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Updated October 8, 2012, 2:28 pm
On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.
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.
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On This Date
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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. 1946 The Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opened on Broadway. 1958 Pope Pius XII died at age 82. 1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution. 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. 2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal. 2007 The Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high of 14,164.53. 2008 The Dow Jones industrials fell below 9,000 – to 8,579.19 – for the first time in five years. 2009 President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2010 Chile’s 33 trapped miners cheered and embraced each other as a drill punched into their underground chamber where they had been stuck for an agonizing 66 days. Current Birthdays
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Rock musician Sean Lennon turns 37 years old today.
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Rock singer Jackson Browne turns 64 years old today.
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1941 Trent Lott, Former U.S. senator, R-Miss., turns 71 1944 Nona Hendryx, R&B singer, turns 68 1952 Sharon Osbourne, TV personality, turns 60 1953 Tony Shalhoub, Actor (“Monk,” “Wings”), turns 59 1954 Scott Bakula, Actor (“Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Quantum Leap”), turns 58 1954 James Fearnley, Rock musician (The Pogues), turns 58 1954 John O’Hurley, Actor (“Seinfeld”), turns 58 1958 Mike Singletary, Football Hall of Famer, turns 54 1966 David Cameron, British prime minister, turns 46 1969 P.J. Harvey, Rock singer, turns 43 1970 Annika Sorenstam, Golfer, turns 42 1979 Brandon Routh, Actor (“Superman Returns”), turns 33
Historic Birthdays
Bruce Catton 10/9/1899 – 8/28/1978 American historian.Go to obituary »
72 Robert de Sorbon 10/9/1201 – 8/15/1274
French theologian79 King Charles X 10/9/1757 – 11/6/1836
French king (1824-30)86 Camille Saint-Saens 10/9/1835 – 12/16/1921
French composer66 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 pharmacist53 Aimee Semple McPherson 10/9/1890 – 9/27/1944
Canadian-born American evangelist75 Walter O’Malley 10/9/1903 – 8/9/1979
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