Today is Tuesday, September tenth, the 254th day of the yr 2024. There are 112 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On September 10, 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would turn out to be a turning point in the controversy about sexual harassment when Anita Hill, a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas, made allegations against him.
Also on this date:
In 1608, John Smith was elected president of the colonial council of Jamestown, Virginia.
In 1960, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won the Olympic Marathon in Rome barefoot, becoming the primary black African to win Olympic gold.
In 1960, Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm liable for 364 deaths, hit the Florida Keys.
In 1963, 20 black students were admitted to Alabama public schools after a standoff between federal authorities and Alabama Governor George C. Wallace.
In 1979, 4 Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950 were released from prison on pardon by President Jimmy Carter.
In 1987, Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was greeted by President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in the beginning of a ten-day tour of the United States.
In 2005, teams of forensic investigators and cadaver dogs fanned out across New Orleans to gather the bodies left behind by Hurricane Katrina.
In 2008, the Large Hadron Collider of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was put into operation for the primary time and the primary proton beam was successfully sent through its 27-kilometer-long underground ring tunnel.
In 2022, King Charles III was officially crowned British monarch in a lavish ceremony two days after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Today's birthdays:
- Scientist and writer Jared Diamond is 87.
- Jazz/funk musician Roy Ayers is 84.
- Singer José Feliciano is 79.
- Former Canadian First Lady Margaret Trudeau is 76.
- Political commentator Bill O'Reilly is 75.
- Rock musician Joe Perry (Aerosmith) is 74.
- Actress Amy Irving is 71.
- Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican Senator from Wyoming, is 70.
- Actor and director Clark Johnson is 70.
- Actress Kate Burton is 67.
- Film director Chris Columbus is 66.
- Actor Colin Firth is 64.
- Cartoonist Alison Bechdel is 64.
- Randy Johnson, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 61.
- Actor Raymond Cruz is 60.
- Rapper Big Daddy Kane is 56.
- Film director Guy Ritchie is 56.
- Actor Ryan Phillippe (FIHL'-ih-pee) is 50.
- Ballerina Misty Copeland is 42.
- Former MLB All-Star Joey Votto is 41.
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