Morning all.
Tala is on her way back east now, so I'll be doing the thread for a few days.
It's damn hot here today, and for the first time I see some sort of humidex advisory warning. Apparently, with the humidity today the temp. here is comparable to 44 C. You don't wanna know what that is in F. Ug.
Today's definition:
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1793 French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.
1863 Rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City; about 1,000 people died over three days.
1960 John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Los Angeles.
1967 Race-related rioting broke out in Newark, N.J.; by the time the violence ended four days later, 27 people had been killed.
On July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.
1978 Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
1985 Before undergoing surgery for colon cancer, President Ronald Reagan transferred power temporarily to Vice President George Bush. It was the first time the Constitution's presidential disability clause was invoked.
1985 Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia, was held to raise money for Africa's starving people.
1994 Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Harding's skating rival, Nancy Kerrigan.
1998 A jury in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley.
1999 Angel Maturino Resendiz, suspected of being the ''railroad killer,'' surrendered in El Paso, Texas.
2003 With the blessing of U.S. administrators, Iraqis inaugurated a broadly representative governing council.
Harrison Ford turns 63 today
Patrick Steward (Captain Picard) is 65
director Cameron Crowe is 48
Have a good day all :D