TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY284th day IS of WEDNESDAY,2017. There are OCT.81 days11, the left in the year.
TODAY’SOn this date HIGHLIGHTin 1968, ApolloIN HISTORY:7, the first mannedwith astronautsApollo mission,Wally Schirra,was launchedDonn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
In 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C. In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis.
In 1932, the first American political telecast took place as the Democratic National Committee sponsored a program from a CBS television studio. In 1958, the lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far out as planned and burned up in the atmosphere.
In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
In 1984, Challenger astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space as she and fellow Mission Specialist David C. Leestma spent 3½ hours outside the shuttle. In 1987, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was unfurled on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C.; the quilt bore the names, personal effects and, in some cases, the ashes of AIDS victims.
In 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “high-tech lynching.”
In 2002, former President Jimmy Carter was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Earle Hyman is 91. Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry is 90. Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) is 71. Actress-writer-comedian Dawn French is 60. Actress Joan Cusack and rock musician Scott Johnson (Gin Blossoms) are 55. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 53. Actors Sean Patrick Flanery and Lennie James are 52. Actor Luke Perry is 51. Actress Jane Krakowski is 49. Rapper U-God (Wu-Tang Clan) is 47. Figure skater Kyoko Ina is 45. Actor Darien Sills-Evans is 43. Actor/writer Nat Faxon and singer NeeNa Lee are 42. Actress Emily Deschanel is 41. Actor Matt Bomer is 40. Actor Trevor Donovan is 39. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg is 32. Actress Lucy Griffiths is 31. Golfer Michelle Wie is 28.