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Today in History August 09

By The Associated Press AP - 1 hour 3 minutes ago

Today is Saturday, Aug. 9, the 222nd day of 2008. There are 144 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.

On this date:

In 1842, the United States and Canada resolved a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.

In 1848, the Free-Soil Party convened in Buffalo, N.Y., where it nominated Martin Van Buren for president.

In 1854, Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," which described his experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, was first published.

In 1902, Edward VII was crowned king of Britain following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

In 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States took first place in the 400-meter relay.

In 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally murdered in Tate's Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime.

In 1974, President Nixon's resignation took effect. Vice President Gerald R. Ford became the nation's 38th chief executive.

In 1988, President Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education; Cavazos became the first Hispanic to serve in the Cabinet.

In 1995, Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, died in San Francisco of a heart attack at age 53.

In 1997, Haitian immigrant Abner Louima was brutalized in a Brooklyn, N.Y., stationhouse by Officer Justin Volpe, who raped him with a broken broomstick. (Volpe was later sentenced to 30 years in prison.)


Ten years ago: Americans, Kenyans and Tanzanians held church and memorial services to mourn those killed in a pair of U.S. embassy bombing attacks. In China, engineers dynamited levees along the Yangtze River to ease the worst floods in 44 years.

Five years ago: The Army fired up its first chemical weapons incinerator located near a residential area, outside Anniston, Ala., to destroy two rockets loaded with enough sarin nerve agent to wipe out a city. Dancer-actor Gregory Hines died in Los Angeles at age 57.

One year ago: President Bush held a news conference in which he publicly prodded Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, his embattled war-on-terror partner, to hold free presidential elections, share intelligence and take "swift action" against terrorist leaders pinpointed in his country. China banned exports by two toy manufacturers whose products were subject to major recalls in the United States. David Beckham made his long-awaited Major League Soccer debut, entering in the 72nd minute of the Los Angeles Galaxy's 1-0 loss to D.C. United.

Today's Birthdays: Former baseball manager Ralph Houk is 89. Jazz musician Jack DeJohnette is 66. Comedian-director David Steinberg is 66. Boxing Hall-of-Famer Ken Norton is 65. Actor Sam Elliott is 64. Singer Barbara Mason is 61. Actress Melanie Griffith is 51. Actress Amanda Bearse is 50. Rapper Kurtis Blow is 49. Singer Whitney Houston is 45. TV host Hoda Kotb is 44. Actor Pat Petersen is 42. Football player Deion Sanders is 41. Actress Gillian Anderson is 40. Actor Eric Bana is 40. TV anchor Chris Cuomo is 38. Rock musician Arion Salazar (Third Eye Blind) is 38. Rapper Mack 10 is 37. Latin rock singer Juanes is 36. Actress Liz Vassey is 36. Actress Rhona Mitra is 33. Actress Jessica Capshaw is 32.

Thought for Today: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." _ Henry David Thoreau, American author (1817-1862).
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Today in History August 10

By The Associated Press 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

Today is Sunday, Aug. 10, the 223rd day of 2008. There are 143 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 10, 1846, President Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of half a million dollars had made it possible.

On this date:

In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed the following January.)
In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state.
In 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.
In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
In 1948, Allen Funt's "Candid Microphone," later titled "Candid Camera," made its television debut on ABC.
In 1949, the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
In 1968, 35 people were killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines Fairchild FH-227 at Kanawha County Airport in West Virginia.
In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
In 1988, President Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who'd been interned by the government during World War II.
In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.



Ten years ago:Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced a $2 million reward for information leading to the conviction of the terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans.

Five years ago: Liberian President Charles Taylor delivered a farewell address to a nation bloodied by 14 years of war. During a heat wave plaguing Europe, Britain topped 100 degrees for the first time in recorded history. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, aboard the international space station, married his earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, who was at Johnson Space Center in Houston, in the first wedding ever conducted from space. Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history against the St. Louis Cardinals. (St. Louis beat Atlanta 3-2.)

