Today in History: October 14
Today in History: October 14: A day for Nobel Peace Prizes – awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, and awarded to Elie Wiesel in 1986. Also on this date:In 1066, William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings; In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial accused of treason against Queen Elizabeth I; In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life in the face of accusations of conspiring against Hitler; In 1981, the new president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, was sworn in; 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier, and in 2012, he did it again in the backseat of an F-15.
Today in History: October 13
Today in History: October 13; In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion was laid by President George Washington; In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building; In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany; In 2010, rescuers in Chile pulled 33 men to fresh air and freedom, 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine; In 2016, Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature.
Today in History: October 12
Today in History: October 12: In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia; In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s first expedition made landfall on San Salvador Island; In 1968, Mexican track and field athlete Enriqueta Basilio became the first woman to light the Olympic flame; In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when a bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton; In 2000, 17 sailors were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole; In 2002, bombs blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants destroyed two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali; In 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours
Today in History: October 11
Today in History: October 11: In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks about arms control and human rights; In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered all the city’s Asian students segregated into their own school; In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched; In 1984, Challenger astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space; In 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed; In 1991, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment; In 2017, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts
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