San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Sunday, Oct. 11, the 285th day of 2020. There are 81 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight
On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “high-tech lynching.”
On this date
In 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, died two days after being wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Ga.
In 1809, just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35.
In 1905, the Juilliard School was founded as the Institute of Musical Art in New York.
In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students segregated in a purely “Oriental” school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis.
In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. The government of Panama was overthrown in a military coup.
In 1983, the last full-fledged hand-cranked telephone system in the United States went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial service.
In 2002, former President Jimmy Carter was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Today’s birthdays
Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) is 74. Original MTV VJ Mark Goodman is 68. Actor David Morse is 67. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is 59. Actor Joan Cusack is 58. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 56. Actor-comedian Artie Lange is 53. Actor Jane Krakowski is 52. Rapper MC Lyte is 49. Golfer Michelle Wie is 31. Rapper Cardi B is 28.