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Post by dex on Jun 11, 2018 8:15:12 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is June 11, the 162nd day of 2018. There are 203 days left in the year.
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On this date
In 1509, England’s King Henry VIII married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
In 1770, Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, “discovered” the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
In 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.
In 1919, Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner.
In 1938, Johnny Vander Meer pitched the first of two consecutive no-hitters as he led the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 victory over the Boston Bees. (Four days later, Vander Meer refused to give up a hit to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost, 6-0.)
In 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
In 1947, the government announced the end of sugar rationing for households and “institutional users” (e.g., restaurants and hotels) as of midnight.
In 1955, in motor racing’s worst disaster, more than 80 people were killed during the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France when two of the cars collided and crashed into spectators.
In 1962, three prisoners at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay staged an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft; they were never found or heard from again.
In 1978, Joseph Freeman Jr. became the first black priest ordained in the Church of My God of Latter-Day Saints.
In 1985, Karen Ann Quinlan, the comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died in Morris Plains, New Jersey, at age
31.
In 2001, Timothy McVeigh, 33, was executed by injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
Today’s birthdays
International Motors-ports Hall of Famer Jackie Stewart is 79.
Singer Joey Dee is 78.
Actress Adrienne Barbeau is 73.
Rock musician Frank Beard (ZZ Top) is 69.
Animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk is 69.
Actor Peter Bergman is
65.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana is 62.
Actor Hugh Laurie is 59.
TV personality Mehmet Oz, M.D., is 58.
Actor Peter Dinklage is
49.
Country musician Smilin’ Jay McDowell is 49.
Actor Lenny Jacobson is
44.
Actor Joshua Jackson is
40.
Americana musician Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers) is 40.
Actor Shia LaBeouf is 32.
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Post by dex on Jun 12, 2018 8:32:13 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
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Today is June 12, the 163rd day of 2018. There are 202 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1550, the city of Helsinki was established through a decree by King Gustavus I Vasa of Sweden. In 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, and appointed its first mayor, Thomas Willett. In 1776, Virginia’s colonial legislature adopted a Declaration of Rights. In 1898, Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain. In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. In 1942, Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis. In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.) In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages. In 1968, the Roman Polanski horror film “Rosemary’s Baby,” starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, was released by Paramount Pictures. In 1978, David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six “Son of Sam” .44-caliber killings that terrified New Yorkers. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but was eventually held liable in a civil action.) In 2013, Ariel Castro, 52, accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade, pleaded not guilty to hundreds of rape and kidnapping charges. (Castro was later sentenced to life plus 1,000 years and soon after committed suicide in prison.) In 2016, an American-born Muslim opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay establishment in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded before being shot dead by police.
Today’s birthdays
Jazz musician Chick Corea is 77. Sportscaster Marv Albert is 77. Rock musician Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) is 67. Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette is 65. Actor Timothy Busfield is 61. Actress Jenilee Harrison is 60. Rock musician John Linnell is 59. Rapper Grandmaster Dee (Whodini) is 56. Actor Eamonn Walker is 56. Actress Frances O’Connor is 51. Actor-comedian Finesse Mitchell is 46. Blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 41. Singer Robyn is 39. Actor Luke Youngblood is 32. Actor Ryan Malgarini is 26.
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Post by dex on Jun 13, 2018 8:43:21 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is June 13, the 164th day of 2018. There are 201 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1525, German theologian Martin Luther married former nun Katharina von Bora. In 1789, during the French Revolution, the National Assembly convened. In 1842, Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to ride on a train, traveling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington in 25 minutes. In 1911, the ballet “Petrushka,” with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Michel Fokine, was first performed in Paris by the Ballets Russes, with Vaslav Nijinsky in the title role. In 1927, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City. In 1935, James Braddock claimed the title of world heavyweight boxing champion from Max Baer in a 15-round fight in Queens, New York. In 1942, a four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. (All eight men were arrested after two members of the first group defected.) In 1957, the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, after a nearly two-month journey from England. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison. In 1983, the U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
Today’s birthdays
Artist Christo is 83. Magician Siegfried (Siegfried & Roy) is 79. Actor Malcolm McDowell is 75. Actor Richard Thomas is 67. Actor Stellan Skarsgard is 67. Comedian Tim Allen is 65. Actress Ally Sheedy is 56. TV anchor Hannah Storm is 56. Singer David Gray is 50. Actor Jamie Walters is 49. Singer-musician Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) is 48. Actor Steve-O is 44. Actor Ethan Embry is 40. Actor Chris Evans is 37. Singer Raz B is 33. Actress Kat Dennings is 32.
