This day in history On October 4 1535 The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland. 1648 The first volunteer fire department was established in New York by Peter Stuyvesant. 1887 The Paris Herald Tribune was published for the first time. It was later known as the International Herald Tribune. 1931 The comic strip Dick Tracy made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould. 1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British. 1957 The Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik I was the first manmade satellite to enter space. 1958 British Overseas Airways Corporation became the first jetliner to offer trans-Atlantic service to passengers with flights between London, England and New York City, NY. 1976 Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the ABC Evening News for the first time. 1985 The Shiite Muslim group Islamic Jihad announced that they had killed American hostage William Buckley. Later another American hostage said that he believed that Buckley had died four months earlier from torture. 1993 Russian Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrendered to Boris Yeltsin after a ten-hour tank assault on the Russian White House. The two men had barricaded themselves in after Yeltsin called for general elections and dissolved the legislative body. 1994 South African President, Nelson Mandela, was welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Clinton. 1998 The Vincent Van Gogh exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The exhibit featured 70 paintings. 2001 In Washington, DC, Reagan National Airport re-opened. The airport had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11. 2001 Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGwires major league record, and Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobbs major league record. 2014 SNOW in Hawkins Wi. WTF
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:37:59 +0000
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