On Oct. 1, 1908, Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile to the market.

In 1949, a 42-day strike by the United Steelworkers of America began over retirement benefits.

In 1957, the motto “In God We Trust” began appearing on U.S. paper currency.

In 1971, Walt Disney World opened.

In 1982, Sony began selling the first commercial compact disc player.

In 2017, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

In 2019, a white former Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of her Black neighbor, Botham Jean; Guyger said she had mistaken his apartment for hers.