Right this moment is Friday, Oct. 11, the 285th day of 2024. There are 81 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Courtroom nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment; Thomas re-appeared earlier than the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “high-tech lynching.”
Additionally on this date:
In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Training ordered all the town’s Asian college students segregated into their very own faculty. (The order was later rescinded on the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who in change promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the USA.)
In 1968, Apollo 7, the primary manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra (shih-RAH’), Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
In 1984, Challenger astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan turned the primary American lady to stroll in area as she and fellow Mission Specialist David C. Leestma spent 3 1/2 hours exterior the shuttle.
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet chief Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, regarding arms management and human rights.
In 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed, through the Second Nationwide March on Washington for Lesbian and Homosexual Rights on the Nationwide Mall.
In 2017, the Boy Scouts of America introduced that it might admit women into the Cub Scouts beginning the next yr and set up a brand new program for older women primarily based on the Boy Scout curriculum.
In 2021, Jon Gruden resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders following stories about messages he wrote years earlier that used offensive phrases to confer with Blacks, gays and girls.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Former U.S. Protection Secretary William Perry is 97.
- Actor Amitabh Bachchan is 82.
- Singer Daryl Corridor (Corridor and Oates) is 78.
- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, is 74.
- Actor David Morse is 71.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Steve Younger is 63.
- Actor Joan Cusack is 62.
- Actor Jane Krakowski is 56.
- Rapper MC Lyte is 54.
- Actor Emily Deschanel is 48.
- Actor Michelle Trachtenberg is 39.
- Golfer Michelle Wie is 35.
- Rapper Cardi B is 32.
- NFL linebacker T.J. Watt is 30.