DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2022. There are 81 days left in the year. On this date in:
1614: The New Netherland Co. was formed by a group of merchants from Amsterdam and Hoorn to set up fur trading in North America.
1809: Just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis, 35, was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent death by suicide.
1884: American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City.
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 (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
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.
1984: Challenger astronaut Kathryn
D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space as she and fellow Mission Specialist David C. Leestma spent 31⁄2 hours outside the shuttle.
1986: President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, concerning arms control and human rights.
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 “hightech lynching.”
2002: Former President Jimmy Carter was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2005: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it had finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks earlier and then was swamped again by Hurricane Rita.
2006: The charge of treason was used for the first time in the U.S. war on terrorism, filed against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, also known as “Azzam the
American,” who’d appeared in propaganda videos for al-qaida. (Gadahn was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in January 2015.)
2014: Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
2017: The Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting in 2018 and establish a new program for older girls based on the Boy Scout curriculum, allowing them to aspire to the Eagle Scout rank.
2020: The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Miami Heat 106-93 to win the NBA finals in six games; Lebron James scored 28 points as the NBA wrapped up a season that sent players to a “bubble” at Walt Disney World in Florida for three months because of the pandemic.
Today’s birthdays
Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) is 76. Original MTV VJ
Mark Goodman is 70. Actor David Morse is 69. Actor Stephen Spinella is 66. Actor-writer-comedian Dawn French is 65. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is 61. Actor Joan Cusack is 60. Rock musician Scott Johnson (Gin Blossoms) is 60. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 58. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Chris Spielman is 57. Country singer-songwriter Todd Snider is 56. Actor-comedian Artie Lange is 55. Actor Jane Krakowski is 54. Actor Andrea Navedo is 53. Actor Constance Zimmer is 52. Rapper MC Lyte is 52. Bluegrass musician Leigh Gibson (The Gibson Brothers) is 51. Figure skater Kyoko Ina is 50. Actor Darien Sills-evans is 48. Actor/writer Nat Faxon is 47. Actor Emily Deschanel is 46. Actor Matt Bomer is 45. Actor Trevor Donovan is 44. Actor Robert Christopher Riley is 42. Actor Michelle Trachtenberg is 37. Golfer Michelle Wie is 33. Rapper
Cardi B is 30.