From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-xto-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1867 - Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsize off St Thomas, Virgin Islands   
      
   1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering   
   the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.   
      
   1956 - NBC anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley first team up in "The   
   Huntley-Brinkley Report"   
      
   1995 - Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25   
      
   1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission   
   presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.   
      
   2008 - Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's   
   largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1857 - Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)   
      
   1930 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)   
      
   1948 - Ricky Reynolds, rocker   
      
   1970 - Chris Thorpe, doubles luger (Olympics 1994), born in Waukegan, Illinois   
      
   1971 - Matthew Hayden, cricketer (heavy scorer for Queensland, Aust 1994-96)   
      
   1983 - Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury   
      
   1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)   
      
   1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan, dies at 67   
      
   2003 - Hal Clement [Harry Clement Stubbs], American sci-fi writer (Mission of   
   Gravity), dies at 81   
      
   2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)   
      
   2016 - John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of   
   Chemists Gold Medal (2013), dies at 98   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
   http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/historyorb/todayinhistory/~3/SDMkNyAXWXY/29   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)