Today is Wednesday, May 27, the 147th day of 2009. There are 218 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrian traffic. (Vehicular traffic began crossing the bridge the next day.)

On this date:

In 1818, American reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who popularized the garment that bears her name — "bloomers" — was born in Homer, N.Y.

In 1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill.

In 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, N.J.

In 1933, Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released.

In 1935, the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.

In 1936, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York.

In 1941, amid rising world tensions, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency." The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France, with a loss of more than 2,100 lives.

In 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.

In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.

In 1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy.



Ten years ago: A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo and brutal purge of ethnic Albanians. The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on a mission to carry supplies to the new international space station. In Milan, Italy, the latest restoration of "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, an effort that took 22 years, went on display during a VIP-only showing.

Five years ago: Abu Hamza al-Masri, a Muslim cleric, was arrested in London and accused of trying to build a terrorist training camp in Oregon. (He remains in British custody despite U.S. attempts to extradite him for trial.)

One year ago: Myanmar's military government renewed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention for one year; the move came as officials said that international aid workers had finally begun entering Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta area after being blocked for more than three weeks by the junta.

Today's Birthdays: Novelist Herman Wouk is 94. Actor Christopher Lee is 87. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 86. Author John Barth is 79. Actress Lee Meriwether is 74. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 74. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 73. R&B singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 70. Country singer Don Williams is 70. Actor Bruce Weitz is 66. Singer Cilla Black is 66. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) is 65. Singer Bruce Cockburn is 64. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 59. Actor Richard Schiff is 54. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 52. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 51. Actress Peri Gilpin is 48. Actress Cathy Silvers is 48. Comedian Adam Carolla is 45. Actor Todd Bridges is 44. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 43. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 40. Actor Paul Bettany is 38. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 38. Country singer Jace Everett is 37. Actor Jack McBrayer is 36. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 34. Rapper Jadakiss is 34. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 34. Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Darnell Dockett is 28. Actor Ethan Dampf is 15.

Thought for Today: "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." — Aldous Huxley, English author (1894-1963).
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Source: Associated Press

Today is Thursday, May 28, the 148th day of 2009. There are 217 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne — were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

On this date:

In 1533, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

In 1863, the first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War.

In 1892, the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.

In 1918, the Battle of Cantigny began during World War I as American troops captured the French town from the Germans.

In 1929, the first all-color talking picture, "On with the Show," opened in New York.

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could begin crossing the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California. Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.

In 1959, the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survived.

In 1972, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.

In 1977, 165 people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky.

In 1987, Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square.


Ten years ago: Russia's Balkan envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin met with Slobodan Milosevic for nine hours, declaring the Yugoslav president key to a Kosovo peace plan despite complications caused by Milosevic's indictment for war crimes.

Five years ago: The Iraqi Governing Council chose Iyad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government. Some three dozen people were killed by a powerful earthquake in northern Iran.

One year ago:The White House reacted angrily to a highly critical memoir by President George W. Bush's former press secretary, Scott McClellan, who wrote that Bush had relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war. Nepal's lawmakers abolished the monarchy and declared the country a republic, ending 239 years of royal rule.

Today's Birthdays: Rockabilly singer-musician Sonny Burgess is 80. Actress Carroll Baker is 78. Producer-director Irwin Winkler is 78. Actor John Karlen is 76. Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West is 71. Actress Beth Howland is 68. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is 65. Singer Gladys Knight is 65. Singer Billy Vera is 65. Singer John Fogerty is 64. Actress-director Sondra Locke is 62. Country musician Jerry Douglas (Alison Krauss and Union Station) is 53. Actor Brandon Cruz ("The Courtship of Eddie's Father") is 47. Country singer Phil Vassar is 47. Actress Christa Miller is 45. Singer-musician Chris Ballew (Presidents of the USA) is 44. Rapper Chubb Rock is 41. Singer Kylie Minogue is 41. Actor Justin Kirk is 40. Television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck ("The View") is 32. Actor Jesse Bradford is 30. Actress Monica Keena is 30. Pop singer Colbie Caillat is 24. Actress Carey Mulligan is 24. Actor Joseph Cross is 23.

Thought for Today: "The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." _Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (1903-1968).
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Source: Associated Press

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~Time owns each and everything~
~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Today is Friday, May 29, the 149th day of 2009. There are 216 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary, of New Zealand, and Tensing Norgay, of Nepal, became the first climbers to reach the summit.

