On this day in 1988, Stacy Allison of Portland, Oregon, became
the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest,
which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.

Allison, a member of the Northwest American Everest Expedition, climbed the Himalayan peak using the southeast ridge route.

At least 168 climbers and support staff died in attempts to reach
the top of Everest in the 20th century.

       
CAMILLE BOHANNON

On September 28, 1960, at Boston’s Fenway Park, Red Sox star
Ted Williams hit a home run in the last at-bat of his 21-year
career.

Williams once said it was his goal in life to “walk down the
street [and have] folks say ‘there goes the greatest hitter
who ever lived.’”

Perhaps most impressively, however, he hit .406 in 1941
(also on September 28)–he was the last man ever to hit .
400.

Theodore Samuel Williams (1918 – 2002)

                                    
TIM MAGUIRE

The tennis star is 44 years young today.

On September 25, 1970, in the 8:30 p.m. time slot immediately
following "The Brady Bunch," ABC premiered a program that
would give television production company Screen Gems its
second TV-to-pop-chart smash: "The Partridge Family."

Unwilling to rest as a one-hit wonder when its first big hit,
"The Monkees," went off the air in 1968, Screen Gems was
wasting no time in trying to repeat its success.

The series follows the lives of a fictional pop music band
formed by the titular family, including Shirley (Shirley Jones),
Keith (David Cassidy), Laurie (Susan Dey), and Danny (Danny
Bonaduce), as well as their manager Reuben Kincaid (Dave
Madden).

The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family
the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.