Today is Friday, Nov. 7, the 312th day of 2008. There are 54 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

On this date:

In 1874, the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.

In 1893, the state of Colorado granted women there the right to vote.

In 1916, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.

In 1918, during World War I, an erroneous report that an armistice had been signed set off celebrations across the country.

In 1940, in Washington state, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," collapsed during a windstorm.

In 1944, President Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.

In 1962, Richard M. Nixon, having lost California's gubernatorial race, held what he called his "last press conference," telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

In 1967, President Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

In 1972, President Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

In 1973, Congress overrode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.


Ten years ago: John Glenn returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery, visibly weak but elated after a nine-day mission. A scant four years after leading Republicans to glory, House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced he would resign not just his speakership but also his seat in the House.

Five years ago: Six U.S. soldiers were killed in the crash of their Black Hawk helicopter in Tikrit, Iraq. The defending champion U.S. baseball team failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Olympics, losing to Mexico 2-1 in the quarterfinals of a qualifying tournament in Panama City, Panama.

One year ago: An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at his high school in Tuusula, Finland, killing seven other students and the principal before taking his own life. A cargo ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, causing the San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades. Space shuttle Discovery and its crew returned to Earth, concluding a 15-day space station build-and-repair mission. At the Country Music Association Awards, Kenny Chesney won his second straight entertainer of the year award, while Carrie Underwood made it back-to-back trophies as female vocalist of the year.

Today's Birthdays: Evangelist Billy Graham is 90. Opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland is 82. Actor Barry Newman is 70. Singer Johnny Rivers is 66. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 65. Singer Nick Gilder is 57. Actor Christopher Knight ("The Brady Bunch") is 51. Actress Julie Pinson is 41. Rock musician Greg Tribbett (Mudvayne) is 40. Actor Christopher Daniel Barnes is 36. Actors Jeremy and Jason London are 36. Actress Yunjin Kim ("Lost") is 35. Rock musician Zach Myers (Shinedown) is 25.

Thought for Today: "Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness is under the love which it cannot return." — George Eliot, English author (1819-1880).
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Today is Saturday, Nov. 8, the 313th day of 2008. There are 53 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, that came to be known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch."

On this date:

In 1308, Scottish-born theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus died in Germany. (Scotus and his adherents came under attack by critics in the 16th century, giving rise to the term "dunce.")

In 1837, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, a college exclusively for women, opened in South Hadley, Mass.

In 1889, Montana became the 41st state.

In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency.

In 1933, President Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.

In 1942, Operation Torch, resulting in an Allied victory, began during World War II as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa.

In 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.

In 1966, Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., became the first black candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.

In 1983, Democrat W. Wilson Goode was elected the first black mayor of Philadelphia; Democrat Martha Layne Collins was elected the first female governor of Kentucky.

In 1988, Vice President George Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.


Ten years ago: U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., predicted he would succeed Newt Gingrich as House Speaker. (However, Livingston later resigned before he could become speaker after admitting to marital infidelities.)

Five years ago: A suicide car bombing of a housing complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 17 people. Front-runner Howard Dean became the first Democratic presidential candidate ever to reject taxpayer money and avoid the accompanying spending limits, saying he had to act to compete against President Bush's cash-rich campaign.

One year ago: The Senate confirmed President Bush's nomination of Michael Mukasey to be the new attorney general, 53-40. President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency as the Senate enacted, 79-14, a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was filled with unnecessary projects. Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra swept the Latin Grammy Awards, taking home five musical honors including album of the year, record of the year and song of the year.

Today's Birthdays: Actress June Havoc is 96. Actor Norman Lloyd is 94. Jazz singer Chris Connor is 81. Singer Patti Page is 81. CBS newsman Morley Safer is 77. Singer-actress Bonnie Bramlett is 64. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 59. TV personality Mary Hart is 58. Playboy Enterprises chairman and chief executive Christie Hefner is 56. Actress Alfre Woodard is 55. Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 54. Rock musician Porl Thompson (The Cure) is 51. Singer-actor Leif Garrett is 47. Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith is 41. Actress Parker Posey is 40. Rock musician Jimmy Chaney is 39. Actress Roxana Zal is 39. Singer Diana King is 38. Actress Gretchen Mol is 35. Actress Tara Reid is 33. Country singer/former "American Idol" contestant Bucky Covington is 31. Actress Dania Ramirez is 29. Actress Azura Skye is 27. Actor Chris Rankin is 25. TV personality Jack Osbourne ("The Osbournes") is 23.

