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Today in History: Saturday, August 12, 2017

2017-08-12T00:18:00.000-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On Aug. 12, 1985, a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people in the world's worst single-aircraft accident.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1851

Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.

1880

Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pa.

1898

The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.

1898

Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.

1944

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed when an explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.

1953

The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.

1960

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

1966

John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."

AP Photo

1977

The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.

Astronaut Gordon Fullerton, pilot of the Enterprise

1981

IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150.

1998

Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.

2000

The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.

2004

New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and proclaimed himself "a gay American."

2004

The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.

2008

Russia halted its devastating five-day assault on Georgia that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.

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Today's Birthdays:

Actress Rebecca Gayheart turns 45 years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

Name

Profession

Age

Dale Bumpers

Former U.S. senator, D-Ark.

George Hamilton

Actor

Dana Ivey

Actress

Mark Knopfler

Rock singer, musician (Dire Straits)

Kid Creole

Singer

Pat Metheny

Jazz guitarist

Bruce Greenwood

Actor

Sir Mix-A-Lot

Rapper

Peter Krause

Actor ("Six Feet Under")

Michael Ian Black

Actor, comedian ("Ed")

Yvette Nicole Brown

Actress ("Community")

Pete Sampras

Tennis player

Maggie Lawson

Actress

Dominique Swain

Actress

Actor Casey Affleck turns 42 years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer

Today in History: Friday, August 11, 2017

2017-08-12T00:14:00.000-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On Aug. 11, 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1954

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

1965

Deadly rioting and looting broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles.

AP Photo

1992

The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minn.

1998

British Petroleum purchased Amoco for $49 billion.

2000

Pat Buchanan won the Reform Party presidential nomination.

2002

US Airways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2003

NATO took command of the 5,000-strong peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.

2003

Charles Taylor resigned as Liberia's president and went into exile in Nigeria.

2006

The Transportation Security Administration banned all liquids, gels and aerosols from passenger cabins on airliners one day after a thwarted terrorist attack.

2009

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President John F. Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, died at age 88.

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Today's Birthdays:

Actress Viola Davis turns 52 years old today.

AP Photo/Amy Sancetta

Name

Profession

Age

Eric Carmen

Singer

Hulk Hogan

Wrestler, actor

Joe Jackson

Rock singer

Joe Rogan

Actor, host ("Fear Factor")

Charlie Sexton

Rock musician

Pablo Sandoval

Baseball player

Alyson Stoner

Actress

Actress Ashley Jensen ("Ugly Betty," "Extras") turns 49 years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

Today in History: Wednesday, August 09, 2017

2017-08-09T09:13:00.002-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki, Japan, instantly killing an estimated 39,000 people. The explosion came three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1854

Henry David Thoreau published "Walden," which described his experiences living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

1902

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

1936

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

AP Photo

1969

Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found murdered in Los Angeles; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime.

1974

Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon.

Ford: "our long national nightmare is over"

AP Photo/Chick Harrity

1985

A federal judge in Norfolk, Va., found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union.

1995

Rock musician Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead died at age 53.

2001

President George W. Bush approved federal funding for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.

2002

Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th home run, becoming the fourth major leaguer to reach the mark.

2004

Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences on state murder charges in the Oklahoma City bombing.

2010

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, was killed in a plane crash in southwestern Alaska.

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Today's Birthdays:

Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders turns 50 years old today.

AP Photo/David J. Phillip

Name

Profession

Age

Bob Cousy

Basketball Hall of Famer

Rod Laver

Tennis Hall of Famer

David Steinberg

Comedian

Sam Elliott

Actor

Melanie Griffith

Actress

Amanda Bearse

Actress ("Married...With Children")

Kurtis Blow

Rapper

Brett Hull

Hockey player

Hoda Kotb

TV host ("Today")

Gillian Anderson

Actress ("The X Files")

Eric Bana

Actor

Juanes

Rock singer

Liz Vassey

Actress ("CSI")

Jessica Capshaw

Actress

Jason Heyward

Baseball player

Actress Anna Kendrick ("Up in the Air," "Twilight" movies) turns 32 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

2017-08-09T08:59:00.002-05:00

Today in History: Monday, August 07, 2017

2017-08-07T08:04:00.002-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On Aug. 7, 1998, al Qaida set off bombs at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people - including 12 Americans - and injuring more than 5,500.

