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On This Day in History ...

1910 - Alice Stebbins Wells of Los Angeles was sworn in as America's first female uniformed police officer with full powers of arrest.

1953 - John F. Kennedy wed Jacqueline Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport. More than 800 people came to the church and three thousand rushed a police cordon to catch a glimpse of the happy couple.

1953 - Six months after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Krushchev was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

2010 - Miners trapped for more than a month underground in Chile were delivered ci******es and a much-needed power line.

2011 - The 9/11 Memorial Museum opened to the public in New York City.

2021 – The Taliban announced women must study in gender-segregated classrooms in Afghanistan.

2022 - Queen Elizabeth II's coffin made a ceremonial procession down the Royal Mile where 20,000 people queued to pay their respects.

Today is…
National Day of Encouragement ... National Police Women Day ...
National Report Medicare Fraud Day ... National Video Games Day .....
National Chocolate Milkshake Day ....

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On This Day in History ....

1892 - An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in The Youth's Companion.

1900 - The most deadly hurricane in U.S. history struck Galveston, TX with 120 MPH winds. More than 6,000 people died, with some 2,500 buildings destroyed.

1930 - The comic strip Blondie first appeared in newspapers.

1966 - Star Trek debuted on NBC. It lasted a total of three seasons and 79 episodes before it was cancelled.

1971 - In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated. The opening featured the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

1974 - President Gerald Ford granted a "full, free and absolute pardon" to former President Richard Nixon for any federal crimes committed during his term of office.

1986 - The Oprah Winfrey Show was broadcast nationally for the first time. Oprah’s daytime television talk show turned her into one of the most powerful, wealthy people in show business and, arguably, the most influential woman in America.

1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Major League Baseball's record for home runs in a single season, hitting number 62 eclipsing the 37-year-old record held by Roger Maris.

1999 - Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley officially kicked off his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with a rally in his hometown of Crystal City, Missouri.

2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive U.S. Open title by defeating her sister, Serena, 6-2, 6-4.

2004 – NASA’s unmanned Genesis spacecraft, designed to collect samples of the solar wind, crash-landed after its parachute failed to open upon return to Earth.

2015 - Stephen Colbert debuted as the new host of CBS' Late Show, succeeding David Letterman.

2022 - Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96, at Balmoral Castle after ruling for 70 years as the UK's longest-serving monarch. Her eldest son inherited the throne as King Charles III.

Today Is...
National Date Nut Bread Day .... International Literacy Day .....
National Actors Day .... Star Trek Day .... World Physical Therapy Day ....
National Pledge of Allegiance Day .....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.

On This Day in History ....

1860 - Jane Addams was born. She was the founder of Hull House in Chicago and was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

1901 - President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz (CHOL-gosh). Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.

1970 - Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.

1975 - Martina Navratilova requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.

1996 - Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers. He was only the third person to have at least three thousand hits and 500 home runs.

1997 - Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey. Elton John performed his re-written version of “Candle in the Wind” at the funeral -- the first and only time he ever sang that version in public. More than two billion people watched the funeral on TV around the world.

1998 - Divers working off Nova Scotia found the flight data recorder from Swissair Flight 111, which had crashed, killing all 229 people on board. Unfortunately, it turned out the recorder had stopped working several minutes before the crash.

2000 - The Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, convened at the United Nations.

2002 - In New York, Congress convened at Federal Hall for a rare special session. The session was held in New York to express the nation’s mourning for the loss on September 11th, 2001 and unity in the war against terrorism.

2010 - Colombian Edward Nino Hernandez, who stood just 2 ft 3.46 inches tall, bested former record holder, the late Chinese national He Pingping, as the shortest man in the world.

2012 - President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president, for his second term.

2018 - Burt Reynolds died in Jupiter, Florida. The legendary Deliverance and Smokey and The Bandit star was 82.

Today is...
Read a Book Day .... National Coffee Ice Cream Day ....
Fight Procrastination Day .... Barbie Doll Day ..... Great Egg Toss Day ....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.