New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS Oct. 4, 1957
The Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit.
ON THIS DATE
1970
Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room.
1976
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over an obscene joke he’d made that was derogatory to
Black people.
1991
26 nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.