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From: Mary Minnich< >
Subject: [FOLKLORE-L] Today in History - July 13th
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 07:23:11 -0400


Today is Tuesday, July 13th, the 194th day of 1999.
There are 171 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 13th, 1974, tte Senate Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms
in an effort to prevent another Watergate scandal.

On this date:
In 1787, Congress enacted an ordinance governing the Northwest Territory.

In 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in
his bath by Charlotte Corday.

In 1863, deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New
York City.

In 1878, the Treaty of Berlin amended the terms of the Treaty of San
Stefano, which had ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his
party's convention in Los Angeles.

In 1967, race-related rioting broke out in Newark, New Jersey; by the time
the violence ended, 27 people had been killed.

In 1977, a blackout that would last 25 hours hit the New York City area.

In 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Company by
chairman Henry Ford the Second.

In 1979, a 45-hour siege by Palestinian guerrillas began at the Egyptian
Embassy in Ankara, Turkey.

In 1985, "Live Aid," an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia,
Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa's starving people.

Ten years ago: Washington DC attorney Thomas L. Root was rescued after
ditching his private plane into the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas; he had
suffered a mysterious gunshot wound. Cuba executed four military officers
for conspiring to smuggle drugs to the United States.

Five years ago: President Clinton visited flood-stricken Georgia, where he
announced more than $60 million in aid for Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland,
Oregon, to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan
(he ended up serving six months).

One year ago: A jury in Poughkeepsie, New York, ruled that the Reverend Al
Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of
raping Tawana Brawley. Four young cousins in Gallup, New Mexico, died after
becoming trapped in a car trunk.

Today's Birthdays:
Former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp is 64.
Actor Patrick Stewart is 59.
Actor Robert Forster is 58.
Actor Harrison Ford is 57.
Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is 57.
Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 53.
Actress Didi Conn is 48.
Singer Louise Mandrell is 45.
Actor-director Cameron Crowe is 42.
Tennis player Anders Jarryd is 38.
Country singer-songwriter Victoria Shaw is 37.
Actor Michael Jace is 34.
Country singer Neil Thrasher (Thrasher Shiver) is 34.
Singer Gerald Levert is 33.
Rhythm-and-blues singers Lovell and Laval Jones (Twice) are 28. Singer
Deborah Cox is 26.

Thought for Today:

"There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere."
-- Carl Sandburg, American writer (1878-1967).

(Copyright 1999 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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