11/06/2024
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This Day In History archive

1609 – Children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” is published in London in a book edited by and possibly written by Thomas Ravenscroft.

1892 – Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day.

1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt renames the “Executive Mansion” as “The White House.”

1915 – Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit.

1928 – First use of the Iron Lung at Boston’s Children Hospital.

1942 – WWII: United States Navy defeats Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance between Savo Island and Guadalcanal in the South Pacific’s Colomon Islands.

1948 – Casey Stengel takes over as New York Yankees manager.

1953 – United States and Greece sign peace treaty for the installation of American military bases.

1960 – John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon have their third presidential debate.

1962 – Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. 46 people die and at least $230 million in damages.

1968 – IXX Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City, Mexico. It’s the first Olympics in Latin America.

1972 – 46 sailors injured in a race riot on American aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.

1973 – President Richard Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as vice president.

1979 – Future Basketball Hall of Fame forward Magic Johnson makes his debut for the Los Angeles Lakers at the San Diego Clippers in a 103-102 victory.

1989 – Dallas running back Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to the Minnesota Vikings for 5 players and 6 future draft picks, including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson.

1991 – Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN.

1999 – The Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.

2998 – Anna Kournikova and Andy Roddick defeat Martina Navratilova and Jesse Levine in a match for charity, raising over $400,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund.

2019 – California is the first state to pass a law banning sale and manufacture of new fur products.

2022 – American conspiracy theorist, radio host, and provocateur Alex Jones ordered by a Connecticut defamation trial jury to pay $965 million to families of those killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School for falsely and repeatedly claiming on his broadcast that none of the 20 children and six adults killed had actually died and that their relatives were crisis actors.

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