This Day in History: Sept. 21




Magician Harry Houdini poes for a portrait in 1908. (Getty)

On this day, Sept. 21 ...


1912: Harry Houdini first publicly performs his "Water Torture Cell" trick at the Circus Busch in Berlin.

Also on this day:

• 1893: One of America's first horseless carriages is taken for a short test drive in Springfield, Mass., by Frank Duryea, who had designed the vehicle with his brother, Charles.
• 1938: A hurricane strikes parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming some 700 lives.
• 1970: "NFL Monday Night Football" makes its debut on ABC as the Cleveland Browns defeat the New York Jets, 31-21.

• 1981: The Senate unanimously confirms the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
• 1985: In North Korea and South Korea, family members separated for decades are allowed to visit each other as both countries open their borders in an unprecedented family-reunion program.
• 1987: NFL players call a strike, mainly over the issue of free agency. (The 24-day walkout prompts football owners to hire replacement players.)
• 1989: Hurricane Hugo crashes into Charleston, S.C. (the storm is blamed for 56 deaths in the Caribbean and 29 in the United States).
• 1996: President Bill Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act denying federal recognition of same-sex marriages a day after saying the law should not be used as an excuse for discrimination, violence or intimidation against gays and lesbians. (Although never formally repealed, DoMA would be effectively overturned by U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 2013 and 2015.)
• 2008: Baseball says farewell to the original Yankee Stadium as the Bronx Bombers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 7-3.
• 2009: Record flooding hits the Atlanta area, leaving neighborhoods, schools and even sections of roller coasters submerged in several feet of water.
• 2014: Thousands of demonstrators fill the streets of Manhattan and cities around the world to urge policy makers to take action on climate change.
• 2017: Facebook says it would provide congressional investigators with the contents of 3,000 ads that had been bought by a Russian agency; it had already released the ads to federal authorities investigating Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election

 

This Day in History: Sept. 22
President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation; 'Friends' debuts




June 26, 2012: This undated photo provided by Seth Kaller, Inc., shows a rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which sold at a New York auction for more than $2 million. (AP/Seth Kaller, Inc.)

On this day, Sept. 22 ...

1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

Also on this day:

• 1776: During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, is hanged as a spy by the British in New York.
• 1927: Gene Tunney successfully defends his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight in Chicago.
• 1949: The Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.
• 1961: The Interstate Commerce Commission issues rules prohibiting racial discrimination on interstate buses.
• 1975: Sara Jane Moore attempts to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel but misses.
• 1980: The Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupts into full-scale war.
• 1985: Rock and country music artists participate in FarmAid, a concert staged in Champaign, Ill., to help the nation's farmers.

• 1994: "Friends" debuts on NBC.
• 2018: Paul Simon ends what is billed as his final concert tour in a park in Queens, New York, telling the hometown crowd that their cheers "mean more than you can know."

Billy Porter accepts the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for "Pose" onstage during the 71st Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on Sept. 22, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Getty)

• 2019: Billy Porter becomes the first openly gay actor to win an Emmy for lead actor in a drama series for "Pose."

 

This Day in History: Sept. 23
Jury acquits two White men of murdering Black teen Emmett Till; Biden withdraws from Democratic presidential race following plagiarism scandal



On this day, Sept. 23 …


1987: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., withdraws from the Democratic presidential race following questions about his use of borrowed quotations and the portrayal of his academic record.

Also on this day:

• 63 B.C.: Caesar Augustus, the first Roman emperor, is born.
• 1780: British spy John Andre is captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point to the British.
• 1806: The Lewis and Clark expedition returns to St. Louis more than two years after setting out for the Pacific Northwest.

Neptune

• 1846: Neptune is identified as a planet by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
• 1889: Nintendo is founded in Kyoto, Japan, as a playing card company.
• 1926: Gene Tunney scores a 10-round decision over Jack Dempsey to win the world heavyweight boxing title in Philadelphia.
• 1949: President Harry S. Truman announces there is evidence the Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test explosion.

• 1952: Sen. Richard M. Nixon, R-Calif., salvages his vice-presidential nomination by appearing on television from Los Angeles to refute allegations of improper campaign fundraising in what became known as the "Checkers" speech.

• 1955: A jury in Sumner, Miss., acquits two White men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of murdering Black teenager Emmett Till. (The two men later allegedly later admit to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.)
• 1957: Nine Black students who entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas are forced to withdraw because of a White mob outside.

