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Today is Monday, May 12th, the 133rd day of 2008. There are 233 days left in the year.


Thought for the day:
    Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity." -- Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologian (1741-1801).


Today's Hightlight in History:
    On May 12th, 1958, the United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD for short).


On This Date:
    In 1907
      actress Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

    In 1932
      the body of Charles Lindbergh Junior, the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, New Jersey.

    In 1937
      Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

    In 1943
      during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.

    In 1949
      the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade.

    In 1970
      the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.

    In 1975
      the White House announced the new Cambodian government had seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez, in international waters.

    In 1978
      the Commerce Department said hurricanes would no longer be given only female names.

    In 1982
      in Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who was trying to reach Pope John Paul II.


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A day after India's first atomic test blasts in 24 years, neighboring Pakistan said it was ready to test a nuclear device itself. Indonesian President Suharto's security forces killed at least six student demonstrators. Suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed nine U.S. citizens and 26 people overall. A suicide truck-bomb attack killed at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya. L. Paul Bremer, the new American civilian administrator of Iraq, arrived in Baghdad; coalition forces announced they had taken custody of Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha (TAH'-hah), the Iraqi scientist known as "Dr. Germ." (Taha was later released after no charges were brought.) Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers brought the Texas House to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan. Virginia Tech held its first commencement ceremonies since the April 16th shooting rampage that claimed 32 victims and the shooter. Voters in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch became the first in the nation to back an ordinance prohibiting landlords from renting to most illegal immigrants. A U.S. patrol was attacked south of Baghdad; four Americans and an Iraqi interpreter were killed, three soldiers were captured (the body of one abducted soldier was later found in the Euphrates River). A U.S.-led coalition operation supported by NATO troops killed the Taliban's most prominent military commander, Mullah Dadullah.



Today's Birthdays:
    Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra is 83
    Critic John Simon is 83
    Composer Burt Bacharach is 80
    Comedian George Carlin is 71
    Actress Millie Perkins is 70
    Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 67
    Country singer Billy Swan is 66
    Actress Linda Dano is 65
    Musician Ian McLagan is 63
    Actress Lindsay Crouse is 60
    Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 60
    Actor Gabriel Byrne is 58
    Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 58
    Singer Billy Squier is 58
    Country singer Kix Brooks is 53
    Actress Kim Greist is 50
    Actor Ving Rhames is 49
    Rock musician Billy Duffy is 47
    Actor Emilio Estevez is 46
    Actress April Grace is 46
    Actress Vanessa A
    Williams ("Soul Food") is 45
    Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 43
    Actor Stephen Baldwin is 42
    Actor Scott Schwartz is 40
    Actress Kim Fields is 39
    Actress Samantha Mathis is 38
    Actress Jamie Luner is 37
    Actor Christian Campbell is 36
    Actor Mackenzie Astin is 35
    Actress Malin Akerman is 30
    Actor Jason Biggs is 30
    Actress Emily VanCamp is 22
    Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 16
    Actors Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten ("Everybody Loves Raymond") are 13.





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