Today in History Today is Monday, Oct. 4, the 277th day of 2021. There are 88 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Oct. 4, 2002, “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh received a 20-year sentence after a sobbing plea for forgiveness before a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia. (He was released from prison in May, 2019.) In a federal court in Boston, a laughing Richard Reid pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives in his shoes (the British citizen was later sentenced to life in prison). On this date: In 1814, French painter Jean-Francois Millet was born in Normandy. In 1861, during the Civil War, the United States Navy authorized construction of the first ironclad ship, the USS Monitor. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps. In 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit. In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin,...
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