• 1962: "The Jetsons," an animated cartoon about a space age family, premieres on ABC television as the network's first program in color.
• 2002: Gov. Gray Davis signs a law making California the first state to offer workers paid family leave.
• 2014: In the first international test for his climate-change strategy, President Barack Obama presses world leaders at the United Nations to follow the United States' lead on the issue.
• 2018: Capping a comeback from four back surgeries, Tiger Woods wins the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the 80th victory of his PGA Tour career and his first in more than five years.

 

There was a hurricane in New England on September 22,1938.

 

This Day in History: Sept. 24



On this day, Sept. 24 …


2007: United Auto Workers walk off the job at General Motors plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976; a tentative pact would end the walkout two days later.

Also on this day:

• 1789: President George Washington signs a Judiciary Act establishing America's federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.
• 1869: Thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic known as "Black Friday" after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.
• 1976: Former hostage Patricia Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst would be released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Jimmy Carter.)
• 1934: Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox.

• 1960: “The Howdy Doody Show" ends a nearly 13-year run with its final telecast on NBC.
• 1968: “60 Minutes" premieres on CBS; the undercover police drama "The Mod Squad" premieres on ABC.
• 1988: Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson wins the men's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics — but he would be disqualified three days later for using anabolic steroids.
• 1988: Members of the eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elect Barbara C. Harris the first female bishop in the church's history.
• 1996: The United States and 70 other countries become the first to sign a treaty at the United Nations to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. (The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has yet to enter into force because of the refusal so far of eight nations — including the United States — to ratify it.)
• 2002: British Prime Minister Tony Blair asserts that Iraq has a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and plans to use them, as he unveils an intelligence dossier to a special session of Parliament.

 

This Day in History: Sept. 25
Ground is broken for Fenway Park; Bill Cosby is sentenced to state prison



On this day, Sept. 25 ...


2018: Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home.

Also on this day:

• 1789: The first United States Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments would become the Bill of Rights.)
• 1911: Ground is broken for Boston's Fenway Park.
• 1956: The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially goes into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.

• 1957: Nine Black students who were forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly White crowds are escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
• 1962: Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in round one to win the world heavyweight title at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
• 1965: The first installment of "In Cold Blood," Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan., appears in The New Yorker. (The work would be published in book form the following year.)
• 1981: Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
• 1992: NASA's Mars Observer blasts off on a $980 million mission to the red planet (the probe would disappear just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993).
• 1997: President Bill Clinton pulls open the door of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., as he welcomed nine Blacks who had faced hate-filled mobs 40 years earlier.

• 2014: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces his resignation.

Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees celebrates after a game-winning RBI hit in the ninth inning against the Baltimore Orioles in his last game ever at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 25, 2014, in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Elsa/Getty Images)

• 2014: Derek Jeter caps off his Yankee Stadium farewell with a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give New York a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

 

This Day in History: Sept. 26


On this day, Sept. 26 …


1964: "Gilligan's Island" premieres on CBS.

Also on this day:

• 1789: Thomas Jefferson is confirmed by the Senate to be the first U.S. secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.
• 1892: John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band perform publicly for the first time at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, N.J.
• 1955: Following word that President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange sees its worst price decline since 1929.
• 1960: The first-ever debate between presidential nominees takes place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon face off before a national TV audience from Chicago.
• 1977: Sir Freddie Laker begins his cut-rate "Skytrain" service from London to New York. (The carrier would go out of business in 1982.)
• 1986: William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.
• 1990: the Motion Picture Association of America announces it had created a new rating, NC-17, to replace the X rating.
• 1996: President Clinton signs a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.

Roman Polanski (AP)

• 2009: Film director Roman Polanski is arrested by Swiss police on an international warrant when he arrives in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award from a film festival. (Polanski had fled the U.S. in 1978, a year after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski would spend two months in a Swiss jail and serve seven months of house arrest before Switzerland's government decided against extraditing him to the United States.

 

It's TWO time Bond Girl Martine Beswick's birthday! She is 79 today.

From Russia With Love



Thunderball

 

This day in history 5 years ago, we were in Washington D.C. at the Air and Space Museum. I saw everything from the Wright Brothers first plane they flew at Kitty Hawk to the Spirit of St. Louis that Lindberg flew across the Atlantic, a Saturn 5 rocket and I even touched a Moon rock!
I know this because my google photos send me notifications of where I was on certain days.

