Jerry Waxman
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.
Today in History: October 4
Today in History: October 4: In 1927, sculptor Gutzon Borglum began construction on Mount Rushmore; In 1777, Gen. George Washington’s troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania; In 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1; In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead; In 2004, the SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth’s atmosphere to the edge of space;
Today in History: October 3
Today in History: October 3: West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division; U.S. Army troops cracked the Siegfried; New York Giants captured the National League pennant, Frank Robinson was named the American League’s first Black manager, the Battle of Mogadishu, O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty; O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers
Today in History: October 2
oday in History: October 2: In 1944, German troops crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising; In 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the U.S. Supreme Court; In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania; In 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last time; In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by Saudi Arabian officials