AZ Briefing: Changes coming to Phoenix Open next year

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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Sun Oct 27 2024

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening across the state before you start your day.

Changes are coming to the 2025 WM Phoenix Open at the TPC Scottsdale golf course.

Here’s what fans can expect to see, from a second entrance to axing third-party ticket vendors.

More about the changes.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of 85 essays calling for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper. The essays were written by “Publius” ― a pen name for Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
•	In 1904: New York City inaugurated its innovative new rapid transit system: the subway. The first train left City Hall station with New York Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. at the controls. The system was opened to the public at 7 p.m., and before the evening was out, more than 110,000 people had taken a ride.
•	In 1962: U.S. Air Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson became the only combatant fatality of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 airplane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile while he was flying over Cuba.
•	In 1968: Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner ― part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, which ultimately led to the development of nuclear power ― died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 89. Her tombstone reads: “Lise Meitner ― a physicist who never lost her humanity.”
•	In 1988: President Ronald Reagan decided to demolish a new U.S. Embassy in Moscow after discovering that the Soviet Union had listening devices built into the structure.
•	In 1988: The Shuttle Atlantis launched on a mission to deploy a spy satellite for the United States.