2001Letters with the New Jersey postmark that later test positive for anthrax spots are mailed to Capitol Hill. They are addressed to two democratic Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. A Senator office building is later closed for months of clean-up, part of the nation’s anthrax scare after the September 11th attacks.

1985Palestinian hijackers who seized the cruise liner “Achille Lauro” surrender after the ship arrives in Egypt. It marks the end of a hostage ordeal in the Mediterranean that left an American passenger dead.

1975Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and human rights advocate in what’s then the Soviet Union, wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

2006North Korea announces detailed conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.

Also that yearInternet search giant Google announced it was snapping up “You Tube” in a 1.65-billion-dollar stock deal.

And 1940“Imagine all the people. Living life in peace.”

John Lennon, one of the fad four members of the Beatles, is born in Liverpool, England.

Today in History, October 9th, Jon Belmont, the Associated Press.