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 Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 10, 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Md.
On this date:
In 1758, French fur trader, early St. Louis settler and "father of Oklahoma" Jean Pierre Chouteau was born in New Orleans.
In 1813, composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy.
In 1908, the Chicago Cubs won Game 1 of the World Series with a 10-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Bennett Park.
In 1911, revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen launched their overthrow of China's Manchu dynasty.
In 1935, George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway.
In 1938, Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
In 1958, the private-eye series "77 Sunset Strip" premiered on ABC-TV.
In 1967, the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, entered into force.
In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned from office.
In 1978, President Carter signed a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
Ten years ago: Former Defense Secretary and presidential adviser Clark M. Clifford died at age 91.
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Five years ago: Iranian writer and activist Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.
One year ago: A 14-year-old suspended student opened fire in a Cleveland high school, wounding two teachers and two classmates before killing himself. The United Auto Workers tentatively agreed on a contract with Chrysler. (UAW members ratified the accord but with significant dissent in the ranks.) A Russian spacecraft blasted off for the international space station, carrying Malaysia's first astronaut (Sheikh Muszaphar) and Peggy Whitson, an American who became the first woman to command the orbital outpost. German Gerhard Ertl won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Today's birthdays: Playwright Harold Pinter is 78. Former Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson III is 78. Actor Peter Coyote is 67. Entertainer Ben Vereen is 62. Singer John Prine is 62. Actor Charles Dance is 62. Rock singer-musician Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) is 60. Actress Jessica Harper is 59. Singer-musician Midge Ure is 55. Rock singer David Lee Roth is 54. Country singer Tanya Tucker is 50. Actress Julia Sweeney is 49. Actor Bradley Whitford is 49. Musician Martin Kemp is 47. Rock musician Jim Glennie (James) is 45. Actress Rebecca Pidgeon is 43. Rock musician Mike Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls) is 41. Football quarterback Brett Favre is 39. Actress Wendi McLendon-Covey is 39. Actor Mario Lopez is 35. Actress Jodi Lyn O'Keefe is 30. Singer Mya is 29. Singer Cherie is 24. Actress Aimee Teegarden is 19.
Thought for today: "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
-- Rex Stout, American writer (1886-1975)
[Associated Press]
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