By The Associated Press 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

Today is Sunday, July 20, the 202nd day of 2008. There are 164 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon as they stepped out of their lunar module.

On this date:

In 1810, Colombia declared independence from Spain.

In 1861, the Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Va.

In 1871, British Columbia entered Confederation as a Canadian province.

In 1917, the draft lottery in World War I went into operation.

In 1944, an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader.

In 1944, President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic convention in Chicago.

In 1976, America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars.

In 1977, a flash flood hit Johnstown, Pa., killing more than 80 people and causing $350 million in damage.

In 1988, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis received the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta.

In 1988, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini accepted a truce with Iraq, even though he said the decision was like drinking poison.


Ten years ago: Russia won an $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency. A smoky fire broke out aboard the cruise ship Ecstasy just 2 miles from the Florida shore, forcing the ship's return to port.

Five years ago: Gen. John Abizaid, the top commander of coalition forces in Iraq, predicted that resistance to U.S. forces in Iraq would grow in coming months as progress was made in creating a new government to replace the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein. President Bush welcomed Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi to his Texas ranch for a two-day visit. Ben Curtis, an unknown PGA Tour rookie in his first major championship, won the British Open.

One year ago: President Bush signed an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire, then watched it collapse in disgrace, died at age 65 near Kansas City, Mo.

Today's Birthdays: Actress-singer Sally Ann Howes is 78. Rockabilly singer Sleepy LaBeef is 73. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., is 72. Actress Diana Rigg is 70. Rock musician John Lodge (The Moody Blues) is 65. Country singer T.G. Sheppard is 64. Singer Kim Carnes is 63. Rock musician Carlos Santana is 61. Rock musician Paul Cook (The Sex Pistols, Man Raze) is 52. Actress Donna Dixon is 51. Rock musician Mick McNeil (Simple Minds) is 50. Country singer Radney Foster is 49. Actor Frank Whaley is 45. Rock singer Chris Cornell is 44. Rock musician Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) is 42. Actor Reed Diamond is 41. Actor Josh Holloway ("Lost") is 39. Singer Vitamin C is 39. Actor Simon Rex is 34. Actress Judy Greer is 33. Actor Charlie Korsmo is 30. Singer Elliott Yamin ("American Idol") is 30. Actor John Francis Daley is 23. Country singer-professional dancer Julianne Hough is 20. Actress Billi Bruno is 12.

Thought for Today: "No man can resolve himself into Heaven." — Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (1837-1899).
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Today is Monday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2008. There are 163 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On July 21, 1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.

On this date:

In 1831, Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.

In 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)

In 1930, President Hoover signed an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration.

In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II.

In 1949, the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.

In 1954, the Geneva Conference concluded with accords dividing Vietnam into northern and southern entities.

In 1955, during a summit in Geneva, President Eisenhower presented his "open skies" proposal under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other's military facilities and allow aerial reconnaissance.

In 1961, Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a suborbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the Liberty Bell 7.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module.

In 1980, draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.


Ten years ago: President Clinton announced a crackdown on nursing homes that were lax about quality and on states that were doing a poor job of regulating them. The Pentagon said it found no evidence to support allegations in a CNN report that U.S. troops had used nerve gas during a 1970 operation in Laos designed to hunt down American defectors. Astronaut Alan Shepard died in Monterey, Calif., at age 74. Actor Robert Young died in Westlake Village, Calif., at age 91.

Five years ago: President Bush said he was working to persuade more nations to help in Iraq. Carlton Dotson Jr., the roommate of missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, was arrested and charged with Dennehy's murder. (Dotson later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.)