Thought for Today: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." — Boris Pasternak, Russian author (1890-1960).
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Today is Sunday, Nov. 9, the 314th day of 2008. There are 52 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 9, 1877, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal was born who was one the great leaders of freedom fights of sub-continent. He dreamed and expressed the feelings of a separate territory for Muslims of sub-continent, first. He was a great Philosopher and was awarded by 'Poet of the East'.

On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht." It's estimated that more than 90 Jews were killed in the pogrom.

On this date: In 1872, fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston.

In 1918, it was announced that Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.

In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization (later Congress of Industrial Organizations).

In 1953, author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.

In 1963, twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and about 160 people died in a train crash.

In 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.

In 1967, a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a successful test flight.

In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."

In 1988, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at age 75.

In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.


Ten years ago: A federal judge in New York approved a massive antitrust settlement in which leading brokerage firms promised to pay $1.03 billion to investors who had sued over a price-rigging scheme for stocks listed on the Nasdaq market. The age of digital and interactive TV opened with the airing of a PBS documentary special, "Chihuly Over Venice."

Five years ago: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling bloc won a majority in the country's parliamentary elections. Three-time Top Fuel champion Shirley Muldowney, 63, ended her 30-year racing career with a loss in the second round of the Auto Club NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway in California. Comic actor Art Carney died in Chester, Conn., at age 85.

One year ago: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day, and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his emergency rule. Chadian authorities released three Spanish flight crew members and a Belgian pilot detained in an alleged kidnapping plot of African children by a French charity.

Today's Birthdays: Baseball executive Whitey Herzog is 77. Former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., is 72. Singer Mary Travers is 72. Actor Charlie Robinson ("Night Court") is 63. Movie director Bille August is 60. Actor Robert David Hall ("CSI") is 60. Actor Lou Ferrigno is 56. Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin is 49. Rock musician Dee Plakas (L7) is 48. Rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) is 39. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is 39. Blues singer Susan Tedeschi is 38. Actor Eric Dane is 36. Singer Nick Lachey (98 Degrees) is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 30. Actress Nikki Blonsky (Film: "Hairspray") is 20.

Thought for Today: "All life is an experiment." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (1841-1935).
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Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 315th day of 2008. There are 51 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 10, 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

On this date:

In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.

In 1917, 41 suffragists were arrested for picketing in front of the White House.

In 1919, the American Legion opened its first national convention, in Minneapolis.

In 1928, Japan's Emperor Hirohito was formally enthroned, almost two years after his ascension.

In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on her CBS radio program, which aired on Thursdays.

In 1938, Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57.

In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Eisenhower in Arlington, Va.

In 1969, the children's educational program "Sesame Street" made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS).

In 1975, the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.

In 1982, Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75.



Ten years ago: The Pentagon stepped up the movement of warships to the Persian Gulf as the Clinton administration swept aside the idea of negotiations with Iraq over U.N. weapons inspections rejected by the Iraqis.

Five years ago: Democrat John Kerry shook up his faltering presidential campaign, replacing campaign manager Jim Jordan with Mary Beth Cahill. Federal regulators allowed customers to switch home phone numbers to their cell phones. A World Trade Organization panel upheld a ruling that U.S. duties on steel imports were illegal. Chicago newspaper columnist and TV personality Irv Kupcinet died at age 91.

