Today is Wednesday, July 8, the 189th day of 2009. There are 176 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On July 8, 1776, Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.
ON THIS DATE
In 1889, The Wall Street Journal was first published.
In 1907, Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first “Follies,” on the roof of the New York Theater.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman named Gen. Douglas MacArthur commander in chief of U.N. forces in Korea.
In 1999, an Air Force cargo jet took off from McChord Air Force Base in Washington on a dangerous mission to Antarctica to drop medicine for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center who had discovered a lump in her breast. (The mission was successful; Nielsen was evacuated in October 1999.)
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