>>Today In History On this day: In 1931, Chester Goulds comic strip, Dick Tracy debuted in The Detroit Mirror. In 1933, Esquire magazine was published for the first time. In 1957, the first man-made satellite was launched into space by the Soviet Union. The craft was named Sputnik One. In 1957, Leave It To Beaver debuted on CBS. The show starred Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver. In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose at the age of 27. In 1975, Willie Nelson earned his first number one country hit with Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain. In 1976, Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the ABC TV News anchor desk. In doing so, she became the first woman to anchor a network evening newscast. In 1978, funeral services were held at the Vatican for Pope John Paul the First. In 1980, the song Another One Bites The Dust by Queen peaked at number one on the pop singles chart. In 1986, CBS Evening News anchorman Dan Rather was mugged by two people in New York City. In 1989, Art Shell was appointed coach of Oakland Raiders, making him the first black coach in modern NFL. In 1989, legendary racehorse Secretariat died at the age of 19. In 1990, the Aaron Spelling TV series Beverly Hills 90210 debuted on the Fox Network. The show continued on for a decade, finally ending its run in 2000. In 1994, South African President Nelson Mandela visited the White House. In 1996, the rock group Van Halen announced former Extreme singer Gary Cherone would replace departed lead singer Sammy Hagar who had quit the group two months earlier. In 1997, hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the mall in Washington D.C.. It was one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history. In 2001, San Francisco Giants baseball slugger Barry Bonds logged his 70th home run, tying the 1998 record of St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire. In 2003, more than ten years after their remains were uncovered during the construction of an office building in New York Citys Manhattan, the remains of more than 400 Black men, women and children of the colonial era were reburied at the site at which they were found. The site, discovered in 1991, turned out to be a long-forgotten burial ground which became the final resting place for tens of thousands of people of African heritage. In 2004, three U.S. scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused their studies on quarks, which are considered to be the smallest building blocks of nature. In 2004, Gordon Cooper Jr., one of the original Mercury astronauts, passed away at his home in Ventura, California. He was 77. During his career, Cooper piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini 5. In 2006, former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others were charged in connection with a corporate spy scandal. The five were accused of using false pretenses to access telephone records. Among the felony charges, fraudulent wire communications, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy.
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