Today In History
Today is Thursday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2016. There are 107 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
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1963: Four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)
ON THIS DATE
› 1789: The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.
› 1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge two weeks after he was found not guilty of treason.
› 1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
› 1955: The novel “Lolita,” by Vladimir Nabokov, was first published in Paris.
› 1972: A federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.
› 1981: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve the Supreme Court nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor.
› 1994: A tape recording of John Lennon singing with his teenage band, The Quarrymen, in a Liverpool club on July 6, 1957, was sold at Sotheby’s for $122,500 (it was at this gig that Lennon first met Paul McCartney).
› 2000: The 2000 Summer Olympics opened in Sydney, Australia.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actor Forrest Compton is 91. Comedian Norm Crosby is 89. Actor Henry Darrow is 83. Baseball Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry is 78. Actress Carmen Maura is 71. Opera singer Jessye Norman is 71. Writer-director Ron Shelton is 71. Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 70. Movie director Oliver Stone is 70. Rock musician Kelly Keagy (Night Ranger) is 64. Rock musician Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies) is 56. Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino is 55. Actor Danny Nucci is 48. Rap DJ Kay Gee is 47. Actor Josh Charles is 45. Singer Ivette Sosa (Eden’s Crush) is 40. Actor Tom Hardy is 39. Actress Marisa Ramirez is 39. Pop-rock musician Zach Filkins (OneRepublic) is 38. Actor Dave Annable is 37. Actress Amy Davidson is 37. Britain’s Prince Harry is 32. TV personality Heidi Montag is 30. Actress Kate Mansi is 29.