| 1558 | The French take the French town of Thioville from the English. | |
| 1772 | Slavery is outlawed in England. | |
| 1807 | British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812. | |
| 1864 | Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia. | |
| 1876 | General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages. | |
| 1910 | German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis. | |
| 1911 | King George V of England crowned. | |
| 1915 | Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat. | |
| 1925 | France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco. | |
| 1930 | A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. | |
| 1933 | Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis. | |
| 1938 | Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium. | |
| 1940 | France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis. | |
| 1941 | Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River. | |
| 1944 | President Franklin Roosevelt signs the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war. | |
| 1956 | The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in Casbah are blown up. | |
| 1970 | President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18. | |
| 1973 | Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space. | |
| 1980 | The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan. | |
| 1981 | Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon. | |
| 1995 | Nigeria's former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha's military government. |
Barry
Eastwood went to the bank to withdraw £1000 to pay for his car insurance
when he tripped and fell. The money blew out of his hand and he managed
to hold on to only £60.The grandfather of 13, said: 'The money went flying in the air. I saw all these young lads started grabbing the notes and I thought I’ve got no chance here.Pamela Owen of The Daily Mail has the story that will reaffirm your belief in humanity here.
'But they brought it all back back - I couldn’t believe it! They were jumping up and catching the notes - it’s a shame no one had a camera.
'There must have been about 20 lads - they were all young lads. I ended up with all the money back bar £20.'
Egypt's generals awarded themselves sweeping political powers in an 11th-hour constitutional declaration that tied the hands of the country's incoming president and cemented military authority over the post-Mubarak era.
The announcement on Sunday night came as early presidential election results put the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi ahead of his rival Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak's final prime minister and an unabashed champion of the old regime. But with thousands of polling stations yet to declare following the two-day runoff vote, the overall winner was too close to call.
Pro-change activists and human rights campaigners said the junta's constitutional declaration – which came just days after judges extended the army's ability to arrest civilians and following the dissolution of the Brotherhood-dominated parliament by the country's top court – rendered the scheduled handover of power to a democratically elected executive meaningless.
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive repugican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering under President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Scott, a repugican, was asked to say that the state’s jobless rate could improve faster under a Romney presidency, according to the people, who asked not to be named.
What’s unfolding in Florida highlights a dilemma for the Romney campaign: how to allow repugican governors to take credit for economic improvements in their states while faulting Obama’s stewardship of the national economy. The repugican governors in Ohio, Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin also have highlighted improving economies.
Instead, repugican lawmakers cite recent announcements that some insurance companies will retain a few of the law's higher-profile provisions as evidence that quick legislative action is not essential. Those are steps that officials say repugicans quietly urged in private conversations with the industry.
Once the Supreme Court issues a ruling, "the goal is to repeal anything that is left standing," said Sen. John Barrasso, reptile-Wyo., a member of the party's leadership.
Beyond that, "we ought to go step by step to lower the cost" of health care, he added, a formula repeated by numerous other repugicans interviewed in recent days.
When Blue Shield of California raised the rates for Robert Jeffrey Martin's family insurance policy by 23 percent, the health insurer offered him two options: Stay in his expensive old plan or switch to a policy that offered his family skimpier benefits with a higher deductible.
Martin, 59, knew finding a new insurer would be tough and felt like he had no choice. The Gilroy farmer, who grows olives trees and bottles his own olive oil, switched to the new policy.
But then Blue Shield backed off on the proposed increase on his previous policy. When Martin tried to switch back, the insurer told him that was no longer possible because his old plan was closed to new members.
The recording equipment may also be linked to a federal initiative to help CBSA combat organized crime and internal smuggling conspiracies at big Canadian airports.
A 2008 RCMP report said at least 58 crime groups were believed active at major airports, typically by corrupting airport employees or placing criminal associates in airport jobs to move narcotics and other contraband to and from planes.
The Customs Act was amended in 2009 to allow for the creation of "customs controlled areas" within airports, starting with those in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, followed by Ottawa and other international Canadian aerodromes.
'Keep the meter running.' That's what one Florida woman must have said to the taxi driver she
made wait for her outside a convenience store while she went inside to
rob it.Uruguay has unveiled a plan to allow state-controlled sales of marijuana to fight a rise in drug-related crime.
Under the bill, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana to adults registered on a database.
Defence Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro said this was part of a plan to remove profits from drug dealers and divert users from harder drugs.
8. Every Study That Uses Public Funds is Published PubliclyAre there any they left off of the list that you think should be added?
This is as much to help scientists as to help everyone else. A lot of public money is spent on a lot of scientific studies. Those studies, if they are judged (often by people who volunteer their time) to be worthy of publication, are published in journals far less widely read than the people who do the work, or the people who need the work, would like. Scientific journal subscriptions can be massively expensive, and a barrier to people having the scientific information they, kind of, paid for.
It’s hard to overstate how wild an accomplishment this would be: A machine, built here on Earth by the brain- and handiwork of humans, has sailed from Florida, out of Earth’s orbit, beyond Mars, beyond the gas giants of Jupiter and Saturn, and may now have left the heliosphere — tiny dot in the universe beholden to our sun. Had it really happened? How would we know?Scientists are monitoring certain cosmic ray particles hitting Voyager, the kind that do not easily enter the heliosphere, to monitor its progress. Read more about it at the Atlantic.
We’re not quite there yet, Voyager’s project scientist and former head of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, Edward Stone, told me. The spacecraft is on its way out — “it’s leaving the solar system” — but we don’t know how far it has to go or what that transition to interstellar space will look like.
Voyager launched in 1977. Today, Voyager I is about 121 astronomical units away (one astronomical unit is equal to the rough distance from the Sun to the Earth). That is so far that it takes 16 hours for the radio signals it transmits to reach us. (Voyager II is about 22 astronomical units — approximately seven years — behind.) It is traveling at about 17 kilometers per second (38,000 miles per hour), propelled by the slingshot effect from flying by Jupiter and Saturn. (“It’s well above escape velocity,” Stone said.) The spacecraft’s cameras have been turned off since 1990, when it took the pictures for the famous Family Portrait mosaic that captures the planets as they appeared as Voyager I looked back over the solar system it had traveled across.
A newly released image from NASA shows off our home planet from an unfamiliar angle: the Arctic, arrayed in frosty white.
A double-burst of solar particles sparked auroral lights over the weekend, as expected — but at least in some parts of the world, the colors were not what you'd expect. Instead of the typical greenish glow, observers reported seeing reds, pinks, violets and even blues.Alan Boyle of MSNBC's Photoblog has more here.
Those
two dots are actually boats on Lake Retba in Senegal. The pink water,
which made it look like the boats are floating on a Pepto-Bismol lake,
got its color from the extremely high levels of salt.Michael Danson, an expert in extremophile bacteria from Bath University, said: "The strawberry colour is produced by salt-loving organism Dunaliella salina.Find out why the salt collectors have to coat their skin with butter over at The Huffington Post.
"They produce a red pigment that absorbs and uses the energy of sunlight to create more energy, turning the water pink.
"Lakes like Retba and the Dead Sea, which have high salt concentrations, were once thought to be incompatible with life - hence the names. But they are very much alive."
Salt collectors can often be seen scouring the expanse to remove the valuable mineral - but first have to coat their skin with sheer butter.
Big cats are under pressure as one of Africa's fastest-growing cities creeps onto hunting grounds. Read more 
