ALMANAC On this day, Oct. 9
1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1910 Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall was dedicated.
1933 After President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered “captive mine” owners to make peace, 75,000 miners of Western Pennsylvania returned to work. Philip Murray, international vice president of the United Mine Workers, and Thomas Moses, president of the H.C. Frick Coke Co., began negotiating differences.
1969 Danny Murtaugh was named to manage the Pirates for the 1970 season. 1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered two days after seizing the vessel in the Mediterranean. (Hijackers killed disabled passenger Leon Klinghoffer during the standoff.)
2012 Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced in Bellefonte, Centre County, to 30 to 60 years in prison following his June 2012 conviction on 45 counts of sexual abuse of boys.
Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).
— Compiled by Rick Nowlin Today’s birthdays: Retired MLB All-Star Joe Pepitone, 82. Former Sen. Trent Lott, RMiss., 81. C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, 81. R&B singer Nona Hendryx, 78. Singer Jackson Browne, 74. Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams, 72. Actor Gary Frank, 72. Actor Richard Chaves, 71. Actor Robert Wuhl, 71. Actor-TV personality Sharon Osbourne, 70. Actor Tony Shalhoub, 69. Actor Scott Bakula, 68. Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues), 68. Actor John O’Hurley, 68. Writer-producer-director-actor Linwood Boomer, 67. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Mike Singletary, 64. Actor Michael Pare, 64. Jazz musician Kenny Garrett, 62. Rock singer-musician Kurt Neumann (The BoDeans), 61.
Movie director Guillermo del Toro, 58. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron, 56. Singer P.J. Harvey, 53. Movie director Steve McQueen (Film: “12 Years a Slave”), 53. World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam, 52. Actor Cocoa Brown, 50. Country singer Tommy Shane Steiner, 49. Actor Steve Burns, 49. Rock singer Sean Lennon, 47. Actor Randy Spelling, 44. Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae, 43. Actor Brandon Routh, 43. Actor Zachery Ty Bryan, 41. Actor Spencer Grammer, 39. Comedian Melissa Villasenor, 35. Actor Tyler James Williams, 30. Country singer Scotty McCreery (TV: “American Idol”), 29. Actor Jharrel Jerome, 25. Thought for today: “It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American
author and essayist (1879-1958)