
                 Russian force of 50,000 at the battle of Inkerman; 12,000 Russians
                 were killed in the battle.
               - 1872: Susan B. Anthony tried to vote in the presidential election
                 for Ulysses Grant and was fined $100.
               - 1895: George Selden patented the first gasoline-driven car.
               - 1911: The first transcontinental flight across the United States
                 ended in Pasadena. Pilot C.P. Snow took off Sept. 17 from
                 Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., and covered a distance of 3,417 miles.
               - 1912: Woodrow Wilson was elected president, the only president to
                 defeat two former presidents (Taft and Roosevelt) in one election.
               - 1917: The Supreme Court ruled a Louisville, Ky., ordinance
                 mandating blacks and whites live in separate areas was
                 unconstitutional; American troops commanded by Gen. Pershing saw
                 action for the first time in World War I.
               - 1930: Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel
                 Prize for Literature.
               - 1935: Parker Brothers introduced the Monopoly game.
               - 1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected president for
                 a historic third time, defeating Wendell Wilkie.
               - 1968: Richard Nixon won the presidential election by a narrow
                 margin over Hubert Humphrey. New York's Shirley Chisholm became the
                 first black woman elected to the House.
               - 1991: Czech-born British media tycoon Robert Maxwell died after
                 falling overboard off his yacht.

               *Happy Birthday*
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               - Art Garfunkel, 57, singer/songwriter, of Simon & Garfunkel
               - Andrea McArdle, 35, actress/singer, "Annie" fame
               - Corin "Corky" Nemec, 27, actor, "Operation Dumbo Drop"
               - Tatum O'Neal, 35, actress, youngest to win Oscar at age 10 for
                 "Paper Moon"
               - Lester Piggott, 63, jockey, one of world's leading jockeys
               - Sam Shepard, 55, actor/playwright
               - Ike Turner, 67, singer/songwriter/pianist
               - Bill Walton, 46, NBA center, three-time college Player of Year,
                 NBA MVP '77, '78