One year ago: Doctors removed five small growths from President Bush's colon after he temporarily transferred the powers of his office to Vice President Dick Cheney under the rarely invoked 25th Amendment. Ruediger Diedrich, one of two Germans kidnapped in southern Afghanistan on July 18, was found dead. David Beckham made his debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy in front of a sellout crowd of 27,000. (Beckham got into the exhibition game in the 78th minute of Chelsea's 1-0 victory.) "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume of the wizard series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Kay Starr is 86. Movie director Norman Jewison is 82. Actor Paul Burke is 82. Former Attorney General Janet Reno is 70. Actress Patricia Elliott is 66. Actor David Downing is 65. Actor Edward Herrmann is 65. Actor Leigh Lawson is 63. Actor Wendell Burton is 61. Actor Art Hindle is 60. Singer Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) is 60. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is 60. Comedian-actor Robin Williams is 57. Rock singer-musician Eric Bazilian (The Hooters) is 55. Comedian Jon Lovitz is 51. Actor Lance Guest is 48. Actor Matt Mulhern is 48. Comedian Greg Behrendt is 45. Rock musician Koen Lieckens (K's Choice) is 42. Rock singer Emerson Hart is 39. Country singer Paul Brandt is 36. Actress Ali Landry is 35. Actor Josh Hartnett is 30. Contemporary Christian singer Brandon Heath is 30. Reggae singer Damian Marley is 30. Country singer Brad Mates (Emerson Drive) is 30. Singer Blake Lewis ("American Idol") is 27. Actress Vanessa Lengies is 23. Actor Jamie Waylett ("Harry Potter" films) is 19.

Thought for Today: "This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him." _ William Lyon Phelps, American educator (1865-1943).
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Today in History - July 22

By The Associated Press –

Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 204th day of 2008. There are 162 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On July 22, 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world as he returned to New York's Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for 7 days, 18 3/4 hours.

On this date:

In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

In 1796, Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

In 1908, American etiquette expert Amy Vanderbilt was born in New York City.

In 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

In 1937, the Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

In 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.

In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.

In 1946, Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.

In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

In 1983, Samantha Smith and her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.

Ten years ago: The Senate Armed Services Committee rejected, on a 9-9 vote, Daryl Jones' bid to become Air Force secretary. President Clinton, with Republican lawmakers at his side, signed a bill designed to mold the Internal Revenue Service into a friendlier, fairer tax collector.

Five years ago: Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq. Months after her prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pfc. Jessica Lynch returned home to a hero's welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.

One year ago: A bus carrying Polish Catholic pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, killing 26 people. Padraig Harrington survived a calamitous finish in regulation and a tense putt for bogey on the final hole of a playoff to win the British Open. Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.

Today's Birthdays: Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., is 85. Singer Margaret Whiting is 84. Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 80. Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta is 76. Actress Louise Fletcher is 74. Movie director John Korty is 72. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chuck Jackson is 71. Actor Terence Stamp is 69. Game show host Alex Trebek is 68. Singer George Clinton is 67. Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 65. Singer Estelle Bennett (The Ronettes) is 64. Movie writer-director Paul Schrader is 62. Actor Danny Glover is 61. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 61. Rock singer Don Henley is 61. Movie composer Alan Menken is 59. Actor Willem Dafoe is 53. Rhythm-and-blues singer Keith Sweat is 47. Actress Joanna Going is 45. Actor Rob Estes is 45. Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 45. Actor John Leguizamo is 44. Actor-comedian David Spade is 44. Actor Patrick Labyorteaux is 43. Rock musician Pat Badger is 41. Actress Irene Bedard is 41. Actor Rhys Ifans is 41. Actor Colin Ferguson is 36. Rock musician Daniel Jones is 35. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 35. Actress Franka Potente is 34. Actress A.J. Cook is 30.

Thought for Today: "Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever." — Helen Rowland, American writer and humorist (1875-1950).

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By The Associated Press Wed Jul 23, 121 AM ET

Today is Wednesday, July 23, the 205th day of 2008. There are 161 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On July 23, 1967, a week of deadly race-related rioting that claimed 43 lives erupted in Detroit.

On this date:

In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.

In 1892, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was born.

In 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.

In 1945, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted; Petain died in prison on this date in 1951.)

In 1948, American pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith died in Los Angeles at age 73.

In 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launched a successful coup against King Farouk I.

In 1958, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II named the first four women to peerage in the House of Lords.

In 1977, a jury in Washington convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.

In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie." (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.)

In 1986, Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)


Ten years ago: Scientists at the University of Hawaii announced they had turned out more than 50 carbon-copy mice with a cloning technique said to be more reliable than the one used to create Dolly the sheep.

