TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Oct. 11, 1968

Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

ON THIS DATE 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 (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)

1975

“NBC Saturday Night” (later “Saturday Night Live”) made its debut with guest host George Carlin.

2002

Former President Jimmy Carter was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.