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In 1735, John Adams, the nation’s second president, was born in Braintree, Mass.
In 1885 poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho.
In 1893 Charles Atlas, the bodybuilder known for his mail-order bodybuilding course, was born Angelo Siciliano in Acri, Italy.
In 1915 Fred Friendly, the pioneering American broadcast journalist, was born in New York.
In 1938 the radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake news reports, panicked some listeners who thought its portrayal of a Martian invasion was true.)
In 1944 the Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, with Graham in a leading role.
In 1953 Gen. George C. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Dr. Albert Schweitzer belatedly received his 1952 Nobel.
In 1961 the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force estimated at 58 megatons. Also in 1961 the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.
In 1975 Prince Juan Carlos became king of Spain after the death of Francisco Franco. Also in 1975 The New York Daily News ran the headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” a day after President
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Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York.
In 1984 police in Poland found the body of kidnapped pro-Solidarity priest Father Jerzy Popieluszko, whose death was blamed on four security officers.
In 1989 Mitsubishi Estate Co., a major Japanese real estate concern, announced it was buying 51 percent of Rockefeller Group Inc. of New York.
In 1994 Pope John Paul II named 30 new cardinals, including the archbishops of Baltimore and Detroit and the first-ever from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and two former East Bloc states, Albania and Belarus.
In 1995 a Quebec secession referendum was defeated on a vote 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent.
In 1996, after a four-hour trial, a Chinese court sentenced pro-democracy activist Wang Dan to 11 years in prison for “conspiring to subvert the Chinese government.” (Wang was freed in April 1998 and sent into exile in the United States.)
In 1997 a jury in Cambridge, Mass., convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. (The judge later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.)
In 1998 more than 2,000 Nicaraguans died when a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch destroyed homes on the slopes of Casitas volcano in Posoltega.
In 1999, 55 people were killed in a fire at an illegal
bar in Inchon, South Korea.
In 2000 entertainer Steve Allen died in Encino, Calif.; he was 78.
In 2001 Ford Motor Co. chairman William Clay Ford Jr. took over as chief executive after the ouster of Jacques Nasser.
In 2003 the House approved an $87.5 billion package for Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2005 Al Lopez, a Baseball Hall of Fame catcher who managed the “Go-Go” White Sox to their first pennant since 1919, died in Tampa, Fla.; he was 97.
In 2012 the Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in a surprise deal that gave the media giant control of the “Star Wars” franchise.
In 2013 Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized to Americans for problems with the launch of Obamacare’s website, HealthCare.gov. “You deserve better,” Sebelius said in testimony at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. Also in 2013 the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 to win the World Series.
Pennsylvania authorities captured survivalist Eric Frein, 31, after a 48-day manhunt. He was charged with killing a state trooper and wounding another Sept. 12.
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In 2016 the Cubs beat the Indians 3-2 in Game 5 at Wrigley Field in the first World Series win for the home team at the North Side ballpark since Oct. 8, 1945.