Radio program host Charles Osgood

Events in 1933 and 8-1

Events in US in the birth year of Charles Osgood

• Giuseppe Zangara executed for attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in which Chicago Mayor Cermak is fatally shot. Background: Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865
• Roosevelt inaugurated (“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”); launches New Deal.
• Prohibition repealed. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• Glass-Steagall Act bans banks from dealing in stocks and bonds.

Birthday Charles Osgood (8-1) in history

• Day 8-1 year 1815: The date of the Battle of New Orleans was the last battle of the War of 1812 between Great Britain and America.
• Day 8-1 year 1918: Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.
• Day 8-1 year 1958: Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
• Day 8-1 year 1959: Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.
• Day 8-1 year 1964: President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
• Day 8-1 year 1982: The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."
• Day 8-1 year 1998: The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.
• Day 8-1 year 2011: Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.