1493-Columbus' second expedition to the New World
1845-First baseball team is organized
1869-Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1938-Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1963-Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1973-Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence
1976-Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1982-U.S., Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1985-Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
1988-Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1990-South African president F.W. de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington, D.C.
1990-Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market