As we speak is Tuesday, Oct. 15, the 289th day of 2024. There are 77 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On Oct. 15, 2017, actress and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that ladies who had been sexually harassed or assaulted ought to write “Me too” as a standing. Inside hours, tens of hundreds had taken up the #MeToo hashtag (utilizing a phrase that had been launched a decade earlier by social activist Tarana Burke).
Additionally on this date:
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed French emperor, arrived on the British-ruled South Atlantic island of St. Helena, the place he spent the final 5 1/2 years of his life in exile.
In 1945, the previous premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason.
In 1946, Nazi warfare prison Hermann Goering (GEH’-reeng) fatally poisoned himself hours earlier than he was to have been executed.
In 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall on the Carolina coast as a Class 4 storm; Hazel was blamed for about 1,000 deaths within the Caribbean, 95 within the U.S. and 81 in Canada.
In 1976, the primary debate of its type passed off between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole confronted off in Houston.
In 1989, Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings broke Gordie Howe’s all-time NHL scoring file in a sport in opposition to his former group, the Edmonton Oilers.
In 1991, regardless of sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, 52-48.
In 1997, British Royal Air Pressure pilot Andy Inexperienced twice drove a jet-powered automotive within the Nevada desert quicker than the velocity of sound, formally shattering the world’s land-speed file.
In 2003, eleven individuals had been killed when a Staten Island ferry slammed right into a upkeep pier. (The ferry’s pilot, who had blacked out on the controls, later pleaded responsible to eleven counts of manslaughter.)
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Actor Linda Lavin is 87.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Jim Palmer is 79.
- Musician Richard Carpenter is 78.
- Movie director Mira Nair is 67.
- Britain’s Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is 65.
- Chef Emeril Lagasse (EM’-ur-ul leh-GAH’-see) is 65.
- Actor Dominic West is 55.
- R&B singer Ginuwine (JIHN’-yoo-wyn) is 54.
- Singer-TV persona Keyshia Cole is 43.
- Actor Bailee Madison is 25.