Today's Highlights:
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
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Spotlight: Topic of the Day: Tours begin tomorrow of the Queens house where jazz great Louis Armstrong lived and died.
Today's News:
- Antonin Scalia -- recuses himself from Pledge of Allegiance case (story)
- Intel -- expects China to overtake US as top consumer of PCs by 2010 (story)
- Marlins -- with Cubs fan's help, overcome 3-0 8th-inning deficit to force game 7 (story)
Today's History:
- Mata Hari -- executed by a French firing squad after being convicted of spying for Germany (1917)
- Nikita Khrushchev -- deposed and succeeded by Alexei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev (1964)
- Wayne Gretzky -- passed Gordie Howe as NHL's all time top scorer (1989)
Today's Birthdays:
- Virgil -- author of the Aeneid (70 BCE- 19 BCE)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -- German philosopher who wrote about the Übermensch in books like Thus Spake Zarathustra (1844-1900)
- Erin McKeown -- singer of "Queen of Quiet" turns 26
