| On this date in: |
| 1829 |
Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, was born in Fairfield, Vt. |
| 1936 |
Czech playwright, dissident and politician Vaclav Havel was born in Prague. |
| 1937 |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a “quarantine” of aggressor nations. |
| 1941 |
Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation’s highest court, died at age 84. |
| 1947 |
President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised address from the White House. |
| 1962 |
The Beatles’ first hit, “Love Me Do,” was released in the United Kingdom. |
| 1962 |
The first James Bond theatrical feature, “Dr. No” starring Sean Connery as Agent 007, premiered in London. |
| 1969 |
“Monty Python’s Flying Circus” debuted on BBC Television. |
| 1983 |
Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1988 |
Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.” |
| 1989 |
A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers. |
| 2000 |
Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was ousted when huge mobs rampaged through Belgrade. |
| 2005 |
Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” against anyone in U.S. government custody. |
| 2010 |
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who’d tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in New York. |
| 2011 |
Apple founder Steve Jobs died at age 56. |
| 2011 |
Civil rights activist the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth died at age 89. |
