1885 Special delivery mail service began in the United States.

1908 Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile to the market.

1939 Winston Churchill described Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" during a radio address on the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

1949 Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing.

1957 The motto "In God We Trust" began appearing on U.S. paper currency.

1964 The Free Speech Movement began at the University of California, Berkeley, as students spontaneously protested the arrest of Berkeley alumnus Jack Weinberg, who'd refused to identify himself to campus police as he sat behind a table promoting the Congress of Racial Equality.

Japan's first high-speed "bullet train," the Tokaido Shinkansen, went into operation between Tokyo and Osaka.

1968 The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.