AP Photo/Khalil Senosi

On this date in:

1912

The Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president.

1942

U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.

1964

Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers to deal with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.

1971

Apollo 15 returned to Earth after a manned mission to the moon.

1974

French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.

AP Photo

1990

President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq.

2000

Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore chose Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate, making him the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket.

2002

Major league baseball players and owners agreed on the sport's first tests for steroids.

2007

Barry Bonds became baseball's career home run leader when he hit No. 756 during a home game in San Francisco, passing Hank Aaron's mark.

2008

Georgia shelled the capital of breakaway republic South Ossetia. (Russia responded by occupying much of Georgia in a five-day war.)

2009

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused President Barack Obama of proposing a "death panel" that would decide who receives treatment in his health care plan.

2010

Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Today's Birthdays:

Actor David Duchovny ("The X Files," "Californication") turns 57 years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

Name

Profession

Age

Garrison Keillor

Writer, humorist ("A Prairie Home Companion")

B.J. Thomas

Singer

John Glover

Actor

Wayne Knight

Actor ("Seinfeld")

Alberto Salazar

Marathon runner

Harold Perrineau

Actor ("Lost")

Abbie Cornish

Actress

Sidney Crosby

Hockey player

Mike Trout

Baseball player

Actress Charlize Theron turns 42 years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer

Today in History: Friday, July 28, 2017

2017-07-28T16:58:00.000-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On July 28, 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1750

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, at age 65.

1794

Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.

1821

Peru declared its independence from Spain.

1868

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process and the equal protection of the laws to former slaves, was declared in effect.

1896

The city of Miami, Fla., was incorporated.

1929

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, first lady from 1961 to 1963, was born in Southampton, N.Y.

1945

A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

AP Photo/John Lindsay

1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.

1998

Bell Atlantic and GTE announced a $52 billion merger that created Verizon.

2002

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

2004

The Democratic National Convention in Boston nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for president.

2005

The Irish Republican Army renounced the use of violence against British rule in Northern Ireland and said it would disarm.

2009

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.

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Today's Birthdays:

Rapper Soulja Boy turns 27 years old today.

AP Photo/John Amis

Name

Profession

Age

Bill Bradley

Basketball Hall of Famer, former U.S. senator, D-N.J.

Jim Davis

Cartoonist ("Garfield")

Linda Kelsey

Actress ("Lou Grant")

Dick Ebersol

TV producer

Georgia Engel

Actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")

Sally Struthers

Actress ("All in the Family")

Scott Pelley

Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes")

Lori Loughlin

Actress ("Full House")

Elizabeth Berkley

Actress

52 Everyday Uses For Hydrogen Peroxide

2017-07-28T16:54:00.001-05:00

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2017-07-28T15:38:00.000-05:00

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Today in History: Thursday, July 27, 2017

2017-07-27T13:32:00.001-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1694

The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.

1789

Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the State Department.

1794

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

1861

Union Gen. George B. McClellan was put in command of the Army of the Potomac.

1866

After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.

1940

Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."

1960

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

1967

In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence.

1974

The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Richard M. Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.

Rep. Joshua Eilberg, D-Penn.

1980

The deposed Shah of Iran died in Egypt at age 60.

1995

The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1996

A pipe bomb exploded at a public park during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and injuring more than 100.

2003

Comedian Bob Hope died at age 100.

2003

Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight Tour de France title.

2005

Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

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Today's Birthdays:

Actress-comedian Maya Rudolph ("Saturday Night Live", "Bridesmaids") turns 45 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

Name

Profession

Age

Norman Lear

TV producer

Jerry Van Dyke

Actor

Bobbie Gentry

Country singer

Peggy Fleming

Figure skater

Maureen McGovern

Singer

Carol Leifer

Comedian

Bill Engvall

Comedian ("Blue Collar TV")

Stacy Dean Campbell

Country singer

Juliana Hatfield

Rock singer

Julian McMahon

Actor ("Nip/Tuck")

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Actor ("The Tudors")

Cheyenne Kimball

Country singer

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez turns 42 years old today.

