Today in History highlights notable events across years
On Aug 30 1983 Gulian T. Bluford Jr became the first Black American astronaut in space aboard Challenger. In 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London. In 1905 Ty Cobb debuted for the Detroit Tigers. In 1963 the Hot Line linked Washington and Moscow. In 1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as first Black Supreme Court justice. In 1997 Diana death report followed Paris crash details.
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Gulian 5. Bluford Jr
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
London
Ty Cobb
Detroit Tigers
New York Highlanders
Tigers
Washington
Moscow
Senate
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court
Paris
Diana
Dadi Fayed
Henri Paul
Mother convicted in microwave murder of infant daughter
In Dayton, 28-year-old China Arnold was found guilty of aggravated murder for killing her month-old daughter Paris Talley in 2005 by placing the child in a microwave. Jurors rejected defense claims of another party's involvement as they weighed the death-penalty phase. The trial followed a mistrial and retrial, with relatives crying in court as the verdict was announced.
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Dayton
China Arnold
Arnold
Paris Talley
Charges return missing girl's mom to jail
Casey Anthony, mother of Caylee Marie, was arrested again in Orange County Florida on charges tied to checks she allegedly stole and cashed. Investigators tied the case to a Target purchase and a Winn-Dixie purchase, while authorities said the timing was not connected to the daughter’s disappearance. Bail was set at 3,000 dollars as she was led away in handcuffs.
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Pakistan
Asif Ali Zardari
Benazir Bhutto
U.S
Pervez Musharraf
Yousaf Raza Gilani
Zardari
Islamabad
Musharraf
Osama bin Laden
Nasir ‘Ali
Casey Anthony
Caylee Marie
Orange County
Fla
Anthony
California
Amy Huizenga
Orlando
Target
Winn-Dixie
Angelo Nieves
Absenteeism critique fuels federal workers debate
Sen. Tom Coburn released a report accusing 17 federal agencies and the USPS of excessive AWOL hours from 2001 to 2007, tallying 19.6 million hours or about 2.5 million missed days. Critics call the study misleading while Coburn defends addressing inefficiency and leadership responsibility.
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Tom Coburn
R-Okla
Coburn
U.S. Postal Service
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Colleen Kelley
National Treasury Employees Union
Senate
Dr. No
Transportation Security Administration
House
Punk rocker faces Cuba trial for social dangerousness
Miami musician Gorki Aguila, frontman of Porn for Ricardo, goes on trial in Havana on charges of pre crime social dangerousness. The case, closed to media, drew diplomats and artists who chanted his name as authorities escorted him into the courthouse amid calls for freedom and renewed debate over Raul and Fidel Castro’s limits.
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Cuba
Miami
Gorki Aguila
Miami Herald
Ricardo
Havana
Rocker
Foden
Pablo Milanes
Aguila
Raul Castro
Fidel
Castro
Castro Brothers
Ava de Aragon
Florida International University
Raul
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Ohio
Swat Valley
Taliban
Muslim Khan
Florida
NASA
Michael Griffin
International Space Station
John Coggeshall
Manifest
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Griffin
Constellation
Michael Sohn
Nikolai Valuey
John Ruiz
Berlin
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