Today is Sunday, September 28th, the 272nd day of 2008. There are 94 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On September 28th, 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne.

On this date:

In 1542, Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at present-day San Diego.

In 1781, American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began their successful siege of Yorktown, Virginia.

In 1787, Congress voted to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.

In 1850, flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the US Navy.

In 1924, two US Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.

In 1939, during World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.

In 1958, voters in the African country of Guinea overwhelmingly favored independence from France.

In 1967, Walter E. Washington was sworn in as the first mayor-commissioner of the District of Columbia (he'd been appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson).

In 1974, first lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast.

In 1987, US Representative Patricia Schroeder (Democrat, Colorado) announced in Denver that she would not run for the Democratic presidential nomination.


Ten years ago: Hurricane Georges plowed into the Gulf Coast, weakening to a tropical storm but pouring rain at an inch-an-hour pace; President Clinton declared an emergency late in the day.

Five years ago: A massive blackout struck almost all of Italy, leaving millions of people without power. Pope John Paul II appointed 31 cardinals. A bomb exploded outside an upscale nightclub in southwestern Colombia, killing at least 13 people. Movie director Elia Kazan died in New York at age 94. Tennis champion Althea Gibson died in East Orange, New Jersey, at age 76.

One year ago: Traveler Carol Anne Gotbaum of New York died in a holding cell at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix; authorities say Gotbaum accidentally asphyxiated herself after being chained to a bench. The United States announced it would spend up to 25 million dollars to pay for 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil for North Korea as part of an agreement to dismantle the North's nuclear program. The International Monetary Fund chose France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its new leader.

Today's Birthdays: Actor William Windom is 85. Actor Arnold Stang is 83. Blues singer Koko Taylor is 80. Actress Brigitte Bardot is 74. Singer Ben E. King is 70. Actor Joel Higgins is 65. Singer Helen Shapiro is 62. Actor Jeffrey Jones is 62. Movie writer-director-actor John Sayles is 58. Actress Sylvia Kristel is 56. Rock musician George Lynch is 54. Zydeco singer-musician C.J. Chenier is 51. Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo is 44. Country singer Matt King is 42. Actress Mira Sorvino is 41. TV personality Moon Zappa is 41. Actress-model Carre Otis is 40. Actress Naomi Watts is 40. Country musician Chuck Crawford is 35. Country singer Mandy Barnett is 33. Rapper Young Jeezy is 31. Actress Hilary Duff is 21. Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak is 16.

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Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2008. There are 93 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana begins at sunset.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Sept. 29, 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.

On this date:

In 1758, English Admiral Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

In 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

In 1829, London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.

In 1902, Broadway impresario David Belasco reopened the Republic Theatre under his own name.

In 1918, Allied forces began their decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.

In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.

In 1963, the second session of the Second Vatican Council opened.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II began the first papal visit to Ireland as he arrived for a three-day tour.

In 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)

In 1988, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.

Ten years ago: Former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley died at age 80. The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate a quarter-point, to 5.25 percent.

Five years ago: The White House denied that President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, had leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to retaliate against her husband, an opponent of the administration's Iraq policy. President Bush signed legislation to ratify the Federal Trade Commission's authority to set up a national do-not-call list for telemarketers.

One year ago:President Bush signed a bill to prevent a government shutdown, but lambasted Democrats controlling Congress for sending him the stopgap measure while they continued to work on more than a dozen spending bills. Actress Lois Maxwell, who'd starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, died in Fremantle, Australia, at age 80.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Lizabeth Scott is 86. Actor Steve Forrest is 84. Actress Anita Ekberg is 77. Actor Eddie Barth is 77. Writer-director Robert Benton is 76. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 73. Actor Ian McShane is 66. Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty is 66. Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland, is 65. Television-film composer Mike Post is 64. Actress Patricia Hodge is 62. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 60. Rock singer-musician Mark Farner is 60. Rock musician Mike Pinera is 60. Country singer Alvin Crow is 58. Actor Drake Hogestyn is 55. Broadcast journalist Gwen Ifill is 53. Singer Suzzy Roche (The Roches) is 52. Comedian-actor Andrew "Dice'' Clay is 51. Rock singer John Payne (Asia) is 50. Actor Roger Bart is 46. Singer-musician Les Claypool is 45. Actress Jill Whelan is 42. Rock musician Brad Smith (Blind Melon) is 40. Actress Erika Eleniak is 39. Rhythm-and-blues singer Devante Swing (Jodeci) is 39. Country singer Brad Cotter ("Nashville Star'') is 38. Actress Emily Lloyd is 38. Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner is 38. Actress Rachel Cronin is 37. Country musician Danick Dupelle (Emerson Drive) is 35. Actor Zachary Levi is 28. Country singer Katie McNeill (3 of Hearts) is 26. Rock musician Josh Farro (Paramore) is 21.