One year ago: Six U.S. troops died in an insurgent ambush, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in Afghanistan since 2001. A stagehands strike shut down most Broadway shows, with curtains rising again 19 days later. Author Norman Mailer died in New York at age 84. The mother of rapper Kanye West, Donda West, died at a Los Angeles-area hospital at age 58 a day after undergoing plastic surgery. Miami ended its 70-year stay at the famed Orange Bowl with the biggest shutout loss in the stadium's history, a 48-0 rout to Virginia.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Russell Johnson is 84. Film composer Ennio Morricone is 80. Blues singer Bobby Rush is 74. Actor Albert Hall is 71. Country singer Donna Fargo is 67. Lyricist Tim Rice is 64. Actress Alaina Reed Hall is 62. Rock singer-musician Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 61. Actress-dancer Ann Reinking is 59. Actor Jack Scalia is 57. Movie director Roland Emmerich is 53. Actor Matt Craven is 52. Actor-comedian Sinbad is 52. Actress Mackenzie Phillips is 49. Author Neil Gaiman is 48. Actor-comedian Tommy Davidson is 45. Actor Michael Jai White is 44. Country singer Chris Cagle is 40. Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is 40. Actress Ellen Pompeo ("Grey's Anatomy") is 39. Rapper-producer Warren G is 38. Rock singer-musician Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World) is 33. Actress Brittany Murphy is 31. Rapper Eve is 30. Rock musician Chris Jannou (Silverchair) is 29. Actor Bryan Neal is 28. Actress Heather Matarazzo is 26. Country singer Miranda Lambert is 25. Actor Josh Peck is 22.

Thought for Today: "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" — Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (1891-1951).
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Today is Tuesday, Nov. 11, the 316th day of 2008. There are 50 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.

On this date:

In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."

In 1831, former slave Nat Turner, who'd led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Va.

In 1889, Washington became the 42nd state.

In 1918, the Second Polish Republic declared its independence.

In 1921, the remains of an unidentified American service member were interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony presided over by President Harding.

In 1966, Gemini 12 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. aboard.

In 1968, the Republic of Maldvies was declared.

In 1983, President Reagan became the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature.

In 1988, police in Sacramento, Calif., found the first of seven bodies buried on the grounds of a boardinghouse. Landlady Dorothea Puente was later charged in the deaths of nine people; she was convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison.

In 2004, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died at a military hospital in Paris at age 75.


Ten years ago: President Clinton ordered warships, planes and troops to the Persian Gulf as he laid out his case for a possible attack on Iraq. Iraq, meanwhile, showed no sign of backing down from its refusal to deal with U.N. weapons inspectors. Israel's Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Five years ago: President Bush's top foreign advisers summoned L. Paul Bremer, Iraq's U.S. administrator, for hurried White House talks focused on their growing frustrations with the Iraqi Governing Council and a logjam in transferring political power to Iraqis. In Galveston, Texas, millionaire Robert Durst was found not guilty of murdering Morris Black, an elderly neighbor whom Durst said he'd killed accidentally. Toronto's Roy Halladay won the American League Cy Young Award.

One year ago: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Pakistan would stick to its January schedule for parliamentary elections, but set no time limit on emergency rule. Marking his fifth Veterans Day since the invasion of Iraq, President Bush honored U.S. troops past and present at a tearful ceremony in Texas.

Today's Birthdays: Dancer-choreographer Nicholas Royce is 83. Comedian Jonathan Winters is 83. Jazz singer-musician Mose Allison is 81. Author Carlos Fuentes is 80. Country singer Narvel Felts is 70. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is 68. Rock singer-musician Vince Martell (Vanilla Fudge) is 63. Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is 57. Pop singer-musician Paul Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 56. Rock singer-musician Andy Partridge (XTC) is 55. Singer Marshall Crenshaw is 55. Rock singer Dave Alvin is 53. Rock musician Ian Craig Marsh (Human League; Heaven 17) is 52. Actor Stanley Tucci is 48. Actress Demi Moore is 46. Actress Calista Flockhart is 44. Actor Philip McKeon is 44. Rock musician Scott Mercado is 44. TV personality Carson Kressley is 39. Actor David DeLuise is 37. Actor Adam Beach is 36. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 34. Rock musician Jonathan Pretus (Cowboy Mouth) is 27.

Thought for Today: "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." — Herman Hesse, German novelist (1877-1962).
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~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 12, the 317th day of 2008. There are 49 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Allies ended up winning a major victory over the Japanese.)

On this date:

In 1815, American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, N.Y.

In 1908, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun was born in Nashville, Ill.

In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.

In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.

