The Royal Montreal Golf Club (oldest golf club in North America) was founded–
An earthquake rang bells in the Notre Dame basilica in Montreal–
An earthquake shook New York state, New England, and eastern Canada–
The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio–
Grover Cleveland elected president of the U.S.–
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s first piano recital in the U.S., Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts–
T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature–
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president of the U.S.–
Ronald Reagan elected president of U.S.–
The biggest ever solar flare, sunspot 486, saturated X-ray detectors onboard GOES satellites for 11 minutes. It was estimated to be an X40-class solar flare–
Senator Barack Obama was elected U.S. president. This marked the first time in U.S. history that an African American was elected to the position–
EPOXI spacecraft flew by comet Hartley 2–
Weather
Tropical rains flooded the Green Mountain area of Vermont causing the worst flood in the history of the state–
