Today in History: October 11, Anita Hill testifies at Clarence Thomas hearings

Today is Friday, Oct. 11, the 285th time of 2024. There are 81 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying earlier the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of intersexual harassment; Thomas re-appeared earlier the sheet to denounce the proceedings arsenic a “high-tech lynching.”

Also connected this date:

In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered each the city’s Asian students segregated into their ain school. (The bid was aboriginal rescinded astatine the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who successful speech promised to curb aboriginal Japanese migration to the United States.)

In 1968, Apollo 7, the archetypal manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra (shih-RAH’), Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

In 1984, Challenger astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the archetypal American pistillate to locomotion successful abstraction arsenic she and chap Mission Specialist David C. Leestma spent 3 1/2 hours extracurricular the shuttle.

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet person Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened 2 days of talks successful Reykjavik, Iceland, concerning arms power and quality rights.

In 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was archetypal displayed, during the Second National March connected Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights connected the National Mall.

In 2017, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting the pursuing twelvemonth and found a caller programme for older girls based connected the Boy Scout curriculum.

In 2021, Jon Gruden resigned arsenic manager of the Las Vegas Raiders pursuing reports astir messages helium wrote years earlier that utilized violative presumption to notation to Blacks, gays and women.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry is 97.
• Actor Amitabh Bachchan is 82.
• Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) is 78.
• Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, is 74.
• Actor David Morse is 71.
• Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is 63.
• Actor Joan Cusack is 62.
• Actor Jane Krakowski is 56.
• Rapper MC Lyte is 54.
• Actor Emily Deschanel is 48.
• Actor Michelle Trachtenberg is 39.
• Golfer Michelle Wie is 35.
• Rapper Cardi B is 32.
• NFL linebacker T.J. Watt is 30.