Malala Yousafzai

Festivities at the opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (AP Photo)

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.

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