Today's Highlights:
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
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Spotlight: On this date in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. Kennedy had just delivered a speech upon winning the California Democratic presidential primary and was making his way through the Ambassador Hotel, when he was shot at close range. Kennedy had served as Attorney General under his brother, President John F. Kennedy, and was a senator from New York at the time of his assassination.
Quote: "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
Word of the day: nepotism: favoritism showed to a relative, especially in hiring; the appointment of Robert Kennedy to his brother's Cabinet gave rise to charges of nepotism. Today's News:
self-abuse : study shows rate is nearly 20% at two Ivy League universities (story)- Barry Manilow: Rockdale, a district of Sydney, uses uncool music to chase away antisocial drivers (story)
- Thailand: yellow shirts are must-haves in honor of the 60th year of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's reign (story)
Today's History:
- drive-in: first theater opened, in Camden, NJ (1933)
- D-Day: Allied forces invaded France; turning point in WWII (1944)
- James Meredith: was shot and wounded on a Mississippi highway during his March Against Fear (1966)
Today's Birthdays:
- Thomas Mann: German writer (1875-1955)
- Maxine Kumin: Pulitzer Prize winner (81)
- Roy Innis: civil rights leader (72)
