Wednesday, Oct 11

Good morning!

Today we will continue viewing America, The Story of US.

Yankees vs. Indians in deciding Game 5 tonight, 8 p.m.

Current Events
Nuclear waste stranded at Indian Point; Feds search for solution - LoHud

Seen from above; reduced to ash in California - NYT

Today in History

• 1779

  Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the battle of Savannah.

• 1899

  The Boer War began in South Africa.

• 1915

  English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans.

• 1939

  A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.

• 1962

  The first session of Vatican II was convened by Pope John XXIII.

• 1968

  The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

• 1984

  Space shuttle Challenger astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan, became the first American woman to walk in space.