Good morning, it’s Saturday, May 9, the 129th day of 2009. There are 236 days left in the year.
It’s Election Day throughout Central Texas. The day will be cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. We’ll be in the lower 70s to start the day and temperatures will rise into the 80s this afternoon.

A year ago today, the wedding party of former first daughter Jenna Bush rolled into Salado for a rehearsal dinner while thunderstorms rolled through Coryell and McLennan Counties, causing damage in downtown Gatesville and creating a mess on the Bush ranch where tents had been erected for the wedding the next day. Fortunately there was time to clean up and the ceremony went off without a hitch.

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Today's Highlight in History:
On May 9, 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "JOIN, or DIE."

On This Date:
In 1883, Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid.
In 1936, Italy annexed Ethiopia.
In 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.
In 1961, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened public hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon.
In 1978, the bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.
In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section to collapse.
In 1982, the musical "Nine," inspired by the Federico Fellini film "8 1/2," opened on Broadway.
In 1987, 183 people were killed when a New York-bound Polish jetliner crashed while attempting an emergency return to Warsaw.
In 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.

Ten years ago:
A chartered bus carrying members of a casino club on a Mother's Day gambling excursion ran off a highway in New Orleans, killing 22 people. Furious Chinese demonstrators hurled rocks and debris into the U.S. Embassy in a second day of protests against NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.

Five years ago:
A bomb destroyed the VIP section at a stadium during a Victory Day celebration in the Chechen capital of Grozny, killing some two-dozen people, including the province's president, Akhmad Kadyrov. Canada rallied to beat Sweden for the second straight year in the gold-medal game at the world hockey championships, 5-3. Comedian Alan King died in New York at age 76.

One year ago:
Democrat Barack Obama picked up the backing of nine superdelegates, all but erasing Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead. Jury selection began in the Chicago trial of R&B superstar R. Kelly, accused of videotaping himself having sex with a girl as young as 13. (Kelly was later acquitted on all counts.) Journalist-feminist Nuala O'Faolain, who'd gained international fame with her outspoken memoir "Are You Somebody?" in 1966, died in Dublin, Ireland, at age 68.

Today's Birthdays:
CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace is 91. Actress Geraldine McEwan is 77. Actor-writer Alan Bennett is 75. Rock musician Nokie Edwards (The Ventures) is 74. Actor Albert Finney is 73. Actress-turned-politician Glenda Jackson is 73. Musician Sonny Curtis (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is 72. Producer-director James L. Brooks is 69. Singer Tommy Roe is 67. Singer-musician Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield and Poco) is 65. Actress Candice Bergen is 63. Pop singer Clint Holmes is 63. Actor Anthony Higgins is 62. Singer Billy Joel is 60. Blues singer-musician Bob Margolin is 60. Rock singer-musician Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) is 59. Actress Alley Mills is 58. Actress Wendy Crewson is 53. Actor John Corbett is 48. Singer Dave Gahan
(Depeche Mode) is 47. Rapper Ghostface Killah is 39. Country musician Mike Myerson (Heartland) is 38. Rhythm-and-blues singer Tamia is 34. Rock musician Dan Regan (Reel Big Fish) is 32. Rock singer Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan) is 30. Actress Rosario Dawson is 30. Baseball player Brandon Webb is 30. Actress Rachel Boston is 27. Baseball player Prince Fielder is 25. TV personality Audrina Patridge is 24.

Thought for Today:
"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings." -- Dorothy Thompson, American journalist and author (1894-1961).

(Source: Associated Press)

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