“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” — Margaret Fuller
TODAY IS
Today is SATURDAY, SEPT. 7, the 251st day of 2024. There are 115 days left in the year.
HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
10 YEARS AGO
The U.S. military said it had launched airstrikes against ISIS militants near the Haditha Dam in western Iraq, the first time it has struck fighters there.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1921, the first Miss America Pageant was held in Atlantic City, N.J.
In 1943, a fire at the Gulf Hotel, a rooming house in Houston, claimed 55 lives.
In 1963, the Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in Canton, Ohio and enshrined its first 17 members.
In 1977, the Panama Canal Treaty, which called for the U.S. to turn over control of the waterway to Panama at the end of 1999, was signed in Washington by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.
In 2005, police and soldiers went house to house in New Orleans to try to coax remaining residents into leaving the city shattered by Hurricane Katrina.
In 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Jazz musician Sonny Rollins is 94.
Singer Gloria Gaynor is 81.
Actor Julie Kavner is 74.
Actor Corbin Bernsen is 70.
Pianist-singer Michael Feinstein is 68.
Singer/songwriter Diane Warren is 68.
Actor-comedian Leslie Jones (“Saturday Night Live”) is 57.
Actor Tom Everett Scott is 54.
Actor Oliver Hudson is 48.
Actor Evan Rachel Wood is 37.