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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 30, the 274th day of 2008. There are 92 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Sept. 30, 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.

On this date:

In 1777, the Continental Congress — forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces — moved to York, Pa.

In 1791, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna, Austria.

In 1938, after co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain praised the accord on his return home, saying, "I believe it is peace for our time."

In 1949, the Berlin Airlift came to an end.

In 1952, the motion picture "This Is Cinerama," which introduced the triple-camera, triple-projector Cinerama widescreen process, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York.

In 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.

In 1958, the police drama "Naked City" debuted on ABC-TV.

In 1962, black student James Meredith was escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he enrolled for classes the next day.

In 1988, Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a Kremlin shake-up.

In 1997, France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.


Ten years ago: The General Accounting Office reported that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his predecessor, Robert Fiske, had spent more than $40 million on the investigation of President Clinton's Arkansas land deals that was expanded to include the probe of the Monica Lewinsky affair. Both President Clinton and Republicans claimed credit for news that the government would run a surplus of about $70 billion in the current fiscal year.

Five years ago: The FBI began a full-scale criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame. Eighteen accused al-Qaida sympathizers were convicted in Belgium's biggest terrorism trial.

One year ago: A U.N. envoy failed to meet with Myanmar's top two junta leaders in his effort to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but was allowed a highly orchestrated session with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan hanged a teenager found to have U.S. money in his pocket as a warning to others not to use dollars. The United States won the Presidents Cup in Montreal, giving them a victory on foreign soil in cup competition for the first time since 1993. Germany defeated Brazil 2-0 in the final of the Women's World Cup held in Shanghai, China.

Today's Birthdays: Author Elie Wiesel is 80. Actress Angie Dickinson is 77. Singer Cissy Houston is 75. Singer Johnny Mathis is 73. Actor Len Cariou is 69. Rock singer-musician Dewey Martin (Buffalo Springfield) is 66. Singer Marilyn McCoo is 65. Pop singer Sylvia Peterson (The Chiffons) is 62. Actor John Finn (TV: "Cold Case") is 56. Rock musician John Lombardo is 56. Singer Deborah Allen is 55. Actor Calvin Levels is 54. Actor Barry Williams is 54. Singer Patrice Rushen is 54. Actor Vondie Curtis-Hall is 52. Actress Fran Drescher is 51. Country singer Marty Stuart is 50. Actress Debrah Farentino is 49. Rock musician Bill Rieflin (R.E.M.) is 48. Actress Crystal Bernard is 47. Actor Eric Stoltz is 47. Rapper-producer Marley Marl is 46. Country singer Eddie Montgomery (Montgomery-Gentry) is 45. Rock singer Trey Anastasio is 44. Actress Monica Bellucci is 44. Rock musician Robby Takac (Goo Goo Dolls) is 44. Actress Lisa Thornhill is 42. Actress Andrea Roth ("Rescue Me") is 41. Actor Tony Hale is 38. Actress Jenna Elfman is 37. Actor Ashley Hamilton is 34. Actress Marion Cotillard is 33. Actor Mike Damus is 29. Tennis player Martina Hingis is 28. Olympic gold medal gymnast Dominique Moceanu is 27. Actress Lacey Chabert is 26. Actor Kieran Culkin is 26. Singer-rapper T-Pain is 24.

