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Monica Crowley: The real reason why Trump won the debate
Marilyn Penn: JCC Harlem
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1452, the first section of the Guttenberg Bible, the first book printed from movable type, was published in Germany
• 1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies
• 1791, the first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria
• 1882, Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin
• 1846, a dentist in Charleston, Mass., extracted a tooth with the aid of an anesthetic -- ether. It was the first time an anesthetic had been used
• 1927, Babe Ruth set a Major League Baseball record with his 60th home run of the season. The mark would stand for 34 years
• 1935, the Hoover Dam, astride the border between Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated
• 1938, the League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". ALSO: 1938, Germany, France, Britain and Italy met in Munich, Germany, for a conference after which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain predicted "peace for our time." World War II began less than one year later.
• 1941, during World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre
• 1946, the verdicts were handed down in the Nuremberg war crimes trial. Twelve Nazi leaders were sentenced to death by hanging
• 1947 , the World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time
• 1954, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel
• 1968, the Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory
• 1975 , the Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight
• 1977, because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down
• 1982, cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all
• 1996, United States Congress passes an Amendment that bars the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level
• 2006, Congress ordered construction of a 700-mile, $1.2 billion fence along the U.S.-Mexican border in a move to control immigration. Mexico said the barrier would hurt relations between the two countries
• 2011, a missile from an American drone aircraft strike over Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic teror mastermind and subject of a two-year manhunt
• 2014, U.S. Secret Service chief Julia Pierson told a U.S. House committee there would be a full review of the agency in the wake of an incident in which a man jumped a fence, got past security officers and entered the White House. Pierson resigned the day after her House appearance
• 2014, mere hours before a midnight deadline, a bitterly divided Congress approved, and President Barack Obama signed, a stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government open
Wesley Pruden: Rough justice for Obama and the Saudis (SPOT ON)
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Leading Economic Indicators
• Deep in the Amazon, 'it was Donald Trump's hair hanging out on a tree' Suzanne Fields: No Camouflage for Character in First Debate
John Kass: How -- and why -- Trump rightfully infuriates the Dems
Bernard Goldberg: The Angry Little Teapot Strikes Again
Jonah Goldberg: From Congress to Obama, a 'dis' best served cold
Paul Greenberg: She was a loner
Michael Barone: What the Debate Tells About How Candidates Would Govern (SMART)
Rich Lowry: The media's not even pretending to be 'objective' about Trump
Charles Hurt: Lester the Media Molester and Hillary's ever-evolving 'convictions'
Mona Charen: Trump Threatens Clinton Over Lewinsky --- Really?
Dave Weinbaum: Memo to Trump: Take the spotlight off yourself and shine it on Hillary
David Limbaugh: Unorthodox Thoughts About the Unorthodox Debate
Deroy Murdock: Temperamentally unfit for president, indeed
Charles Krauthammer: When facts, logic and history don't matter
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