Escape artist Harry Houdini dies. Work is completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round of the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire. Jam Master Jay of the pioneering hip-hop group Run-DMC is killed in a shooting in New York.

The original edition of “Gulliver’s Travels,” by Jonathan Swift, is first published. The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated.

"Black Tuesday" descends upon the New York Stock Exchange. Sen. John Glenn returns to space at age 77.

The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918. A gunman shoots and kills 11 congregants and wounds six others at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

"Baby Fae,” a newborn with a severe heart defect, is given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant. President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.

"America the Beautiful" is first published. The Rolling Stones appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the first time.

The United Nations officially comes into existence. Jackie Robinson dies; Rosa Parks dies.

The U.S. Senate rejects the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork.

Former President Barack Obama, in a virtual town hall hosted by his foundation Wednesday, called on demonstrators to channel their anger over George Floyd's death into an opportunity to make leaders "uncomfortable" and pressure them into making real policy changes.