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today in history

1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).
1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
2002 - Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home.
2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.

birthdays:
1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1919 - Richard Scarry, children's author (d. 1994)
1887 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)

posted by dale @ 7:55 AM