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Today In History
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Events:
1588 - Drake defeated the Spanish Armada off the coast of Plymouth  - Google It
1833 - The German composer Robert Schumann died  - Google It
1890 - Vincent van Gogh, the dutch painter, died  - Google It
1938 - Dennis the Menace first appeared in the 'Beano' comic  - Google It
1948 - Bread rationing in Britain ended  - Google It
1949 - The BBC began the first regular television weather broadcast  - Google It
1975 - The military staged a coup in Nigeria, Africa  - Google It
1981 - Prince Charles marred Lady Dianna Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral  - Google It

Birthdays:
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian leader  - Google It
1905 - Dag Hammarskjold, Former UN Secretary-general  - Google It
1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek born composer  - Google It
1946 - Dianne Keen, American actress  - Google It
1952 - Joe Johnson, Snooker player  - Google It
1966 - Sally Gunnell, Athlete  - Google It

Top News Stories
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Ariz. files appeal as sheriff launches new sweep (AP)

Angry protesters shout at sheriff's deputies outside the offices of controversial Maricopa county sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix. Several hundred activists marched here Thursday as a new Arizona immigration law went into effect, sparking a tense standoff with riot police in which about two dozen people were arrested.(AFP/Mark Ralston)AP - The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested.



Past problems for company at heart of oil spill (AP)

This July 28, 2010 photo provided by the State of Michigan shows what Michigan officials say is a sheen of oil on Morrow Lake in Kalamazoo County. The lake is a key point where officials had hoped to stop oil from a spill into the Kalamazoo River that has coated wildlife with oil. (AP Photo/State of Michigan)AP - A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river has experienced leaks, an explosion and dozens of regulatory violations in the past decade throughout the Great Lakes region and elsewhere in the U.S.



Feds OK project to drill under, not on, wild areas (AP)

This image provided by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance shows the Desolation Canyon stretch of the Green River near the eastern edge of the West Tavaputs Plateau where an energy company received federal approval Thursday July 29, 2010 to open one of Utah's biggest natural gas fields by agreeing to use new technology to drill under wild areas, instead of on top of them.  (AP Photo/SUWA, Ray Bloxham)  NO SALESAP - An energy company received federal approval Thursday to take natural gas from a largely untouched, picturesque region of Utah by agreeing to use new technology to drill under wild areas instead of on top of them.



A $3M Clinton wedding? Not out of the question (AP)

Elisabeth Gruender, right, a producer with ARD German TV, is interviewed by Today show host Natalie Morales, second from right, in front of the Beekman Arms Inn, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in Rhinebeck, N.Y.  Chelsea Clinton and her parents have not yet confirmed that the former first daughter's wedding  is being held in Rhinebeck Saturday. Still, signs congratulating her hang in shop windows, residents are talking to TV crews and officials are bracing for crowds. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Imagine spending $250,000 on flowers. Or $20,000 on a cake. How does $15,000 to $20,000 for toilets sound?



Colo. pot shops face closure under tough new rules (AP)

Jake Browne, general manager of The Releaf Center, a Denver medical marijuana center, smells a marijuana bud  in his dispensary on Thursday, July 29, 2010. The Releaf Center has 2,600 patients and is prepared to grow enough marijuana to stay in business, but Browne said many dispensaries won't be able to meet the requirement. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Nearly a fifth of Colorado's medical marijuana dispensary operators could be forced out of business in coming weeks because of new state rules barring some convicted felons from the pot business, federal drug authorities say.



Woman recounts bear attack as caught grizzly ID'd (AP)

A sign at the entrance of the Soda Butte Campground outside Cooke City, Mont. in this July 29, 2010 photo tells would-be visitors to stay out after a man was killed and two people injured when a bear rampaged through the campground. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)AP - One of the survivors of a deadly grizzly bear attack said Thursday she realized her only hope was to play dead after feeling the bear's jaw clamp onto her arm in the middle of the night.



New brush fires erupt in rural Los Angeles County (AP)

A fire helicopter drops water on the fire at Old West Ranch were residents were evacuated and about 30 to 40 homes have been lost to a wildfire about 10 miles southeast of the Mojave Desert town of Tehachapi, Calif. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The area is about 70 miles north of Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)AP - New brush fires swept over nearly a thousand acres in rural Los Angeles County hills Thursday, while good weather to the north aided firefighters building containment lines around two wildfires that destroyed homes in remote mountain communities earlier in the week.



Mass. woman left in recliner dies on 81st birthday (AP)
AP - A woman hospitalized in critical condition after sitting for a month with deep bedsores in a recliner soaked with her waste died Thursday, on her 81st birthday, prosecutors said. Five family members who lived with her face various elderly abuse charges and could see upgraded charges.
Schilling's business, bluster bleed into politics (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2004 file photo, Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling introduces President George W. Bush at a campaign stop in Burgettstown, Pa. Schilling has endorsed political candidates and toyed with running for office himself, but has never been as enmeshed in a race as when the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation in July 2010 offered Schilling's company a $75 million loan guarantee to move to the state. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)AP - The U.S. is fighting two wars, and millions are looking for work. So what is making politicians thump their lecterns in two of New England's hottest political races this summer?



