DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Saturday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2021. There are 83 days left in the year.
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.
1936: The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1940: Rock-and-roll legend John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. (On this date in 1975, his son, Sean, was born in New York.)
1967: Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture.
1975: Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985: The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered two days after seizing the vessel in the Mediterranean.
2001: In the first daylight raids since the start of U.s.-led attacks on Afghanistan, jets bombed the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Letters postmarked in Trenton, New Jersey, were sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy; the letters later tested positive for anthrax.
2004: A tour bus from the Chicago area flipped in Arkansas, killing 15 people headed to a Mississippi casino.
2006: Google Inc. announced it was snapping up Youtube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
2009: President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
2012: Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison following his conviction on 45 counts of sexual abuse of boys.
2014: Six U.S. military planes arrived in the Ebola hot zone with more Marines as West African leaders pleaded for the world’s help in dealing with what Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma described as “a tragedy unforeseen in modern times.”
Singer Jackson Browne is 73. Manager-tv personality Sharon Osbourne is 69. Actor Tony Shalhoub (“Monk,” “Wings”) is 68. Actor Scott Bakula is 67. Actor John O’hurley (“Dancing with the Stars,” “Seinfeld”) is 67. Country singer Gary Bennett (BR549) is 57. Director Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”) is 57. Singer P.J. Harvey is 52. Director Steve Mcqueen (“12 Years A Slave”) is 52. Actor Steve Burns (“Blues Clues”) is 48. Singer Sean Lennon is 46. Musician Lecrae is 42. Actor Brandon Routh (“DC’S Legends of Tomorrow,” “Superman Returns”) is 42. Actor Zachery Ty Bryan (“Home Improvement”) is 40. Actor Spencer Grammer (“Greek”) is 38. Comedian Melissa Villasenor (“Saturday Night Live”) is 34. Actor Tyler James Williams (“Everybody Hates Chris”) is 29. Country singer Scotty Mccreery (“American Idol”) is 28. Actor Jharrel Jerome (“When They See Us”) is 24.