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 Today's highlight in history:
On Aug. 22, 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.
On this date:
In 1485, England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.
In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
In 1846, Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.
In 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America's Cup.
In 1904, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Sichuan province.
In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese colonial rule until 1945.
In 1956, President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
In 1978, President Jomo Kenyatta, a leading figure in Kenya's struggle for independence, died; Vice President Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as acting president.
In 1985, 55 people died when fire broke out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England.
In 1989, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.)
Ten years ago: President Clinton, in his Saturday radio address, announced he had signed an executive order putting Osama bin Laden's Islamic Army and two of his main lieutenants on a list of terrorist groups.
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 Five years ago: Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse. Texas Gov. Rick Perry pardoned 35 people arrested in the 1999 Tulia drug busts and convicted on the testimony of a lone undercover agent. (The agent, Tom Coleman, was later found guilty of aggravated perjury and sentenced to 10 years probation
- he's been appealing his conviction.) In Brazil, a rocket exploded on its launch pad during tests just days before liftoff, killing 21 workers.
One year ago: President Bush, addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Mo., offered a fresh endorsement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, calling him "a good guy, good man with a difficult job." A U.S. helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing 14 soldiers. Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days. The Texas Rangers became the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting an American League record in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles in the first game of a doubleheader. Poet and short story writer Grace Paley died in Thetford Hill, Vt., at age 84.
Today's birthdays: Author Ray Bradbury is 88. Heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley is 88. Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is 74. Broadcast journalist Morton Dean is 73. Writer Annie Proulx is 73. Rockabilly singer Dale Hawkins is 72. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 69. Actress Valerie Harper is 68. Football coach Bill Parcells is 67. CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 63. Actress Cindy Williams is 61. Musician David Marks is 60. Country singer Holly Dunn is 51. Rock musician Vernon Reid is 50. Country singer Ricky Lynn Gregg is 49. Country singer Collin Raye is 48. Actress Regina Taylor is 48. Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 47. Rock musician Debbi Peterson (The Bangles) is 47. Rock musician Gary Lee Conner (Screaming Trees) is 46. Singer Tori Amos is 45. Country singer Mila Mason is 45. Rhythm-and-blues musician James DeBarge is 45. Tennis player Mats Wilander is 44. Rapper GZA/The Genius is 42. Actor Ty Burrell is 41. Actor Rick Yune is 37. Rock musician Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) is 36. Rap-reggae singer Beenie Man is 35. Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 35. Actress Jenna Leigh Green is 34. Rock musician Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan) is 30. Actress Aya Sumika (TV: "Numb3rs") is 28.
Thought for today: "If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."
-- Logan Pearsall Smith, Anglo-American essayist (1865-1946)
[Associated Press]
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