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Today's highlight in history:
On June 21, 1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
On this date:
In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
In 1907, 100 years ago, American newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps founded the United Press Associations, a forerunner of United Press International.
In 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: "We was robbed!"
In 1948, the Republican national convention opened in Philadelphia. (The delegates ended up choosing Thomas E. Dewey to be their presidential nominee.)
In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
In 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.
In 1973, the Supreme Court, in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
In 1982, a jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and three other men.
In 1985, scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
In 2005, 41 years to the day after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter.
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 Ten years ago: Summit leaders meeting in Denver wrestled with a list of global challenges. The WNBA made its debut as the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.
Five years ago: One of the worst wildfires in Arizona history grew to 128,000 acres, forcing thousands of homeowners near the community of Show Low to flee. The United States team was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in South Korea, losing 1-0 to Germany.
One year ago: The Marine Corps announced that seven Marines and a sailor had been charged with murdering an Iraqi civilian in April. (The sailor and three Marines later pleaded guilty to lesser charges.) President Bush, addressing the annual U.S.-European Union summit in Vienna, accused Iran of dragging its feet on a Western incentive package aimed at getting Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment activity.
Today's birthdays: Actress Jane Russell is 86. Actor Bernie Kopell is 74. Actor Monte Markham is 72. Songwriter Don Black is 69. Actor Ron Ely is 69. Actress Mariette Hartley is 67. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 66. Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 63. Singer Brenda Holloway is 61. Actress Meredith Baxter is 60. Actor Michael Gross is 60. Rock musician Joe Molland (Badfinger) is 60. Rock musician Don Airey (Deep Purple) is 59. Country singer Leon Everette is 59. Rock musician Joey Kramer (Aerosmith) is 57. Rock musician Nils Lofgren is 56. Actress Robyn Douglass is 54. Actor Leigh McCloskey is 52. Cartoonist Berke Breathed is 50. Country singer Kathy Mattea is 48. Actor Marc Copage is 45. Actress Sammi Davis is 43. Actor Doug Savant is 43. Country musician Porter Howell is 43. Actor Michael Dolan is 42. Writer-director Larry Wachowski ("The Matrix") is 42. Country singer Allison Moorer is 35. Actress Juliette Lewis is 34. Musician Justin Cary is 32. Rock musician Mike Einziger (Incubus) is 31. Britain's Prince William of Wales is 25.
Thought for today: "In America, to look a couple of years younger than you actually are is not only an achievement for which you are to be congratulated, it is patriotic."
-- Cynthia Propper Seton, American writer (1926-1982).
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