CAMILLE
BOHANNON
On this day in 1994, the U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped
Tonya Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned her
from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
Tonya Maxene Price (Harding) will be 49 in November. She was
born in Portland, Oregon.
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the
Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his
wife, Duchess Sophie. With tensions already running high among Europe’s
powers, the assassination precipitated a rapid descent into World War I.
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria, and his wife Sophie riding
in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination.
The assassin was Gavrilo Princip, a 19-
year-old peasant.
Bruce Arthur Johnston (Benjamin Baldwin)
Singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer Bruch Johnston is best known as a member of the Beach Boys. In 1965, Johnston
joined the band for live performances, filling in for the group’s co-founder Brian Wilson, who had quit touring in order to spend more
time in the studio. Johnston then became a contributing member
on subsequent albums.
The Beach Boys today from left: Bruch Johnston, Al Jardine, Brian
Wilson, Mike Love and David Marks.
TIM MAGUIRE
Two days after North Korea invaded South Korea on this day in 1950, U.S.
President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean war. The
United Nations Security Council had asked for member nations to help South
Korea repel an invasion from the North.
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972)
General Mills’ Cheerioats was invented in 1941. It didn’t take long
for Quaker Oats to gripe about the name and threaten legal action,
so Cheerioats became Cheerios in 1945.
Inventor Lester Ferdinand Borchardt
(1907 – 2007)
