GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS THURSDAY, August 15, the 227th day of 2013 with 138 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ @ 5:5 and sunset is @ 7:4. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Saturn and Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland was slain by Malcolm Canmore, whose father, King Duncan I, was murdered by Macbeth 17 years earlier. 1790 - Reverend John Carroll became the first Catholic bishop in the United States. 1865 - Sir Joseph Lister discovered the antiseptic process. 1911 - Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, Ohio introduced Crisco hydrogenated shortening. 1914 - The American-built Panama Canal was inaugurated with the passage of the U.S. vessel Ancon, a cargo 1947 - India and Pakistan became independent after some 200 years of British rule. 1948 - The Republic of Korea was proclaimed. 1948 - The republic of South Korea was proclaimed. 1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York; over 400,000 attended. 1994 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," was jailed in France after being captured in Sudan. 2000 - Two hundred members of families separated by the Korean War were permitted to meet each other for the first time since then, half in South Korea and half in North Korea. 2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own - two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper. 2003 - A car bomb exploded, destroying the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel, a top hotel in the Jakarta, Indonesia; 14 people were killed and 150 were wounded.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:47:07 +0000
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