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[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Gary Varvel BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 904, Salonica -- the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Macedonia -- falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city
• 1703, Daniel Defoe, the an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe, is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers
• 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army
• 1790, the first U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
• 1792, director David Rittenhouse laid the cornerstone in Philadelphia for the U.S. Mint, the first building of the federal government
• 1865, the first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia
• 1919, German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (which comes into force on August 14)
• 1945, Pierre Laval, premier of the pro-Nazi Vichy government, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Austria; he was turned over to France, which later tried and executed him
• 1948, President Harry Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field
• 1957, the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations designed to detect Soviet bombers approaching North America, went into operation
• 1964, the American space probe Ranger VII transmitted pictures of the moon's surface
• 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment
• 1974, Watergate figure John Ehrlichman was sentenced to 20 months in prison for his role in the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ellsberg was the Pentagon consultant who leaked the "Pentagon Papers," documents about the war in Vietnam
• 1976, NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo
• 1981, the 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends
• 1987, Iranian pilgrims and riot police clashed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, resulting in some 400 deaths, according to the Saudi government, which blamed the Iranians for the violence
• 1991, President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. ALSO: the U.S. Senate overturned a 43-year-old law and voted to allow women to fly military warplanes in combat
• 1997, in Brooklyn, N.Y., police seized five bombs believed bound for terrorist attacks on New York City subways by practitioners of that "religion of peace"
• 2002, a bomb exploded by practitioners of that "religion of peace" inside a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, kills nine people, including five Americans
• 2006, Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequena Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated
• 2011, ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced a historic agreement on emergency legislation to avert the nation's first-ever financial default. ALSO: Syrian security forces launched a ferocious assault on defiant cities and towns, killing at least 70 people and possibly many more
• 2014, officials reported the number of people killed in a 3-week-old Israeli-Hamas Gaza conflict had risen to 1,360 Palestinians and 59 Israelis, including 56 soldier
[ I N S I G H T ]
Mark Steyn: Flight and Fancy
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Awesome
• Media wars: 34% of Americans approve court-ordered fines for biased or inaccurate news stories
• Latest twist on upscale urban living: A dorm for grownups in a historic mansion
Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers
Alexandra Petri: All the Mooch that's fit to print
Jeff Jacoby: Research isn't tainted just because industry picks up the tab
Greg Jaffe & Andrew deGrandpre: In John Kelly, Trump gets a plain-spoken disciplinarian as his chief of staff
Debra J. Saunders: Trump's Humiliation of Sessions Just Plain Ugly to Watch
Dino Grandoni: Trump wants members of Congress to personally feel the pain of ObamaCare
David Weigel: Voter by voter, GOP super PAC tries to separate the party from Trump
Andrew Roth: Putin orders cut of 755 personnel at US missions
Ashley Parker: Trump's Troubleshooter: Veep travels to reassure allies and send message to Russia
Bruce Bialosky: Fixing the Tax Mess
George Will: Trump is something the nation did not know it needed
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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