Good morning, it’s Friday, September 28, the 271st day of 2007. There are 94 days left in the year. The forecast calls for sun and highs in the lower 90s. Today is the 40th birthday of TV personality Moon Zappa, born Moon Unit Zappa in 1967. Her father was Frank Zappa, the prolific composer and performer who was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

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This month’s photo:

Union Pacific’s historic steam locomotive No. 844 stops at Rockdale’s equally historic 1906 International and Great Northern Depot. No. 844 is the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific. With its tender, it weighs more than 900,000 pounds. The photo was taken by Dr. Lucile Estell of Rockdale and was selected for the 2007 KWTX Hometown Calendar. Click here for information about the 2008 KWTX Hometown Calendar.

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Today's Highlight in Local History:
On September 28, 1995, five died in the crash near Odessa of the last operating B-26 belonging to what was then known as the Confederate Air Force.

Today's Highlight in History:
On September 28, 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne.

On This Date:
In 1542, Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at present-day San Diego.
In 1781, American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began their siege of Yorktown, Virginia.
In 1787, Congress voted to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.
In 1850, flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
In 1924, two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.
In 1939, during World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.
In 1967, Walter E. Washington was sworn in as the first mayor-commissioner of the District of Columbia (he'd been appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson).
In 1974, first lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast.
In 1987, U.S. Representative Patricia Schroeder (Democrat, Colorado) announced in Denver that she would not run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In 1991, jazz great Miles Davis died in Santa Monica, California, at age 65.

Ten years ago:
Swiss voters overwhelmingly endorsed their government's liberal drug policies, including the controversial state distribution of heroin to hardened addicts. Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 58th home run on the final day of the regular season as his team beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1.

Five years ago:
Iraq defiantly rejected a U.S.-British plan for the United Nations to force President Saddam Hussein to disarm and open his palaces for weapons searches. Finance leaders meeting in
Washington directed the International Monetary Fund to work on new approach to resolving global debt crises. U.S. Representative Patsy Mink, a 12-term Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, died in Honolulu at age 74.

One year ago:
Al-Qaeda in Iraq's leader, in a chilling audiotape, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison.

Today's Birthdays:
Actor William Windom is 84. Actor Arnold Stang is 82. Blues singer Koko Taylor is 79. Actress Brigitte Bardot is 73. Singer Ben E. King is 69. Actor Joel Higgins is 64. Singer Helen Shapiro is 61. Actor Jeffrey Jones is 61. Movie writer-director-actor John Sayles is 57. Actress Sylvia Kristel is 55. Rock musician George Lynch is 53. Zydeco singer-musician C.J. Chenier is 50. Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo is 43. Country singer Matt King is 41. Actress Mira Sorvino is 40. TV personality Moon Zappa is 40. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sean Levert is 39. Actress-model Carre Otis is 39. Actress Naomi Watts is 39. Country musician Chuck Crawford is 34. Country singer Mandy Barnett is 32. Rapper Young Jeezy is 30. Actress Hilary Duff is 20. Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak is 15.

Thought for Today:
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." – Thomas Mann, German writer (1875-1955).

(Source: Associated Press)

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