Spotlight
Happy Birthday to broadcast journalist Diane Sawyer! Sawyer, who turns 60 today, is the co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America with Charles Gibson and Robin Roberts, and of PrimeTime Live. Having won a spot on Richard Nixon's press staff in 1972, she was one of a small group who accompanied Nixon back to San Clemente after he left the White House. Later, she became the first female correspondent on CBS's 60 Minutes. Her work has earned her nine Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting.

Quote
"I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact." – Diane Sawyer

Word of the day
elocution: articulate, well-enunciated public speaking; as a child, Diane Sawyer took lessons in elocution. (© )

Today's News

• Saddam: claims to have been beaten and tortured (story)
• McAfee: warns of mobile malware (story)
• Kidney Cancer: FDA OKs new oral treatment (story)

Today's History

• Dreyfus Affair: French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason; he was later exonerated (1894)
• USGA: governing body of golf was founded (1894)
• Flight 63: Richard Reid attempted to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb (2001)

Today's Birthdays

• actors: Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991), Barbara Billingsley (83), Hector Elizondo (69)
• music: Giacomo Puccini, opera (1858-1924); Robin and Maurice Gibb, Bee Gees (56; 1949-2003)
• Stan Lee: creator of Spider-Man (83)