GMT: Tigers Win Sunday edition

Mornin’

I’ll build it and they will come

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1922 – The University of Alabama opens the American football season with a 110–0 victory over the Marion Military Institute, which still stands as Alabama's record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.

1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.

1975 – The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.

1977 – Because of NASA budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

2016 – Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

2016 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.



JOTD: While playing in the backyard, Little Johnny kills a honeybee. His father sees him killing the honeybee and angrily says, "No honey for you for one month!" Later that afternoon, Johnny's dad catches him tearing the wings off a butterfly. "That's it! No butter for you for one month!" says his dad. Later that evening as Johnny's mother cooks dinner, a cockroach run across the kitchen floor. She jumps and stomps on it, and then looks up to find Little Johnny and her husband watching her. Little Johnny looks at his father and says, "Are you going to tell her, Dad, or do you want me to?"