Good Thursday morning friends and family. Today is the 163rd day of 2014. 202 days remain in the year. After a very stormy night, it is a foggy and humid morning in Sparks. The current temperature is 65 degrees. There is a 70% chance of rain (heavy at times) and thunderstorms throughout today and tonight. The forecast high for today is 81 degrees. Today in history - 1776 - Virginias colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights. 1898 - Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain. 1920 - The Republican national convention nominated Warren G. Harding for president on their 10th ballot. Calvin Coolidge was nominated for vice president. 1924 - President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for a term of office in his own right. Coolidge had become president in 1923 after the sudden death of President Harding. 1942 - Ann Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis. 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1994, Bryan De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison. Beckwith died in 2001. 1964 - South African black nationalist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven other people for committing sabotage against the apartheid regime. All were eventually released, Mandela in 1990. 1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages. 1987 - President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this wall. 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the killing in a criminal trial, but was eventually held liable in a civil action. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. [Pearl Bailey (1918-1990)] Everyone stay dry and have a wonderful day!
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:02:50 +0000
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