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| Top Stories News - updated 1:36 AM ET Aug 15 |
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By The Associated Press, Today is Tuesday, Aug. 15, the 228th day of 2000. There are 138 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: Aug. 15, 1945, was proclaimed VJ Day by the Allies, a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally. On this date: In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica. In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. In 1939, the MGM musical ``The Wizard of Oz'' premiered at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces landed in southern France. In 1947, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. In 1948, the Republic of Korea was proclaimed. In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York. In 1971, President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. In 1994, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, was jailed in France after being captured in Sudan. In 1998, 29 people were killed by a car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility. Ten years ago: In an attempt to gain support against the U.S.-led coalition in the Persian Gulf, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein offered to make peace with longtime enemy Iran. Five years ago: The Justice Department agreed to pay $3.1 million to white separatist Randy Weaver and his family to settle their claims over the killing of Weaver's wife and son during a 1992 siege by federal agents at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Pioneering TV journalist and Timex watch pitchman John Cameron Swayze died in Sarasota, Fla., at age 89. One year ago: President Clinton and his family went house hunting in Westchester County, N.Y. (They later settled on a house in Chappaqua.) Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship, becoming the youngest player to win two majors since Seve Ballesteros. Today's Birthdays: Cooking expert Julia Child is 88. Actress Dame Wendy Hiller is 88. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly is 76. Actor Mike Connors is 75. Jazz musician Oscar Peterson is 75. R&B; singer Bill Pinckney (The Drifters) is 75. Actress Janice Rule is 69. Actress Abby Dalton is 68. Actress Lori Nelson is 67. Singer-producer Bobby Byrd is 66. Civil rights activist Vernon Jordan is 65. Actor Jim Dale is 65. Actress Pat Priest is 64. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is 62. Musician Pete York (Spencer Davis Group) is 58. Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is 56. Songwriter Jimmy Webb is 54. Britain's Princess Anne is 50. Actress Tess Harper is 50. Actor Larry Mathews is 45. Actor Zeljko Ivanek is 43. Rock singer-musician Matt Johnson (The) is 39. Actress Debra Messing is 32. Actor Ben Affleck is 28. Singer Michael Graham (Boyzone) is 28. Actress Natasha Henstridge is 26. Thought for Today: ``We must not read either law or history backwards.'' -Helen M. Cam, English historian and educator (1885-1968). Earlier Stories
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