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

Today in History: Wednesday, July 12, 2017

2017-07-12T23:48:00.000-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named New York Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro his running mate, making her the first woman to run on a major party ticket.

Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro

AP Photo

On this date in:

100 B.C.

Julius Caesar was born in Rome.

1543

England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

1690

Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.

1862

Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.

1895

Broadway lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II was born in New York City.

AP Photo

1908

Comedian Milton Berle was born Mendel Berlinger in New York City.

1972

George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Miami Beach.

2001

Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement.

2005

Prince Albert II of Monaco acceded to the throne.

2006

Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid; Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon in response.

2010

Roman Polanski was declared a free man, no longer confined to house arrest in his Alpine villa, after Swiss authorities rejected a U.S. request for the Oscar-winning director's extradition because of a 32-year-old sex conviction.

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Today's Birthdays:

Actor-comedian Bill Cosby turns 80 years old today.

AP Photo/Richard Drew

Name

Profession

Age

Christine McVie

Rock singer, musician (Fleetwood Mac)

Walter Egan

Singer

Richard Simmons

Fitness guru

Jay Thomas

Actor

Brian Grazer

Producer

Cheryl Ladd

Actress ("Charlie's Angels")

Mel Harris

Actress

Lisa Nicole Carson

Actress ("Ally McBeal")

Kristi Yamaguchi

Figure skater

Anna Friel

Actress

Topher Grace

Actor ("That 70's Show")

Erik Per Sullivan

Actor ("Malcom in the Middle")

Actress Michelle Rodriguez ("Avatar," "Lost") turns 39 years old today.

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Today in History: Tuesday, June 27, 2017

2017-06-27T12:48:00.000-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On June 27, 1950, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1844

Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.

1893

The New York stock market crashed.

1944

American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans three weeks after D-Day.

AP Photo

1957

More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.

1969

Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.

1972

The video game company Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Santa Clara, Calif.

1977

Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.

1980

President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.

1985

Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.

2005

BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that spread fear across Wichita, Kan., beginning in the 1970s. (He later received multiple life sentences.)

2007

Gordon Brown became British prime minister, succeeding Tony Blair.

2011

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of corruption. (He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.)

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Today's Birthdays:

Fashion designer Vera Wang turns 68 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

Name

Profession

Age

Ross Perot

Business executive, former presidential candidate

Bruce Johnston

Rock musician, singer (The Beach Boys)

Julia Duffy

Actress ("Newhart")

Isabelle Adjani

Actress

J.J. Abrams

Writer, producer ("Lost," "Alias")

Tobey Maguire

Actor ("Spider-Man" movies)

Khloe Kardashian

Reality TV star

Ed Westwick

Actor ("Gossip Girl")

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. turns 49 years old today.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

Today in History: Thursday, June 22, 2017

2017-06-22T12:16:00.002-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On June 22, 1911, Britain's King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1815

Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the second time.

1868

Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.

1870

Congress created the Department of Justice.

1938

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling of Germany in the first round of their rematch in New York City's Yankee Stadium.

AP Photo

1940

France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris during World War II.

1941

Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.

AP Photo

1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights, authorizing a broad package of benefits for World War II veterans.

1945

The World War II battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.

1969

Singer-actress Judy Garland died at age 47.

1970

President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

1977

Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up.

1981

Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon.

1986

Diego Maradona scored both goals in Argentina's 2-1 World Cup quarterfinal victory over England in Mexico City – including one that he punched in, unseen by the referee. When asked about the play later, Maradona said, "It was the hand of God."

AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli

1992

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violate free-speech rights.

1993

Former first lady Pat Nixon died at age 81.

2009

Jon and Kate Gosselin, stars of the reality TV series "Jon & Kate Plus 8," announced plans to divorce.

2011

President Barack Obama announced he would pull home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by the following summer.

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Today's Birthdays:

Dingbat Actress Meryl Streep turns 68 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

Name

Profession

Age

Kris Kristofferson

Country singer, actor

Brit Hume

Broadcast journalist

Peter Asher

Singer (Peter and Gordon)

David L. Lander

Actor ("Laverne and Shirley")

Todd Rundgren

Rock singer, musician

Alan Osmond

Singer (The Osmonds)

Lindsay Wagner

Actress ("The Bionic Woman")

Elizabeth Warren

U.S. senator, Communist-Mass.

