This Week in History

October 2

Yvonne Richter was born.

Meg Doan was born.

Suzanne Hanley was born.

1950 – The “Peanuts” comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, first appeared in newspapers.

1967 – Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black associate justice of the U.S.

Supreme Court.

October 3

Terence Boyle was born.

Annette Lauritsch was born.

Mikey Reen was born.

Sandon Karinsky was born.

1863 – President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

1974  – Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.

October 4

1957 – The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the earth, ushering in the Space Age and Space Race.

1970 – Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead of a drug overdose at age 27.

October 5

1962 – The Beatles released their first hit, “Love Me Do,” in Britain.

2001 – Barry Bonds broke Mark McGwire’s record of 71 home runs in one season when he hit his 71st and 72nd homers.

October 6

Tommy Nestor was born.

1927 – “The Jazz Singer,” the first full-length talking picture, starring Al Jolson, debuted.

1973 – The Yom Kippur War began when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel.

October 7

Kaitlin Gibbons was born.

Leo Fahey was born.

1849 – Poet-writer Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.

2003 – California governor Gray Davis was recalled and former bodybuilder and

actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in his place.

October 8

John McCann was born.

John McFadden was born.

Kenny Pena was born.

Denise Esposito was born.

1956 – Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the first and only perfect game

in a World Series.

2004 – Martha Stewart began her prison sentence at Alderson Federal Prison Camp.