Friday, October 09th
The 282nd day of 2009.
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Today's Highlights in History
On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution. (Go to article.)
On Oct. 9, 1899, Bruce Catton, the American writer and historian known for his books about the Civil War, was born. Following his death on Aug. 28, 1978, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On October 9, 1897, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Senator Thomas Platt, longtime political boss of the New York State Republican Party. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut - later Yale University - was chartered in New Haven.
1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1940 Rock musician and songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles was born in Liverpool, England.
1946 The Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened on Broadway.
1958 Pope Pius XII died.
1975 Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1990 David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.
2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
2008 On Oct. 9, 2008, calm gave way to fear in financial markets, turning a relatively steady day into a rout that pushed the Dow Jones industrials below 9,000 to 8,579.19 for the first time in five years.
Current Birthdays
Tony Shalhoub turns 56 years old today.
AP Photo/Matt Sayles Actor Tony Shalhoub ("Monk," "Wings") turns 56 years old today.
87 Fyvush Finkel
Actor
68 Trent Lott
Former U.S. senator, R-Miss.
65 Nona Hendryx
R&B singer
61 Jackson Browne
Rock singer
59 Gary Frank
Actor
58 Richard Chaves
Actor
58 Robert Wuhl
Actor
57 Sharon Osbourne
TV personality
55 Scott Bakula
Actor ("Star Trek: Enterprise," "Quantum Leap")
55 James Fearnley
Rock musician (The Pogues)
55 John O'Hurley
Actor
54 Linwood Boomer
Actor, producer ("Malcolm in the Middle")
51 Mike Singletary
Football Hall of Famer
51 Michael Pare
Actor
49 Kenny Garrett
Jazz saxophonist
48 Kurt Neumann
Rock singer, musician (The BoDeans)
45 Gary Bennett
Country singer
45 Guillermo del Toro
Director ("Pan's Labyrinth")
40 P.J. Harvey
Rock singer
39 Annika Sorenstam
Golfer
36 Tommy Shane Steiner
Country singer
34 Sean Lennon
Rock musician
31 Randy Spelling
Actor
30 Brandon Routh
Actor ("Superman Returns")
28 Zachery Ty Bryan
Actor ("Home Improvement")
26 Spencer Grammer
Actress
17 Tyler James Williams
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Bruce Catton
10/9/1899 - 8/28/1978
American historian
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72 Robert de Sorbon
10/9/1201 - 8/15/1274
French theologian
79 King Charles X
10/9/1757 - 11/6/1836
French king (1824-30)
86 Camille Saint-Saens
10/9/1835 - 12/16/1921
French composer
66 Leonard Wood
10/9/1860 - 8/7/1927
American medical officer and governor general of the Philippines (1921-7)
66 Charles R. Walgreen
10/9/1873 - 12/11/1939
American pharmacist
53 Aimee Semple McPherson
10/9/1890 - 9/27/1944
Canadian-born American evangelist
75 Walter O'Malley
10/9/1903 - 8/9/1979
American lawyer
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