Volume 13 , Issue 41

This Day In History (October 10)

On Oct. 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned his office. Go to article

On Oct. 10, 1917, Thelonious Monk, the world-renowned American jazz pianist and composer, was born. Following his death on Feb. 17, 1982, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary

On This Date:

• 1813 - Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy.
• 1845 - The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
• 1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
• 1911 - Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
• 1935 - George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway.
• 1943 - Birthdate of David M. Wagner, born in Orange, New Jersey.
• 1964 - The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
• 1966 - The Beach Boys released the single "Good Vibrations."
• 1970 - Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.
• 1979 - Hockey Hall-of-Famer Wayne Gretzky made his NHL debut with the Edmonton Oilers.
• 1985 - U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.
• 2002 - The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. (The Senate followed suit the next day.)
• 2003 - Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.

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