October 14, 1947: Capt. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager breaks the sound barrier. But the Los Angeles Times holds the story until June 1948 "in the interest of national security."

October 14, 1944: Danton Walker says: David Sarnoff, RCA president, predicts a television gadget that will be worn on the wrist but contains a practical television screen.

October 14, 1907: There was Oscar E. Otto, a young chauffeur with a hot temper and a gun. There was his 19-year-old wife, the former Irene E. Jester, “a silly little creature with futile tears and French heels.” And there was J.C. Henderson, another chauffeur with a gun and better aim or more luck.

October 14, 1897: Puccini's "La Boheme" receives its American premiere in Los Angeles, performed by the Del Conte Italian Grand Opera Company of Peru.

October 13, 1959: The report that a mother was keeping her children out of school because they had no shoes or adequate clothing came into a child welfare and attendance office and Monty Minock, a worker, was assigned to investigate, Matt Weinstock says.

In the silent era, art director Elsa Lopez provided creative elements to industry superstars at a time when few women of color offered important input, becoming one of the first Latino women to gain status in Hollywood.

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October 13, 1907: Gunmen imported from out of town by the Hop Sing Tong entered the tailor shop of Lem Sing at 806 Juan St. in Chinatown and under the pretense of having some clothing made, wounded him and killed Wong Goon Kor.

October 12, 1957: Matt Weinstock profiles Burl Ives as he makes the transition from folk singing to acting.

October 12, 1947: Sheppard W. King III is jailed on charges of child abuse after hitting his 2-year-old son in the lobby of the Pantages because the boy talked during the show.

October 12, 1938: Reporter Joe Seewerker and artist Charles Owens visit a house on wheels in this installment of Nuestro Pueblo. Drawing of a broken-down truck with a house for a body.

October 12, 1907: After repeated complaints to police because half a dozen dead dogs had laid in the streets for two weeks, the health department tried to charge C.T. Hanson, who held the contract for removing carcasses. But according to the city attorney, Hanson was only guilty of not abiding by his contract and nothing more.

October 11, 1957: Just imagine if a few thousand people around L.A. decided all at once that they'd had it, that they wanted out of the rat race. And suppose they went down to the beach in a body and meditated upon the beautiful sunset or the elusive grunion and decided they just weren't going to pay attention to anything that commanded their attention.

October 11, 1957: Paul Coates profiles Bert Whitson, a clown who used to perform at Pershing Square before it was uprooted for a parking structure and taken over at night by "hoodlums."

October 11, 1907: John Bryson, self-made millionaire and developer of the Bryson Block, dies. He had separated from his wife and was almost constantly in the company of his longtime nurse, Gladys Lamberton. He was hurriedly buried in a secret ceremony at Rosedale Cemetery.

October 11, 1947: Pat and Gunner, 6-year-old Irish setters who were left a $30,000 estate by their late master, Carleton R. Bainbridge, retired attorney, yesterday were disinherited by a jury of eight men and four women.

October 11, 1944: Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge from the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda.

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October 10, 1959: Matt Weinstock is less than thrilled over the Dodgers' World Series victory. "Furthermore, I don't think the Dodgers are the greatest thing that ever happened to Los Angeles," he says.