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Happy 60th to Star Wars and Indiana Jones producer George Lucas.
Word of the day
philoprogenitive -- 1) tending to produce offspring: prolific 2) of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring (© )
Today's News
  • Sonia Gandhi -- moves quickly to form new government (story)
  • Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy -- say Iraqis alone must mete out justice to Saddam Hussein and others (story)
  • Derek Fisher -- stuns Spurs to give Lakers 3-2 series lead (story)
Today's History
  • Edward Jenner -- administered the first vaccination against smallpox (1796)
  • Israel -- the first Jewish State in 2,000 years was proclaimed under Prime Minister David Ben Gurion (1948)
  • Warsaw Pact -- signed by Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries, in Poland (1955)

Today's Birthdays
  • Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit -- invented the thermometer (1686-1736)
  • Thomas Gainsborough -- English portrait and landscape artist who painted The Blue Boy (1727-1788)
  • Cate Blanchett -- Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings movies turns 35

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