On September 10, 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named
George Smith became the first person ever arrested for drunk
driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later
pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings.

In the United States, the first laws against operating a motor
vehicle while under the influence of alcohol went into effect in
New York in 1910. In 1936, Dr. Rolla Harger, a professor of
biochemistry and toxicology, patented the Drunkometer, a
balloon-like device into which people would breathe to
determine whether they were inebriated.

In 1953, Robert Borkenstein, a former Indiana state police captain
and university professor who had collaborated with Harger on
the Drunkometer, invented the Breathalyzer.

Robert Borkenstein’s Breathalyzer.

On September 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna hit the Florida Keys
as a Category 4 storm. Having formed near Cape Verde off the
African coast, it would go on to cause 150 deaths from Puerto
Rico to New England over the course of two weeks.

Donna first attained hurricane status on August 31 and headed
west toward the Caribbean Sea.