Chicago hosts the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Battle of the Meuse-Argonne begins
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the final Allied offensive of World War I, begins in the Argonne Forest in northern France. It would become the bloodiest battle in American history.
American composer and pianist George Gershwin is born as Jacob Gershowitz in Brooklyn, New York.
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