OCTOBER 8
1985:Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound American, is killed by Palestinian
Liberation Front terrorists who had seized the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro the day before in the Mediterranean near Alexandria, Egypt, taking more than 400 passengers hostage.
1957: Jerry Lee Lewis records the hit song “Great Balls of Fire” at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tenn. Between takes, Lewis, who had a conservative Christian upbringing, argues with Sun Studio founder Sam Phillips about the morality of his music, at one point saying, “I have the devil in me!”
1970: Soviet author and political critic Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because of travel restrictions, he does not accept the award in Stockholm at the time.
1957: Jerry Lee Lewis records the hit song “Great Balls of Fire” at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tenn. Between takes, Lewis, who had a conservative Christian upbringing, argues with Sun Studio founder Sam Phillips about the morality of his music, at one point saying, “I have the devil in me!”
1970: Soviet author and political critic Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because of travel restrictions, he does not accept the award in Stockholm at the time.
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