'morning all. I guess Tala should be close to getting home by now, should see her posting again soon.
It's another scorcher out there today...
We really should all be at the beach today.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1606 The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands.
1870 Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1916 The Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was founded in Seattle by William Boeing.
1948 President Harry S. Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
1964 Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
1971 President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a ''normalization of relations.''
1976 A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, Calif., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. The captives escaped unharmed.
1979 President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech in which he lamented what he called a ''crisis of confidence'' in America. Though he didn't use the word, it became known as the ''malaise'' speech.
1992 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
1996 MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable TV and the Internet.
1997 Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan was found dead eight days later.
1999 The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them.
2004 Retired Air Force Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, died at age 84.
actor Jan-Michael Vincent is 61 today.
Linda Ronstadt is 59
both Marky Ramone and guitarist Joe Satriani are 49 today
model Kim Alexis is 45
Willie Aames, actor from "Eight is enough" is 45 today
Forest Whitaker is 44
Brigitte Nielsen turns 42 today
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