On this date:

In 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.

In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

In 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.

In 1913, the ballet "The Rite of Spring," with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, had its chaotic world premiere in Paris.

In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Mass.

In 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive until 1945.

In 1943, Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

In 1985, 39 people were killed at the European Champions Cup Final in Brussels, Belgium, when rioting broke out and a wall separating British and Italian soccer fans collapsed.

In 1995, Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate, died in Skowhegan, Maine, at age 97.

In 1998, Republican elder statesman Barry Goldwater died in Paradise Valley, Ariz., at age 89.


Ten years ago: The space shuttle Discovery completed the first-ever docking with the international space station. Olusegun Obasanjo became Nigeria's first civilian president in 15 years, ending a string of military regimes.

Five years ago: A shooting rampage by al-Qaida militants at a housing complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia's oil hub, killed 22 people, most of them foreign oil industry workers. America dedicated a memorial to its World War II veterans on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Death claimed former Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox at age 92 and Sam Dash, former chief counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Watergate, at age 79.

One year ago: In a crushing blow to Texas' massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch, the state Supreme Court ruled that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should go back to their parents. Actor-comedian Harvey Korman, Emmy winner for "The Carol Burnett Show," died in Los Angeles at age 81.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Clifton James is 88. Former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent is 71. Race car driver Al Unser is 70. CBS News Correspondent Bob Simon is 68. Actor Kevin Conway is 67. Actor Helmut Berger is 65. Rock singer Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is 64. Actor Anthony Geary is 62. Singer Rebbie Jackson is 59. Movie composer Danny Elfman is 56. Rock musician Michael Porcaro (Toto) is 54. Singer LaToya Jackson is 53. Actor Ted Levine is 52. Actress Annette Bening is 51. Actor Rupert Everett is 50. Actor Adrian Paul is 50. Singer Melissa Etheridge is 48. Actress Lisa Whelchel is 46. Actress Tracey Bregman is 46. Rock musician Noel Gallagher (Oasis) is 42. Singer Jayski McGowan (Quad City DJ's) is 42. Rock musician Chan Kinchla (Blues Traveler) is 40. Rock musician Mark Lee (Third Day) is 36. Cartoonist Aaron McGruder ("The Boondocks") is 35. Singer Melanie Brown (Spice Girls) is 34. Rapper Playa Poncho is 34. Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony is 25.

Thought for Today: "Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily." — Dorothy Day, American reformer (1897-1980).
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Source: Associated Press

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~Time owns each and everything~
~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Today is Saturday, May 30, the 150th day of 2009. There are 215 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

On this date:

In 1854, the territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.

In 1883, 12 people were trampled to death when a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge in New York was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a stampede.

In 1909, the "king of swing," Benny Goodman, was born in Chicago.

In 1911, Indianapolis saw its first long-distance auto race; Ray Harroun was the winner.

In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and lawyer Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd.

In 1937, 10 people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.

In 1943, American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.

In 1958, unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

In 1959, Louisiana Gov. Earl K. Long was committed to a psychiatric center in Galveston, Texas, after apparently suffering a mental breakdown.

In 1971, the American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars.


Ten years ago: Astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery rigged cranes and other tools to the exterior of the international space station during a spacewalk; then, the astronauts entered the orbiting outpost for three days of making repairs and delivering supplies. Kenny Brack won the crash-marred Indianapolis 500, driving a car owned by racing legend A.J. Foyt.

Five years ago: Saudi commandos drove al-Qaida militants from a housing complex in the kingdom's oil hub, ending a shooting and hostage-taking rampage that had left 22 dead, most of them foreigners. Gunmen in Pakistan killed a senior pro-Taliban Sunni cleric (Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai), sparking riots. Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left Jamaica for South Africa, saying it would be his "temporary home" until he could return to Haiti. Buddy Rice won the Indianapolis 500 in the rain.

One year ago: A construction crane snapped and smashed into an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, killing two workers in the city's second such tragedy in 2 1/2 months. Diplomats from 111 nations meeting in Dublin formally adopted a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs. (The United States and other leading cluster bomb makers — Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan — boycotted the talks.) Lorenzo Odone, whose parents' battle to save him from the rare nerve disease ALD inspired "Lorenzo's Oil," died in Fairfax, Va., a day after his 30th birthday.