Five years ago: A new audiotape purported to be from toppled dictator Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to resist the U.S. occupation. Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades. New York City Councilman James Davis was shot to death by political rival Othniel Askew at City Hall; a police officer shot and killed Askew.

One year ago: In the first political debate of its kind, all eight Democratic Party contenders, appearing on CNN, fielded questions submitted by the public on the Internet video-sharing site YouTube. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his new capacity as a Mideast envoy, opened his mission to help Palestinians build solid foundations for their future state. Two suspects were arrested in the slayings of a woman and her two daughters during a violent home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped to replace legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show "The Price is Right."

Today's Birthdays: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 83. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 72. Actor Ronny Cox is 70. Radio personality Don Imus is 68. Country singer Tony Joe White is 65. Rock singer David Essex is 61. Actor Larry Manetti is 61. Singer-songwriter John Hall is 60. Actress Belinda Montgomery is 58. Rock musician Blair Thornton (Bachman Turner Overdrive) is 58. Actor Woody Harrelson is 47. Rock musician Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) is 47. Actor Eriq Lasalle is 46. Rock musician Yuval Gabay is 45. Rock musician Slash is 43. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is 41. Rock musician Nick Menza is 40. Model-actress Stephanie Seymour is 40. Actress Charisma Carpenter is 38. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sam Watters is 38. Country singer Alison Krauss is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Dalvin DeGrate is 37. Rock musician Chad Gracey (Live) is 37. Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans is 36. Country singer Shannon Brown is 35. Actor Omar Epps is 35. Baseball player Nomar Garciaparra is 35. Actress Stephanie March is 34. Country musician David Pichette (Emerson Drive) is 31. Rhythm-and-blues singer Michelle Williams is 28. Actor Daniel Radcliffe is 19.

Thought for Today: "Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are." — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian.
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By The Associated Press 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

Today is Thursday, July 24, the 206th day of 2008. There are 160 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On July 24, 1858, Republican senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln formally challenged Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to a series of political debates; the result was seven face-to-face encounters.

On this date:

In 1783, Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.

In 1862, the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.

In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.

In 1929, President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.

In 1937, the state of Alabama dropped charges against four of the nine young black men accused of raping two white women in the "Scottsboro Case."

In 1948, Henry A. Wallace accepted the presidential nomination of the Progressive Party in Philadelphia.

In 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard M. Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle stirred controversy during a visit to Montreal, Canada, when he declared, "Vive le Quebec libre!" (Long live free Quebec!)

In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.


Ten years ago: A gunman burst into the U.S. Capitol, opening fire and killing two police officers before being shot and captured. (The accused shooter, Russell Eugene Weston Jr., is being held in a federal mental facility.) The motion picture "Saving Private Ryan," starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released.

Five years ago: The House and Senate intelligence committees issued their final report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, citing countless blunders, oversights and miscalculations that prevented authorities from stopping the attackers.

One year ago: President Bush, speaking at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, sought to justify the Iraq war by citing intelligence reports he said showed a link between al-Qaida's operation in Iraq and the terror group that attacked the United States on Sept. 11. A grand jury in New Orleans refused to indict Dr. Anna Pou, who was accused of murdering four seriously ill hospital patients with drug injections during the desperate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV, were released after 8 1/2 years behind bars. The U.S. minimum wage rose 70 cents to $5.85 an hour, the first increase in a decade.

Today's Birthdays: Movie director Peter Yates is 79. Actress Jacqueline Brookes is 78. Actor John Aniston (TV: "Days of Our Lives") is 75. Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant is 73. Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 72. Actor Mark Goddard is 72. Actor Dan Hedaya is 68. Actor Chris Sarandon is 66. Comedian Gallagher is 62. Actor Robert Hays is 61. Former Republican national chairman Marc Racicot is 60. Actor Michael Richards is 59. Actress Lynda Carter is 57. Movie director Gus Van Sant is 56. Country singer Pam Tillis is 51. Actor Kadeem Hardison is 43. Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez is 40. Actress Laura Leighton is 40. Actor John P. Navin Jr. is 40. Basketball player-turned-actor Rick Fox is 39. Actress-singer Kristin Chenoweth is 38. Actor Eric Szmanda is 33. Actress Rose Byrne is 29. Actress Summer Glau is 27. Actress Elisabeth Moss is 26. Actress Anna Paquin is 26. Actress Mara Wilson is 21. TV personality Bindi Irwin is 10.