Police: Gunman kills stepfather, 2 others in Texas (AP)
AP - On a leafy cul-de-sac in a gated Texas community, a man walked inside his stepfather's home with a briefcase. A teenage boy at the house didn't recognize him but could tell he was angry. He took his young siblings outside, and moments later heard gunfire.
Ellen DeGeneres out as 'American Idol' judge (AP)

FILE - In this undated publicity image released by Fox, new 'American Idol,' judge Ellen DeGeneres is shown. DeGeneres is dancing off 'American Idol' after one season, leaving Fox's hit show with two vacancies on its judging panel.  (AP Photo/Fox, Michael Becker, FILE)AP - Ellen DeGeneres is dancing off "American Idol" after one season, leaving Fox's hit show with two vacancies on its judging panel.



Mo. ballot measures tests federal health care law (AP)

In this July 28, 2010 photo, a pickup truck carries a large sign that reads ' Vote Aug. 3 Yes Prop C ' outside a rally and fundraiser for supporters of a ballot measure to block the new federal health insurance law in St. Charles, Mo. Missouri will become the first state to the test the popularity of President Barack Obama's top policy accomplishment with a statewide ballot proposal attempting to reject its core mandate that most Americans have health insurance. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - More than 1 million people are expected to participate in what amounts to the largest-ever public opinion poll on the nation's new health care law.



Less oil on surface means less work for fishermen (AP)

Captain Vatroslav Garbin stands near his commercial oyster boat while on standby with the vessels of opportunity program in Empire, La., Thursday, July 29, 2010. Garbin signed a contract to participate in the vessels of opportunity program, but he has yet to be called to assist. As less heavy oil is found on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and commercial fishing waters remain closed, local fishermen who signed up for the program are becoming worried about their futures as they wait dockside for a call to assist in spill cleanup efforts. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Even when the oily sheen starts fading from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, it manages to become bad news for fishermen.



Aid options dwindle for sick 9/11 responders (AP)

Workers continue construction on the World Trade Center site in New York City. Two US networks are refusing to air a slick, highly confrontational ad by a group protesting plans for a mosque near Ground Zero in New York, US media reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/Eric Thayer)AP - A bill that would provide up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust was in danger of stalling in Congress on Thursday, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for the ill will come from a legal settlement hammered out in the federal courts.



AP-Univision Poll: College dreams for Hispanics (AP)

Yajahira Deaza poses for a photograph in her apartment in the Bronx borough of New York Wednesday July 28, 2010. More than 10 years have passed since she gave up her pursuit of a degree in computer science, but Yajahira Deaza still has regrets. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - More than 10 years have passed since she gave up her pursuit of a degree in computer science, but Yajahira Deaza still has regrets.



Ousted USDA employee Sherrod plans to sue blogger (AP)

Shirley Sherrod answers questions during an interview at her home on Friday, July 23, 2010 in Albany, Ga. Sherrod was fired from her job at the Agriculture Department amid accusations of racism. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)AP - Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist.



Texas man gets death penalty for beheading 3 kids (AP)
AP - A jury sentenced a south Texas man to death on Thursday, four days after convicting him of capital murder for beheading his common law wife's three children in 2003.
Feds, farmers create habitats for migrating birds (AP)

Migratory birds hunt for food on a partially flooded crawfish farm owned by Grantt Guillory near Opelousas, La., on July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/John Flesher)AP - Water gurgling from a well is flooding Craig Gautreaux's rice and crawfish fields, turning the farm into a wetland for migratory birds whose usual Gulf of Mexico wintering grounds are threatened by the oil spill.



DC sniper claims conspirators in Shatner interview (AP)

FILE - Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo appears in a Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003 Chesapeake, Va., Sheriff's office handout booking photo. Malvo, convicted in the deadly sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in 2002, says two others planned to participate in the attacks but backed out. The revelation comes in a prison interview for the Thursday premier of 'Confessions of the DC Sniper with William Shatner: An Aftermath Special' on the A&E television network. (AP Photo/Chesapeake Sheriff's office )AP - Convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo tells actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and that his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program set for airing Thursday.



Once-secret docs reveal before the CIA, there was 'the Pond' (AP)

FILE - This March 17, 1946 file photo shows Dr. Marcel Petiot in Paris. The doctor, a serial killer who was convicted of 26 murders and guillotined as punishment for his crimes, regularly treated refugees, businessmen and Gestapo agents, but also had a predilection for killing wealthy Jews and burning their bodies in a basement furnace.  He was one of the most unusual informers used by one of America's most secretive espionage agencies, known simply as the Pond. (AP Photo, File)AP - It was a night in early November during the infancy of the Cold War when the anti-communist dissidents were hustled through a garden and across a gully to a vehicle on a dark, deserted road in Budapest. They hid in four large crates for their perilous journey.





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