Today's Birthdays: Country musician Johnny Gimble is 83. Actor Clint Walker is 82. Actor Keir Dullea is 73. Actress Ruta Lee is 73. Actor Michael J. Pollard is 70. Rock musician Lenny Davidson (The Dave Clark Five) is 65. Actor Stephen Tobolowsky is 58. Actor Colm Meaney is 56. Actor Ted McGinley is 51. Actor Ralph Carter is 48. Actress Tonya Pinkins is 47. Country singer Wynonna Judd is 45. Rock musician Tom Morello (Audioslave; Rage Against The Machine) is 45. Movie director Antoine Fuqua is 44. Rock musician Patrick Dahlheimer (Live) is 38. Actress Idina Menzel is 38. Actor Trey Parker is 37. Rapper Cee-Lo is 35. Rapper Remy Ma is 29. Actor Blake Bashoff is 28. Christian rock musician James Smith (Underoath) is 27.

Thought for Today: "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." — Jerome K. Jerome, English author and humorist (1859-1927).
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Source: Associated Press

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~Time owns each and everything~
~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Today is Sunday, May 31, the 151st day of 2009. There are 214 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On May 31, 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa.

On this date:

In 1809, composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna at age 77.

In 1819, poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, N.Y.

In 1910, the Union of South Africa was founded.

In 1916, during World War I, British and German fleets fought the naval Battle of Jutland off Denmark; there was no clear-cut victor, although the British suffered heavier losses.

In 1949, former State Department official Alger Hiss went on trial in New York, charged with perjury. (The jury ended up deadlocked, but Hiss was convicted in a second trial.)

In 1961, South Africa became an independent republic.

In 1970, tens of thousands of people died in an earthquake in Peru.

In 1977, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, three years in the making, was completed.

In 1989, House Speaker Jim Wright, dogged by questions about his ethics, announced he would resign. (Tom Foley later succeeded him.)

In 1994, the United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.


Ten years ago: During a Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery, President Bill Clinton asked Americans to reconsider their ambivalence about Kosovo, calling it "a very small province in a small country. But it is a big test of what we believe in." In Turkey, the treason trial of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan opened. (Ocalan was later convicted and sentenced to death, but the death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2002.)

Five years ago: In Memorial Day tributes, President George W. Bush declared that "America is safer" because of its fighting forces while Sen. John Kerry visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. A bomb ripped through a Shiite Muslim mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, during evening prayers, killing at least 19 people. Alberta Martin, one of the last widows of a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, died in Enterprise, Ala., at age 97.

One year ago: Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven blasted into orbit, carrying a giant Japanese lab addition to the international space station.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Elaine Stewart is 80. Actor-director Clint Eastwood is 79. Singer Peter Yarrow is 71. Former Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite is 70. Singer-musician Augie Meyers is 69. Actress Sharon Gless is 66. Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath is 66. Actor Tom Berenger is 59. Actor Gregory Harrison is 59. Actress Roma Maffia is 51. Comedian Chris Elliott is 49. Actor Kyle Secor is 49. Actress Lea Thompson is 48. Singer Corey Hart is 47. Actor Hugh Dillon is 46. Rapper DMC is 45. Actress Brooke Shields is 44. Country musician Ed Adkins (The Derailers) is 42. Jazz musician Christian McBride is 37. Actor Colin Farrell is 33. Rock musician Scott Klopfenstein (Reel Big Fish) is 32. Actor Eric Christian Olsen is 32. Rock musician Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy) is 29. Actor Jonathan Tucker is 27. Actor Curtis Williams Jr. is 22.

Thought for Today: "One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering." — Jane Austen, British novelist (1775-1817).
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Source: Associated Press

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~Time owns each and everything~
~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Today is Monday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2009. There are 213 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On June 1, 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate, the HMS Shannon, during the War of 1812.

On this date:

In 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.

In 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.

In 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.

In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pa., at age 77.

In 1909, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opened in Seattle. (The fair closed the following October.)

In 1943, a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.

In 1958, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic.

In 1979, the short-lived state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia came into existence.

In 1980, CNN made its debut.

In 1989, former Sunday school teacher John E. List, sought for almost 18 years in the slayings of his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., was arrested in Richmond, Va. (List was later sentenced to life in prison; he died March 21, 2008.)


