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"Forgiveness is the only way to live with the past without being held prisoner by the past."

--- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks



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On this day in . . .


1650, Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters -- the first historically documented dating service -- in Threadneedle Street, London

1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. ALSO: The first U.S. Congress adjourns

1829, London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty

1916, John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire

1918, Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I

1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders signed the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

1943, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta

1954, Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at The Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the World Series

1960, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts

1963, the second session of Second Vatican Council opened in Rome

1966, the Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced

1972, Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China

1982, Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals die (To date, the case remains unsolved.)

1986, the Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined in Moscow on spying charges

1988, NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission. It marks America's first return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster

1995, the United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers

1996, the organization that supervised Bosnia's first postwar elections officially certified the results -- with victories by nationalist parties and the country's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic. ALSO: The Nintendo 64 video game system known as the first 'true' 64-bit system, hit North American shelves. That first day, Nintendo sold 500,000 systems, with the Mario64 game selling the same with it

2001, President Bush condemned Afghanistan's Taliban rulers for harboring Osama bin Laden and his followers as the United States pressed its military and diplomatic campaign against terror

2004, a video surfaced showing Kenneth Bigley, a British civil engineer held by practitioners of that "religion of peace", pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage. (Bigley was later beheaded)

2005, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity

2008, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history

2009, New York City terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi pleaded not guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in what authorities said was a planned attack on commuter trains. (Zazi later pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and supporting al-Qaida.) ALSO: Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced in New York to more than 24 years in prison for his guilty plea to fraud charges and another four years and four months in prison for his conviction at trial for breaking campaign finance laws

2013, NASA's newest delivery service, Orbital Sciences Corp.'s unmanned cargo spacecraft Cygnus, made its first-ever shipment to the International Space Station. ALSO: Some four dozen people were shot to death at an agricultural college in Gujba, Nigeria, in an attack blamed on Boko Haram. A car bomb tore through a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing at least 41 people. AND: On the last day of the season, Miami's Henderson Alvarez pitched one of baseball's most bizarre no-hitters. Alvarez celebrated in the on-deck circle when the Marlins scored on a two-out wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0.


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