ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 288th day of 2024 and the 23rd day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest and went on to deliver a campaign speech in Milwaukee.

In 1962, a U.S. reconnaissance plane photographed Soviet missile sites on the island of Cuba, setting off the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights leadership.

In 1994, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Oslo accords.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. president/general; Lillian Gish (1893-1993), actress; e.e. cummings (1894-1962), poet; C. Everett Koop (1916-2013), U.S. surgeon general; Roger Moore (1927-2017), actor; Ralph Lauren (1939- ), fashion designer; Joe Girardi (1964- ), baseball player/manager; Natalie Maines (1974- ), singer-songwriter; Usher (1978- ), singer-songwriter; Mia Wasikowska (1989- ), actress.

TODAY'S FACT: The bullet from the 1912 assassination attempt on Theodore Roosevelt was deemed too dangerous to remove; it remained lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle for the rest of his life.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1908, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers 2-0 to win their second consecutive World Series. They would not win the Series again until 2016.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

TODAY'S NUMBER: 5 -- Major League Baseball teams that have never won a World Series: the Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Tampa Bay Rays.

TODAY'S MOON: Between first quarter moon (Oct. 10) and full moon (Oct. 17).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 287th day of 2024 and the 22nd day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1792, the cornerstone of the White House was ceremonially laid.

In 1845, Texas ratified a state constitution.

In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its former Axis ally.

In 1970, the People's Republic of China and Canada announced they would establish diplomatic relations, prompting Taiwan to break ties with Canada.

In 2010, 33 miners who had survived 69 days underground after a mining accident in Copiapo, Chile, were rescued.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Lenny Bruce (1925-1966), comedian; Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British prime minister; Paul Simon (1941- ), singer-songwriter; Jerry Jones (1942- ), Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager; Sammy Hagar (1947- ), singer-songwriter; Doc Rivers (1961- ), basketball player/coach; Kelly Preston (1962-2020), actress; Jerry Rice (1962- ), football player; Kate Walsh (1967- ), actress; Nancy Kerrigan (1969- ), Olympic figure skater; Sacha Baron Cohen (1971- ), comedian/actor; Paul Pierce (1977- ), basketball player; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989- ), politician.

TODAY'S FACT: The White House has 132 rooms, including three kitchens and 35 bathrooms.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1903, the Boston Americans defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of 3-0 to win the first Major League Baseball World Series.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps." -- Sammy Hagar

TODAY'S NUMBER: 1.4 billion -- estimated population of the People's Republic of China, as of mid-2024.

TODAY'S MOON: Between first quarter moon (Oct. 10) and full moon (Oct. 17).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 286th day of 2024 and the 21st day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1492, explorer Christopher Columbus' expedition made landfall in the Bahamas.

In 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was recited by more than 12 million students in public schools for the first time, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage.

In 1946, the Allied Control Council in Germany decreed that the Nazi political party be dissolved.

In 2000, a suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole in Yemen killed 17 sailors and wounded 39.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Dick Gregory (1932-2017), comedian/author; Tony Kubek (1935- ), broadcaster/baseball player; Sam Moore (1935- ), singer-songwriter; Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), opera singer; Chris Wallace (1947- ), TV journalist; Hugh Jackman (1968- ), actor; Marion Jones (1975- ), track-and-field athlete; Bode Miller (1977- ), Olympic skier; Calum Scott (1988- ), singer; Josh Hutcherson (1992- ), actor.

TODAY'S FACT: The United Nations Population Fund estimated that the world's population reached 7 billion at the end of October 2011, but according to U.S. Census Bureau demographers, that number was not reached until 19 weeks later.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2003, Michael Schumacher won his sixth Formula One Drivers' championship, breaking a record held for 46 years by Juan Manuel Fangio.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "What I’ve come to learn in my long life is that ignorance is not bliss; it is time consuming and costly as hell." -- Dick Gregory, "Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies"

TODAY'S NUMBER: 42 -- "the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything," according to Douglas Adams' comedy science fiction novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," published on this day in 1979.

TODAY'S MOON: Between first quarter moon (Oct. 10) and full moon (Oct. 17).