Home Run Kings

Today

• A a new videotape with Al-Qaeda's second in command released.
  
• Overpass in Quebec, Canada collapsed
• Michael Schumacher wins 2006 Chinese Grand Prix.
• French Teacher in Hiding After Criticizing Islam.
• New video shows 9/11 hijackers attending terrorist camp in Afghanistan.

In the past

From the Library of Congress.
On October 1, 1961, Roger Maris slammed home run number 61 into the stands. In the last game of the regular season, Maris broke the long-standing 1927 record of baseball legend Babe Ruth for the most home runs in a single season. Fans loyal to Ruth criticized Maris. They argued that Ruth hit 60 home runs in a 154 game schedule, while Maris hit only 59 home runs in the first 154 games of the season, not reaching 61 home runs after 162 games. The Baseball Commissioner, Ford Frick, ruled that Maris did not break Ruth's record. It was not until 1991 that Maris was credited with the record.

• 2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
• 2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
• 2001 - Victoria Beckham's debut solo album is released.
  1993 - Polly Klaas is kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis during a slumber party at her Petaluma, California, home; Davis will be sentenced to death for murdering Klaas.
• 1992 - Cartoon Network debuts.
• 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet.
• 1985 :The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
• 1983 :Horizons opens at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
• 1982 :EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
• 1982 :Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
• 1979 :Activision founded.
• 1979 :The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
• 1814 :The Congress of Vienna Begins.