 

This Day in History: Sept. 27
Christine Blasey Ford testifies about an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, accusations he denies



On this day, Sept. 27 …

2018: During a day-long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford says she is "100 percent" certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers. Kavanaugh then tells senators that he is "100 percent certain" he had done no such thing.

Also on this day:

• 1779: John Adams is named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
• 1825: The first locomotive to haul a passenger train is operated by George Stephenson in England.
• 1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurs when the steamship SS Arctic sinks off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survive.
• 1935: Judy Garland, at age 13, signs a seven-year contract with MGM.
• 1942: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra perform together for the last time, at the Central Theater in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller's entry into the Army.
• 1956: Olympic track and field gold medalist and Hall of Fame golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias dies in Galveston, Texas, at age 45.

Authorities say Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman responsible for John F. Kennedy's death. (AP)

• 1964: The government publicly releases the report of the Warren Commission, which concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
• 1979: Congress gives its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.
• 1991: President George H.W. Bush announces in a nationally broadcast address that he is eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and calls on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.
• 1991:The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocks, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1994: More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gather on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledge to enact if voters send a GOP majority to the House.
• 2014: President Barack Obama, in an address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, says a widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Ferguson, Mo., exists in too many other communities and is having a corrosive effect on the nation, particularly its children.
• 2018: Marty Balin, founder of 1960s rock group Jefferson Airplane, dies at age of 76.

 

This Day in History: September 28



On this day, Sept. 28 ...
1960: Ted Williams hits a home run in his last career at-bat as his team, the Boston Red Sox, defeats the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 at Fenway Park.


Also on this day:

• 1781: American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, begin their successful siege of Yorktown, Va.
• 1787: The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.
• 1892: The first nighttime football game takes place in Mansfield, Pa., as teams from Mansfield State Normal and Wyoming Seminary play under electric lights to a scoreless tie.
• 1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. (All would be acquitted at trial, but all eight would be banned from the game for life.)
• 1924: Three U.S. Army planes land in Seattle, having completed the first round-the-world trip by air in 175 days.

1955: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955), discoverer of penicillin, studies mould cultures in his laboratory at the Wright Fleming Institute in London. Fleming also developed a technique of 'painting' pictures with germs, drawing outlines on small pieces of paper, which would grow into a picture as the microbes multiplied. (Photo by Peter Purdy/BIPs/Getty Images)

• 1928: Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin, the first effective antibiotic.

• 1976: Muhammad Ali retains his world heavyweight boxing championship with a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at New York's Yankee Stadium.
• 1989: Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos dies in exile in Hawaii at age 72.
• 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat sign an accord at the White House ending Israel's military occupation of West Bank cities and laying the foundation for a Palestinian state.
• 2000: Capping a 12-year battle, the government approves use of the abortion pill RU-486.
• 2014: In an interview that airs on CBS' "60 Minutes," President Barack Obama acknowledges that U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq's army to fight.

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• 2018: Tesla stock plunges nearly 14 percent after government regulators accuse Elon Musk of committing securities fraud and sought to oust him as CEO of the electric car maker.

2018: Facebook reports a major security breach in which 50 million user accounts are accessed by unknown attackers; the attackers steal digital keys the company uses to keep users logged in.

 

This Day in History: Sept. 29



On this day, Sept. 29 ...


1982: Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claim the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)

Also on this day:

• 1789: The U.S. War Department establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1829: London's reorganized police force, which would become known as Scotland Yard, goes on duty.
• 1918: Allied forces begin their decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
• 1938: British, French, German and Italian leaders conclude the Munich Agreement, which is aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
• 1975: Legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel dies in Glendale, Calif., at age 85.

• 1977: Billy Joel's "The Stranger" is released by Columbia Records.
• 1978: Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1989: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is convicted of battery for slapping Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer after he'd pulled over her Rolls-Royce for expired license plates.
• 2005: John G. Roberts Jr. is sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
• 2009: A tsunami kills nearly 200 people in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.
• 2018: Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, agrees to pay a total of $40 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that Musk had duped investors with misleading statements about a proposed buyout of the company.

 

This Day in History: Sept. 30




James Dean (Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

On this day, Sept. 30 …


1955: Actor James Dean, 24, is killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.