One year ago: Three men were killed in a southern Indiana coal mine when a nylon sling used to transport supplies up and down a shaft got caught, causing the bucket the men were riding in to tip and send them plummeting more than 500 feet to their deaths.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Al Alberts is 86. Actress Rhonda Fleming is 85. Singer Jimmy Dean is 80. Singer Eddie Fisher is 80. Actress Kate O'Mara is 69. Singer Ronnie Spector is 65. Actor James Reynolds is 62. Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 61. Singer Patti Austin is 60. Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 59. Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 56. Folk singer-songwriter Sam Baker is 54. Actress Rosanna Arquette is 49. Actor Antonio Banderas is 48. Rock musician Jon Farriss (INXS) is 47. Singer Julia Fordham is 46. Journalist-blogger Andrew Sullivan is 45. Singer Neneh Cherry is 44. Singer Aaron Hall is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is 41. Singer-producer Michael Bivins is 40. Actor Justin Theroux is 37. Actress Angie Harmon is 36. Country singer Jennifer Hanson is 35. Actress JoAnna Garcia is 29. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nikki Bratcher (Divine) is 28. Actor Ryan Eggold is 24.

Thought for Today: "Conceit is God's gift to little men." — Bruce Barton, American advertising executive (1886-1967).
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Today in History August 11

By The Associated Press AP - 1 hour 24 minutes ago

Today is Monday, Aug. 11, the 224th day of 2008. There are 142 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 11, 1949, President Truman nominated Gen. Omar N. Bradley to become the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

On this date:

In 1919, Germany's Weimar Constitution was signed by President Friedrich Ebert.


In 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.


In 1942, during World War II, Pierre Laval, prime minister of Vichy France, publicly declared that "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."


In 1954, a formal peace took hold in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and Communist Vietminh.


In 1956, abstract painter Jackson Pollock, 44, died in an automobile accident on New York's Long Island.


In 1962, the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev on a 94-hour flight.


In 1965, rioting and looting that claimed 34 lives broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles.


In 1984, President Reagan joked during a voice test for a paid political radio address that he had "signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."


In 1992, the Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the U.S., opened in Bloomington, Minn.


In 1993, President Clinton named Army Gen. John Shalikashvili to be the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding the retiring General Colin Powell.


Ten years ago:One of the shooters in the Jonesboro, Ark., schoolyard massacre, Mitchell Johnson, pleaded guilty to murder and battery and the other, Andrew Golden, was convicted. (The boys, ages 14 and 12, were detained by Arkansas juvenile authorities until they turned 18, then transferred to federal custody. Federal authorities released the two when they turned 21.) British Petroleum announced it was purchasing Amoco for $49 billion.

Five years ago: President Bush chose Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. NATO took command of the 5,000-strong peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. Charles Taylor resigned as Liberia's president and went into exile in Nigeria. Herb Brooks, who coached the U.S. Olympic hockey team to the "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Soviet Union in 1980, died in a car wreck near Minneapolis at age 66.

One year ago: President Bush welcomed French President Nicolas Sarkozy to his family's estate in Kennebunkport, Maine. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won an easy and expected victory in a high-profile Iowa Republican straw poll. Funeral services were held in Newark, N.J., for three college students shot to death in a schoolyard during an apparent robbery attempt. Big Ben's bongs fell silent as workers began a month of maintenance work on the iconic London clock and its world-famous bell.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Arlene Dahl is 80. Actress Anna Massey is 71. Songwriter-producer Kenny Gamble is 65. Rock musician Jim Kale (Guess Who) is 65. Country singer John Conlee is 62. Singer Eric Carmen is 59. Wrestler-actor Hulk Hogan is 55. Singer Joe Jackson is 54. Playwright David Henry Hwang is 51. Actor Miguel A. Nunez Jr. is 44. Actress Viola Davis is 43. Actor Duane Martin is 43. Actor-host Joe Rogan is 41. Rhythm-and-blues musician Chris Dave is 40. Actress Anna Gunn is 40. Rock guitarist Charlie Sexton is 40. Hip-hop artist Ali Shaheed Muhammad is 38. Actor Will Friedle is 32. Rapper Chris Kelly (Kris Kross) is 30. Singer J-Boog is 23.

Thought for Today: "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell." _ Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American author (1879-1958)
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Today in History August 12

By The Associated Press 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 12, the 225th day of 2008. There are 141 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 12, 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.

On this date:

In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War came to an end.

In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.

In 1960, the first balloon satellite, the Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

In 1962, one day after launching Andrian Nikolayev into orbit, the Soviet Union also sent up cosmonaut Pavel Popovich; both men landed safely Aug. 15.

