TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On June 29, 1910, composer-lyricist Frank Loesser, who wrote the songs for such Broadway musicals as “Guys and Dolls,” “The Most Happy Fella” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” was born in New York.
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In 1776, the Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry was made governor.
In 1946, authorities in British-ruled Palestine arrested more than 2,700 Jews in an attempt to stamp out extremists.
In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s access to classified information.
In 1966, the United States bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
In 1967, Jerusalem was reunified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.
In 1970, the United States ended a two-month military offensive into Cambodia.
In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty as it was being meted out could constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” (The ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment laws.)
In 1988, the Supreme Court upheld the independent counsel law.
In 1995, a department store in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed, killing at least 500 people. Actress Lana Turner died in Century City, Calif. at age 74.
In 2000, an overloaded ship carrying some 500 people, many fleeing sectarian violence in Indonesia’s Maluku islands, sank, killing all but 10 known survivors. President Bill Clinton nominated former Congressman Norman Mineta to lead the Commerce Department and become the first Asian-American Cabinet secretary. Actor Vittorio Gassman died in Rome at age 77.
In 2003, actress Katharine Hepburn died in Old Saybrook, Conn., at age 96.
In 2005, President George W. Bush, embracing nearly all the recommendations of a White House commission, said he was creating a national security service at the FBI to specialize in intelligence as part of a shake-up of the disparate U.S. spy agencies. Mexico released a series of postage stamps depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as “Memin Pinguin,” prompting protests from U.S. activists.
In 2009, U.S. combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities, the first major step toward removing all American forces from the country by Dec. 31, 2011. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were denied promotion because of their race. Indoor tennis came to Wimbledon as the new retractable roof over Centre Court was closed after rain halted play during a fourth-round match with Amelie Mauresmo leading top-ranked Dinara Safina, 6-4, 1-4. (Safina ended up winning, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.)
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