Today is Wednesday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2024 with 83 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2024 with 83 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include musician Camille Saint-Saens in 1835; Charles Rudolph Walgreen, drugstore chain founder, in 1873; Baseball Hall of Fame member Rube Marquard in 1886; Baseball Hall of Fame member Walter O'Malley in 1903; convicted Watergate burglar/writer/lecturer E. Howard Hunt Jr. in 1918; musician John Lennon (Beatles) in 1940; C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb in 1941 (age 83); musician John Entwistle (Who) in 1944; musician Jackson Browne in 1948 (age 76); Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams in 1950 (age 74); writer/actor Robert Wuhl in 1951 (age 73); TV personality Sharon Osbourne in 1952 (age 72); actor Tony Shalhoub in 1953 (age 71); actor Scott Bakula in 1954 (age 70); actor John O'Hurley in 1954 (age 70); musician James Fearnley (Pogues) in 1954 (age 70); actor Michael Pare in 1958 (age 66); Football Hall of Fame member Mike Singletary in 1958 (age 66); filmmaker Guillermo del Toro in 1964 (age 60); musician PJ Harvey in 1969 (age 55); filmmaker Steve McQueen in 1969 (age 55); Golf Hall of Fame member Annika Sörenstam in 1970 (age 54); actor Steve Burns in 1973 (age 51); musician Sean Lennon (Plastic Ono Band/Cibo Matto) in 1975 (age 49); comedian/actor Nick Swardson in 1976 (age 48); actor Brandon Routh in 1979 (age 45); actor Zachery Ty Bryan in 1981 (age 43); organizing consultant Marie Kondo in 1984 (age 40); comedian/actor Melissa Villaseñor in 1987 (age 37); actor Tyler James Williams in 1992 (age 32); musician Scotty McCreery in 1993 (age 31); actor Jodelle Ferland in 1994 (age 30); model Bella Hadid in 1996 (age 28); actor Jacob Batalon in 1996 (age 28); actor Jharrel Jerome in 1997 (age 27).
On this date in history:
In 1888, 40 years after construction began, the Washington Monument opens to the public. Work on the obelisk was halted from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, internal squabbling within the Washington National Monument Society, and the American Civil War.
In 1919, the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series defeating the Chicago White Sox. Eight members of the White Sox would be accused of intentionally losing games in exchange for money from gamblers in what would become known as the Black Sox Scandal. The players were later found not guilty, though all were banned from the sport for life.
In 1931, gangster Al Capone's Florida spending told at tax evasion trial. The government's contention was that if Mr. Capone was "rich enough to be a moviesque Florida Play-boy, then he certainly must have an income worthy of taxation."
In 1931, the Japanese government endorsed military action against Manchuria. The invasion was one of a series of battles and skirmishes which took place in the run-up to the Second Sino-Japanese War.
In 1934, King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated by a Croatian terrorist during a state visit to France.
In 1967, one day after being captured in the jungles of Bolivia where he was waging a guerrilla war, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, a leading figure in the 1959 Cuban revolution, is executed by the Bolivian military.
In 1975, Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, became the first Soviet citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1983, James Watt, facing U.S. Senate condemnation for a racially insensitive remark, resigned as U.S. President Ronald Reagan's interior secretary.
In 1992, NASA announced that the unmanned Pioneer spacecraft was apparently lost after orbiting Venus for 14 years.
In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
In 2012, Malala Yousafzai, an advocate for girls' education in Pakistan and future Nobel Peace Prize winner, survived being shot three times as she attempted to board a bus to school.
In 2020, the United Nations' World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to fight hunger and bring peace to parts of the world affected by violence.
In 2023, a Minnesota farmer's 2,749-pound pumpkin took the top spot at the 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off and broke a world record for heaviest pumpkin. The farmer, Travis Gienger, named the pumpkin Michael Jordan.
A thought for the day: "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." -- British rocker John Lennon