Ten years ago: An American Airlines MD-82 landed off-center during a severe thunderstorm in Little Rock, Ark., and barreled off the end of the runway, breaking apart and catching fire; 11 people, including the captain, died. President Bill Clinton ordered a government investigation into whether — and how — the entertainment business was marketing violence to children. (In a report released in September 2000, federal regulators said the movie, video game and music industries aggressively marketed to underage youths violent products that carried adult ratings.)

Five years ago: A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringed on women's right to choose. (The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law in April 2007.) Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, a powerful Sunni Muslim tribal leader and critic of the U.S.-led occupation, was named president of Iraq's incoming government. Historian-biographer William Manchester died in Middletown, Conn., at age 82.

One year ago: Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic, victory in Puerto Rico's presidential primary. Fire ripped through a lot at Universal Studios. At least eight people suffocated at an overcrowded stadium in Monrovia during a soccer match between host Liberia and Gambia. NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took its first practice scoop of Martian soil. Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died in Paris at age 71.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Richard Erdman is 84. Actor Andy Griffith is 83. Actor Edward Woodward is 79. Singer Pat Boone is 75. Actor-writer-director Peter Masterson is 75. Actor Morgan Freeman is 72. Actor Rene Auberjonois is 69. Opera singer Frederica von Stade is 64. Actor Brian Cox is 63. Rock musician Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) is 62. Actor Jonathan Pryce is 62. Actor Powers Boothe is 61. Actress Gemma Craven is 59. Blues-rock musician Tom Principato is 57. Country singer Ronnie Dunn (Brooks and Dunn) is 56. Actress Lisa Hartman Black is 53. Singer-musician Alan Wilder is 50. Rock musician Simon Gallup (The Cure) is 49. Country musician Richard Comeaux (River Road) is 48. Actor-comedian Mark Curry is 48. Actor-singer Jason Donovan is 41. Actress Teri Polo is 40. Basketball player-turned-coach Tony Bennett is 40. Model-actress Heidi Klum is 36. Singer Alanis Morissette is 35. Washington Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss is 30. TV personality Damien Fahey is 29. Pop singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile is 28. Actor Taylor Handley is 25.

Thought for Today: "Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience." — Grace King, American author (1852-1932).
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Source: Associated Press

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~Time owns each and everything~
~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

Historical Moments for June 06

In events:

June 6th 1002 German king Henry II the Saint crowned

June 6th 1242 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris

June 6th 1391 Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews

June 6th 1513 Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois

June 6th 1520 France & England sign treaty of Scotland

June 6th 1523 Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish
National Day)
June 6th 1536 Mexico begins it's inquisition

June 6th 1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect
a gunpowder mill.

June 6th 1654 Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to
Catholicism

June 6th 1660 Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty

June 6th 1664 New Amsterdam renamed NYC

June 6th 1665 Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army
beat Spain

June 6th 1673 France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty

June 6th 1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana

June 6th 1744 France & Prussia sign peace treaty

June 6th 1752 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city
destroyed

June 6th 1772 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles
Chicago

June 6th 1795 Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured

June 6th 1797 Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic

June 6th 1801 Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal

June 6th 1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional
monarchy established

June 6th 1813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)

June 6th 1816 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer"
(Krakatoa)

June 6th 1831 2nd national black convention (Phila)

June 6th 1844 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in
London

June 6th 1850 Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans

June 6th 1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union govt will pay for
expenses once states have mobilized volunteers

June 6th 1862 Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered

June 6th 1862 Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)

June 6th 1862 Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA

June 6th 1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD

June 6th 1864 Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)

June 6th 1872 Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote

June 6th 1875 Netherlands goes on the gold standard

June 6th 1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns
100,000

June 6th 1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC

June 6th 1885 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43

June 6th 1885 Opera "Lakm‚" is produced (Paris)

June 6th 1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks

June 6th 1890 United States Polo Association forms, NYC

June 6th 1896 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins
in 1:51

June 6th 1896 George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic

June 6th 1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic
City, NJ

June 6th 1905 French Foreign minister Delcass‚ resigns on
German request

June 6th 1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)

June 6th 1913 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times

June 6th 1914 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)

June 6th 1916 Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage

June 6th 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I

June 6th 1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks

June 6th 1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian
Currency Act, 1910

June 6th 1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army

June 6th 1921 Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter
in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars
4-0

June 6th 1924 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at
Oakland Hills CC Mich

June 6th 1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp
(Iacocca is 8 months old)