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Post by dex on Jun 14, 2018 7:41:36 GMT -5
View on page TODAY IN HISTORY
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Today is June 14, the 165th day of 2018. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.
On this date In 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created. In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the design of the original American flag. In 1801, former American Revolutionary War general and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold, 60, died in London. In 1934, Max Baer defeated Primo Carnera with an 11th round TKO to win the world heavyweight boxing championship in Long Island City, New York. In 1940, German troops entered Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis began transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled 6-3 that public school students could not be forced to salute the flag of the United States. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1968, Dr. Benjamin Spock and three other peace activists were convicted in Boston of conspiring to encourage young men to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. (The verdicts were later overturned by an appeals court.) Also, the Iron Butterfly single "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was released by Atco Records. In 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a ban on domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year's end. In 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands. In 1985, the 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece. In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Today's birthdays Actress Marla Gibbs is 87. Rock singer Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent) is 73. President Donald Trump is 72. Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 72. Rock musician Alan White (Yes) is 69. Actor Will Patton is 64. Olympic gold medal speed skater Eric Heiden is 60. Jazz musician Marcus Miller is 59. Singer Boy George is 57. Actress Traylor Howard is 52. Actress Yasmine Bleeth is 50. International Tennis Hall of Famer Steffi Graf is 49. Screenwriter Diablo Cody is
40. Actor J.R. Martinez is 35. Actor-singer Kevin McHale is 30. Actress Lucy Hale is 29. Pop singer Jesy Nelson (Little Mix) is 27. Country singer Joel Crouse is 26. Actor Daryl Sabara is 26.
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Post by dex on Jun 18, 2018 7:49:42 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is June 18, the 169th day of 2018. There are 196 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium. In 1918, "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1918," featuring the Irving Berlin song "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," opened on Broadway. In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, "This was their finest hour." In 1948, Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record in New York. In 1953, a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board. Also, Egypt's 148-year-old Muhammad Ali Dynasty came to an end with the overthrow of the monarchy and the proclamation of a republic. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to each other by telephone as they inaugurated the first trans-Pacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna. In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission. In 1986, 25 people were killed when a twin-engine plane and helicopter carrying sightseers collided over the Grand Canyon.
Today's birthdays
Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock is 79. Sir Paul McCartney is 76. Actress Isabella Rossellini is 66. Actress Carol Kane is 66. Actress Andrea Evans is 61. Rock singer Alison Moyet is 57. Rock musician Dizzy Reed (Guns N' Roses) is 55. Figure skater Kurt Browning is 52. Rock singer-musician Sice (The Boo Radleys) is 49. Rhythm and blues singer Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) is 47. Rapper Silkk the Shocker is 43. Actress Alana de la Garza is 42. Country singer Blake Shelton is 42. Drummer Josh Dun (Twenty One Pilots) is 30. Actress Renee Olstead is 29. Actor Jacob Anderson is 28. Actress Willa Holland is 27.