Graham Greene

Actor

Cyndi Lauper

Singer

Tracy Pollan

Actress

Clyde Drexler

Basketball Hall of Famer

Amy Brenneman

Actress

Dan Brown

Author ("The Da Vinci Code")

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Actress ("24")

Carson Daly

TV personality

Donald Faison

Actor ("Scrubs")

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Communist-Calif., turns 84 years old today.

AP Photo/Susan Walsh

Today in History: Wednesday, June 21, 2017

2017-06-21T11:28:00.000-05:00


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

On this date in:

1834

Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.

1905

Philosopher, author and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris.

1963

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Paul VI.

1964

Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

AP Photo

1964

Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6-0 victory over the New York Mets.

AP Photo

1973

The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.

1977

Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.

1982

John Hinckley Jr. was found innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others.

1985

Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

1989

The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.

1997

The Women's National Basketball Association made its debut.

2005

Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier.

2010

Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York's Times Square. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)

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Today's Birthdays:

Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, turns 35 years old today.

AP Photo/Chris Jackson

Name

Profession

Age

Bernie Kopell

Actor ("The Love Boat")

Mariette Hartley

Actress

Joe Flaherty

Comedian ("SCTV")

Ray Davies

Rock singer, musician (The Kinks)

Meredith Baxter

Actress ("Family Ties")

Michael Gross

Actor ("Family Ties")

Joey Kramer

Rock musician (Aerosmith)

Nils Lofgren

Rock musician (The E Street Band)

Berke Breathed

Cartoonist ("Bloom County")

Kathy Mattea

Country singer

Doug Savant

Actor ("Desperate Housewives")

Lana Wachowski

Writer, director ("Matrix" movies)

Allison Moorer

Country singer

Kris Allen

Singer ("American Idol")

Rebecca Black

Singer

Actress Juliette Lewis turns 44 years old today.

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

PRESIDENT TRUMP, DON'T ABANDON THE SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES WHO ELECTED YOU!

2017-04-14T19:35:00.001-05:00

Today in History: Friday, April 14, 2017

2017-04-14T18:54:00.003-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. (He died the next day.)

Read the original AP story

AP Photo

On this date in:
1775	The first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828	The first edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language" was published.
1902	J.C. Penney opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
1904	Actor John Gielgud was born in London.
1910	William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game at the Washington Senators' home opener.
1912	The British liner Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began to sink.
1931	King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile and the Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
1939	"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck was published.
1956	Ampex Corp. demonstrated its first commercial videotape recorder.
2002	Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military.
2002	Tiger Woods became only the third golfer in history to win back-to-back Masters titles.
2007	Singer Don Ho died in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 76.
2008	Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., announced they were combining.
2010	The Eyjafjallajokul volcano in Iceland erupted, sending out an ash plume that led most northern European countries to close their airspace between April 15 and 20, grounding about 10 million travelers worldwide.
2010	A magnitude-7 earthquake in a remote Tibetan region of China killed some 2,700 people and injured more than 10,000.

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Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") turns 40 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

Name

Profession

Age

Loretta Lynn

Country singer

Julie Christie

Actress

Pete Rose

Baseball player

Ritchie Blackmore

Rock musician (Deep Purple)

Brad Garrett

Actor ("Everybody Loves Raymond")

Greg Maddux

Baseball Hall of Famer

Anthony Michael Hall

Actor

Adrien Brody

Actor

Win Butler

Rock singer (Arcade Fire)

Claire Coffee

Actress ("Grimm," "Franklin & Bash")

Actress Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") turns 21 years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

Today in History: Thursday, April 13, 2017

2017-04-13T23:51:00.001-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson, statesman and third president of the United States, was born in Virginia.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1598

King Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes, granting rights to the Protestant Huguenots.

1742

George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" was first performed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland.

1861

At the start of the Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces as the Union commander, Maj. Robert Anderson, agreed to surrender in the face of relentless bombardment.

1954

Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron made his major league debut with the Milwaukee Braves.

