Saturday History
By Andrews McMeel Syndicate
Today is the 277th day of 2020 and the 12th day of autumn.
TODAY’S HISTORY:
— In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln designated the last Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving.
— In 1952, the United Kingdom conducted a successful test of an atomic bomb off the coast of Australia, becoming the world’s third nuclear power.
— In 1990, East and West Germany were reunified.
— In 1995, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
— In 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, a bailout of the U.S. financial system.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), author; Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993), cartoonist; Gore Vidal (1925-2012), author; Chubby Checker (1941-), singer-songwriter; Al Sharpton (1954-), minister/activist; Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990), musician; Fred Couples (1959-), golfer; Clive Owen (1964-), actor; Gwen Stefani (1969-), singer-songwriter; Lena Headey (1973-), actress; Talib Kweli (1975-), rapper; Tessa Thompson (1983-), actress; Alicia Vikander (1988-), actress.
TODAY’S FACT: In 1789, President George Washington announced that Nov. 26 of that year would be “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,” the first in U.S. history.
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1951, New York Giants player Bobby Thomson hit the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to clinch the National League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” — Thomas Wolfe, “You Can’t Go Home Again”
TODAY’S NUMBER: $1 trillion — amount of public and private funds that eastern Germany received from western Germany in the five years following reunification.
TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (Oct. 1) and last quarter moon (Oct. 9).
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