DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Friday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2021. There are 91 days left in the year.
On this date:
1910: The offices of the Los Angeles Times were destroyed by a bomb explosion and fire; 21 Times employees were killed.
1949: Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing. A 42-day strike by the United Steelworkers of America began over the issue of retirement benefits.
1957: The motto “In God We Trust” began appearing on U.S. paper currency.
1961: Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run during a 162-game season, compared to Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs during a 154-game season. (Tracy Stallard of the Boston Red Sox gave up the round-tripper; the Yankees won 1-0.)
1971: Walt Disney World opened near Orlando, Florida.
1982: Sony began selling the first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101, in Japan.
1987: Eight people were killed when an earthquake measuring magnitude 5.9 struck the Los Angeles area.
1994: National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
1996: A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb slaying of advertising executive Thomas Mosser. (Kaczynski was later sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years.) The federal minimum wage rose 50 cents to four dollars, 75 cents an hour.
2015: A gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killing nine people and then himself.
2017: A gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history; the gunman, 64year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before officers arrived.
2019: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was diagnosed with a heart attack at a Las Vegas hospital, where he’d been taken after experiencing chest discomfort at a campaign event; doctors inserted two stents to open up a blocked artery. A white former Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of her Black neighbor, Botham Jean; Guyger said she had mistaken his apartment for hers.
Actor-singer Julie Andrews is 86. Actor Stella Stevens is 83. Saxophonist
Jerry Martini of Sly and the Family Stone is 78. Jazz bassist Dave Holland is 75. Actor Yvette Freeman (“ER”) is 71. Actor Randy Quaid is 71. Singer Howard Hewett is 66. Drummer Tim O’reagan of The Jayhawks is 63. Singer Youssou N’dour is 62. Actor Esai Morales (“NYPD Blue”) is 59. Actor Christopher Titus (“Titus”) is 57. Modelactor Cindy Margolis is 56. Singer-guitarist Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra is 53. Actor Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover”) is 52. Actor Sherri Saum (“The Fosters”) is 47. Actor Katie Aselton (“Legion,” “The League”) is 43. Actor
Sarah Drew (“Grey’s Anatomy” “Everwood”) is 41.