(Rittenhouse, who was taken into custody in Illinois the next day, said he was defending himself after the three men attacked him as he tried to protect businesses from protesters he was acquitted on all charges, including homicide.) In 2020, two people were shot to death and a third was wounded as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. Louis for Michael Brown, the Black 18-year-old who was shot to death by a police officer in suburban Ferguson. Senate, died at age 77 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a battle with a brain tumor. In 2001, R&B singer Aaliyah (ah-LEE’-yah) was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas she was 22. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, died with her father in an airliner crash in Auburn, Maine, that also killed four other passengers and two crew members. In 1985, Samantha Smith, 13, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet.
(Producer David Merrick stunned the cast and audience during the curtain call by announcing that the show’s director, Gower Champion, had died earlier that day.) In 1980, the Broadway musical “42nd Street” opened. In 1958, the game show “Concentration” premiered on NBC-TV. In 1944, during World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to Antarctica. Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, getting from Dover, England, to Calais (ka-LAY’), France, in 22 hours. In 1718, hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.
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