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Good morning You! Hot day here, gonna hit 32 C,
fairly hot for june in Winnipeg. (low 90's F)
Great day to be alive. :D
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the ''Type-Writer.''
1892 The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1931 Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1972 President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.
1985 All 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because of a bomb.
1992 John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
1993 Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
1995 Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine against polio, died at age 80.
1997 Civil rights activist Betty Shabazz, 61, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year old grandson.
2003 Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean announced his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Birthdays:
Randy Jackson from American Idol turns 49 today
Australian actor Bryan Brown (cocktail, F/X) turns 58 today
Have a good day all. :D
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