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 Today's highlight in history:
On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.
On this date:
In 1446, the Korean alphabet, created under the aegis of King Sejong, was first published.
In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut -- later Yale University -- was chartered.
In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
In 1888, the public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
In 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif.
In 1946, the Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.
In 1958, Pope Pius XII died. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)
In 1967, the British Road Safety Act, providing for use of the "breathalyser" (or breathalyzer) to detect intoxicated motorists, went into effect.
In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1987, author, politician and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce died in Washington at age 84.
Ten years ago: Hurricane Pauline struck Acapulco, Mexico, killing at least 230 people. Dario Fo, the unabashed leftist playwright who was prosecuted by Italy, denounced by Roman Catholic Church leaders and barred from the United States, won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 Five years ago: Dean Harold Meyers was shot to death at a gas station near Manassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in the Washington, D.C., area. West Coast longshoremen returned to ports crammed with cargo after a lockout that ended only after President Bush intervened. The space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the international space station, bringing with it a 14-ton girder. Daniel Kahneman, a U.S.-Israeli citizen, and Vernon L. Smith, an American, won the Nobel prize for economics; John B. Fenn, an American, Koichi Tanaka, a Japanese, and Kurt Wuethrich, a Swiss, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
One year ago: North Korea faced a barrage of condemnation and calls for retaliation after it announced that it had set off a small atomic weapon underground; President Bush said, "The international community will respond." Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal. American Edmund S. Phelps won the Nobel prize for economics.
Today's birthdays: Actor Fyvush Finkel is 85. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., is 66. Singer Jackson Browne is 59. Actor Gary Frank is 57. Actor Richard Chaves is 56. Actor Robert Wuhl is 56. Actress-TV personality Sharon Osbourne is 55. Actor Tony Shalhoub is 54. Actor Scott Bakula is 53. Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues) is 53. Actor John O'Hurley is 53. Actor Michael Pare is 48. Jazz musician Kenny Garrett is 47. Rock singer-musician Kurt Neumann (The BoDeans) is 46. Country singer Gary Bennett is 43. Movie director Guillermo del Toro is 43. Singer P.J. Harvey is 38. Country singer Tommy Shane Steiner is 34. Actor Steve Burns is 34. Sean Lennon is 32. Actor Randy Spelling is 29. Actor Brandon Routh is 28. Actor Zachery Ty Bryan is 26. Actor Tyler James Williams ("Everybody Hates Chris") is 15.
Thought for today: "I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."
-- Clare Boothe Luce, American author, politician and diplomat (1903-1987).
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