Thought for Today: "History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." — From "The Cynic's Word Book" by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?).
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By The Associated Press 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

Today is Friday, July 25, the 207th day of 2008. There are 159 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; at least 51 people were killed. (The Andrea Doria sank the following day, some 11 hours after the crash.)

On this date:

In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.

In 1868, Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.

In 1943, Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (However, Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazis, and re-asserted his authority.)

In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.

In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

In 1957, Tunisia became a republic.

In 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain initialed a treaty in Moscow prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or underwater.

In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first "test tube baby," was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through the technique of in-vitro fertilization.

In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war.

In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet.


Ten years ago: Two government officials revealed that special prosecutor Kenneth Starr had subpoenaed President Clinton to testify before a federal grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. The U.S. Capitol was reopened, a day after a gunman killed two police officers.

Five years ago: President Bush ordered U.S. troops into position off the coast of Liberia to support the arrival of a West African peacekeeping force, as renewed violence in the capital brought despairing pleas for American help. President Bush received Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Movie director John Schlesinger died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 77.

One year ago: A presidential commission urged broad changes to veterans' care that would boost benefits for family members helping the wounded, establish an easy-to-use Web site for medical records and overhaul the way disability pay was awarded. The bullet-riddled body of one of 23 South Koreans held hostage in Afghanistan by Taliban kidnappers was found; eight other captives were released. Congress Party stalwart Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first female president.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Estelle Getty is 85. Actress Barbara Harris is 73. Rock musician Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 57. Singer-musician Jem Finer (The Pogues) is 53. Model-actress Iman is 53. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley ("Curtis") is 51. Rock musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 50. Actress-singer Bobbie Eakes is 47. Actress Katherine Kelly Lang (TV: "The Bold and the Beautiful") is 47. Actress Illeana Douglas is 43. Country singer Marty Brown is 43. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 41. Actor D.B. Woodside is 39. Actress Miriam Shor is 37. Actor James Lafferty (TV: "One Tree Hill") is 23.

Thought for Today: "The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity." — George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher (1863-1952).
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By The Associated Press AP - 1 hour 36 minutes ago

Today is Saturday, July 26, the 208th day of 2008. There are 158 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On July 26, 1908, U.S. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order creating a force of special agents that was a forerunner of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On this date:

In 1775, Benjamin Franklin became Postmaster-General.

In 1788, New York became the 11th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

In 1856, playwright Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland.

In 1945, Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labour Party. (Clement Attlee became the new prime minister.)

In 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act.

In 1952, Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.

In 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.

In 1958, Britain's Prince Charles, age 9, was made the Prince of Wales by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, although his investiture did not take place until the following year.

In 1971, Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Fla.

In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.


Ten years ago: The White House said President Clinton's lawyers were working with prosecutor Kenneth Starr to avert Clinton's direct testimony to a grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. (The president ended up testifying via closed-circuit television.) AT&T and British Telecommunications PLC announced they were forming a joint venture that would combine their international operations and develop a new Internet system. (The joint venture, known as Concert, proved a money-loser and was shut down.)

Five years ago: Backers of a drive to oust California Gov. Gray Davis held a boisterous celebration at the state Capitol in Sacramento, more than two months before the Oct. 7 recall election. Cuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of the start of Fidel Castro's revolution against Fulgencio Batista. New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg died in New York at age 87.