In 1978, Pope Paul VI, who had died Aug. 6 at age 80, was buried in St. Peter's Basilica.

In 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150.

In 1985, the world's worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people.

In 1988, the controversial movie "The Last Temptation of Christ," directed by Martin Scorsese, opened in nine cities despite objections by some Christians who felt the film was sacrilegious.
In 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.

Ten years ago: Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.2 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.

Five years ago: Liberia's leading rebel movement agreed to lift its siege of the capital and vital port, allowing food to flow to hundreds of thousands of hungry people.

One year ago: A gunman opened fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri church, killing a pastor and two worshippers. (Suspect Eiken Elam Saimon is charged with murder.) Crooner, talk show host and game show producer Merv Griffin died in Los Angeles at age 82. Tiger Woods captured the PGA Championship to win at least one major for the third straight season and run his career total to 13.

Today's Birthdays: Former Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., is 83. Actor George Hamilton is 69. Actress Jennifer Warren is 67. Rock singer-musician Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 59. Singer Kid Creole is 58. Jazz musician Pat Metheny is 54. Actor Sam J. Jones is 54. Actor Bruce Greenwood is 52. Country singer Danny Shirley is 52. Pop musician Roy Hay (Culture Club) is 47. Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is 45. Actor Peter Krause is 43. Tennis player Pete Sampras is 37. Actor Michael Ian Black is 37. Actress Rebecca Gayheart is 36. Actor Casey Affleck is 33. Rock musician Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) is 33. Actress Maggie Lawson is 28. Actress Dominique Swain is 28. Actress Imani Hakim ("Everybody Hates Chris") is 15.

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Today in History August 13

By The Associated Press AP - 1 hour 35 minutes agoToday is Wednesday, Aug. 13, the 226th day of 2008. There are 140 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 13, 1961, Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors and began building a wall in order to halt the flight of refugees.

On this date:

In 1521, Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan, present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.

In 1624, French King Louis XIII named Cardinal Richelieu his first minister.

In 1704, the Battle of Blenheim was fought during the War of the Spanish Succession, resulting in a victory for English-led forces over French and Bavarian soldiers.

In 1846, the American flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles.

In 1889, William Gray of Hartford, Conn., received a patent for a coin-operated telephone.

In 1910, Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, died in London at age 90.

In 1932, Adolf Hitler rejected the post of vice-chancellor of Germany, saying he was prepared to hold out "for all or nothing."

In 1934, the satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner," created by Al Capp, made its debut.

In 1960, the first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1.

In 1981, in a ceremony at his California ranch, President Reagan signed a historic package of tax and budget reductions.

Ten years ago: President Clinton led the nation in mourning 12 Americans killed in a pair of U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. Standing before black hearses carrying ten of the bodies, the president pledged to seek justice "for these evil acts."

Five years ago: Iraq began pumping crude oil from its northern oil fields for the first time since the start of the war. Libya agreed to set up a $2.7 billion fund for families of 270 people killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing.

One year ago: President Bush's political strategist, Karl Rove, announced his resignation. A bridge under construction in the ancient Chinese city of Fenghuang collapsed, killing 64 people. Two women among the 23 South Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan were freed. Philanthropist Brooke Astor died in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., at age 105. Hall of Fame Yankees shortstop and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto died in West Orange, N.J., at age 89.

Today's Birthdays: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro is 82. Actor Pat Harrington is 79. Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is 75. Actor Kevin Tighe is 64. Actress Gretchen Corbett is 61. Opera singer Kathleen Battle is 60. Movie director Paul Greengrass is 53. Actor Danny Bonaduce is 49. TV host/weatherman Sam Champion ("Good Morning America") is 47. Actress Dawnn Lewis is 47. Actor John Slattery is 46. Actress Quinn Cummings is 41. Actress Seana Kofoed is 38. Country singer Andy Griggs is 35. Country musician Mike Melancon (Emerson Drive) is 30. Actress Kathryn Fiore is 29.

Thought for Today: "You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations." _ Baltasar Gracian, Spanish philosopher (1601-1658).
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Today in History August 14


Today is Thursday, Aug. 14, the 227th day of 2008. There are 139 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

Before 61 years, on Aug. 14, 1947. Muslims got independence from English peoples and Hindus of subcontinent and Pakistan became independent of British rule.