In 1977, the city of New Orleans elected its first black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial, the winner of a runoff.

In 1982, Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.

In 1990, Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.

In 1996, a Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collided shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, killing 349 people.

In 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, en route from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Dominican Republic, crashed after takeoff, killing 265 people.

In 2004, a jury in Redwood City, Calif., convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson, who maintains his innocence, was later sentenced to death.)


Ten years ago: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley filed a $433 million dollar lawsuit against the firearms industry, declaring that it had created a public nuisance by flooding the streets with weapons deliberately marketed to criminals. (A judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2000; an appeals court ruled in 2002 that the city of Chicago could proceed; but the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2004.

Five years ago: President Bush and his top foreign advisers reviewed new strategies to speed the transfer of political power in Iraq. A suicide truck bomber attacked the headquarters of Italy's paramilitary police in Nasiriyah, Iraq, killing more than 30 people. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat swore in a new Palestinian Cabinet. Actress Penny Singleton died in Sherman Oaks, Calif., at age 95. Actor Jonathan Brandis died in Los Angeles at age 27.

One year ago: Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in four days ahead of a planned march to protest emergency rule. The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 13,000 for first time since August 2007. Ryan Braun won the NL Rookie of the Year award in one of the closest votes, while Dustin Pedroia ran away with the AL honor.

Today's Birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ruby Nash Curtis (Ruby and the Romantics) is 69. Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn is 65. Singer Brian Hyland is 65. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jimmy Hayes (Persuasions) is 65. Rock musician Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & the MGs) is 64. Singer-songwriter Neil Young is 63. Rock musician Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult) is 61. Country singer Barbara Fairchild is 58. Actress Megan Mullally is 50. Olympic gold medal gymnast Nadia Comaneci is 47. Rock musician David Ellefson is 44. Actor Sam Lloyd is 41. Baseball player Sammy Sosa is 40. Figure skater Tonya Harding is 38. Actress Radha Mitchell is 35. Actress Lourdes Benedicto is 34. Actress Tamala Jones is 34. Actress Angela Watson is 34. Singer Tevin Campbell is 32. Actress Ashley Williams is 30. Actor Ryan Gosling is 28. Contemporary Christian musician Chris Huffman is 28. Actress Anne Hathaway is 26. Pop singer Omarion is 24. Actress Macey Cruthird ("Hope and Faith") is 16.

Thought for Today: "Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money." — Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946).
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Today is Thursday, Nov. 13, the 318th day of 2008. There are 48 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington.

On this date:


In 1775, during the American Revolution, the Continental Army captured Montreal.

In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between lower Manhattan and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.

In 1940, the Walt Disney animated movie "Fantasia" had its world premiere in New York.

In 1942, President Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public city and state buses.

In 1971, the U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars.

In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.

In 1977, the comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.

In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.


Ten years ago: President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit, with no apology or admission of guilt, ending the four-year legal battle that had spurred the impeachment proceedings against him.

Five years ago: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove his granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel for having "placed himself above the law." Eric Gagne of the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League Cy Young Award.

One year ago: Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto demanded the resignation of U.S.-backed President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, dashing Western hopes the two would form an alliance to confront strengthening Islamic extremists. French rail workers went on a nine-day strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to strip away labor protections. CC Sabathia won the AL Cy Young Award to become the first Cleveland pitcher in 35 years to earn the honor.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Madeleine Sherwood is 86. Journalist-author Peter Arnett is 74. Producer-director Garry Marshall is 74. Country singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard is 62. Actor Joe Mantegna is 61. Actress Sheila Frazier is 60. Actress Frances Conroy is 55. Musician Andrew Ranken (The Pogues) is 55. Actress Tracy Scoggins is 55. Actor Chris Noth is 54. Actress-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is 53. Actor Rex Linn ("CSI: Miami") is 52. Actress Caroline Goodall is 49. Actor Neil Flynn ("Scrubs") is 48. Football player Vinny Testaverde is 45. Rock musician Walter Kibby (Fishbone) is 44. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel is 41. Actor Steve Zahn is 41. Rock musician Nikolai Fraiture is 30. Actress Monique Coleman is 28.

