GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS SUNDAY, July 27, the 208th day of 2014 with 157 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:25 and sunset is @ 8:16. The moon is new @ 6:43 PM. The morning stars are stars are Mercury, Neptune, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars & Saturn. ON THIS DAY IN: 1789 - Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department of State. 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolutions Reign of Terror, was overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. 1866 - Cyrus W. Field finally succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe. 1921 - Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated insulin. 1940 - Bugs Bunny made his debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare. 1953 - Representatives of the United Nations, Korea, and China signed the Korean War armistice at Panmunjon, Korea. 1976 - Air Force veteran Ray Brennan became the first person to die of so-called Legionnaires Disease following an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. 1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam. 1996 - In Atlanta, Georgia, the XXVI Summer Olympiad was disrupted by the explosion of a nail-laden pipe bomb in Centennial Olympic Park, which killed one and injured more than 100. 2005 - Ahmed Ressam, aka The Millennium Bomber, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Years Eve 1999. 2007 - Two news helicopters collide while covering a police car chase in Phoenix, Arizona.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:14:38 +0000
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