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TODAY IN HISTORY
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Today is Friday, May 9th, the 130th day of 2008. There are 236 days left in the year.

Thought for the day:
    We cannot put off living until we are ready." -- Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (1883-1955).


Today's Hightlight in History:
    On May 9th, 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "JOIN, or DIE."


On This Date:
    In 1936
      Italy annexed Ethiopia.

    In 1945
      U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.

    In 1958
      "Vertigo," Alfred Hitchcock's eerie thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, premiered in San Francisco, the movie's setting.

    In 1961
      FCC chairman Newton N. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.

    In 1974
      the House Judiciary Committee opened public hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon.

    In 1978
      the bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.

    In 1980
      35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section to collapse.

    In 1982
      the musical "Nine," inspired by the Federico Fellini film "8 1-2," opened on Broadway.

    In 1987
      183 people were killed when a New York-bound Polish jetliner crashed while attempting an emergency return to Warsaw.


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Indonesian President Suharto left his troubled country for a summit in Egypt with a warning his army would quell violence over his 32-year rule and the worsening economy. The United States and its allies asked the U.N. Security Council to give its stamp of approval to their occupation of Iraq. The Republican-led House approved 222-to-203 a 550 billion-dollar tax cut package. Louisiana Democrat Russell B. Long, who greatly influenced tax laws during nearly four decades in the Senate, died at age 84. In Cleveland, a camouflage-clad gunman fired hundreds of rounds as he roamed the halls of Case Western Reserve University's business school, killing one person (suspect Biswanath Halder was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison). Vice President Dick Cheney pressed Iraq's leaders to do more to reduce violence and achieve political reconciliation in a visit to Baghdad that was punctuated by an explosion that shook windows at the U.S. Embassy where Cheney was visiting. Pope Benedict the 16th began his first trip to Latin America as he arrived in Brazil.


Today's Birthdays:
    CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace is 90
    Actress Geraldine McEwan is 76
    Actor-writer Alan Bennett is 74
    Rock musician Nokie Edwards (The Ventures) is 73
    Actor Albert Finney is 72
    Actress-turned-politician Glenda Jackson is 72
    Musician Sonny Curtis (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is 71
    Producer-director James L
    Brooks is 68
    Singer Tommy Roe is 66
    Singer-musician Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield and Poco) is 64
    Actress Candice Bergen is 62
    Pop singer Clint Holmes is 62
    Actor Anthony Higgins is 61
    Singer Billy Joel is 59
    Blues singer-musician Bob Margolin is 59
    Rock singer-musician Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) is 58
    Actress Alley Mills is 57
    Actress Wendy Crewson is 52
    Actor John Corbett is 47
    Singer Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) is 46
    Rapper Ghostface Killah is 38
    Country musician Mike Myerson (Heartland) is 37
    Rhythm-and-blues singer Tamia (tuh-MEE'-ah) is 33
    Rock musician Dan Regan (Reel Big Fish) is 31
    Rock singer Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan) is 29
    Actress Rosario Dawson is 29
    Actress Rachel Boston is 26
    TV personality Audrina Patridge is 23.


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