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Post by dex on Jun 27, 2018 8:52:08 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
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Today is June 27, the 178th day of 2018. There are 187 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1787, English historian Edward Gibbon completed work on his six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. In 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires. In 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago. In 1922, the first New-berry Medal, recognizing excellence in children’s literature, was awarded to “The Story of Mankind” by Hendrik Willem van Loon. In 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans. In 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm; the official death toll from the storm was placed at 390, although a variety of state, federal and local sources have estimated the number of fatalities at between 400 and 600. In 1966, the Gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows” premiered on ABC-TV. In 1974, President Richard Nixon opened an official visit to the Soviet Union. In 1985, the legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, passed into history as officials decertified the road. In 1990, NASA announced that a flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was preventing the instrument from achieving optimum focus. (The problem was traced to a mirror that had not been ground to exact specifications; corrective optics were later installed to fix the problem.) In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed him.)
Today’s birthdays
Business executive Ross Perot is 88. Singer-musician Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) is 76. Fashion designer Vera Wang is 69. Actress Julia Duffy is 67. Actress Isabelle Adjani is 63. Writer-producer-director J.J. Abrams is 52. Olympic gold and bronze medal figure skater Viktor Petrenko is 49. TV personality Jo Frost is
48. Actor Tobey Maguire is 43. Rock singer Bernhoft is 42. Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian is 34. Actor Sam Claflin is 32. Actor Ed Westwick is 31. Actor Matthew Lewis (Film: “Harry Potter”; TV: “Ripper Street”) is 29. Pop singer Lauren Jauregui (Fifth Harmony) (TV: “The X Factor”) is 22. Actor Chandler Riggs is 19.
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Post by dex on Jul 2, 2018 8:11:02 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is July 2, the 183rd day of 2018. There are 182 days left in the year. On this date In 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." In 1867, New York's first elevated rail line, a single track between Battery Place and Greenwich Street, went into operation. In 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.) In 1892, the Populist Party (also known as the People's Party) opened its first national convention in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1917, rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly blacks, are believed to have died in the violence. In 1926, the United States Army Air Corps was created. In 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator. In 1955, "The Lawrence Welk Show" premiered on ABC-TV under its original title, "The Dodge Dancing Party." In 1961, author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. In 1977, Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov, 78, died in Montreux, Switzerland. In 1987, 18 Mexican immigrants were found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in what authorities called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man survived. In 1997, Academy Award-winning actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 89. Today's birthdays Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is 89. Jazz musician Ahmad Jamal is 88. Actor Robert Ito is 87. Racing Hall of Famer Richard Petty is 81. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is 76. Writer-director-comedian Larry David is 71. Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, is 71. Rock musician Roy Bittan (Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band) is 69. Rock musician Gene Taylor is 66. Actress Wendy Schaal is 64. Actress-model Jerry Hall is 62. Actor Jimmy McNichol is 57. Actress Yancy Butler is 48. Actor Owain Yeoman is 40. Race car driver Sam Hornish Jr. is 39. Singer Michelle Branch is
35. Figure skater Johnny Weir is 34. Actor Nelson Franklin is 33. Actress-singer Ashley Tisdale is 33. Actress Lindsay Lohan is 32. Actress Margot Robbie is
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Post by pcdad on Jul 3, 2018 11:37:52 GMT -5
Actress Margot Robbie is ...?
.... AP has no mention about the Battle at Gettysburg?....
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Post by dex on Jul 5, 2018 9:15:25 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is July 5, the 186th day of 2018. There are 179 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy. In 1811, Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain. In 1865, the Secret Service Division of the U.S. Treasury Department was founded in Washington, D.C. with the mission of suppressing counterfeit currency. In 1940, during World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in France broke off diplomatic relations. In 1946, the bikini, created by Louis Reard, was modeled by Micheline Bernardini during a poolside fashion show in Paris. In 1947, Larry Doby made his debut with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in the American League three months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the National League. In the game against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park, Doby, pinch-hitting for Bryan Stephens, struck out in his first at-bat during the seventh inning; Chicago won 6-5. In 1954, Elvis Presley’s first commercial recording session took place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee; the song he recorded was “That’s All Right.” In 1962, independence took effect in Algeria; the same day, civilians of European descent, mostly French, came under attack by extremists in the port city of Oran. In 1984, the Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old “exclusionary rule,” deciding that evidence seized in good faith with defective court warrants could be used against defendants in criminal trials. In 1991, a worldwide financial scandal erupted as regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. In 2011, a jury in Orlando, Florida, found Casey Anthony, 25, not guilty of murder, manslaughter and child abuse in the 2008 disappearance and death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Today’s birthdays
Actress Katherine Helmond is 89. Actress Shirley Knight is 82. Singer-musician Robbie Robertson is 75. Julie Nixon Eisenhower is 70. Rock star Huey Lewis is 68. Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rich “Goose” Gossage is 67. Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn is 59. Actress Edie Falco is 55. Actress Kathryn Erbe is 53. Actor Michael Stuhlbarg is 50. Rapper RZA is 49. Rhythm and blues singer Joe is 45. Rapper Bizarre is 42. Rapper Royce da 5’9” is 41.
