Today in History highlights major events across eras
Highlights include Quantrill’s 1863 raid on Lawrence with over 150 residents killed, Nat Turner’s 1831 slave revolt, the 1878 founding of the American Bar Association in Saratoga, Mona Lisa theft in 1911, Hawaii statehood in 1959, Clayton Lonetree’s 1987 Marine court martial, and the 1991 Soviet coup collapse led by Boris Yeltsin.
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William Quantrill
Lawrence
Nat Turner
Virginia
American Bar Association
Saratoga
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre Museum
Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hawaii
Sat
Clayton Lonetree
Quantico
KGB
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Russian Federation
Boris N. Yeltsin
Taiwan grounded 737s after Okinawa fireball crash report
A China Airlines 737-800 exploded on the Okinawa tarmac while landing from Taipei. All 165 aboard escaped via chutes or cockpit windows as fuel leak suspected. Officials say the left engine smoked before the blast in a dramatic in-flight incident.
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Taiwan
China Airlines
Okinawa
Taipei
Violence erupts as relatives press for mine rescue update
Relatives of 172 miners trapped in a flooded Chinese coal mine clash with guards after their briefing requests go unmet. Two brothers and a miner’s son smash a company office window with wooden sticks, then join about a dozen followers in a sit-in at Huayuan compound. Vice Governor Wang Junming later meets the protesters, crying as he pledges government responsiveness.
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Huayuan
Shandong
Wang Junming
Hurricane Dean upgrades to monstrous Category Five
Hurricane Dean strengthened to a Category 5 with winds of 160 mph slamming coasts of Mexico and Belize. Pemex evacuates over 18,000 offshore workers and shuts 407 oil wells in Campeche Sound, risking 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of gas daily. Authorities urge evacuations across the Yucatan, Belize, and parts of Texas as the storm barrels toward landfall.
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TuLum
Mexico
Dean
Belize
Caribbean
Jamaica
Cayman Islands
Chetumal
U.S
National Hurricane Center
Cancun
Eric Morovich
Orange County
Calif
Belize City
Meteorolo
Gists
Yucatan
Gulf of Campeche
Petroleos de Mexico
Campeche Sound
Pemex
Gulf Ports
Texas
Johnny Cavazos
Cameron County
Virus may contribute to obesity in new study insight
Washington researchers push evidence that adenovirus 36 may trigger stem cells to become fat cells. The lab results suggest infection associates with obesity, but experts caution against viewing viruses as the sole cause and note vaccines would help only future prevention.
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Washington
America
Dhurandhar
Newspaper staff contacts and subscription hours list
Dennis Anderson and Caroline Trowbridge lead departments with editor Mindle Paget and sports editor Tom Keegan totaling key contacts. 6News director Cady Howard heads broadcast staff. Mediapharmedia LLC lists Joel Mathis as convergence editor. Subscriptions line provides numbers and redelivery guarantee with 6 a.m. service windows.
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Dennis Anderson
Danderson
Ljworld
Caroline Trowbridge
Drowbridge
Ann Gardner
Agardner
Tom Keegan
Tkeegan
Mindle Paget
Mpagat
Jon Niccum
Jniccum
L Jworld
Mark Fagan
Mfagan
Jworld.com
Cady Howard
Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
Mediapharmedia LLC
Joel Mathis
Convergence
Jmathis
Poll asks if teachers are paid appropriately in Kansas
The Lawrence poll compares teacher pay to civil engineers and other professions per the Labor Department. It asks readers if teachers should be paid more or less and notes Mark Mangino's decision to start Todd Reesing at quarterback with a link to www ljworld com for more responses and voting.
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Ijworld
Kansas University
Lawrence
BOO
U.S. Labor Department
Mark Mangino
Todd Reesing
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Stuart Sauer
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Minneapolis
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Jalstad
Lisa Jolstad
Florida
NASA
Endeavour
Earth
Scott Kelly
Kelly
Utah
Bob Murray
Murray Energy Corp
Murray
Lawreifears
England
Japan
China
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
Hamble
Curbridge
Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Douglas County
Sunflower
Journal-World Contact US
NLM
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News Partners
Chris Bell
Bell
Carn al Bonner
Arid
Abonner
Ljworld.com
Today’s
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Ljwortld.com
SKY6
Lawrence.com
Tams
Eas Adar
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