Morning all. Tala's on her way back to Tennessee, so I'll be doing the good mornings until she gets back on.
Looks to be another A/C kind of day here, hot & muggy out with a chance of rain later today. I think I will again stay inside and work, maybe have a barbecue later tonight.
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1789 During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
1798 Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government.
1881 The outlaw known as Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.
1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (They were executed in 1927.)
1933 All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1958 The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.
On July 14, 1965, the American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet. Also today in 1965 U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, died in London at age 65.
1966 Eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory.
1976 Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
1997 The international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb, to 20 years in prison for turning on his Muslim and Croat neighbors in a deadly campaign of terror and torture.
1999 Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years.
1999 Major league baseball umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the season.
2000 A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages.
2004 A suicide attacker detonated a massive car bomb at a checkpoint near the British Embassy and the interim Iraqi government's headquarters in Baghdad, killing 11 people; the governor of Mosul was killed in attack on his convoy.
2004 The Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Matthew Fox turns 39 years old today
former US president Gerald R. Ford is 92
Ellen Reid (hottie singer/musician from Winnipeg's own "The Crash Test Dummies") is 39
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