Thought for Today: "Nothing you can't spell will ever work." — Will Rogers, American humorist (1879-1935).
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~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

By The Associated Press – 2 days ago

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 1, the 275th day of 2008. There are 91 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

One hundred years ago, on Oct. 1, 1908, Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile to the market.


On this date:

In 1800, Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.

In 1918, Damascus fell to Arab forces as Turkish Ottoman officials surrendered the city.

In 1936, Gen. Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.

In 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing.

In 1958, the American Express charge card made its official debut.

In 1964, the Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1968, the Senate refused to shut down a filibuster against President Lyndon B. Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to be U.S. chief justice. (Fortas withdrew the next day).

In 1968, the cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.

In 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla.

In 1987, eight people were killed when an earthquake measuring magnitude 5.9 struck the Los Angeles area.


Ten years ago: Seeking to head off threatened NATO attacks, Yugoslavia's Serb leadership invited foreign experts to investigate massacres in Kosovo.

Five years ago: The United States took over the monthlong presidency of the U.N. Security Council at a time when it was campaigning for approval of a new resolution aimed at getting more countries to contribute troops and money to Iraq. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from his ESPN sports job after stirring controversy by suggesting Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.

One year ago: Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a surprise announcement, opened the door to becoming the country's prime minister. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 191.92 points to 14,087.55, surpassing a mid-July closing record of 14,000.41. Olympic gold-medal discus thrower Al Oerter died in Fort Myers, Fla., at age 71.

Today's Birthdays: Actor James Whitmore is 87. Former President Jimmy Carter is 84. Pianist Roger Williams is 84. Actor Tom Bosley is 81. Actress-singer Julie Andrews is 73. Rock musician Jerry Martini (Sly and the Family Stone) is 65. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Rod Carew is 63. Jazz musician Dave Holland is 62. Actor Stephen Collins is 61. Actor Randy Quaid is 58. Actress Yvette Freeman is 51. Singer Youssou N'Dour is 49. Actor Esai Morales is 46. Baseball player Mark McGwire is 45. Actor Christopher Titus is 44. Actress-model Cindy Margolis is 43. Rock singer-musician Kevin Griffin (Better Than Ezra) is 40. Singer Keith Duffy is 34. Actress Jurnee Smollett is 22. Actress Brie Larson is 19.

Thought for Today: "Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." — Jules Verne, French author (1828-1905).
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By The Associated Press – 1 day ago

Today is Thursday, Oct. 2, the 276th day of 2008. There are 90 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

On this date:

In 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y.

In 1835, the first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers fought Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River; the Mexicans ended up withdrawing.

In 1869, political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.

In 1919, President Wilson suffered a stroke at the White House that left him partially paralyzed.

In 1941, during World War II, German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow.

In 1944, Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed.

In 1950, the comic strip "Peanuts," created by Charles M. Schulz, was syndicated to seven newspapers.

In 1958, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.

In 1985, actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 59 after battling AIDS.

In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of the girls and wounding five others before committing suicide.


Ten years ago: The House released 4,600 pages of evidence that meticulously detailed President Clinton's efforts to contain the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it erupted. Hollywood's original singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels, Gene Autry, died at age 91.

Five years ago: The Los Angeles Times published allegations that California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger had sexually harassed six women in the past; the actor acknowledged "bad behavior" on his part, and apologized. The House voted 281-142 to prohibit doctors from carrying out what abortion opponents called partial birth abortion. South African J.M. Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature. Former Labor Secretary John Dunlop died at age 89.

One year ago: Blackwater chairman Erik Prince, testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, vigorously rejected charges that guards from his private security firm acted recklessly while protecting State Department personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five workers were found dead 1,000 feet inside an empty underground water tunnel following a chemical fire at a Colorado hydroelectric plant. A federal jury in New York ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders, concluding she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite. Tony Award-winning actor George Grizzard died in New York at age 79.

