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|text=* 1664 – Two days after having been ceded to England, New Amsterdam was renamed "New York" in honor of the Duke of York, in whose name it had been captured.

• 1900 – The Great Galveston hurricane (damage pictured), the deadliest disaster in U.S. history, struck Galveston, Texas, with estimated winds of {{nowrap|135 miles}} per hour ({{nowrap|215 km/h}}) at landfall, killing at least 6,000 people.
• 1951 – Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
• 1966 – The science fiction show Star Trek made its American premiere with "The Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
• 1994 – USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, resulting in 132 deaths and the longest accident investigation in the history of the National Transportation Safety Board.

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