HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Friday, September 15, the 258th day of 2017. There are 107 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon 1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia. 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to

visit the United States. 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban missile crisis. 1966 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and reenter the Earth’s atmosphere. 1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport. 1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while

attempting to land with 75 on board. 1975 – The French department of “Corse” (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica) 1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans. 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C. 1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns. 1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centres to reduce the risk of nuclear war. 1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the

Persian Gulf. 1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands

Parliament 1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business. 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the

largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.