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Way back when: Today in history
10.13

Envelopes that contained letters and anthrax were sent to NBC's Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

By GENE CURTIS
Published: 10/13/2009 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 10/13/2009 6:08 AM

1930

Jack "Legs" Diamond, overlord of the New York underworld, was shot four times and critically wounded in New York when he went to keep an appointment with a Ziegfeld Follies dancer. When he recovered, he moved to the Catskills to get away from other hoodlums but was shot to death in 1931.

1960

Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy clashed in their third of four radio-television debates — side by side on split-screen TV but 3,000 miles apart physically. Democrat Kennedy was in New York while Nixon and a panel of questioners were in Los Angeles.

1986

The death toll in an earthquake that struck El Salvador a few days earlier reached 976, President Jose Napoleon Duarte said. More than 8,000 had been injured and 31,000 families were homeless because of the strong earthquake and more than 1,000 aftershocks.

2001

Five more newspaper employees in Florida and a Microsoft worker in Nevada tested positive for anthrax exposure. Ten new cases were reported as investigators revealed that an assistant to NBC newsman Tom Brokaw had been infected by anthrax after opening a threatening letter which contained a white powder.

To purchase "Only in Oklahoma," a book of collected columns by Gene Curtis, visit, tulsaworld.com/OnlyinOklahoma

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gene.curtis@tulsaworld.com

By GENE CURTIS

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