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From: Mary Minnich< >
Subject: [FOLKLORE-L] Today in History - July 25th
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 05:53:04 -0400


Today is Sunday, July 25th, the 206th day of 1999.
There are 159 days left in the year.

TODAY IS PJ's hubby JOE's BIRTHDAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 25th, 1956, 51 people died when the Italian liner "Andrea Doria"
sank after colliding with the Swedish ship "Stockholm" off the New England
coast.

On this date:
In 1593, France's King Henry the Fourth converted from Protestantism to
Roman Catholicism.

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

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

In 1909, French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a
monoplane, traveling from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.

In 1944, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded Cole Porter's "Don't
Fence Me In" in Los Angeles for Decca Records.

In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb at 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 1969, a week after the Chappaquiddick accident that claimed the life of
Mary Jo Kopechne, Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts)
pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

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 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to
walk`in space as she carried out more than three hours of experiments
outside the orbiting space station "Salyut Seven."

Ten years ago: The pilot of the United DC-10 that crashed in Sioux City,
Iowa, July 19th, Alfred C. Haynes, appeared at a news conference in which he
dismissed descriptions of himself as a hero after he and his crew managed to
save 184 of the 296 people aboard the crippled aircraft.

Five years ago: 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.

One year 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 US Capitol was reopened, a
day after a gunman killed two police officers; a wounded suspect, Russell E.
Weston Junior, was charged with murder.

Today's Birthdays:
Actress Estelle Getty is 76.
Actress Barbara Harris is 64.
Rock musician Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 48.
Model-actor Iman is 44.
Cartoonist Ray Billingsley ("Curtis") is 42.
Rock musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 41.
Actress Illeana Douglas is 34.
Country singer Marty Brown is 34.
Actor Matt LeBlanc ("Friends") is 32.
Actor Brad Renfro is 17.

Thought for Today:

"Love is as strong as death; jealousy is as cruel as the grave."
-- From the Bible, The Song of Solomon, 8:6.

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

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