| Today's Highlights: Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
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Quote: "We're shooting 100 percent — 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line" Today's News:
- Alberto Gonzales: US Attorney General acknowledges mistakes; declines to resign (story)
- East Australian Current: is shoved aside by giant eddy that also lowered sea level (story)
- Guinness: Ireland's national drink loses ground to wine and other spirits (story)
- Titan: probe snaps apparent ethane or methane seas on Saturn's largest moon (story)
- Tori Spelling: gives birth to baby with husband Dean McDermott (story)
Today's History:
- Ides of March: Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by stabbing in the Senate house (44 BCE)
- Pine Tree State: Maine became the 23rd state (1820)
- Sedna: the press announced discovery of the "
tenth planet " (2004)
Today's Birthdays:
- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845): 7th US president
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (74): US Supreme Court justice
- Phil Lesh (67), Mike Love (66), Joe Hahn (30): rockers
- Eva Longoria (32): actor, Desperate Housewives