Today's Birthdays: Country singer-musician Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) is 81. Former Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is 76. Movie critic Rex Reed is 70. Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 63. Cajun/country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 62. Actor Avery Brooks is 60. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 59. Rock musician Mike Rutherford (Genesis, Mike & the Mechanics) is 58. Singer-actor Sting is 57. Actress Lorraine Bracco is 54. Country musician Greg Jennings (Restless Heart) is 54. Rock singer Phil Oakey (The Human League) is 53. Rhythm-and-blues singer Freddie Jackson is 50. Singer-producer Robbie Nevil is 50. Retro-soul singer James Hunter is 46. Rock musician Bud Gaugh (Sublime, Eyes Adrift) is 41. Folk-country singer Gillian Welch is 41. Country singer Kelly Willis is 40. Rhythm-and-blues singer Dion Allen (Az Yet) is 38. Actress-talk show host Kelly Ripa is 38. Singer Tiffany is 37. Rock singer Lene Nystrom is 35. Actor Efren Ramirez is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer LaTocha Scott (Xscape) is 35. Gospel singer Mandisa (TV: "American Idol") is 32.

Thought for Today: Heresy is another word for freedom of thought." — Graham Greene, English writer (1904-1991).
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By The Associated Press – 2 hours ago

Today is Friday, Oct. 3, the 277th day of 2008. There are 89 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 3, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.

On this date:

In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228.

In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."

In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca in the "shot heard 'round the world."

In 1952, Britain conducted its first atomic test as it detonated a 25-kiloton device in the Monte Bello Islands off Australia.

In 1962, astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard the Sigma 7 on a nine-hour flight.

In 1968, American Independent Party presidential candidate George Wallace tapped retired Air Force Gen. Curtis E. LeMay to be his running mate.

In 1968, the Howard Sackler play "The Great White Hope," starring James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander, opened on Broadway.

In 1988, Lebanese kidnappers released Indian educator Mithileshwar Singh, who'd been held captive with three Americans for more than 20 months.

In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (However, Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial).

Ten years ago: Australian Prime Minister John Howard's conservative government narrowly won re-election. Pope John Paul II beatified Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, the World War II archbishop of Zagreb, a controversial figure because many Serbs and Jews had accused him of sympathizing with the Nazis.

Five years ago: A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of duo "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving the superstar illusionist in critical condition on his 59th birthday. Illustrator and children's book author William Steig died in Boston at a

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By The Associated Press – 3 days ago

Today is Saturday, Oct. 4, the 278th day of 2008. There are 88 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit.

On this date:

In 1777, George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties.

In 1822, Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio.

In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.

In 1957, Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.

In 1958, the first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York.

In 1965, Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit the Western Hemisphere as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood, Calif., hotel room.

In 1976, agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks.

In 1978, a funeral mass was held at the Vatican for Pope John Paul I.

In 1980, some 520 people were forced to abandon the cruise ship Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska after the Dutch luxury liner caught fire; no deaths or serious injury resulted. (The ship capsized and sank a week later.)


Ten years ago: Russian envoys warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that NATO might launch airstrikes unless he took "decisive measures" to end the humanitarian crisis in the southern province of Kosovo. Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso won re-election.

Five years ago: A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.

One year ago: Idaho Sen. Larry Craig defiantly vowed to serve out his term in office despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting. Former city maintenance worker John Ashley shot five people in a law office in Alexandria, La., killing two of them; Ashley was shot and killed by police following a standoff. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pledged to pursue a peace treaty and end their countries' decades-long standoff.

Today's Birthdays: Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is 79. Actress Felicia Farr is 76. Actor Eddie Applegate is 73. Author Roy Blount Jr. is 67. Author Anne Rice is 67. Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 67. Actor Clifton Davis is 63. Actress Susan Sarandon is 62. Blues musician Duke Robillard is 60. Playwright Lee Blessing is 59. Actor Armand Assante is 59. Actor Alan Rosenberg is 58. Actor Bill Fagerbakke is 51. Producer Russell Simmons is 51. Musician Chris Lowe (The Pet Shop Boys) is 49. Country musician Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard (Sawyer Brown) is 48. Actor David W. Harper is 47. Singer Jon Secada is 47. TV personality John Melendez ("The Tonight Show") is 43. Actor Liev Schreiber is 41. Actor Abraham Benrubi is 39. Country singer-musician Heidi Newfield is 38. Rock musician Andy Parle is 38. Actress Alicia Silverstone is 32. Actor Phillip Glasser is 30. Rock singer-musician Marc Roberge (O.A.R.) is 30. Actress Rachael Leigh Cook is 29. Actor Jimmy Workman is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jessica Benson (3lw) is 21. Actor Michael Charles Roman is 21. Figure skater Kimmie Meisner is 19.