June 6th 1926 Egyptian govt of Adly Pasha forms

June 6th 1931 Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians

June 6th 1931 "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy
Lombardo hits #1

June 6th 1932 Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile

June 6th 1932 Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg

June 6th 1932 US Federal gas tax enacted

June 6th 1933 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)

June 6th 1933 US Employment Service created

June 6th 1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game

June 6th 1934 Securities & Exchange Commission established

June 6th 1936 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ

June 6th 1936 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30

June 6th 1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ

June 6th 1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game

June 6th 1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London

June 6th 1939 NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared
dead

June 6th 1939 NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning

June 6th 1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched

June 6th 1941 Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time

June 6th 1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians

June 6th 1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway

June 6th 1942 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in
2:29.2

June 6th 1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)

June 6th 1944 U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje

June 6th 1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal
of honor

June 6th 1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad

June 6th 1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in
Normandy, France

June 6th 1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion

June 6th 1945 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam

June 6th 1946 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to
schedule 1st season

June 6th 1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV

June 6th 1946 Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking"
comic strip

June 6th 1947 Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent
Institute

June 6th 1949 WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK
(NBC) 1st broadcast

June 6th 1949 "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on
CBS-TV

June 6th 1950 German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse
border

June 6th 1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf
Tournament

June 6th 1955 Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1

June 6th 1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger

June 6th 1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be
French

June 6th 1960 Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV

June 6th 1960 South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill

June 6th 1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"

June 6th 1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums

June 6th 1963 Gasunie established

June 6th 1964 Beatles arrive in netherlands

June 6th 1964 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins
in 2:28.6

June 6th 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf
Invitational

June 6th 1965 Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating
White Sox 12-0

June 6th 1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement

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Main ne Allah ko apne iradon ke tootne se pehchana ... !!

2006
Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
1991
The Chairman of British Gas, Robert Evans, is attacked for accepting a pay rise ten times the rate of inflation, bringing his wage up to £370,000.
1990
A massive earthquake near the Caspian Sea in Iran kills more than 50,000 people and injures another 135,000 people.
1982
In Britain, Diana, Princess of Wales gives birth to Prince William.
1982
John W. Hinckley Jr, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in March 1981, is found not guilty of attempted murder on grounds of insanity.
1978
In Northern Ireland, shooting breaks out between the British army and IRA gunmen at a post office depot in Belfast. One innocent civilian is killed in the crossfire.
1970
Brazil wins the football World Cup for the third time.
1964
In America, civil rights activists Andrew Goodman, 20; James Chaney, 21 and Michael Schwerner, 21 are murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
1963
France withdraws its navy from the North Atlantic fleet of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1945
The Second World War: Japanese forces on the Pacific island of Okinawa surrender to American troops.
1942
The Second World War: General Erwin Rommel captures the North African port of Tobruk in Libya.
1916
As the U.S. military pursue the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in Mexico, Mexican government troops attack U.S. troops at Carrizal, Mexico, bringing the countries closer to war.

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Jo ALLAH karay c .. o sohna karay c
jab bhi kaam aaya mera PARVARIGAAR kaam aaya

Today is Sunday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2009. There are 193 days left in the year. This is Father's Day.

Today's Highlight in History:

On June 21, 1788, the U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

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In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.

In 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: "We was robbed!"

In 1948, the Republican national convention opened in Philadelphia. (The delegates ended up choosing Thomas E. Dewey to be their presidential nominee.)

In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.

In 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

In 1973, the Supreme Court, in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.

In 1982, a jury in Washington found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

In 1985, scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

In 1989, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.

In 1990, an estimated 50,000 Iranians were killed by an earthquake.

Ten years ago: President Bill Clinton visited Slovenia, formerly part of Yugoslavia, where he publicly urged Serbs to reject Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. NATO and the Kosovo Liberation Army, meanwhile, signed an accord providing for the demilitarization of the KLA.

Five years ago: The SpaceShipOne rocket plane punched through Earth's atmosphere, then glided to a landing in California's Mojave Desert in the first privately financed manned spaceflight. Connecticut Gov. John Rowland resigned effective July 1, 2004, amid graft allegations and a federal investigation. (Rowland, who ended up serving 10 months in prison, was succeeded by Lt. Gov. M. Jodi Rell.)

