Monday, September 27, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 27
1930:Golfer Bobby Jones beats Gene Homans to win the U.S. Amateur Championship, completing the first Grand Slam in golf history by winning four major tournaments in one year. He had already clinched the 1930 U.S Open, British Open and British Amateur.

1954: The Tonight Show, with host Steve Allen, airs nationwide for the first time on NBC.

1964: The Warren Commission concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, as did Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who shot Oswald two days later in the Dallas police headquarters.

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