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'Morning all..... wait, it's almost noon here now. Time for lunch :D
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1789 North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1877 Inventor Thomas A. Edison unveiled the phonograph.
1922 Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1969 The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
1973 President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1980 A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1985 Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel.
1989 The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1991 The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be secretary-general.
1992 Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women over the years.
1995 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
2000 The Florida Supreme Court granted Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.
2001 Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Conn., died of inhalation anthrax.
2002 NATO sought to expand its membership into the borders of the former Soviet Union as it invited seven former communist countries to join the alliance: Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria.
2004 Donald Trump's casino empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2004 The NBA suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl that broke out at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons.
Birthdays:
Ken Griffey Jr. turns 36 years old today.
68 Marlo Thomas
Actress (''That Girl'')
61 Harold Ramis
Writer-director-actor
60 Goldie Hawn
Actress
42 Nicollette Sheridan
Actress (''Desperate Housewives'')
40 Bjork
Singer-actress
39 Troy Aikman
Football player-sportscaster
Have a good day and a great week all. You too Tala, that's an ORDER. :D
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