A Football Game With A Score of 222 - 0, And The First U.S. Railroad Rolls

1542 -  Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast.

1826 - The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.

1916 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

1982 -  Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

1993 - The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

2001 - The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.