One year ago: The Senate passed, 85-8, a measure intensifying anti-terror efforts in the U.S. Wall Street suffered one of its worst losses of 2007, closing down more than 310 points.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Marjorie Lord is 90. Movie director Blake Edwards is 86. Actor James Best is 82. Rhythm-and-blues singer-songwriter Bobby Hebb is 70. Singer Dobie Gray is 68. Actress-singer Darlene Love is 67. Singer Brenton Wood is 67. Rock star Mick Jagger is 65. Movie director Peter Hyams is 65. Actress Helen Mirren is 63. Rock musician Roger Taylor (Queen) is 59. Actress Susan George is 58. Actor Kevin Spacey is 49. Rock singer Gary Cherone is 47. Actress Sandra Bullock is 44. Rock singer Jim Lindberg (Pennywise) is 43. Actor Jeremy Piven is 43. Rapper-reggae singer Wayne Wonder is 42. Actor Cress Williams is 38. Actress Kate Beckinsale is 35. Rock musician Dan Konopka (OK Go) is 34. Gospel/Contemporary Christian singer Rebecca St. James is 31. Christian rock musician Jamie Sharpe (Rush of Fools) is 19.

Thought for Today: "One brave deed makes no hero." _ John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and essayist (1807-1892)
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Today in History - July 27

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Today is Sunday, July 27, the 209th day of 2008. There are 157 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On July 27, 1789, President Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.

On this date:

In 1694, the Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.

In 1794, French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day.

In 1861, Union Gen. George B. McClellan took command of the Army of the Potomac.

In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe. (A previous cable in 1858 burned out after only a few weeks of use.)

In 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

In 1967, in the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown said in Washington that violence was "as American as cherry pie."

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Nixon, charging he had personally engaged in a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.

In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.

In 1996, terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring 111. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing.)

Ten years ago: President Clinton held a town meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., on the future of Social Security, during which he expressed skepticism about proposals to privatize part of the Social Security trust fund. Monica Lewinsky spent five hours being interviewed by prosecutors in New York in a possible prelude to an immunity deal.

Five years ago: Comedian Bob Hope died in Toluca Lake, Calif., at age 100. Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight title in the Tour de France.

One year ago: The House sent President Bush legislation to intensify anti-terror efforts in the U.S., carrying out major recommendations of the independent 9/11 Commission. Former Qwest Communications chief Joe Macchio was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally selling $52 million in stock while not telling investors that his telecommunications company faced serious financial risks. Two Phoenix news helicopters collided and crashed while covering a police chase on live television, killing four people on board.

Today's Birthdays: TV producer Norman Lear is 86. Rhythm-and-blues singer Harvey Fuqua is 79. Actor Jerry Van Dyke is 77. Sportscaster Irv Cross is 69. Actor John Pleshette is 66. Singer Bobbie Gentry is 64. Actress-director Betty Thomas is 60. Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 60. Actor Maury Chaykin is 59. Singer Maureen McGovern is 59. Actress Janet Eilber is 57. Actress Roxanne Hart is 56. Country musician Duncan Cameron (Sawyer Brown) is 52. Comedian Bill Engvall is 51. Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is 46. Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell is 41. Rock singer Juliana Hatfield is 41. Actor Julian McMahon is 40. Comedian Maya Rudolph is 36. Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is 34. Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is 31. Singer Cheyenne Kimball is 18.

Thought for Today: "Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done." _ Thomas a Kempis, German theologian (1380-1471).


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Today in History - July 28

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Today is Monday, July 28, the 210th day of 2008. There are 156 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On July 28, 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

On this date:

In 1540, King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

In 1821, Peru declared its independence from Spain.

In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process of law, was certified in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

In 1928, the Olympic games opened in Amsterdam.

In 1932, federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington to demand money they weren't scheduled to receive until 1945.

In 1945, the U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2.

In 1965, President Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 "almost immediately."

In 1977, Roy Wilkins turned over leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Benjamin L. Hooks.

In 2002, nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pa., were rescued after 77 hours underground.

Ten years ago: During a day of official mourning, President Clinton praised two slain police officers at the U.S. Capitol as heroes whose sacrifice "consecrated this house of freedom." General Motors Corp. reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers to end an almost two-month-old strike. Bell Atlantic and GTE announced a $52 billion merger deal that created Verizon. Monica Lewinsky received blanket immunity in exchange for providing "full and truthful testimony" to a grand jury investigating President Clinton.

Five years ago: Rebels in Liberia captured Buchanan, the country's second-largest city.