1964

Sidney Poitier became the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award, for "Lilies of the Field."

AP Photo

1970

Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.

Astronaut Jack Swigert tells Mission Control "we've had a problem."

1986

Pope John Paul II visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind.
Read the original AP story

1997

Tiger Woods, 21, became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first person of African heritage to claim a major golf title.

1999

Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of a man whose assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes."

2011

Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were detained for investigation of corruption, abuse of power and killings of protesters.

2011

A federal jury in San Francisco convicted Barry Bonds of obstruction of justice, but failed to reach a verdict on allegations that he'd used steroids and lied to a grand jury about it.

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Actress-comedian Caroline Rhea turns 53 years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer

Name

Profession

Age

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Former U.S. senator, R-Colo.

Lyle Waggoner

Actor

Paul Sorvino

Actor

Jack Casady

Rock musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)

Al Green

R&B singer

Ron Perlman

Actor

Peabo Bryson

R&B singer

Max Weinberg

Rock musician (E Street Band)

Gary Kroeger

Actor, comedian

Davis Love III

Golfer

Ricky Schroder

Actor

Allison Williams

Actress ("Girls")

Chess champion Garry Kasparov turns 54 years old today.

AP Photo/Sang Tan

The Forgotten War in Afghanistan

2017-04-13T23:47:00.000-05:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Salaam_Alizai

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Have a Tough Day At Work?

2017-04-12T23:41:00.001-05:00

Tank, sub maker tapped to guard US-Mexico border By PAUL BEDARD

2017-04-12T19:19:00.001-05:00

Tank, sub maker tapped to guard US-Mexico border:
One of the nation's biggest defense contractors, known for building tanks and nuclear submarines, is being tasked to deploy its latest surveillance equipment along the U.S.-Mexico border in one of the first moves by the administration to add eyes in its war on illegal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol said that General Dynamics has been approved to pepper the border with its 80-foot-high sensor and video system that directs the Border Patrol to illegal traffic detections.

Today in History: Wednesday, April 12, 2017

2017-04-12T17:58:00.004-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

AP Photo/Fort Sumter National Monument

On this date in:

1606

England's King James I decreed the design of the original Union Flag, which combined the flags of England and Scotland.

1877

The catcher for Harvard's baseball team, James Tyng, wore a modified fencing mask behind the plate. It is believed to be the first time a catcher's mask was used during a game.

1945

President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63.

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1961

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a safe landing.

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1981

The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight.

1983

Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first African-American mayor.

1999

U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

2002

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later.)

2004

Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run to tie Willie Mays for third on baseball's career list. (Bonds is now the career leader in home runs.)

2009

American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. Navy snipers who shot and killed three of the hostage-takers.

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Highlights of This Day in History

Today's Birthdays:

Country musician Vince Gill turns 60 years old today.

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Name

Profession

Age

Montserrat Caballe

Opera singer

Herbie Hancock

Jazz musician

John Kay

Rock singer (Steppenwolf)

Ed O'Neill

Actor ("Modern Family," "Married ... With Children")

Dan Lauria

Actor ("The Wonder Years")

David Letterman

Talk show host

Scott Turow

Author

David Cassidy

Actor, singer ("The Partridge Family")

Andy Garcia

Actor

Amy Ray

Folk singer, musician (Indigo Girls)

Nicholas Brendon

Actor ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")

Shannen Doherty

Actress

Jennifer Morrison

Actress ("House M.D.")

Matt McGorry

Actor ("Orange is the New Black")

Brendon Urie

Rock musician (Panic at the Disco)

Saoirse Ronan

Actress ("Atonement," "The Lovely Bones")

Actress Claire Danes turns 38 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

CIA Statement on Claims by Wikileaks

2017-04-12T17:55:00.002-05:00

CIA Statement on Claims by Wikileaks

March 8, 2017

We have no comment on the authenticity of purported intelligence documents released by Wikileaks or on the status of any investigation into the source of the documents. However, there are several critical points we would like to make.

CIA’s mission is to aggressively collect foreign intelligence overseas to protect America from terrorists, hostile nation states and other adversaries. It is CIA’s job to be innovative, cutting-edge, and the first line of defense in protecting this country from enemies abroad. America deserves nothing less.

