Today In History

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2018. There are 83 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1776: A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.

ON THIS DATE

› 1888: The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.

› 1910: A coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners dead.

› 1914: The Belgian city of Antwerp fell to German forces during World War I.

› 1930: Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif.

› 1936: The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

› 1958: Pope Pius XII died at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

› 1967: Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture.

› 2009: President Barack Obama was named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Retired MLB AllStar Joe Pepitone is 78. Former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., is 77. C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb is 77. Rhythm and blues singer Nona Hendryx is 74. Singer Jackson Browne is 70. Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams is 68. Actor Gary Frank is 68. Actor Scott Bakula is 64. Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues) is 64. Actor John O’Hurley is

64. Writer-producer-director-actor Linwood Boomer is 63. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Mike Singletary is

60. Actor Michael Pare is

60. Jazz musician Kenny Garrett is 58. Rock singer-musician Kurt Neumann (The BoDeans) is

57. Movie director Steve McQueen (Film: “12 Years a Slave”) is 49. World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam is 48. Actress Cocoa Brown is 46. Country singer Tommy Shane Steiner is 45. Actor Steve Burns is 45. Rock singer Sean Lennon is

43. Actor Randy Spelling is 40. Actress Spencer Grammer is 35. Comedian Melissa Villasenor (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is

31. Actor Tyler James Williams is 26. Country singer Scotty McCreery (TV: “American Idol”) is 25.