Deval Patrick tapped former Democratic National Chairman Paul G. The heads of the Group of 20 nations began a two-day meeting in Pittsburgh aimed at making sure a fledgling global recovery remained on track. Security Council unanimously endorsed a sweeping strategy aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately eliminating them.

Author Francoise Sagan died in Honfleur, France, at age 69.įive years ago: With President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. General Assembly to unite behind his country’s effort to rein in spiraling violence, lighten the foreign debt and improve security ahead of the January elections. Ten years ago: Iraq’s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi (EE’-yahd ah-LAH’-wee), appealed to world leaders at the U.N. Seuss,” died in La Jolla, California, at age 87. Children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel (GY’-zul), better known as “Dr. In 1991, kidnappers in Lebanon freed British hostage Jack Mann after holding him captive for more than two years. Harris the first female bishop in the church’s history. Members of the eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elected Barbara C. In 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the men’s 100-meter dash at the Seoul (sohl) Summer Olympics – but he was disqualified three days later for using anabolic steroids. (Hearst was released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Jimmy Carter.) In 1976, former hostage Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The adventures series “Daniel Boone,” starring Fess Parker, debuted on NBC. In 1964, the situation comedy “The Munsters” premiered on CBS television. “The Howdy Doody Show” ended a nearly 13-year run with its final telecast on NBC. In 1960, the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia. In 1957, the Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver. (Gillars, later convicted, ended up serving 12 years in prison.) In 1948, Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist “Axis Sally,” pleaded not guilty in Washington, D.C.

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