100 years ago
Sept. 20, 1914
• The feast of Rosh Hashanah or New Year's Day, which inaugurates the most solemn season of the Jewish religious year, begins today at sundown and lasts until sundown tomorrow. Among the Orthodox Jews, who celebrate two days, the following day, Tuesday is also observed. Today the Jewish calendar year is opened. It is the year 5675.
50 years ago
Sept. 20, 1964
• Mrs. Orval Faubus, who on Friday accepted the sixth term nomination for the governor, will spend two days on the road Monday and Tuesday meeting county committeemen in his place. The governor is in Arkansas Baptist Hospital recuperating from a cold. Gov. Faubus got out of his car in the rain near Ozark Wednesday to help two women whose car had run into a ditch. Friday he became ill with a cold, made a brief appearance at a breakfast and never went back to the State Democratic Convention.
25 years ago
Sept. 20, 1989
• A gun apparently was fired at a J.A. Fair High School student in August, but "luckily the media didn't get it," a Little Rock teacher said Tuesday. Sam Stueart, the school's principal last year, testified at Tuesday's first meeting of the Governor's Task Force on Student Discipline and Safety, which was established by the Legislature earlier this year. Nobody was hurt in the Aug. 1 incident, but it took police 21 minutes to arrive at the scene, said Stueart, now a Pulaski Heights Junior High School teacher.
10 years ago
Sept. 20, 2004
• Beau Jones is a college Republican from the University of Central Arkansas whose political zeal brought him to Hendrix College on Sunday for an MTV-sponsored Rock the Vote rally. Dressed in his "Students for Bush" T-shirt, Jones surveyed the athletic field full of college students and pronounced it infertile ground for his politics. "About half the UCA students are conservative," Jones said. "But 100 percent of Hendrix students are" liberal. A tally of placards and handpainted signs might have supported Jones' assertion but only by a little. Joined by college Republicans from Ouachita Baptist University, who made the 90-minute trek north from Arkadelphia, Jones and his friends made sure that several Bush-Cheney placards jostled for place among Democrats in the crowd.
Metro on 09/20/2014