One year ago: A ferry carrying more than 800 people capsized as Typhoon Fengshen battered the Philippines; only about four dozen people survived. The body of a pregnant Army soldier, Spc. Megan Touma, 23, was found submerged in a motel room bathtub in Fayetteville, N.C. (Sgt. Edgar Patino, said by police to be the unborn baby's father, was charged with first-degree murder.) Scott Kalitta died when his Funny Car burst into flames and crashed at the end of the track during the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Jane Russell is 88. Actor Bernie Kopell is 76. Actor Monte Markham is 74. Songwriter Don Black is 71. Actress Mariette Hartley is 69. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 68. Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 65. Actress Meredith Baxter is 62. Actor Michael Gross is 62. Rock musician Joe Molland (Badfinger) is 62. Rock musician Don Airey (Deep Purple) is 61. Country singer Leon Everette is 61. Rock musician Joey Kramer (Aerosmith) is 59. Rock musician Nils Lofgren is 58. Actress Robyn Douglass is 56. Actor Leigh McCloskey is 54. Cartoonist Berke Breathed is 52. Country singer Kathy Mattea is 50. Actor Marc Copage is 47. Actress Sammi Davis is 45. Actor Doug Savant is 45. Country musician Porter Howell is 45. Actor Michael Dolan is 44. Writer-director Larry Wachowski is 44. Actress Paula Irvine is 41. Rapper/producer Pete Rock is 39. Country singer Allison Moorer is 37. Actress Juliette Lewis is 36. Musician Justin Cary is 34. Rock musician Mike Einziger (Incubus) is 33. Actor Chris Pratt is 30. Rock singer Brandon Flowers is 28. Britain's Prince William of Wales is 27. Actor Jascha Washington is 20.

Thought for Today: "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." — Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (1905-1980).

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Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2009. There are 212 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

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In 1886, President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony.

In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."

In 1924, Congress passed a measure that was then signed by President Calvin Coolidge granting American citizenship to all U.S.-born American Indians.

In 1941, Lou Gehrig, baseball's "Iron Horse," died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37.

In 1946, Italy held a referendum which resulted in the Italian monarchy being abolished in favor of a republic.

In 1966, the U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.

In 1969, the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was struck and cut in two by the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne during naval exercises in the South China Sea; 74 crew members from the Frank E. Evans were killed.

In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the CIA.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

In 1986, for the first time, the public could watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment of televised sessions began.


Ten years ago: South Africans went to the polls in their second post-apartheid election, giving the African National Congress a decisive victory; retiring president Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.

Five years ago: Three foreign aid workers and two Afghans were shot and killed in an ambush in northwestern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by resurgent Taliban militants. Software engineer Ken Jennings began his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated TV game show "Jeopardy!"

One year ago: Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent 3 1/2 hours of risky and delicate surgery to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible. Polygamist sect children began to be reunited with their parents two months after Texas removed the children from the sect's ranch. The space shuttle Discovery linked up with the international space station, and the 10 space travelers immediately got ready to install the Japanese lab Kibo. Bo Diddley, 79, a founding father of rock 'n' roll, died in Archer, Fla., at age 79. Actor-director Mel Ferrer died in Santa Barbara, Calif., at age 90.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Milo O'Shea is 84. Actress-singer Sally Kellerman is 72. Actor Ron Ely is 71. Actor Stacy Keach is 68. Rock musician Charlie Watts is 68. Singer William Guest (Gladys Knight & The Pips) is 68. Actor Charles Haid is 66. Composer Marvin Hamlisch is 65. Movie director Lasse Hallstrom is 63. Actor Jerry Mathers is 61. Actress Joanna Gleason is 59. Actor Dennis Haysbert is 55. Comedian Dana Carvey is 54. Actor Gary Grimes is 54. Rock singer Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) is 49. Singer Merril Bainbridge is 41. Rapper B-Real (Cypress Hill) is 39. Actress Paula Cale is 39. Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is 37. Actor Wentworth Miller is 37. Rock musician Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane) is 33. Actor Zachary Quinto is 32. Actor Dominic Cooper is 31. Actress Nikki Cox is 31. Actor Justin Long is 31. Actor Deon Richmond is 31. R&B singer Irish Grinstead (702) is 29. Rock musician Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes) is 29. Country singer Dan Cahoon (Marshall Dyllon) is 26.

Thought for Today: "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't." — Mark Twain (1835-1910).
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Source: Associated Press

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