One hundred years ago, on Aug. 14, 1908, rioting erupted in Springfield, Ill., as a white mob, enraged that two black criminal suspects (one later convicted of murder, the other exonerated of rape) had been spirited away from the city jail by authorities, began setting black-owned homes and businesses on fire. At least two blacks and five whites were killed in the violence. (The riot helped inspire the creation of the NAACP the following year.)

On this date:

In 1848, the Oregon Territory was created.

In 1900, international forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreign influence.

In 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.

In 1945, President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

In 1948, the summer Olympic games in London ended.

In 1958, Elvis Presley's mother, Gladys Love Smith Presley, died in Memphis, Tenn., at age 46.

In 1969, British troops went to Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

In 1973, the U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt effective at midnight.

In 1980, workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.

Ten years ago: A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had no authority to regulate tobacco, striking down FDA rules making it harder for minors to buy cigarettes; the Clinton administration said it would appeal. (The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that the government lacked the authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.)

Five years ago: A huge blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power. The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, said he would not remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building, defying a federal court order to remove the granite monument. Rebels lifted their siege of Liberia's capital.

One year ago: Teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan transformed the space shuttle Endeavour and space station into a classroom for her first educational session from orbit, fulfilling the legacy of Christa McAuliffe, who died in the 1986 Challenger disaster. Toy company Mattel recalled 18.6 million lead-tainted, Chinese-made toys worldwide. Suicide bombers targeted the Yazidis sect in northern Iraq; some 500 are thought to have died in the attacks.

Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Russell Baker is 83. Singer Buddy Greco is 82. Singer Dash Crofts is 70. Rock singer David Crosby is 67. Country singer Connie Smith is 67. Former jockey Robyn Smith Astaire is 64. Comedian-actor Steve Martin is 63. Actor Antonio Fargas is 62. Singer-musician Larry Graham is 62. Actress Susan Saint James is 62. Author Danielle Steel is 61. Rock singer-musician Terry Adams (NRBQ) is 58. "Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson is 58. Actor Carl Lumbly is 57. Film composer James Horner is 55. Actress Jackee Harry is 52. Actress Marcia Gay Harden is 49. Former basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson is 49. Singer Sarah Brightman is 48. Actress Susan Olsen is 47. Rock musician Keith Howland (Chicago) is 44. Actress Emmanuelle Beart is 43. Actress Halle Berry is 42. Actress Catherine Bell is 40. Country musician Cody McCarver (Confederate Railroad) is 40. Rock musician Kevin Cadogan is 38. Actor Scott Michael Campbell is 37. Actress Lalanya Masters is 36. Actor Christopher Gorham is 34. Actress Mila Kunis is 25.

Thought for Today: "Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us." _ Van Wyck Brooks, American author (1886-1963).
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Today in History August 15


By The Associated Press Fri Aug 15, 12: 02 AM ET

Today is Friday, Aug. 15, the 228th day of 2008. There are 138 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced to his subjects in a prerecorded radio address that Japan had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.

On this date:

In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.

In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica.

In 1914, the Panama Canal opened to traffic.

In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.

In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces landed in southern France in Operation Dragoon.

In 1947, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.

In 1948, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed.

In 1961, East German workers began building the Berlin Wall.

In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.

In 1971, President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.

Ten years ago: Twenty-nine people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility.

Five years ago: Bouncing back from the largest blackout in U.S. history, cities from the Midwest to Manhattan restored power to millions of people — but encountered difficulties in fully reviving public services.

One year ago: Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to felony charges for taking cash payoffs from gamblers and betting on games he'd officiated in a scandal that rocked the league. (A federal judge sentenced Donaghy to 15 months behind bars.) A magnitude-8 earthquake in Peru's southern desert killed at least 540 people. Master jazz percussionist Max Roach died in New York at age 83.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Rose Marie is 85. Political activist Phyllis Schlafly is 84. Actor Mike Connors is 83. Actress Lori Nelson is 75. Civil rights activist Vernon Jordan is 73. Actor Jim Dale is 73. Actress Pat Priest is 72. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is 70. Musician Pete York (Spencer Davis Group) is 66. Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is 64. Songwriter Jimmy Webb is 62. Britain's Princess Anne is 58. Actress Tess Harper is 58. Actor Larry Mathews is 53. Actor Zeljko Ivanek is 51. Actor-comedian Rondell Sheridan is 50. Rock singer-musician Matt Johnson (The The) is 47. Movie director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel") is 45. Actress Debi Mazar is 44. Country singer Angela Rae (Wild Horses) is 42. Actor Peter Hermann is 41. Actress Debra Messing is 40. Actor Anthony Anderson is 38. Actor Ben Affleck is 36. Singer Mikey Graham (Boyzone) is 36. Actress Natasha Henstridge is 34. Actress Nicole Paggi is 31. Latin pop singer Belinda (Film: "The Cheetah Girls 2") is 19. Rock singer Joe Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 19.

