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FINALLY!
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
1935 The Works Progress Administration was approved by Congress.
1952 President Harry S. Truman seized the steel industry to avert a nationwide strike.
1970 The Senate rejected President Richard Nixon's nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court.
1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record.
1981 Omar N. Bradley, a World War II general and the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died at age 88.
1987 Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned after saying on ABC's ''Nightline'' that blacks may lack some of the ''necessities'' for becoming baseball managers.
1990 Ryan White, the teen-age AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national attention, died in Indianapolis at age 18.
1992 Tennis player Arthur Ashe announced at a news conference that he had AIDS.
1994 Rock singer-musician Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was found dead in Seattle of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27.
1997 The Vatican chose Archbishop Francis George of Portland, Ore., to head the Archdiocese of Chicago, succeeding the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.
2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play ''Topdog/Underdog.''
It's hitting +20 degrees here (C) today, that's like 70 to you people still in the stone age using farenheit.
I think I'll do a bank-grocery-booze store run, maybe get my barbecue tanks filled. ooyeah.
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