Good morning, it’s Sunday, January 13, the 13th day of 2008. There are 353 days left in the year. The forecast calls for lows this morning in the 30s and afternoon highs in the 70s under a mostly sunny sky.

Thirty years ago today, in 1978, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66. He served as vice president under President Lyndon Johnson, and when Johnson announced he wouldn’t seek reelection in 1968, Humphrey entered the Democratic presidential sweepstakes, winning the nomination without running in any of the states that held primaries. But he wasn’t able to unite the party after a divisive Chicago convention in which the protests outside the convention hall attracted more attention than the politicking inside. He lost to Richard Nixon in the 1968 general election by only 500,000 votes.

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Today's Highlight in History:
On January 13, 1794, President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

On This Date:
In 1808, Chief U.S. Justice Salmon P. Chase was born in Cornish, New Hampshire.
In 1864, composer Stephen Foster died in New York at age 37.
In 1898, Emile Zola's famous defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, "J'accuse," was published in Paris.
In 1941, novelist and poet James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, less than a month before his 59th birthday.
In 1962, comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles 10 days before his 43rd birthday.
In 1966, Robert C. Weaver was named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Johnson; Weaver became the first black Cabinet member.
In 1978, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.
In 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing a total of 78 people.
In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.
In 2002, the off-Broadway musical "The Fantasticks" finished its original run of nearly 42 years and 17,162 shows.

Ten years ago:
Linda Tripp wore a hidden microphone for the FBI and recorded a conversation with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Three masked men robbed two Brink's guards of $1.17 million inside New York's World Trade Center. (The robbers removed their masks while under video surveillance; three suspects were quickly arrested.) The NFL completed a blockbuster $9.2 billion deal with the Walt Disney Company, which got to keep "Monday Night Football" for ABC and won the entire Sunday night cable package for ESPN.

Five years ago:
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman jumped into the 2004 race for president. Rock musician Pete Townshend was arrested in London on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. (Townshend said he was only doing research for an autobiography dealing with his own suspected childhood sexual abuse; he was eventually cleared of possessing pornographic images of children.) The owners of FAO Schwarz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

One year ago:
Nine people were killed in an apartment building fire in Huntington, West Virginia. Two miners were killed when a roof collapsed inside the Brooks Run Mining Company's Cucumber coal
mine in McDowell County, West Virginia. The North Carolina state attorney general's office agreed to take over the sexual assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players at the request of embattled Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong (all three players were later exonerated).

Today's Birthdays:
Country singer Liz Anderson is 78. Actress Frances Sternhagen is 78. Comedian Rip Taylor is 74. Actor Billy Gray is 70. Actor Richard Moll is 65. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 54. Rhythm-and-blues musician Fred White is 53. Actor Kevin Anderson is 48. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 47. Rock singer Graham "Suggs" McPherson (Madness) is 47. Country singer Trace Adkins is 46. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 44. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 42. Actress Traci Bingham is 40. Actor Keith Coogan is 38. Actress Nicole Eggert is 36. Actor Orlando Bloom is 31.

Thought for Today:
Thought for Today: "There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs, when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom." -- William Ellery Channing, American clergyman (1780-1842).

(Source: Associated Press)

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