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'Morning everyone. Cold wet rainy day here, coffee's on and that's about it so far.
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1502 Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1913 The 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified.
1926 Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to make an airplane flight over the North Pole.
1936 Italy annexed Ethiopia.
1945 U.S. officials announced that the wartime midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.
1960 The Food and Drug Administration approved use of a birth control pill.
1961 Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned TV programming as a ''vast wasteland'' in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
1974 The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1974 Bruce Springsteen performed a concert in Cambridge, Mass., that prompted rock critic Jon Landau to write, ''I saw rock and roll future and it's name is Bruce Springsteen.''
1978 The bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.
1980 A Liberian freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, killing 35 motorists and causing a 1,400-foot section of the bridge to collapse.
1994 Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, was placed under quarantine after an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
On May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
2000 Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards was convicted of extortion schemes to manipulate the licensing of riverboat casinos.
2002 Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening suspended executions in his state while a study was done on whether the death penalty was being meted out in a racially discriminatory way. (Glendening's successor, Gov. Robert Ehrlich, lifted the moratorium seven months later.)
2004 Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov and 23 other people were killed when a bomb destroyed the VIP section at a stadium during a Victory Day celebration in the Chechen capital of Grozny.
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