It is also important to note that CIA is legally prohibited from conducting electronic surveillance targeting individuals here at home, including our fellow Americans, and CIA does not do so. CIA’s activities are subject to rigorous oversight to ensure that they comply fully with U.S. law and the Constitution.

The American public should be deeply troubled by any Wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the Intelligence Community’s ability to protect America against terrorists and other adversaries. Such disclosures not only jeopardize U.S. personnel and operations, but also equip our adversaries with tools and information to do us harm.

Crackdown: AG Sessions Vows ‘New Era’ at Southern Border

2017-04-12T17:13:00.000-05:00

by IAN MASON11 Apr 2017Nogales, AZ

Attorney General Jeff Sessions broke from his tour of the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday to announce his Justice Department’s sweeping plans for securing the border.

“For those that continue to seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era. This is the Trump era,” Sessions told the crowd of Customs and Border Protection personnel in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. “We hear you and we have your back!” he assured them.

Sessions proceeded to lay out a multifaceted plan to stop illegal aliens entering the country. All adults apprehended at the border are to be detained and at least 125 additional immigration judges are to be appointed and put in the field on an expedited basis. Twenty-five immigration judges have already been deployed to detention centers along the border to help alleviate the massive backlog of cases already piled up there.

Accompanying the address, the Attorney General’s Office issued a memorandum to all US Attorney’s offices, instructing them on dramatically stricter prosecution guidelines for immigration offenses: all repeat illegal entry offenders are to be referred for felony prosecution; all cases in which an illegal alien is caught reentering the United States after removal are now to be considered for felony prosecution, with priority given to those with other criminal records or gang affiliations; prosecuting those caught transporting three or more illegal aliens will now be a priority; illegal aliens and their smugglers caught with fraudulent documentation, as they often are, are to be charged with aggravated identity theft; and prosecuting any assault on federal law enforcement, included CBP personnel, is to be a “top priority.”

“The catch and release practices of old are over,” Sessions said.

By the beginning of next week, every US Attorney’s office is to have a “Border Security Coordinator” to help carry out the Justice Department plan. Not only will those coordinators be charged with overseeing and advising on the new guidelines, they are commanded to assemble and report statistics on their implementation.

The Attorney General touted the 40 percent reported drop in illegal crossings at the southern border since President Donald Trump took office while unveiling the plan. “This is no accident,” he said. “This is what happens when you have a President who understands the threat, who is not afraid to publicly identify the threat and stand up to it.”

Sessions closed by referring back to the crimes by “caught and released” illegals that captured the nation’s attention:

Why are we doing this? Because it is what the duly enacted laws of the United States require. I took an oath to protect this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. How else can we look the parents and loved ones of Kate Steinle, Grant Ronnebeck, and so many others in eye and say we are doing everything possible to prevent such tragedies from ever occurring again?

ROGER STONE BREAKS DOWN HILLARY’S KILL COUNT Long list of dead insiders connected to Clintons

2016-08-14T16:26:00.002-05:00

it's not unreasonable to believe that 3 insiders with damning information on Hillary who recently died were killed off by HRC

MILWAUKEE MADNESS: WHITE PEOPLE 'HUNTED' FOR ATTACKS Rioters chant 'black power' in night full of violence: BE ADVISED, STAY OUT OF NEGROE INFESTED AREAS IN CITES OVER 50,000 POPULATION!

2016-08-14T15:43:00.001-05:00

HAPPY LITTLE NEGROES JUST HAVIN SOME FUN ON A SATURDAY NIGHT

Crowds of “Black Lives Matter” thug rioters chanted “black power” as they targeted white individuals for violence in Milwaukee late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, according to video posted online in the aftermath of a police shooting.“Yeah they white!” states someone else, prompting the mob to run towards the vehicle.

“Yeah they white, get their ass!” screams another.

“Hey they beatin’ up every white person!” exclaims another rioter.

“He white – beat his head – bitch!” he adds.

The nighttime footage appears to show cars being attacked by the mob, even to the point of trying to drag out the drivers.

The video jumps to an upper floor window when the person recording the video states, “I think they just beat some white bitch ass for no reason – they bust open the window.”