Thought for Today: "He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit." — Demosthenes, Greek statesman (384 B.C.-322 B.C.).
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~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

By The Associated Press – 2 days ago

Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2008. There are 87 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 5, 1947, President Truman delivered the first televised White House address. Speaking on the world food crisis, Truman called on Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry as well as eggs on Thursdays.

On this date:

In 1829, the 21st president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in Fairfield, Vt. (Some sources list 1830.)

In 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan.

In 1908, stage and film director Joshua Logan ("Picnic," "Bus Stop," "South Pacific") was born in Texarkana, Texas.

In 1921, the World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time. (The New York Giants wound up beating the New York Yankees 5 games to 3 in the best-of-nine contest.)

In 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan.

In 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

In 1958, racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.

In 1978, author Isaac Bashevis Singer was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1988, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."


Ten years ago: The House Judiciary Committee voted along hardened partisan lines to investigate whether President Clinton should be removed from office. Michael Carneal pleaded guilty but mentally ill to shooting to death three fellow students and wounding five other people at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. (Carneal was later sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for 25 years.)

Five years ago: Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria in the first Israeli attack deep inside Syrian territory in three decades. A woman opened fire at an Atlanta church before Sunday services, killing her mother and the minister before committing suicide. The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason series since 1908 when they beat Atlanta 5-1 in the decisive Game 5 of the National League playoffs.

One year ago: President Bush defended his administration's methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects, saying they were successful and lawful. Topps Meat Co. said it was closing its 67-year-old business, six days after it was forced to issue the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history. Track star Marion Jones pleaded guilty in White Plains, N.Y., to lying to federal investigators when she denied using performance-enhancing drugs, and announced her retirement.

Today's Birthdays: "Family Circus" cartoonist Bil Keane is 86. Actress Glynis Johns is 85. Comedian Bill Dana is 84. Actress Diane Cilento is 75. The former president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, is 72. Rhythm-and-blues singer Arlene Smith (The Chantels) is 67. Singer Richard Street is 66. Singer-musician Steve Miller is 65. Rock singer Brian Johnson (AC/DC) is 61. Actor Jeff Conaway is 58. Actress Karen Allen is 57. Writer-producer-director Clive Barker is 56. Rock musician David Bryson (Counting Crows) is 54. Rock singer and famine-relief organizer Bob Geldof is 54. Architect Maya Lin is 49. Actor Daniel Baldwin is 48. Rock singer-musician Dave Dederer is 44. Actor Guy Pearce is 41. Actress Josie Bissett is 38. Singer-actress Heather Headley is 34. Rock musician Brian Mashburn (Save Ferris) is 33. Actress Parminder Nagra is 33. Actor Scott Weinger is 33. Actress Kate Winslet is 33. Rock musician James Valentine (Maroon 5) is 30. Rock musician Paul Thomas (Good Charlotte) is 28. TV personality Nicky Hilton is 25. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brooke Valentine is 23.

Thought for Today: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." — Emily Dickinson, American poet (1830-1886).
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~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

By The Associated Press – 1 day ago

Today is Monday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2008. There are 86 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," a movie starring Al Jolson that featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.

On this date:

In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements.

In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, R,I.

In 1908, actress Carole Lombard was born in Fort Wayne, Ind.

In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek was elected the president of China.

In 1948, the Tennessee Williams play "Summer and Smoke" opened on Broadway.

In 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.

In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

In 1976, in his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." (Ford later conceded he'd misspoken.)

In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

In 1983, Cardinal Terence Cooke, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, died at age 62.