One year ago: Vice President Dick Cheney, with a history of heart problems, had surgery to replace an implanted device that was monitoring his heartbeat.

Today's Birthdays: Movie director Andrew V. McLaglen is 88. Actor Darryl Hickman is 77. The former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, is 70. Rock musician Rick Wright (Pink Floyd) is 65. Former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., is 65. "Garfield" creator Jim Davis is 63. Singer Jonathan Edwards is 62. Actress Linda Kelsey is 62. TV producer Dick Ebersol is 61. Actress Sally Struthers is 60. Actress Georgia Engel is 60. Rock musician Simon Kirke (Bad Company) is 59. Rock musician Steve Morse (Deep Purple) is 54. Broadcast journalist Scott Pelley is 51. Actor Michael Hayden is 45. Jazz musician-producer Delfeayo Marsalis is 43. Actress Elizabeth Berkley is 36. Singer Afroman is 34. Country musician Todd Anderson (Heartland) is 33. Rock singer Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach) is 32. Country singer Carly Goodwin is 27. Actor Dustin Milligan is 23.

Thought for Today: "He who is learned is not wise; He who is wise is not learned." _ From the Tao (dow) Te Ching, the sacred book of Taoism.


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Today in History - July 29

By The Associated Press AP -

Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 211th day of 2008. There are 155 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

Fifty years ago, on July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.

On this date:

In 1588, the English attacked the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines, resulting in an English victory.

In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

In 1900, Italian King Humbert I was assassinated by an anarchist; he was succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III.

In 1914, transcontinental telephone service began with the first test phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.

In 1948, Britain's King George VI opened the Olympic Games in London.

In 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency was established.

In 1957, Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's "Tonight Show."

In 1967, an accidental rocket launch aboard the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen.

In 1968, the Vatican issued an encyclical in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church's opposition to artificial means of contraception.

In 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (However, the couple divorced in 1996.)

Ten years ago: President Clinton reached an agreement with Kenneth Starr to provide grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television in the Monica Lewinsky case. Jerome Robbins, one of modern ballet's master choreographers and one of Broadway's major innovators, died in New York at age 79.

Five years ago: President Bush refused to release a congressional report on possible links between Saudi Arabian officials and the Sept. 11 hijackers, saying disclosure "would help the enemy" by revealing intelligence sources and methods. Boston's Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a game and connected for three homers in a 14-7 win at Texas.

One year ago: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived at Camp David in Maryland for a private dinner as well as meetings with President Bush. Tens of thousands of Iraqis celebrated after Iraq beat three-time champion Saudi Arabia 1-0 to take the Asian Cup. Alberto Contador of Spain won the doping-scarred Tour de France. Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn took their place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. TV talk show host and newsman Tom Snyder died in San Francisco at age 71. French actor Michel Serrault died in Honfleur, France, at age 79.

Today's Birthdays: Comedian Professor Irwin Corey is 94. Actor Robert Horton is 84. Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum-Baker, R-Kan., is 76. Actor Robert Fuller is 74. Sen. Elizabeth H. Dole, R-N.C., is 72. Actor David Warner is 67. Rock musician Neal Doughty (REO Speedwagon) is 62. Marilyn Tucker Quayle, wife of former Vice President Dan Quayle, is 59. Actor Mike Starr is 58. Documentary maker Ken Burns is 55. Style guru Tim Gunn (TV: "Project Runway") is 55. Rock singer-musician Geddy Lee (Rush) is 55. Rock singer Patti Scialfa (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 55. Actress Alexandra Paul is 45. Country singer Martina McBride is 42. Rock musician Chris Gorman is 41. Actor Rodney Allen Rippy is 40. Actor Wil Wheaton is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Wanya Morris (Boyz II Men) is 35. Actor Stephen Dorff is 35. Actor Josh Radnor is 34. Hip-hop DJ/music producer Danger Mouse is 31. Actress Allison Mack is 26.

Thought for Today: "Man must rise above the Earth _ to the top of the atmosphere and beyond _ for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." _ Socrates, Greek philosopher (469 B.C.-399 B.C.).


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