This Week in History
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 McVeigh 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.
October 9
Phyllis Inserillo was born.
Liz Sorrentino was born.
1888 – For the first time the public was admitted to the Washington Monument.
1930 – Aviator Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a solo transcontinental flight across the United States.