Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 336th day of 2008. There are 30 days left in the year. Thought for the day:
Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end." -- Marcelene Cox, American writer.
Today's Hightlight in History:
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.
On This Date:
In 1904
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis closed after seven months and some 20 million visitors.
In 1913
the first drive-in automobile service station, built by Gulf Refining Company, opened in Pittsburgh.
In 1921
the Navy flew the first nonrigid dirigible to use helium; the C-7 traveled from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Washington, D.C.
In 1943
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin concluded their Tehran conference.
In 1958
the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Flower Drum Song" opened on Broadway.
In 1969
the U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.
In 1973
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, died in Tel Aviv at age 87.
In 1992
in Mineola, N.Y., Amy Fisher was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco. (Fisher served seven years.)
In 2000
Vicente (vih-SEN'-tay) Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.
O N T H I S D A Y I N H I S T O R Y
T E N Years Ago
F I V E Years Ago
O N E Year Ago
Exxon agreed to buy Mobil for $73.7 billion. Cuba's Communist Party recommended that December 25th be re-established as a permanent holiday.
India and Pakistan agreed to restore airline overflight and landing rights by Jan. 1st, 2004. Boeing Company chairman and chief executive Phil Condit resigned unexpectedly. U.S. Representative Bill Janklow went on trial in Flandreau, S.D., charged with manslaughter in the death of a motorcylist who'd collided with his automobile. (Janklow was convicted and served 100 days in jail.)
Police in Wichita, Kan., identified a body found days earlier as that of Emily Sander, a missing college student whose disappearance drew nationwide attention after the discovery she was also an Internet pornography model named Zoey Zane. (A suspect, Israel Mireles, is fighting extradition from Mexico.) Four suspects were charged in Miami in the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor. (One ended up pleading guilty to second-degree murder; a fifth suspect was also charged.)
Today's Birthdays:
Actor Paul Picerni is 86 Former CIA director Stansfield Turner is 85 Singer Billy Paul is 74 Actor-director Woody Allen is 73 Golfer Lee Trevino is 69 Singer Dianne Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 69 Country musician Casey Van Beek (The Tractors) is 66 Television producer David Salzman is 65 Rock singer-musician Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult) is 64 Rock musician John Densmore (The Doors) is 64 Actress-singer Bette Midler is 63 Singer Gilbert O'Sullivan is 62 Actor Treat Williams is 57 Country singer Kim Richey is 52 Actress Charlene Tilton is 50 Actress-model Carol Alt is 48 Actor Jeremy Northam is 47 Actor Nestor Carbonell is 41 Actress Golden Brooks is 38 Actress-comedian Sarah Silverman is 38 Actor Ron Melendez is 36 Contemporary Christian singer Bart Millard (MIL'-urd) is 36 Singer Sarah Masen is 33 Rock musician Brad Delson (Linkin Park) is 31 Actress Ashley Monique Clark is 20.
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