Ten years ago: With a House vote set on launching an open-ended impeachment inquiry, Democrats rushed to counter Republican plans while still underscoring their disapproval of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Five years ago: American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging. Democrat Bob Graham announced on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he was ending his presidential campaign. Akhmad Kadyrov, Russia's hand-picked man to lead Chechnya, was declared winner of the republic's presidential election (he was assassinated in May 2004).

One year ago: Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents. British adventurer Jason Lewis finally returned home, completing a 13-year, 46,000-mile human-powered circumnavigation of the globe at Greenwich, England.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Britt Ekland is 66. Impressionist Fred Travalena is 66. Singer Millie Small is 62. Singer-musician Thomas McClary is 58. Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 57. Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) is 54. Actress Elisabeth Shue is 45. Singer Matthew Sweet is 44. Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 42. Country singer Tim Rushlow is 42. Rock musician Tommy Stinson is 42. Actress Emily Mortimer is 37. Actor Ioan Gruffudd is 35. Actor Jeremy Sisto is 34.

Thought for Today: "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).
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Source: Associated Press

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~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2008. There are 85 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 7, 1777, the second Battle of Saratoga began during the American Revolution. (British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered 10 days later.)

On this date:

In 1571, allied Christian forces defeated an Ottoman fleet in the naval Battle of Lepanto.

In 1858, the fifth debate between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place in Galesburg.

In 1868, Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.

In 1916, in the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta.

In 1949, the Republic of East Germany was formed.

In 1954, Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.

In 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon held their second televised debate, in Washington, D.C.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II concluded his weeklong tour of the United States with a Mass on the Washington Mall.

In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. (The hijackers, who killed an elderly Jewish American tourist, surrendered two days after taking the ship.)

In 1991, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denied Hill's allegations.


Ten years ago: Matthew Shepard, a gay college student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie; he died five days later. (Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for Shepard's murder.) The Justice Department sued Visa and MasterCard, the nation's largest credit card networks, on grounds they were restraining competition and limiting consumers' choices. (A judge later ruled that the Visa and MasterCard associations had to allow their member banks to issue other credit cards.)

Five years ago: California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger their new governor. Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly to allow Turkish troops to be sent to Iraq. Ten Southeast Asian nations signed an accord establishing a Europe-like economic community by 2020. American scientists Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett and Russian Vitaly Ginzburg won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.

One year ago: Tyler Peterson, a 20-year-old sheriff's deputy, went on a shooting rampage in Crandon, Wis., killing six people, including his ex-girlfriend, before taking his own life as police closed in. Nine skydivers and a pilot were killed when their Cessna Caravan 208 crashed in Washington's Cascade Range. In a race run in scorching heat that left one man dead, Kenya's Patrick Ivuti won the Chicago Marathon by a fraction of a second; an additional 250 runners were taken to hospitals because of heat-related ailments.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Al Martino is 81. Retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is 77. Comedian Joy Behar (TV: "The View") is 66. Former National Security Council aide Oliver North is 65. Rock musician Kevin Godley (10cc) is 63. Actress Jill Larson (TV: "All My Children") is 61. Country singer Kieran Kane is 59. Singer John Mellencamp is 57. Rock musician Ricky Phillips is 57. Actress Mary Badham is 56. Actress Christopher Norris is 55. Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is 55. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 53. Gospel singer Michael W. Smith is 51. Actor Dylan Baker is 50. Recording executive and TV personality Simon Cowell ("American Idol") is 49. Rock musician Charlie Marinkovich (Iron Butterfly) is 49. Country singer Dale Watson is 46. Pop singer Ann Curless (Expose) is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Toni Braxton is 41. Rock singer-musician Thom Yorke (Radiohead) is 40. Rock musician-dancer Leeroy Thornhill is 39. Actress Nicole Ari Parker is 38. Rock singer-musician Damian Kulash is 33. Singer Taylor Hicks ("American Idol") is 32. Actor Omar Benson Miller is 30.

Thought for Today: "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." — James Michener, American novelist (1907-1997).
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Source: Associated Press

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