On this day in 1859, Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia). He was hoping to instigate a wider slave rebellion.
"John Brown’s Fort" at Harpers Ferry.
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859)
On this day in 1987, Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.
President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas, (above) a federal Circuit Judge in 1991, to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Senate confirmation hearings on Thomas were initially completed until a report of a private interview of Anita Hill by the FBI was leaked to the press. The hearings were then reopened, and Hill was called to publicly testify. She said in the televised hearings on this day in 1991, Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and the EEOC.
Anita Faye Hill
Anita Hill turned 62 in July.
Clarence Thomas became 70 years old in June.
On this day in 1975, "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin (below) was the guest host.
Prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden seek life without parole forO.J.
After careful selection, a Jury of eight women and four men was selected and included eight blacks, one white, one Hispanic and two people of mixed race.
In baseball, the "Shot Heard ‘Round the World" was a game-winning home run by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL) pennant.
Thomson hits the ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ atThe Polo Grounds in New York City .
Robert (Bobby) Brown Thomson (October 25, 1923 – August 16, 2010)
The children’s television series “Captain Kangaroo” aired weekday mornings on the CBS network from October 3, 1955, until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children’s television program of its day.
Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)
On this day in 1955, "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV and ran until 1959.
Walt Disney (center) is surrounded by members of "The Mickey Mouse Club" cast.
Head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd with his Mouse Guitar.
On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke that left himpartially paralyzed.
Final report on President Wilson’s condition written by Dr. Dercum.
It was on this day in 1985.
"Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, appeared for the first time in seven newspapers on this day in 1950.
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)
Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) is 67 years old today.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Police, Sting is known for such hits as "Don’t Stand So Close to Me" and "Message in a Bottle." He also became a successful solo artist, releasing his first album The Dream of the Blue Turtles in 1985, followed by ten more albums within the next two decades.
On this day in 1974, President Gerald Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.
In west Beirut on this day in 1982, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children began in refugee camps of the Lebanese Christian militiamen.