Also on this day:

• 1777: The Continental Congress — forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces — move to York, Pa.
• 1846: Boston dentist William Morton uses ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracts an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
• 1939: The first college football game to be televised is shown on experimental station W2XBS in New York as Fordham University defeats Waynesburg College, 34-7.
• 1952: The motion picture "This Is Cinerama," which introduces the triple-camera, triple-projector Cinerama widescreen process, premieres at the Broadway Theatre in New York.
• 1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy.
• 1962: James Meredith, a black student, is escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he would enroll for classes the next day; Meredith's presence sparks rioting that claims two lives.

Getty (2004 Getty Images)

• 1972: Roberto Clemente hits a double against Jon Matlack of the New York Mets during Pittsburgh's 5-0 victory at Three Rivers Stadium; the hit is the 3,000th and last for the Pirates star as he would die in a plane crash three months later.
• 2001: Under threat of U.S. military strikes, Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers said explicitly for the first time that Usama bin Laden is still in the country and that they know where his hideout is located.
• 2014: The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. is confirmed in a patient who had recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas.
• 2014: California Gov. Jerry Brown signs the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores.

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• 2018: U.S. and Canadian officials announce an agreement for Canada to take part in a revamped North American free trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico; the new agreement would be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.

 

This Day in History: Oct. 1




(AP)

On this day, Oct. 1 …


1955: "The Honeymooners," starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph, premieres on CBS.

Also on this day:

• 1885: Special delivery mail service begins in the United States.
• 1890: Congress passes the McKinley Tariff Act, which raises tariffs to a record level.
• 1908: Henry Ford introduces his Model T automobile to the market.
• 1910: The offices of the Los Angeles Times are destroyed by a bomb explosion and fire; 21 Times employees are killed.

• 1957: The motto "In God We Trust" begins appearing on U.S. paper currency.

• 1962: Johnny Carson debuts as host of NBC's "Tonight Show," beginning a nearly 30-year run.
• 1971: Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Fla.
• 1982: Sony begins selling the first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101, in Japan.
• 1994: National Hockey League team owners begin a 103-day lockout of their players.

The "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski

• 1996: A federal grand jury indicts “Unabomber” suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb slaying of advertising executive Thomas Mosser. (Kaczynski would be later sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years.)
• 2009: David Letterman publicly acknowledges having had sexual relationships with some female staffers as "48 Hours Mystery" producer Joe Halderman is charged in a blackmail plot against the CBS "Late Show" host.
• 2017: A gunman opens fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history; the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, kills himself before officers arrive.
• 2018: For the first time in major league history, tie-breaking games are needed to decide two division titles; the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 3-1 to capture the National League Central Division, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 5-2 for the Western Division crown.

 

This Day in History: Oct. 2


On this day, Oct. 2 ...


1950: The comic strip "Peanuts," created by Charles M. Schulz, is syndicated to seven newspapers.

Also on this day:

• 1919: President Woodrow Wilson suffers a serious stroke at the White House that leaves him paralyzed on his left side.
• 1967: Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

• 1971: "Soul Train" premieres in national syndication.
• 1984: Richard W. Miller becomes the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage. (Miller would be tried three times and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He would be released after nine years.)

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• 1985: Rock Hudson dies at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., after battling AIDS.
• 2002: The Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks begin, setting off a three-week manhunt. (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo ultimately would be arrested for killing 10 people and wounding three others.)

Singer Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Reuters)

• 2017: Rock star Tom Petty dies at a Los Angeles hospital at age 66, a day after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, Calif.

 

This came across my FB earlier and I don't remember, I would have been 8 years old but on 9/30 1970, outside of Springfield MO., a truck driver was killed on I-40 when a sniper shot into his truck which was carrying dynamite. The truck exploded leaving a 30' hole. The sniper did 2 years in prison.

 

Today's contribution that I'm probably not alone in calling an interesting historical irony. That is OJ Simpsons double homicide acquittal and later armed robbery conviction happened on the same day just twelve years apart.

This Day in History: Oct. 3



On this day, Oct. 3 …


1995: A Los Angeles jury finds O.J. Simpson not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (However, Simpson would be found liable for damages at a separate civil trial.)

Also on this day:

• 1226: St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, dies; he is canonized in 1228.
• 1789: President George Washington declares Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America.
• 1863: President Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day.
• 1941: Adolf Hitler declares in a speech in Berlin that Russia is "broken" and would "never rise again."
• 1941: ''The Maltese Falcon" — the version starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston — premieres in New York City.

• 1955: "Captain Kangaroo" and "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiere on CBS and ABC, respectively.
• 1961: "The Dick Van Dyke Show," also starring Mary Tyler Moore, premieres on CBS.
• 1967: Folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, best known for "This Land Is Your Land," dies in New York of complications from Huntington's disease at age 55.
• 2001: The Senate approves an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
• 2003: A tiger attacks magician Roy Horn of "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him in critical condition.

