Local

July 23, 2009: Nine DFL candidates for governor were in attendance at Farmer John’s Pumpkin Patch during the first-ever Politics in the Pumpkin Patch event.

July 23, 2009: The world of mixed martial arts was on display at the Albert Lea Armory. The Albert Lea Golden Fighters had five individuals on the card. Johnny Talamantes and Brody Avery both won their bouts by knockout in the first round.

July 22, 2009: Sam Champion from “Good Morning America” and Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner were together at Brookside Education Center for a live broadcast. “Good Morning America” was in Albert Lea to talk about the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project.

July 27, 1979: Three Rock Island grain cars derailed near South Broadway and Seventh Street.

July 27, 1939: Russell Jensen, a 6-year-old boy from Albert Lea, was found after being lost in Paul Bunyan forest for three days. Bloodhounds were called in from La Crosse, Wisconsin, to help locate the boy. The search party grew to 600 before the youth was rescued from the mosquito-infested woods of northern Minnesota.

 

National

2018: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency suspended swimming star Ryan Lochte from competition for a year for violating anti-doping rules by getting an intravenous injection of vitamins.

2014: Taiwan’s TransAsia Airways Flight 222, an ATR-72, crashed while attempting to land on Penghu Island, killing 48 of the 58 people on board.

2011: Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

2009: Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was named in a search warrant as the target of a manslaughter probe into the singer’s death. Murray was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

2003: Massachusetts’ attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably had sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.

1996: Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the U.S. women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics.

1983: An Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. The near-disaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.

1962: The first public TV transmissions over Telstar 1 took place during a special program featuring live shots beamed from the United States to Europe and vice versa.

1914: Austria-Hungary presented a list of demands to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin. Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum led to the outbreak of World War I.

1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, New York, at age 63.