1914 – Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves

1949 –US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR’s 1st nuclear device detonation

1987 – Trinidad James was born on this day in Trinidad & Tobago

1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.

2013 – 25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China