| Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
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Today's News
- Australia -- demands the US retract statements about terrorist threats
- Arnold Schwarzenegger -- not running for Governorship of California
British Airways -- 4th quarter loss of £45 million
Today's History
- Christopher Columbus -- landed on the southern Caribbean island he named Trinidad (1498)
- Marquis de Lafayette -- made a major-general in the American Continental Army at age 19 (1777)
- Hermann Göring -- sent a directive to Nazi security director Reinhard Heydrich, calling for the extermination of the Jews (1941)
Today's Birthdays
- Evonne Goolagong Cawley -- Australian tennis player of Aboriginal descent turns 52
- Wesley Snipes -- star of the Blade movies turns 41
- J.K. Rowling -- creator of Harry Potter turns 38
