Today is Tuesday, July 13, the 194th day of 2010. There are 171 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On July 13, 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his party’s convention, outdrawing rivals including Lyndon B. Johnson, Stuart Symington and Adlai Stevenson.
ON THIS DATE
In 1787, Congress enacted an ordinance governing the Northwest Territory.
In 1863, deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City. (The insurrection was put down three days later.)
In 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
In 1985, Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa’s starving people.
In 2005, a suicide car bomb exploded next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys in Iraq, killing more than two dozen people, including 19 youth and a U.S. soldier. A fuel gauge that mistakenly read full instead of empty forced NASA to cancel a shuttle launch.
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