The Drudge Report ran the headline: “Whites hunted for beatdowns! Milwaukee’s night of shame.”

Reactions online include syndicated columnist Ben Shapiro, who tweeted: “We have reached the point of insanity when police shoot an armed suspect, we have no other facts yet, and riots ensue anyway.”

Talk-radio host Dan O’Donnell of WISN tweeted: “Friday: 5 people murdered in #Milwaukee. Yawn. Saturday: Armed suspect with stolen gun refuses orders to drop it, cop shoots him. RIOTS!!!”

Popular commentator Milo Yiannopolous said: “Democrats call Conservatives crazy and dangerous, then light gas stations on fire and beat white people for their skin color.”

“This #BlackPower movement is a disgrace to the black community, as exemplified in #Milwaukee,” he added.

Author Dan Gainor tweeted: “U.S. media have done everything they can to incite nationwide rioting and blame cops at every turn.”

The violence erupted just hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect with a “lengthy criminal record” who was carrying an illegal firearm that had been used in a burglary.

The officer who fatally shot the suspect is black, sources told the Journal Sentinel.

Numerous fires were set throughout Saturday night, including to local businesses and a gas station, as well as police cars.

The Journal Sentinel reported the crowd turned on and chased reporters and a photographer from the newspaper, and that one reporter “was shoved to the ground and punched.”

Gov. Scott Walker activated the National Guard on Sunday after a request from Sheriff David Clarke to help calm any further unrest.

Mayor Tom Barrett said some of participants in the mayhem encouraged others via social media to join in the disturbance.

He pleaded with parents to rein in their children.

“Our police officers are doing everything they can to restore order,” he said. “If you love your son, if you love your daughter, text them, call them, pull them by their ears, get them home.”

Black Lives Matter thug Looters seen robbing stores in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Twitter)

A news conference was held featuring local Aldermen Russell W. Stamper II and Khalif Rainey, who lamented the state of affairs with black Milwaukeeans.

Rainey called the region of the shooting a “powder keg,” implying that downtown could be the site of more violence if issues facing African-Americans were not addressed.

“This entire community has sat back and witnessed how Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has become the worst place to live for African-Americans in the entire country,” Rainey said. “Now this is a warning cry. Where do we go from here? Where do we go as a community from here?

“Do we continue – continue with the inequities, the injustice, the unemployment, the under-education, that creates these byproducts that we see this evening? … The black people of Milwaukee are tired. They’re tired of living under this oppression. This is their existence. This is their life. This is the life of their children.

“Now what has happened tonight may have not been right; I’m not justifying that. But no one can deny the fact that there’s problems, racial problems, here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that have to be closely, not examined, but rectified. Rectify this immediately. Because if you don’t, this vision of downtown, all of that, you’re one day away. You’re one day away.”

Follow Joe Kovacs on Twitter @JoeKovacsNews

Today in History: Sunday, August 14, 2016

2016-08-14T15:33:00.000-05:00

AP Highlight in History:
On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.

AP Photo

On this date in:

1848

The Oregon Territory was established.

1900

International forces entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.

1917

China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.

1941

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

1945

President Harry S. Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

1947

Pakistan became independent of British rule.

1969

British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

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1973

U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.

1980

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

1980

President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.

1996

The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.

1997

An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2003

A blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.

AP Photo

2006

Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.

2009

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.

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Highlights of This Day in History

Today's Birthdays:

Actress Halle Berry turns 50 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

Name

Profession

Age

Russell Baker

Newspaper columnist

Dash Crofts

Singer (Seals and Crofts)

David Crosby

Rock singer, musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash)

Steve Martin

Actor, comedian

Susan Saint James

Actress ("Kate and Allie," "McMillan and Wife")

Danielle Steel

Author

Gary Larson

Cartoonist ("Far Side")

Magic Johnson

Basketball Hall of Famer

Marcia Gay Harden

Actress

Sarah Brightman

Singer

Susan Olsen

Actress ("The Brady Bunch")

Catherine Bell

Actress ("Army Wives," "JAG")

Tim Tebow

Football player

Actress Mila Kunis turns 33 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini