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Today's Highlight in History:
On October 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit.

On This Date:
In 1777, George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania, resulting in heavy American casualties.
In 1822, the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
In 1957, Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
In 1958, the first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit the Western Hemisphere as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room.
In 1976, agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks.
In 1978, a funeral mass was held at the Vatican for Pope John Paul I.
In 1980, some 520 people were forced to abandon the cruise ship Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska after the Dutch luxury liner caught fire; no deaths or serious injury resulted. (The ship capsized and sank a week later.)

Ten years ago:
Russian envoys warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that NATO might launch airstrikes unless he took "decisive measures" to end the humanitarian crisis in the southern province of Kosovo. Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso won re-election.

Five years ago:
A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.

One year ago:
Idaho Senator Larry Craig defiantly vowed to serve out his term in office despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting. Former city maintenance worker John Ashley shot five people in a law office in Alexandria, Louisiana, killing two of them; Ashley was shot and killed by police following a standoff. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pledged to pursue a peace treaty and end their countries' decades-long standoff.

Today's Birthdays:
Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is 79. Actress elicia Farr is 76. Actor Eddie Applegate is 73. Author Roy Blount, Jr. is 67. Author Anne Rice is 67. Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 67. Actor Clifton Davis is 63. Actress Susan Sarandon is 62. Blues musician Duke Robillard is 60. Playwright Lee Blessing is 59. Actor Armand Assante is 59. Actor Alan Rosenberg is 58. Actor Bill Fagerbakke is 51. Producer Russell Simmons is 51. Musician Chris Lowe (The Pet
Shop Boys) is 49. Country musician Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard (Sawyer Brown) is 48. Actor David W. Harper is 47. Singer Jon Secada is 47. TV personality John Melendez ("The Tonight Show") is 43. Actor Liev Schreiber is 41. Actor Abraham Benrubi is 39. Country singer-musician Heidi Newfield is 38. Rock musician Andy Parle is 38. Actress Alicia Silverstone is 32. Actor
Phillip Glasser is 30. Rock singer-musician Marc Roberge (O.A.R.) is 30. Actress Rachael Leigh Cook is 29. Actor Jimmy Workman is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jessica Benson (3lw) is 21. Actor Michael Charles Roman is 21. Figure skater Kimmie Meisner is 19.

Thought for Today:
"He who confers a favor should at once orget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit." --Demosthenes, Greek statesman (384 B.C.-322 B.C.).

(Source: Associated Press)

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