1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1947 – Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1985 – The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
Births
1887 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1946 – Sally Field, American actress
1972 – Rebecca Romijn, American actress
1979 – Lamar Odom, American basketball player
It's a short list of birthdays today but what you give up in quantity, you make up in quality. Walter Johnson was the King of the dead ball era (am I talking baseball?), Sally Fields once tried to play a sex symbol in Smoky and the Bandit and Rebecca Romijn is supermodel royalty, although I liked her better when she was married to Uncle Jessie. Then there's my boy L.O. Good thing he's got a home game tonite. Then he'll be getting some Kardashian tail.
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