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Post by pcdad on Jul 5, 2018 11:49:37 GMT -5
How is it that I know of Larry Doby, Jackie Robinson, Elvis Presley but know naught of Rapper RZA, Rapper Bizzare, Rapper Royce da 5'9"?
Dog track time pcdad..
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Post by dex on Jul 6, 2018 9:04:29 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is July 6, the 187th day of 2018. There are 178 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for high treason.
In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.
In 1885, French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.
In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of Aqaba from the Ottoman Turks.
In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2.
In 1944, an estimated 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. Also, 16-year-old John Lennon first met 15-year-old Paul McCartney when Lennon's band, the Quarrymen skiffle group, performed a gig at St. Peter's Church in Woolton, Liverpool.
In 1971, jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong died in New York at age 69.
In 1988, 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform. Also, medical waste and other debris began washing up on New York City-area seashores, forcing the closing of several popular beaches.
In 1997, the rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting the soil and rocks of the red planet.
Today's birthdays
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 83. Actor Ned Beatty is 81. Singer Gene Chandler is 78. Actor Burt Ward is 73. Actor-director Sylvester Stallone is 72. Actress Shelley Hack is 71. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 67. Rock musician John Bazz (The Blasters) is 66. Country singer Nanci Griffith is 65. Retired MLB All-Star Willie Randolph is 64. Former first daughter Susan Ford Bales is 61. Hockey player and coach Ron Duguay is 61. Political reporter/moderator John Dickerson is 50. Rapper Inspectah Deck (Wu-Tang Clan) is 48. TV host Josh Elliott is 47. Rapper 50 Cent is 43. Actress Tia Mowry is 40. Comedian-actor Kevin Hart is 39. Actress Eva Green is 38. Rock musician Chris "Woody" Wood (Bastille) is 33. Rock singer Kate Nash is 31. Actor Jeremy Suarez is 28.
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Post by pcdad on Jul 6, 2018 13:13:02 GMT -5
Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars were America's most influential world ambassadors.
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Post by dex on Jul 9, 2018 8:10:37 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is July 9, the 190th day of 2018. There are 175 days left in the year.
On this date In 1540, England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
In 1816, Argentina declared independence from Spain.
In 1850, the 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, died after serving only 16 months of his term. (He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore.)
In 1918, 101 people were killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1937, a fire at 20th Century Fox's film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, destroyed most of the studio's silent films.
In 1951, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany. (An official end to the state of war was declared in October 1951.)
In 1962, pop artist Andy Warhol's exhibit of 32 paintings of Campbell's soup cans opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 1982, Pan Am Flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, killing all 145 people aboard and eight people on the ground.
In 1995, Jerry Garcia performed for the final time as frontman of the Grateful Dead during a concert at Chicago's Soldier Field (Garcia died a month later).
In 2001, a divided court in Chile ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental condition, a ruling that effectively brought the 85-year-old former dictator's legal troubles to an end.