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Today in History August 16


By The Associated Press AP - 1 hour 20 minutes ago

Today is Saturday, Aug. 16, the 229th day of 2008. There are 137 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.

On this date:

In 1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington.

In 1812, Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.

In 1858, a telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.

In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.

In 1954, Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.

In 1956, Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

In 1960, Britain ceded control of the crown colony of Cyprus.

In 1978, James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told a Capitol Hill hearing he did not commit the crime, saying he'd been set up by a mysterious man called "Raoul."

In 1987, 156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit.

In 2000, delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Al Gore for president.

Ten years ago: Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland united in uncomprehending grief over the car bomb slaughter of 29 people in Omagh a day earlier. A day before President Clinton was to face a criminal grand jury concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, his lawyer said, "The truth is the truth, and that's how the president will testify."

Five years ago: The Midwest and Northeast were almost fully recovered from the worst power outage in U.S. history. A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a rural road in South Dakota and collided with motorcyclist Randy Scott, who died in the accident. Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia; he was believed to have been about 80.

One year ago: Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks. (Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was later sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison on the unrelated terror support charges.) A cave-in killed three rescuers in the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah; the search for six trapped miners was later abandoned.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Fess Parker is 84. Actress Ann Blyth is 80. Actor Robert Culp is 78. Sportscaster Frank Gifford is 78. Singer Eydie Gorme is 77. Actress Julie Newmar is 75. Actor John Standing is 74. Actor Gary Clarke is 72. Actress Anita Gillette is 72. Actress Carole Shelley is 69. Country singer Billy Joe Shaver is 69. Movie director Bruce Beresford is 68. Rhythm-and-blues singer Robert "Squirrel" Lester (The Chi-Lites) is 66. Actor Bob Balaban is 63. Ballerina Suzanne Farrell is 63. Actress Lesley Ann Warren is 62. Rock singer-musician Joey Spampinato (NRBQ) is 58. Actor Reginald VelJohnson is 56. TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford is 55. Rhythm-and-blues singer J.T. Taylor is 55. Movie director James Cameron is 54. Actor Jeff Perry is 53. Rock musician Tim Farriss (INXS) is 51. Singer Madonna is 50. Actress Angela Bassett is 50. Actress Laura Innes is 49. Actor Timothy Hutton is 48. Actor Steve Carell is 45. Actor Donovan Leitch is 40. Actor Andy Milder (TV: "Weeds") is 40. Country singer Emily Robison (The Dixie Chicks) is 36. Actor George Stults is 33. Singer Vanessa Carlton is 28. Actress Agnes Bruckner is 23. Actor Shawn Pyfrom is 22. Country singer Ashton Shepherd is 22.

Thought for Today: "If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up." _ Anonymous.
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Today in History August 17


By The Associated Press 2 hours, 23 minutes ago

Today is Sunday, Aug. 17, the 230th day of 2008. There are 136 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 17, 1807, Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat began heading up the Hudson River on its successful round-trip between New York and Albany.

On this date:

In 1863, Federal batteries and ships began bombarding South Carolina's Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of pounding.

In 1896, a prospecting party discovered gold in Canada's Yukon territory, a finding that touched off the Klondike gold rush.

In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who'd maintained his innocence, was pardoned by Georgia in 1986.)

In 1942, during World War II, U.S. 8th Air Force bombers attacked Rouen, France.

In 1943, the Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina.

In 1948, former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting in New York of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and repeated his denial that he'd ever been a Communist agent.

In 1969, 256 people were killed as Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast.

In 1978, the first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris.

In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.

In 1988, Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel were killed in a mysterious plane crash.

