On Oct. 9, 1919, the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, 5-3, defeating the Chicago White Sox 10-5 at Comiskey Park. (The victory turned hollow amid charges eight of the White Sox had thrown the Series in what became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.)
On this date:
In 1446, the Korean alphabet, created under the aegis of King Sejong, was first published.
In 1635, religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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 1859, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus, the focal point of the Dreyfus Affair, was born in Mulhouse.
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, on New York's Long Island, to Glendale, Calif.
In 1934, King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated by a Croatian terrorist during a state visit to France.
In 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
In 1958, Pope Pius XII died at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)
In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.
In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded 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 1985, the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt. Read the original AP story.
In 1986, the U.S. Senate convicted imprisoned U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne of tax cheating, making him the fifth U.S. judge to be impeached and removed from office.
In 1989, the Soviet news agency Tass, under Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of increasing openness in society, reported a flying saucer visit to the Soviet Union.
In 1990, David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1992, NASA announced that the unmanned Pioneer spacecraft was apparently lost after orbiting Venus for 14 years.
Ten years ago: The United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, hours after a handful of workers walked off the job when a strike deadline passed. In boxing's first sanctioned battle of the sexes, Margaret MacGregor defeated Loi Chow by winning all four rounds on all three judges' cards in a promotion held in Seattle.
In 2001, letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S. D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. The Pentagon reported the destruction of seven terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and, claiming control of the skies over Afghanistan, launched heavy airstrikes against Taliban garrisons and troop encampments.
In 2002, the Washington-area sniper claimed a seventh victim with the slaying of a man at a gas station near Manassas, Va.
Five years ago: A tour bus from the Chicago area flipped in Arkansas, killing 15 people headed to a Mississippi casino. Afghanistan's first direct presidential election began. (Interim president Hamid Karzai emerged the winner.) Australian Prime Minister John Howard won a historic fourth term in national elections. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan's first democratic presidential election, nearly all the candidates, concerned over reported irregularities, boycotted the process even as voters went to the polls. [Democracy. It's messy — Ed.]
In 2006, North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world. Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
One year ago: Calm gave way to fear in financial markets, turning a relatively steady day into a rout that pushed the Dow Jones industrials below 9,000 — to 8,579.19 — for the first time in five years. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio of France won the Nobel Prize in literature.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Fyvush Finkel is 87. Former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., is 68. R&B singer Nona Hendryx is 65. Singer Jackson Browne is 61. Actor Gary Frank is 59. Actor Richard Chaves is 58. Actor Robert Wuhl is 58. Actress-TV personality Sharon Osbourne is 57. Actor Tony Shalhoub is 56. Actor Scott Bakula is 55. Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues) is 55. Actor John O'Hurley is 55. Writer-producer-director-actor Linwood Boomer is 54. San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Singletary is 51. Actor Michael Pare is 51. Jazz musician Kenny Garrett is 49. Rock singer-musician Kurt Neumann (The BoDeans) is 48. Country singer Gary Bennett is 45. Movie director Guillermo del Toro is 45. Singer P.J. Harvey is 40. Retired golfer Annika Sorenstam is 39. Country singer Tommy Shane Steiner is 36. Actor Steve Burns is 36. Sean Lennon is 34. Actor Randy Spelling is 31. Actor Brandon Routh is 30. Actor Zachery Ty Bryan is 28. Actress Spencer Grammer is 26. Actor Tyler James Williams ("Everybody Hates Chris") is 17.
Today In Entertainment History October 9
In 1940, John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England.
In 1946, the Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.
In 1966, John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time at an art gallery in London.
In 1973, Elvis and Priscilla Presley were divorced in Santa Monica, Calif. They had been married since May 1, 1967, and had one child, Lisa Marie.
In 1980, John Lennon celebrated his 40th birthday by releasing the single "(Just Like) Starting Over."
In 1985, moviemaker Orson Welles died. He was 70. Yoko Ono dedicated "Strawberry Fields" in New York's Central Park to the memory of John Lennon.
In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of "Phantom of the Opera" opened in London. The $2.9 million show, based on a 1911 novel by Gaston Leroux, drew a six-minute standing ovation from the first night audience.
Thought for Today: "The world is divided into people who think they are right." — Anonymous.
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