Today's birthdays
Actor-singer Ed Ames is
91. Actor Brian Dennehy is 80. Actor Richard Roundtree is 76. Author Dean Koontz is 73. Football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson is 71. Actor Chris Cooper is 67. TV personality John Tesh is 66. Business executive/TV personality Kevin O'Leary (TV: "Shark Tank") is 64. Rhythm-and-blues singer Debbie Sledge (Sister Sledge) is 64. Actor Jimmy Smits is 63. Actor Tom Hanks is 62. Actress Kelly McGillis is
61. Rock singer Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) is 59. Actress-rock singer Courtney Love is 54.. Actor David O'Hara is 53. Actor Scott Grimes is 47. Actor Enrique Murciano is 45. Musician/producer Jack White is 43. Actor-director Fred Savage is 42. Actress Georgie Henley is 23.
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Post by dex on Jul 10, 2018 8:22:18 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is July 10, the 191st day of 2018. There are 174 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Noyon, Picardy, France. In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urged its ratification. (However, the Senate rejected it.) In 1925, jury selection took place in Dayton, Tennessee, in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.) In 1929, American paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller. In 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the Luftwaffe started attacking southern England. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.) In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong. In 1973, the Bahamas became fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule. Also, John Paul Getty III, the teenage grandson of the oil tycoon, was abducted in Rome by kidnappers who cut off his ear when his family was slow to meet their ransom demands; Getty was released in December 1973 for nearly $3 million. In 1985, bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke. In 1999, the United States women’s soccer team won the World Cup, beating China 5-4 on penalty kicks after 120 minutes of scoreless play at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. In 2004, President George W. Bush said in his weekly radio address that legalizing gay marriage would redefine the most fundamental institution of civilization, and that a constitutional amendment was needed to protect traditional marriage.
Today’s birthdays
Director Ivan Passer is 85. Actor Lawrence Pressman is 79. Singer Mavis Staples is 79. Actor Robert Pine is 77. Rock musician Jerry Miller (Moby Grape) is 75. International Tennis Hall of Famer Virginia Wade is 73. Actress Sue Lyon is 72. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 71. Country-folk singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler is 67. Rock singer Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) is 64. Banjo player Bela Fleck is 60. Actress Fiona Shaw is 60. Country singer Gary LeVox (Rascal Flatts) is 48. Actress Sofia Vergara is 46. Rockabilly singer Imelda May is 44. Actor Adrian Grenier is 42. Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is 41. Singer-actress Jessica Simpson is 38. Actress Emily Skeggs (TV: “When We Rise”) is 28. Rapper/singer Angel Haze is 27. Pop singer Perrie Edwards (Little Mix) is 25.
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Post by dex on Jul 14, 2018 10:17:54 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, July 14, the 195th day of 2018. There are 170 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside. In 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government. In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy the Kid,” was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-day New Mexico. In 1913, Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1914, scientist Robert H. Goddard received a U.S. patent for a liquid-fueled rocket apparatus. In 1921, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Massachusetts, of murdering a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (Sacco and Vanzetti were executed six years later.) In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed. In 1945, Italy formally declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II. In 1964, in a speech to the Republican national convention in San Francisco, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller was booed by supporters of Barry Goldwater as he called on the GOP to denounce political extremists. In 1966, the city of Chicago awoke to the shocking news that eight student nurses had been brutally slain during the night in a South Side dormitory. Drifter Richard Speck was convicted of the mass killing and condemned to death, but had his sentence reduced to life in prison, where he died in 1991. In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York. In 1980, the Republican national convention opened in Detroit, where nominee-apparent Ronald Reagan told a welcoming rally he and his supporters were determined to “make America great again.” In 1999, race-based school busing in Boston came to an end after 25 years.
Today’s birthdays
Actress Nancy Olson is 90. Former football player and actor Rosey Grier is 86. Actor Vincent Pastore is 72. Music company executive Tommy Mottola is 70. Rock musician Chris Cross (Ultravox) is 66. Actor Jerry Houser is 66. Actor-director Eric Laneuville is 66. Actor Stan Shaw is 66. Movie producer Scott Rudin is 60. Singer-guitarist Kyle Gass is 58. Country musician Ray Herndon (McBride and the Ride) is 58.
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