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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1767 The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts, which imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.
1946 British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to stamp out alleged terrorism.
1951 Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was ordained as a priest.
1966 The United States bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
1967 Actress Jayne Mansfield, 34, and two male companions died when their car struck a trailer truck east of New Orleans.
1972 The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty could constitute ''cruel and unusual punishment.''
1992 A divided Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined by the Roe v. Wade decision.
On June 29, 1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth. Also on this day in 1995 A department store in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed, killing 501 people and injuring more than 900.
2001 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term.
2002 President George W. Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health.
2002 Singer Rosemary Clooney died at age 74.
2003 Actress Katharine Hepburn died at age 96.
2004 Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became the fourth pitcher in major league history to record 4,000 career strikeouts, during a loss to the San Diego Padres.
Gary Busey is 61 today
Fred Grandy (Gopher from the Love Boat) is 57 today
Ian Paice from Deep Purple is 57 today
Don Dokken is 52 today
Maria Conchita Alonso is 48 today
It's a dull, gloomy, rainy, windy day here with lots of booming thunder and wicked lightning...... I love it. :D
Have a great day Tala & all you oofuckyourselfazoids out there.
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