Dana Summers BONUS!
• Gary Varvel
• Michael Ramirez
• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
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On this day in . . .
• 1099, the First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins
• 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky
• 1776, Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence
• 1892, Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game
• 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome
• 1948, Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state
• 1955, Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films
• 1965, the Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
• 1967, the Israeli military enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War
• 1975, Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public
• 1981, the Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera
• 1982, Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits
• 2000, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp., declaring the software giant should be split into two because it had "proved untrustworthy in the past"; Microsoft vowed to appeal. (An appeals court later threw out the breakup order; the Justice Department, under the Bush administration, said it would no longer seek a breakup of Microsoft.)
• 2001, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh abandoned all appeals after a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his request to delay his impending execution
• 2002, Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Conn., of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when they were 15 in 1975. (Skakel, who continues to maintain his innocence, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.)
• 2006, the British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert. ALSO: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a U.S. airstrike on his safe house
• 2007, at the G-8 summit in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Europe, presented President George W. Bush with a surprise counterproposal built around a Soviet-era radar system in Azerbaijan; Bush promised to consider the idea, but ended up essentially rejecting it
• 2010, White House correspondent Helen Thomas, 89, abruptly retired after calling for Israelis to get "out of Palestine" in an online video
• 2011, Moammar Gadhafi stood defiant in the face of the heaviest and most punishing NATO airstrikes to date, declaring in an audio address carried on Libyan state television, "We will not kneel!" ALSO: Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces
• 2012, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Syrian President Bashar Assad has "doubled down on his brutality and duplicity." She said Syria cannot be peaceful or stable "until Assad goes."
• 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump claimed their parties' presidential nominations following contests in New Jersey, California, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota
[ I N S I G H T ]
Andrew Malcolm: The sad spectacle of Hillary Clinton's slow-motion breakdown
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Runaway Math
L. Brent Bozell III: The CNN 'Scholar' Throwing Excrement
Michelle Malkin: YouTube Banned Me, But Not the Hate Imams
John Stossel: Prosperity Cities
• (INCLUDES VIDEO ) Unsealed 75 years after the Battle of Midway: New details of an alarming WWII press leak
• Her texts pushed him to commit suicide, prosecutors say. But does that mean she killed him?
Jonah Goldberg: London attacks followed by same old stale argument
Adam Taylor: The UK election, explained: How to make sense of Britain's latest vote
Matt Zapotosky: 5 things to expect when ex-FBI director Comey testifies on Russia
David Weigel: As Dems prep for Comey, some on left want them to give up Russia story
Byron York: Time to govern, Republicans
Leonid Bershidsky: Leaked NSA report is being read backward: What if Russian hackers were more anti-Clinton than pro-Trump?
Walter Williams: Dems' Hoodwinking of Blacks
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
• Mallard Filmore