| Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
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| Mickey Mouse |
Today's News
- AARP -- backs Republican-sponsored Medicare bill (story)
- CIA -- voice cannot be authenticated as Saddam Hussein's (story)
- Alex Rodriguez -- named AL MVP and confirms trade rumors (story)
Today's History
- William Caxton -- published Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed in England (1477)
- standard time -- adopted by U.S. and Canada to facilitate railroad timetables (1883)
- Jim Jones -- urged 911 followers to kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced punch (1978)
Today's Birthdays
- George Gallup -- American statistician and pioneer of the public opinion poll (1901-1984)
- Alan Shepard -- first American in space (1923-1998)
- Margaret Atwood -- author of The Handmaid's Tale turns 64
