Immediately is Thursday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2025. There are 83 days left within the yr.
Immediately in historical past:
On Oct. 9, 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla chief Che Guevara, 39, was executed by the Bolivian military a day after his seize.
Additionally on this date:
In 1910, a coal mud explosion on the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners useless.
In 1962, Uganda received independence from British rule.
In 1963, a mega-tsunami triggered by a landside at Vajont Dam in northern Italy destroyed villages and precipitated roughly 2,000 deaths.
In 1985, Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, a memorial to former Beatle John Lennon, was devoted.
In 1992, the extremely seen Peekskill Meteorite streaked by Earth’s environment for a whole lot of miles over the U.S. Northeast earlier than a small chunk of it crashed into the trunk of a parked automobile in Peekskill, New York. The automobile, a brilliant purple 1980 Chevrolet Malibu, later went on exhibition at a number of museums worldwide.
In 2009, President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee known as “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen worldwide diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
In 2010, a drill broke by into an underground chamber the place 33 Chilean miners had been trapped for greater than two months.
In 2012, former Penn State assistant soccer coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, to 30 to 60 years in jail following his conviction on 45 counts of sexual abuse of boys.
Immediately’s Birthdays:
- Musician Nona Hendryx is 81.
- Musician Jackson Browne is 77.
- Actor Robert Wuhl is 74.
- TV character Sharon Osbourne is 73.
- Actor Tony Shalhoub is 72.
- Actor Scott Bakula is 71.
- Actor-TV host John O’Hurley is 71.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Mike Singletary is 67.
- Jazz musician Kenny Garrett is 65.
- Movie director Guillermo del Toro is 61.
- Singer PJ Harvey is 56.
- Movie director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) is 56.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Annika Sorenstam is 55.
- Musician Sean Lennon is 50.
- Actor Brandon Routh is 46.
- Writer-TV presenter Marie Kondo is 41.
- Comic Melissa Villasenor is 38.
- Actor Tyler James Williams is 33.
- NFL tight finish George Kittle is 32.
- Nation singer Scotty McCreery (TV: “American Idol”) is 32.
- Mannequin Bella Hadid is 29.
- Actor Jharrel Jerome is 28.
- Tennis participant Ben Shelton is 23.
