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Good morning, it’s Thursday April 17 and it’s shaping up as a warm and windy day with a chance of rain late tonight. Thirty-eight years ago today, a drama in space came to a happy ending.
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Good morning, it’s Thursday, April 17, the 108th day of 2008. There are 258 days left in the year. The day begins in the lower 60s and by this afternoon highs will reach the mid 70s. By tonight, showers and thunderstorms are a possibility.

Thirty-eight years ago today, Apollo XIII splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, four days after a ruptured oxygen tank damaged the spacecraft and resulted in a loss of oxygen and electrical power. The crew used the Lunar Module as a sort of lifeboat while power to the command module was shut down until re-entry. There was no lunar landing, but the mission was called a “Successful Failure.”

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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.





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Today's Highlight in History:
On April 17, 1961, about 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.

On This Date:
In 1521, Martin Luther went before the Diet of Worms to face charges stemming from his religious writings. (He was later declared an outlaw by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.)
In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazano reached present-day New York Harbor.
In 1790, American statesman Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia at age 84.
In 1861, the Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
In 1941, Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany in World War II.
In 1964, Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model at the New York World's Fair.
In 1969, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1969, Czechoslovak Communist Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek was deposed.
In 1970, the astronauts of Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the Pacific, four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft.
In 1990, the Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy, the civil rights activist and top aide to Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. died in Atlanta at age 64.

Ten years ago:
A Thai military team collected evidence from the body of Pol Pot, former chief of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas, to lay to rest doubts that one of the century's worst tyrants was truly dead. Photographer Linda McCartney, wife of rock legend Paul McCartney, died in Tucson, Arizona, at age 56.

Five years ago:
U.S. Special Forces in Baghdad captured Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, a half-brother of and adviser to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The U.S. government awarded Bechtel Corporation a major contract for helping rebuild Iraq's power, water and sewage systems. Diet doctor Robert C. Atkins died in New York at age 72. Songwriter Earl King died in New Orleans at age 69. Sir J. Paul
Getty Junior, the reclusive third son of American oilman J. Paul Getty, died in London at age 70.

One year ago:
A day after the Virginia Tech massacre, President Bush visited the campus, where he told students and teachers at a somber convocation that the nation was praying for them and "there's a power in these prayers." In Rome, a U.S. soldier went on trial in absentia for the shooting death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari at an Iraqi checkpoint in March 2005.
(However, a court later threw out the proceedings against Specialist Mario Lozano, saying Italy had no jurisdiction.) Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart died in New York at age 96.

Today's Birthdays:
Rock promoter Don Kirshner is 74. Composer-musician Jan Hammer is 60. Actress Olivia
Hussey is 57. Rock singer-musician Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) is 53. Actor Sean Bean is 49. Rock singer Maynard James Keenan (Tool) is 44. Actress Lela Rochon is 44. Actor William Mapother is 43. Actress Kimberly Elise is 41. Singer Liz Phair is 41. Rapper-actor Redman is 38. Actress Jennifer Garner is 36. Country musician Craig Anderson (Heartland) is 35. Singer Victoria Adams Beckham (Spice Girls) is 34. Actress-singer Lindsay Korman is 30. Actor Paulie Litt is 13. Actress Dee Dee Davis is 12.

Thought for Today:
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." -- Sydney J. Harris, American journalist (1917-1986).

(Source: Associated Press)

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