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Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 2003
Page
2
July 8 History Highlights Across Centuries
Highlights show on this date: 1950 MacArthur named commander in chief of UN forces in Korea. 1663 Rhode Island charter granted by Charles I. 1776 Nixon reads Declaration in Philadelphia. 1853 Perry expedition to Yedo Bay. 1889 Wall Street Journal first published. 1891 Harding marries DeWolfe. 1907 Ziegfeld Follies debuts. 1919 Wilson greeted in New York. 1947 UN headquarters demolition begins in NYC. 1975 Ford seeks 1976 GOP nomination. 1994 Kim Il Sung dies at 82. G7 warns over Bosnia, but backs away from force. Randy Weaver acquitted in Boise shootout.
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Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Korea
Charles I
England
Rhode Island
John Nixon
Philadelphia
Matthew Perry
Yedo Bay
Japan
Wall Street Journal
Warren G. Harding
Florence K. DeWolfe
Marion
Ohio
Florenz Ziegfeld
New York Theater
Wilson
New York
France
Boise
Idaho
Randy Weaver
Thought for Today History must stay open quote
William Carlos Williams asserts that history remains open and human, urging readers to see history as a shared, evolving record that belongs to all humanity.
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Wiliam Carlos Williams
Verse from Joel Declares Zion Roar and Hope for Israel
A biblical verse from Joel 3 16 proclaims the Lord will roar from Zion utter his voice from Jerusalem the heavens and the earth shall shake yet the Lord remains the hope and strength for Israel's people
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Zion
Jerusalem
Israel
Joel
Barbers Hill to issue laptops to students next fall
Barbers Hill ISD plans to begin issuing wireless laptops to middle school students by August 2004 with a pilot already completed this year. The program aims to expand campus by campus, starting with the middle school, and will cost about 1.5 million dollars for 750 laptops.
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Barbers Hill
Mont Belvieu
Banks
Foam hits shuttle wing panel in test and cited as smoking gun
A 16 inch hole formed when 1.67 pound foam struck a Atlantis wing panel during a NASA test in San Antonio. Columbia Accident Investigation Board member Scott Hubbard called it the smoking gun linking foam shedding to the disaster, noting the damage would have been unreparable in orbit. The test used a 35 foot nitrogen gun, eight cameras, and hundreds of sensors to simulate debris impact during liftoff.
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San Antonio
Columbia
Texas
Columbia Accident Investigation Board
Scott Hubbard
Hubbard
NASA
Southwest Research Institutute
DNA retest confirms more Houston case links to death row
Houston police retesting by an independent lab has confirmed DNA matches in three more cases including a death row matter. Harris County DA's office notes 24 of 369 cases yielded retest results. Dentigene confirmed in two of 17 death row submissions.
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Houston
Houston Police Department
Harris County District Attorney's Office
Police Department
Dentigene
John Reyes Matamoros
Edward George Goebel
Harris County
Marie Munier
Matamoros
Stanley Schneider
Correction on hospital leadership and humane society listing
The Baytown Sun clarifies that Dr. Jeffrey Ackerman has served in the Methodist Hospital System for three years but has been in Baytown only since October 2002. The Baytown Humane Society phone number was printed incorrectly. the correct number is 281 424 3103.
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Baytown Humane Society
Baytown Sun
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