Celebration Excuse
Help The Swedes Celebrate Their 9th Annual Cinnamon Bun Day...
1895
The first US Open Men’s Golf Championship is played in Newport, Rhode Island. The winner, Horace Rawlins, received a cash prize of $150 and a $50 gold medal. (This past year’s winner, Angel Cabrera earned $1.26 million).
1950
Snoopy makes his first appearance in the Peanuts comic strip, though is not identified by name until November 10.
1957
Leave it to Beaver debuts on CBS. In the future the show would enforce the unwarranted assumption of a simpler era long past. We say “unwarranted” because the Soviets launched Sputnik I on the exact same day, scaring the bejesus out of American citizens.
1965
Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to ever visit the United States. We’d make a pope-mobile joke, but it didn’t exist yet.
1988
Popular televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. Who says there’s no such thing as sweet, sweet justice?
Birthday boys and girls...
- 1822: Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States,
- 1941: Anne Rice, Best-selling American author whose books have sold nearly 100 million copies, mostly about vampires
- 1944: Tony La Russa, Uber-successful Major League Baseball manager
- 1946: Chuck Hagel, The senior U.S. Senator from Nebraska and Iraq war critic
- 1963: A. C. Green, Former NBA basketball star who holds the record for most consecutive games played, 1,192
Daybook
STUMPIN’
Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Ron Paul, and John McCain speak at the Defending the American Dream summit in Washington, D.C. (Through 10/5)
CONGRESS
HOUSE
9 AM
House Armed Services Committee
The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee holds a hearing on provincial reconstruction teams in Afghanistan and Iraq.
10 AM
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
The committee addresses the issue of corruption in Iraq
House Homeland Security Committee
The Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism Subcommittees addresses keeping the US safe through counterterrorism efforts abroad
1 PM
House Judiciary Committee
The Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Subcommittees meet to discuss the medical care of illegal immigrants
SENATE
9:30 AM
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The committee hears from Professor Bernard Oxman of the University of Miami School of Law and others on the UN’s “Convention on the Law of the Sea”
10 AM
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee
The committee meets to discuss the security of American ports and the programs Homeland Security has put in place to protect them
Joint Economics Committee
Professors Glenn Loury of Brown and Bruce Western of Harvard testify on the costs of mass incarceration of prisoners in America
2:30 PM
Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
The Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee meets to discuss the best way to keep overseas infectious diseases overseas
TV
TIVO…
- Oprah: Eat, Pray, Love and Oprah’s Book Club Announcement!
- The View: Scottish musician Annie Lennox and CNN’s Jack Cafferty
- Regis and Kelly: Brit actor Jude Law and 30 Rock’s Tina Fey
- Ellen: Star of HBO’s Serenity Nathan Fillion, and Tom Selleck
STAY UP FOR…
- Letterman: Desprate Housewife Nicolette Sheridan, and Rihanna
- Leno: Boston Legal actor John Larroquette, actress Eva Mendes, and Matchbox Twenty
- Late Late Show: Lead singer of the band Train, Pat Monahan, and actress Cathy Ladman
- Conan: Connie Britton of 24 and Friday Night Lights, and musical guest Bloc Party
- Last Call: D.L. Hughley, with musical guest New Found Glory
- Kimmel: Jamie Foxx, Lexie Grey on Grey’s Anatomy Chyler Leigh, and internet hip-hop sensation Soulja Boy
- Daily Show: Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law professor and former Assistant US Attorney General
- Colbert Report: John Kao, the Former Academic Director of the Department of Managing Innovation at Stanford University
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