SEPTEMBER 10
1955:Bert Parks hosts the 29th Miss America pageant, singing "There She Is" for the first time at the annual beauty pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. Sharon Kay Ritchie, Miss Colorado, is crowned Miss America during the first of Parks's 25 years hosting the pageant.
Meanwhile, that same night, Gunsmoke debuts on CBS, starring James Arness as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City, Kan., in the American Old West. The archetypal Western drama, originally a radio show, would run for 20 seasons and 635 episodes, becoming the longest-running prime-time drama in U.S. broadcast history.
1919: Gen. John J. Pershing and thousands of his American Expeditionary Forces soldiers are welcomed home from the Western Front with a New York City ticker-tape parade celebrating their victory in World War I. A week earlier, Pershing had been made "General of the Armies of the United States" by Congress, a rank awarded to only one other soldier in U.S. history — Gen. George Washington, posthumously, in 1976.
1960: Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila becomes the first athlete from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the men's marathon in 2:15:16.2 and running the entire race barefoot at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome. Bikila would repeat his victory four years later, taking home gold at the Tokyo Games as the first athlete to win the Olympic marathon twice.
1823:Simon Bolivar named President of Peru
2002:Switzerland joins the United Nations
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