1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1831 - Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth
1909 - Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1930 - Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured
1997 - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2001 - Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,752 people