Thought for Today: "As you live, believe in life. Always human beings will live and profess to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long." — W.E.B. Du Bois, American author and reformer (1868-1963).
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~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Today is Friday, Nov. 14, the 319th day of 2008. There are 47 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 14, 1851, Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale" was first published in the United States.

On this date:

In 1881, Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President Garfield. (Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.)

In 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days. (She made the trip in 72 days.)

In 1908, Joseph R. McCarthy, the Republican senator from Wisconsin whose anti-communism campaign generated much controversy, was born in Grand Chute.

In 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.

In 1940, during World War II, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry.

In 1969, Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon.

In 1970, a chartered Southern Airways DC9 crashed while trying to land in Huntington, W.Va., killing all 75 on board, including the Marshall University football team and its coaching staff.

In 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 level for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.

In 1973, Britain's Princess Anne married Capt. Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1992, and Anne remarried.)

In 1997, a jury in Fairfax, Va., decided that Pakistani national Aimal Khan Kasi should get the death penalty for gunning down two CIA employees outside agency headquarters. (Kasi was executed on this date in 2002.)


Ten years ago: Iraq said it would resume cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors as it appeared to back down in the face of a threatened U.S. attack.

Five years ago: John Kerry became the second Democratic hopeful to opt out of public financing for his presidential run, following the example of rival Howard Dean. A third person died following an outbreak of hepatitis A at a Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant at the Beaver Valley Mall outside Pittsburgh.

One year ago: Michael Mukasey took a ceremonial oath as the new U.S. Attorney General. A justice of the peace ordered O.J. Simpson to stand trial on kidnapping and armed robbery charges stemming from a confrontation with memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. (Simpson and a co-defendant were convicted last month.) The prime ministers of North and South Korea launched their first talks in 15 years.

Today's Birthdays: Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is 86. Actress Kathleen Hughes is 80. Jazz musician Ellis Marsalis is 74. Writer P.J. O'Rourke is 61. Zydeco singer-musician Buckwheat Zydeco is 61. Britain's Prince Charles is 60. Actor Robert Ginty is 60. Rock singer-musician James Young (Styx) is 59. Singer Stephen Bishop is 57. Blues musician Anson Funderburgh is 54. Pianist Yanni is 54. Actress Laura San Giacomo is 47. Actor D.B. Sweeney is 47. Rapper Reverend Run (Run-DMC) is 44. Actor Patrick Warburton is 44. Rock musician Nic Dalton is 44. Country singer Rockie Lynne is 44. Pop singer Jeanette Jurado (Expose) is 43. Rock musician Brian Yale is 40. Rock singer Butch Walker is 39. Actor Josh Duhamel is 36. Rock musician Travis Barker is 33. Contemporary Christian musician Robby Shaffer is 33. Rapper Shyheim is 31. Rock musician Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach) is 29. Actress Olga Kurylenko is 29.

Thought for Today: "It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me — I never retreat." — Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City mayor (1882-1947).
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Today is Saturday, Nov. 15, the 320th day of 2008. There are 46 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 15, 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.

On this date:

In 1708, British statesman William Pitt (the Elder) was born in London.

In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States.

In 1889, Brazil was proclaimed a republic as its emperor, Dom Pedro II, was overthrown.

In 1908, China's Empress Dowager Cixi died two weeks short of her 73rd birthday.

In 1939, President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington.

In 1948, William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada after 21 years; he was succeeded by Louis St. Laurent.

In 1958, actor Tyrone Power died in Madrid, Spain, at age 44 while filming "Solomon and Sheba."

In 1966, the flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic.

In 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.

In 1988, the Soviet Union launched its first space shuttle, Buran, on an unmanned 3 1/2-hour flight.


Ten years ago: Kwame Ture, the civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at age 57.

Five years ago: Two Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed in Iraq; 17 U.S. troops were killed. Two synagogues were bombed in Istanbul; 29 people were killed. A gangway on the cruise ship RMS Queen Mary 2 collapsed in St. Nazaire, France, killing 15 people. Democrat Kathleen Blanco was elected the first female governor of Louisiana, defeating Republican Bobby Jindal in a runoff. Death claimed billionaire Laurence Tisch at age 80 and actress Dorothy Loudon at age 70.