• 2008: O.J. Simpson is found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson would later be sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison and ultimately granted parole in July 2017 and released in October that same year.)
• 2018: Researchers at Columbia University present evidence that astronomers for the first time may have found a moon outside our solar system, orbiting a planet as big as Jupiter about 8,000 light-years away.

 

This Day in History: Oct. 4



An American who joined the Taliban in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks has been released from federal prison early. Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly calls the move 'disgraceful' on 'Fox & Friends.'

On this day, Oct. 4 …


2002: "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh receives a 20-year sentence after a sobbing plea for forgiveness before a federal judge in Alexandria, Va. In a federal court in Boston, a laughing Richard Reid pleads guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives in his shoes (the British citizen was later sentenced to life in prison).

Also on this day:

• 1777: Gen. George Washington's troops launch an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties.
• 1861: During the Civil War, the U.S. Navy authorizes construction of the first ironclad ship, the USS Monitor.
• 1940: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
• 1951: The MGM movie musical "An American in Paris," starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, has its U.S. premiere in New York City.
• 1957: The Space Age begins as the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit.

A Soviet technician works on Sputnik 1 before the satellite's Oct. 4, 1957, launch. (NASA)

• 1970: Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, is found dead in her Hollywood hotel room.
• 1989: Triple Crown-winning racehorse Secretariat, suffering a hoof ailment, is humanely destroyed at age 19.
• 1990: After six decades apart, lawmakers gather in the Reichstag for the first meeting of reunified Germany's parliament.
• 1991: The U.S. and 25 other nations sign the Madrid Protocol, which imposes a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.
• 2003: A Palestinian woman blows herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
• 2009: Greek socialists trounce the governing conservatives in a landslide election; Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, 74, dies in Buenos Aires.
• 2004: The SpaceShipOne rocket plane breaks through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space for the second time in five days, capturing the $10 million Ansari X prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists; Pioneering astronaut Gordon Cooper dies in Ventura, Calif., at age 77.
• 2014: North Korea's presumptive No. 2 leader, Hwang Pyong So, and other members of Pyongyang's inner circle meet with South Korean officials in the rivals' highest level face-to-face talks in five years. Former Haitian "president for life" Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, dies in Port-au-Prince. Paul Revere, 76, organist and leader of the Raiders rock band, dies in Garden Vallley, Idaho.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with surgeon Dr. John Fildes at the University Medical Center after meeting with victims of the mass shooting Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

• 2018: The Senate Judiciary Committee says it has received an FBI report on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

 

This Day in History: Oct. 5



On this day, Oct. 5 ...


2011: Apple founder Steve Jobs, 56, dies in Palo Alto, Calif.

Also on this day:

• 1921: The World Series is carried on radio for the first time as Newark, N.J, station WJZ (later WABC) relays a telephoned play-by-play account of the first game from the Polo Grounds. (Although the New York Yankees win the opener, 3-0, the New York Giants would win the series, 5 games to 3.)
• 1947: President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address as he speaks on the world food crisis.
• 1953: Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
• 1958: Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., is mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
• 1983: Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1984: The space shuttle Challenger blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center on an 8-day mission; the crew includes Kathryn D. Sullivan, who becomes the first American woman to walk in space, and Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut.
• 1989: A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicts former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.
• 2001: Tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens dies from inhaled anthrax, the first of a series of anthrax cases in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Washington.
• 2005: Defying the White House, senators votes 90-9 to approve an amendment sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would prohibit the use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” against anyone in U.S. government custody. (A reluctant President George W. Bush would later sign off on the amendment.)
• 2017: A Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein announces that he is taking a leave of absence from his company after a New York Times article details decades of alleged sexual harassment against women, including actress Ashley Judd.
• 2018: Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia announce that they would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, all but assuring that Kavanaugh would be confirmed.
• 2018: The government reports that the unemployment rate fell in September to 3.7 percent, the lowest since 1969, reflecting a healthy economy driven by strong consumer and business spending.
• 2018: In an elaborate prank orchestrated by the street artist Banksy, one of the artist’s paintings self-destructs in front of auction-goers in London, moments after it had been sold for $1.4 million.

 

Yesterday Brooklyn won their first world series! and my mother died same day 66yrs ago. No "empathize" a long long time ago