
Actor Lili Reinhart (TV: “Riverdale”) is 25. Rock singer Niall Horan (One Direction) is 28. Contemporary Christian musician Hector Cervantes (Casting Crowns) is 41. Country musician Joe Don Rooney (Rascal Flatts) is 46.

Country singer Aaron Benward (Blue County) is 48. Former tennis player Goran Ivanisevic (ee-van-EE’-seh-vihch) is 50. Olympic gold medal runner Michael Johnson is 54. Rock singer-musician Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) is 60. 101 of 1997 and its programmes are accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE). Singer Randy Jones (The Village People) is 69. City Varsity (Pty) Ltd is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a Private Higher Education Institution under the Higher Education Act No. Rock singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 80. Actor Eileen Fulton (TV: “As the World Turns”) is 88. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Barbara Bain is 90. Open after dropping the first two sets of the final Thiem earned his first Grand Slam title with a 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6) comeback victory against Alexander Zverev. Dominic Thiem became the first man in 71 years to win the U.S. One year ago: In open defiance of state regulations and his own administration’s pandemic health guidelines, President Donald Trump hosted his first indoor rally since June, telling a packed, nearly mask-less crowd in Henderson, Nevada, that the nation was “making the last turn” in defeating the virus. Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, 93, suffered a major stroke (he died 15 days later). Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.įive years ago: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rolled out a plan aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers child care during a speech in Aston, Pennsylvania. Ten years ago: Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. Bush visited injured Pentagon workers and said he would carry the nation’s prayers to New York. In 2001, two days after the 9/11 terror attacks, the first few jetliners returned to the nation’s skies, but several major airports remained closed and others opened only briefly.

In 1997, funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa. In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting he was 25. In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. In 1990, the combination police-courtroom drama “Law & Order” premiered on NBC.

In 1970, the first New York City Marathon was held winner Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a Black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”