One year ago: During a feisty Democratic debate in Las Vegas, Hillary Rodham Clinton accused her closest rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, of slinging mud "right out of the Republican playbook" and sharply criticized their records. Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, killing more than 3,200 people and leaving millions homeless. Baseball player Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs. (A revamped indictment was unsealed last May.) Actress Lindsay Lohan completed her jail sentence for drunken driving in a swift 84 minutes.

Today's Birthdays: Judge Joseph Wapner is 89. Statesman Howard H. Baker Jr. is 83. Actor Ed Asner is 79. Actor John Kerr is 77. Singer Petula Clark is 76. Comedian Jack Burns is 75. Actress Joanna Barnes is 74. Actor Sam Waterston is 68. Pop singer Frida (ABBA) is 63. Actor Bob Gunton is 63. Director-actor James Widdoes is 55. Rock singer-producer Mitch Easter is 54. Actress Beverly D'Angelo is 54. CNN anchor-reporter John Roberts is 52. "Tonight Show" bandleader Kevin Eubanks is 51. Comedian Judy Gold is 46. Rapper E-40 is 41. Actress Rachel True is 39. Country singer Jack Ingram is 38. Actor Jonny Lee Miller is 36. Actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier is 35. Christian rock musician David Carr (Third Day) is 34. Rock singer-musician Chad Kroeger is 34. Rock musician Jesse Sandoval is 34. Actress Virginie Ledoyen is 32. Pop singer Ace Young (TV: "American Idol") is 28. Golfer Lorena Ochoa is 27.

Thought for Today: "What was once thought can never be unthought." — Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (1921-1990).
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Source: Associated Press

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Today is Sunday, Nov. 16, the 321st day of 2008. There are 45 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 16, 1908, conductor Arturo Toscanini made his debut with the New York Metropolitan Opera as he led a performance of Verdi's "Aida."

On this date:

In 1776, British troops captured Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.

In 1885, Canadian rebel leader Louis Riel was executed for high treason.

In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union.

In 1917, Georges Clemenceau again became prime minister of France.

In 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.

In 1959, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway.

In 1961, House Speaker Samuel T. Rayburn died in Bonham, Texas, having served as speaker since 1940 except for two terms.

In 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.

In 1973, Skylab 4, carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission.

In 1982, an agreement was announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.


Ten years ago: The Supreme Court ruled that union members can file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration. House Democrats re-elected Dick Gephardt as their leader.

Five years ago: Serbs failed for the third time in a year to elect a president because of low voter turnout. Bettina Goislard, a French United Nations worker, was shot and killed in Afghanistan.

One year ago: Senate Republicans blocked a $50 billion bill by Democrats that would have paid for several months of combat but also would have ordered troop withdrawals from Iraq to begin within 30 days. Marchers surrounded the Justice Department headquarters to demand federal intervention in the Jena Six case in Louisiana and stepped-up enforcement of hate crimes. Poland's new prime minister, Donald Tusk, formally took office along with a team of former anti-communist dissidents.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Clu Gulager is 80. Blues musician Hubert Sumlin is 77. Journalist Elizabeth Drew is 73. Blues musician W.C. Clark is 69. Actor Steve Railsback is 63. Actor David Leisure is 58. Actress Marg Helgenberger is 50. Rock musician Mani is 46. Country singer-musician Keith Burns (Trick Pony) is 45. Former tennis player Zina Garrison is 45. Former baseball player Dwight Gooden is 44. Jazz singer Diana Krall is 44. Actor Harry Lennix is 44. Rock musician Dave Kushner (Velvet Revolver) is 42. Actress Lisa Bonet is 41. Actress Tammy Lauren is 40. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bryan Abrams (Color Me Badd) is 39. Actress Martha Plimpton is 38. Actress Missi Pyle is 36. Olympic gold medal figure skater Oksana Baiul is 31. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is 31. Pop singer Trevor Penick is 29. Actress Kimberly J. Brown is 24. Actor Noah Gray-Cabey ("Heroes") is 13.

Thought for Today: "History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth." _ Jean Cocteau, French author, director, poet (1889-1963).
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Source: Associated Press

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