Monday, October 04, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 4
1970:Rock icon Janis Joplin is found dead of an accidental heroin overdose in her hotel room in Los Angeles, where she was staying to record her final album, Pearl. Joplin was 27.

1957: The Soviet Union launches Earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit, inaugurating the dawn of the space age. Traveling at about 18,000 miles per hour, Sputnik elicits great interest and concern in the United States, prompting the space race.

1957: Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver gets into trouble for the first time, as Leave It to Beaver premieres on CBS.

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