Good morning, it’s Saturday, April 5, the 96th day of 2008. There are 270 days left in the year. The forecast calls for sun and highs in the mid 70s.
Pat Green, the San Antonio-born, Waco-reared singer-songwriter, turns 36 today. Green is a graduate of Waco’s Vanguard Preparatory School who started his music career while a student at Texas Tech.
This month’s photo:
Easily the most popular picture of 2007. A once in a lifetime shot of bluebonnets in snow during the Easter holiday. The photo was taken by Kristy Ballard and was selected for the 2008 News 10 Weather Authority Calendar.Click here for information about the 2008 News 10 Weather Authority Calendar.
What’s Going On Today
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Today's Highlight in History:
On April 5, 1792, George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
On This Date:
In 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan tribe, married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia. (Having converted to Christianity, she went by the name Lady Rebecca.)
In 1621, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, Massachusetts, on a return trip to England.
In 1887, British historian Lord Acton wrote in a letter, "All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
In 1887, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her blind and deaf pupil Helen Keller learned the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the Manual
Alphabet.
In 1895, Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who'd accused the writer of homosexual practices.
In 1908, actress Bette Davis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts; conductor Herbert von Karajan was born in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1975, nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek died at age 87.
In 1976, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 70.
In 1986, an American soldier and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident which prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.
In 1988, a 15-day hijacking ordeal began as gunmen forced a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet to land in Iran.
Ten years ago:
In Leeds, England, environment chiefs from the world's top eight industrialized nations announced plans to curb the smuggling of hazardous waste, endangered species and substances that damage the ozone layer
Five years ago:
U.S. officials declared a near chokehold on the Iraqi capital Baghdad even while warning that many other parts of Iraq were not yet under allied control. A prison riot in northern Honduras left 69 inmates dead and dozens injured.
One year ago:
Fifteen Royal Navy crewmembers freed by Iran enjoyed their first night on English soil. A Greek cruise ship, the Sea Diamond, sank off an Aegean Sea island, forcing the evacuation of nearly 1,600 people. FBI Special Agent Barry Lee Bush was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow agent as a stakeout team closed in on three suspected bank robbers in Readington, New
Jersey. Darryl Stingley, a former New England Patriots player paralyzed during an on-field collision in 1978, died in Chicago at age 55.
Today's Birthdays:
Actress Gale Storm is 86. Movie producer Roger Corman is 82. Country music producer Cowboy Jack Clement is 77. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is 71. Country singer Tommy Cash is 68. Actor Michael Moriarty is 67. Writer-director Peter Greenaway is 66. Actor Max Gail is 65. Actress Jane Asher is 62. Singer Agnetha Faltskog (ABBA) is 58. Actor Mitch Pileggi is 56. Rock musician Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) is 42. Country singer Troy Gentry is 41. Singer Paula Cole is 40. Actress Krista Allen is 37. Country singer Pat Green is 36. Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is 35.
Thought for Today:
"In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash." -- Douglas MacArthur, Army general (born 1880, died this date in 1964).
(Source: Associated Press)
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