America’s Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market on this day in 1929.
A crowd of people gather outside the New York Stock Exchange following the Crash of 1929.
On this day in 1998, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old at the time. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
The crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery (front row) Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai and Mission Commander Curt Brown; Payload SpecialistJohn Glenn; (C) and Mission Specialist Pedro Duque depart the Operations & Checkout building and head to the Space Shuttle Discovery to begin their mission into space from the Kennedy Space Center, FL.
John Glenn (left) and Stephen Oswald sitting in the flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery.
On this day in 1946, Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.
On this day in 1951, "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV. It ran until May 6, 1957 with a total of 180 (including the ‘lost’ original pilot and Christmas episode) half-hour episodes spanning 6 seasons. “I Love Lucy” became the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings. In 2012, “I Love Lucy” was voted the ‘Best TV Show of All Time’ in a survey conducted by ABC News and People Magazine.
Anthrax-laced letters were sent to Capitol Hill on this day in 2001.
On Oct. 7, 1985, the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
On this day in 1985, the hijackers surrendered on the condition that they and the hijacking mastermind Abu Abbas be given a plane to escape. However, on Oct. 10, the plane was intercepted by United States military aircraft and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily, where Mr. Abbas and the hijackers were arrested.
The four Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship.
Released hostages of the Achille Lauro liner hijacking are shown being taken ashore.
Palestinian militant Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking was captured in Iraq April 2003. He died in US custody from a heart attack in 2004.
John Winston Ono Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980)
John Lennon became one of the most influential songwriters in the history of popular music after co-founding The Beatles with Paul McCartney and George Harrison. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked John Lennon the fifth- greatest singer of all time. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and twice posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and again in 1994 as a solo artist.
One of the last photos of John Lennon before he was killed.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty on this day in 1939.
It was on this day in 1927, despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder.
On April 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts, was shot and killed along with his guard.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Former priest John Geoghan, a notorious pedophile whose case sparked the clergy molestation scandal for 18 months, died on this day in 2003 after being attacked at the state prison in Shirley.
It was on this day in 1926.
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Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi) (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)
