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Five years ago: Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon singles title, beating younger sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 in the final. Gas station owner Kent Couch flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert, landing in a field in Cambridge, Idaho.
One year ago: Trucks carrying NATO supplies rolled into Afghanistan for the first time in more than seven months, ending a painful chapter in U.S.-Pakistan relations that saw the border closed until Washington apologized for an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to 50 years for a systematic program to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta's so-called "dirty war" on leftist dissidents. Jockey Jorge Herrera, 33, died after falling from his horse during a race at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
Today's birthdays: Actress Katherine Helmond is 84. Actress Shirley Knight is 77. Singer-musician Robbie Robertson is 70. Julie Nixon Eisenhower is 65. Rock star Huey Lewis is 63. Baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher Rich "Goose" Gossage is 62. Country musician Charles Ventre is 61. Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn is 54. Actor Dorien Wilson is 51. Actress Edie Falco is 50. Actress Jillian Armenante is 49. Actress Kathryn Erbe (er-BEE') is 48. Actor Michael Stuhlbarg (STOOL'-bahrg) is 45. Country musician Brent Flynn (Flynnville Train) is 44. Rapper RZA (RIH'-zuh) is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Joe is 40. Rock musician Bengt Lagerberg (The Cardigans) is 40. Actor Dale Godboldo is 38. Rapper Bizarre is 37. Rapper Royce da 5'9" is 36. Rock singer Jason Wade (Lifehouse) is 33. Actor Ryan Hansen is 32. Country musician Dave Haywood (Lady Antebellum) is 31. Rock musician Nick O'Malley (Arctic Monkeys) is 28. Actor Jason Dolley is 22.
Thought for today: "The real drawback to 'the simple life' is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time." -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould, American writer (1879-1944)
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