Good morning Saturday, May 3rd, the 124th day of 2008. There are 242 days left in the year. It should be a perfect day for the annual Komen Central Texas Race for the Cure. Look for lows in the 50s this morning and highs in the mid 70s this afternoon under a sunny sky.

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Today's Highlight in Local History:
Forty years ago today, in 1968, a Braniff Airlines plane crashed near Dawson, killing 85.

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court, in Shelley v. Kraemer, ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.

On This Date:
In 1654, a bridge in Rowley, Massachusetts, was permitted to charge a toll for animals, while people crossed for free.
In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
In 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
In 1933, Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
In 1944, U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended.
In 1945, during World War II, Allied forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
In 1947, Japan's postwar constitution took effect.
In 1948, Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to playwright Tennessee Williams for "A Streetcar Named Desire" and to novelist James Michener for "Tales of the South Pacific."
In 1978, "Sun Day" fell on a Wednesday as thousands of people extolling the virtues of solar energy held events across the country.
In 1986, in NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.

Ten years ago:
Space shuttle Columbia and its crew returned to Earth, ending two weeks of lab work that advanced brain research. After a daylong squabble that had stretched past midnight, European
leaders meeting in Brussels, Belgium, agreed on Wim Duisenberg of the Netherlands as the chief of the new European Central Bank, but with the proviso that he step down in 2002. "The Sevres Road," by 19th-century landscape painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, was stolen from the Louvre.

Five years ago:
President Bush told a news conference in Crawford, Texas, it was a matter of when -- not if -- weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq. Pope John Paul II urged hundreds of thousands of young people outside Madrid to be "artisans of peace." New Hampshire awoke to find its granite symbol of independence and stubbornness, the Old Man of the Mountain, had collapsed into rubble. "Funny Cide" rolled to victory in the Kentucky Derby. Model and actress Suzy Parker died in Montecito, California, at age 69.

One year ago:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Syria's foreign minister Walid Moallem of U.S. concerns about his country's porous border with Iraq in the two nations' first Cabinet-level talks in years. The Florida Legislature gave its final approval to moving the state's 2008 primary from early March to January 29th. Ten Republican presidential candidates held their first debate of the 2008 race at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Virginia for the commemoration of Jamestown's 400th anniversary. Astronaut Wally Schirra died in La Jolla, California, at age 84.

Today's Birthdays:
Folk singer Pete Seeger is 89. Actress Ann B. Davis is 82. Singer Frankie Valli is 74. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 62. Pop singer Mary Hopkin is 58. Singer Christopher Cross is 57. Country musician Cactus Moser (Highway 101) is 51. Rock musician David Ball (Soft Cell) is 49. Country singer Shane Minor is 40. Actor Bobby Cannavale is 38. Music and film producer-actor Damon Dash is 37. Country-rock musician John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) is 37. Country singer Brad Martin is 35. Actor Dule Hill is 33. Country singer Eric Church is 31. Dancer Cheryl Burke (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 24. Actress Jill Berard is 18.

Thought for Today:
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." -- Peter De Vries, American author (1910-1993).

(Source: Associated Press)

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