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On March 26, 2020, WAFB became the second station in the Baton Rouge market to launch a 4 p.m. newscast in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on August 3, 2020, WAFB became the first station in Baton Rouge to expand its 6 p.m. newscast to a full hour. [14] On June 26, 2023, WAFB launched a 9 a.m. weekday newscast. [15]
August 13, 1969: Chicago ticker-tape parade for the crew of Apollo 11. The three Apollo 11 astronauts rode in ticker-tape parades in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees. On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official state dinner to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 ...
The New Orleans Pop Festival was a rock festival held on Labor Day weekend (August 30 – September 1, 1969), two weeks after the Woodstock Festival. It was held at the Pelican International Speedway in Prairieville, Louisiana, [1] about 65 miles up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and 15 miles south of Baton Rouge. Over 26 bands ...
June 14: Exxon Baton Rouge Refinery benzene leak. 2016 July 5: Alton Sterling was fatally shot by a police officer, which led to protests in Baton Rouge. July 9: Protest against police violence. [38] July 17: 2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers; August: 2016 Louisiana floods submerge thousands of homes throughout the parish
WBXH-CD (channel 39) is a low-power, Class A television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate WAFB (channel 9). The two stations share studios on Government Street in downtown Baton Rouge, where WBXH-CD's transmitter is also located.
August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD). August 21 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to ...
It is well known for its annual Mardi Gras parade, which is the largest in Baton Rouge. Spanish Town was commissioned in 1805. It is the oldest neighborhood in Baton Rouge, and its 49.4 acres (20.0 ha) area, comprising 258 contributing properties, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 31, 1978. [1]
Baton Rouge (/ ˌ b æ t ən ˈ r uː ʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Louisiana Creole: Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 census, making it Louisiana's second-most populous city. [4]