Ten years ago: President Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he denied previously committing perjury, admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was "wrong," and criticized Kenneth Starr's investigation. Russia allowed the ruble to drop in value by up to 34 percent. The Federal Reserve Board approved the merger of NationsBank and BankAmerica.

Five years ago: Federal investigators joined industry teams in the search for clues into what triggered the country's worst power blackout in the Midwest and Northeast as the Bush administration promised to get answers and address whatever problem was found. Insurgents attacked a police station in Afghanistan, killing some two dozen people.

One year ago: Hurricane Dean roared into the eastern Caribbean, tearing away roofs, flooding streets and causing at least three deaths on small islands as the powerful storm headed on a collision course with Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. A dike on a river in eastern China broke, flooding three coal mines and killing 181 miners.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Maureen O'Hara is 88. Actor Robert DeNiro is 65. Movie director Martha Coolidge is 62. Rock musician Gary Talley (The Box Tops) is 61. Rock musician Sib Hashian is 59. Actor Robert Joy is 57. Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy's Midnight Runners) is 55. Rock musician Colin Moulding (XTC) is 53. Country singer-songwriter Kevin Welch is 53. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 50. Actor Sean Penn is 48. Jazz musician Everette Harp is 47. Rock musician Gilby Clarke is 46. Singer Maria McKee is 44. Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 43. Rock musician Jill Cunniff is 42. Actor David Conrad is 41. Singer Donnie Wahlberg is 39. Rapper Posdnuos is 39. Tennis player Jim Courier is 38. Actor Bryton McClure is 22. Actor Brady Corbet is 20.

Thought for Today: "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." — John Barth, American author.
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Today in History August 18


By The Associated Press AP - 1 hour 56 minutes ago

Today is Monday, Aug. 18, the 231st day of 2008. There are 135 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. (However, the colony she was born into ended up mysteriously disappearing.)

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In 1838, the first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government set sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews traveled the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information.

In 1846, U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, N.M.

In 1894, Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

In 1958, the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons, almost three years after the book was originally published in Paris.

In 1963, James Meredith became the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair ended in Sullivan County, N.Y., with a mid-morning set performed by Jimi Hendrix.

In 1976, two U.S. Army officers were killed in Korea's demilitarized zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attacked U.S. and South Korean soldiers.

In 1983, Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than a billion dollars' worth of damage.

Ten years ago: A day after his grand jury testimony, President Clinton left Washington on a vacation with his family. Meanwhile, some lawmakers called for Clinton to resign in the wake of his admissions concerning Monica Lewinsky, while a spokeswoman for Hillary Rodham Clinton said the first lady "believes in this marriage."

Five years ago: A senior French health official resigned after France's health minister admitted that up to 5,000 people might have died in a heat wave. The Liberian government and rebels signed a peace accord. Islamic extremists freed 14 European tourists six months after they were kidnapped by an al-Qaida-linked group in the Algerian desert.

One year ago: Alarmed tourists jammed Caribbean airports for flights out of Hurricane Dean's path as the monster storm began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti. NASA, meanwhile, ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day early out of fear Dean might disrupt flight operations. A seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandoned skyscraper next to ground zero in lower Manhattan, killing two firefighters who responded to the blaze. Michael K. Deaver, a close adviser to President Reagan, died in Bethesda, Md., at age 69.

Today's Birthdays: Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter is 81. Movie director Roman Polanski is 75. Actor Robert Redford is 71. Singer Johnny Preston is 69. Actor Christopher Jones is 67. Actor Henry G. Sanders is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sarah Dash (LaBelle) is 65. Actor-comedian Martin Mull is 65. Rock musician Dennis Elliott is 58. Comedian Elayne Boosler is 56. Actor Patrick Swayze is 56. Country singer Steve Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 53. Actor Denis Leary is 51. Actress Madeleine Stowe is 50. News anchor Bob Woodruff is 47. Actor Craig Bierko is 43. Rock singer-musician Zac Maloy (The Nixons) is 40. Hip-hop artist Everlast is 39. Rapper Masta Killa (Wu-Tang Clan) is 39. Actor Christian Slater is 39. Actor Edward Norton is 39. Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 38. Actress Kaitlin Olson is 33. Rock musician Dirk Lance is 32. Actor-comedian Andy Samberg (TV: "Saturday Night Live") is 30. Actress Parker McKenna Posey is 13.

Thought for Today: "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." _ John Locke, English philosopher (1632-1704).
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