1637 Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
1874 The Republican party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1893 The state of Colorado granted women the right to vote.
1916 Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1929 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
1940 The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.
1973 New Jersey became the first state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1991 Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, plead no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theatre.
1999 Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.
2001 The new .BIZ domain extension was officially launched.
2001 After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.