TODAY IN HISTORY

Tuesday, October  09, 2012 AP Highlight in History:  On Oct. 9, 1940, rock musician and songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles was born in Liverpool, England.   AP Photo
On this date in: 1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut – later Yale University – was chartered in New Haven. 1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco. 1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument. 1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif. 1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. 1946 The Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened on Broadway. 1958 Pope Pius XII died at age 82. 1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution. AP Photo 1975 Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.  READ THE ORIGINAL AP STORY 1990 David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. 2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test. 2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal. 2007 The Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high of 14,164.53. 2008 The Dow Jones industrials fell below 9,000 – to 8,579.19 – for the first time in five years. 2009 President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2010 Chile's 33 trapped miners cheered and embraced each other as a drill punched into their underground chamber where they had been stuck for an agonizing 66 days.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: Rock musician Sean Lennon turns 37 years old today. AP Photo/Peter Kramer Name Profession Age Trent Lott Former U.S. senator, R-Miss. 71 Nona Hendryx R&B singer 68 Sharon Osbourne TV personality 60 Tony Shalhoub Actor ("Monk," "Wings") 59 Scott Bakula Actor ("Star Trek: Enterprise," "Quantum Leap") 58 James Fearnley Rock musician (The Pogues) 58 John O'Hurley Actor ("Seinfeld") 58 Mike Singletary Football Hall of Famer 54 David Cameron British prime minister 46 P.J. Harvey Rock singer 43 Annika Sorenstam Golfer 42 Brandon Routh Actor ("Superman Returns") 33 Rock singer Jackson Browne turns 64 years old today. AP Photo/Vince Bucci