Jerry Waxman
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
Today in History: October 10
Today in History: October 10: In 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established; In 1935, the George Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess,” featuring an all-Black cast, opened on Broadway; In 1966, the Beach Boys’ single “Good Vibrations” was released; In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned his office; In 2001, a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. jets pounded the Afghan capital of Kabul; In 1911, Chinese revolutionaries launched an uprising that led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. In 2024 Ethel Kennedy, civil rights activist and wife of the late Senator Robert F Kennedy, passed away a day after suffering a stroke.
Today in History: October 9
Today in History: October 9: In 1963, a mega-tsunami in northern Italy destroyed villages; In 1962, Uganda won autonomy from British rule; In 1967, Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army; In 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize;
Today in History: October 8
Today in History: October 8: In 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer was threatened by militia groups; In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupted; In 1956, Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; In 2005, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake on the Pakistan-India border;
Today in History: October 7
Today in History: October 7: A day of violence. In 2001, the U.S. war in Afghanistan began when U.S. and British forces launched air attacks against Arab terrorists who had perpetrated the September 11 attacks on the U.S. In 1985 Palestinian gunmen hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro, attempting to take Jewish hostages to exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Last year, on October 7, Palestinian terrorist forces started a war against Israel when they invaded Israeli villages to brutally torture, maim, behead, shoot, and burn unarmed Israeli infants, children, and their parents, and abduct 252 residents of Israel to hold as hostages.
Today in History: October 6
Today in History: October 6: In 1927, ‘The Jazz Singer’ debuted; In 1973 the Yom Kippur war started when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel; In 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House; In 2014, the Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States; In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
Today in History: October 5
:Today in History: October 5: In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; In 1892, the Dalton Gang was practically wiped out; In 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address; In 2011, Steve Jobs, the Apple founder, died.