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October 16, 1928
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Headlines from October 16, 1928
Curtis Cancels Albany Date For Speech in Schenectady
Curtis cancels Albany date to s in Schenectady
OTTINGER ACCEPTS POWER AS BIG ISSUE; Notification Speech Pledges a Non-Partisan Board to Submit a Water Plan. SILENT ON PROHIBITION Promises Economy and Review of Taxes--Others on Ticket Also Notified.
Presides at ceremony
AIRSHIP HYPNOTIZES CITY GAZING UPWARD; Sight of the Majestic Visitor Quickens Pulse of Metropolis, Stirs Strange Exultation.
The appearance in the skies of the massive Graf Zeppelin, with its 121 assorted tons of mortals; freight and mechanism, halted New York City in its tracks yesterday afternoon.
PASSENGERS HAPPY TO BE ON LAND AGAIN; Radiate Their Pride in Being the First to Make Such a Voyage Across the Atlantic. SMOKING BAN KEENLY FELT Refiner Calls Trip Better Than on Liner--Only Anxious Day Was When Fin Was Damaged.
LAKEHURST, N.J., Oct.15.--They were a happy lot, the first passengers on an ocean air liner, who, after sailing from the inland port of Friedrichshafen on the Graf Zeppelin, disembarked tonight at the inland port of Lakehurst.
Notable Births
1928Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (died 2010)[โ ]
Mary Daly was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Roman Catholic, she had disavowed Christianity by the early 1970s. Daly retired from Boston College in 1999, after violating university policy by refusing to allow male students in her advanced women's studies classes. She allowed male students in her introductory class and privately tutored those who wanted to take advanced classes.
1928Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (died 2016)[โ ]
Ann Morgan Guilbert, sometimes credited as Ann Guilbert, was an American television and film actress and comedian who portrayed a number of roles from the 1950s on, most notably as Millie Helper in 61 episodes of the early 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, and later Yetta Rosenberg, Fran Fine's doddering grandmother, in 56 episodes of the 1990s sitcom The Nanny.