Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 18, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Results of area sporting events for Thursday, May 17.
Today is Friday, May 17, the 137th day of 2013. There are 228 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 17, 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.
Results of area sporting events for Thursday, May 16.
Today is Thursday, May 16, the 136th day of 2013. There are 229 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 16, 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue. An estimated 7,000 Jews were killed during the uprising, while about 7,000 others were summarily executed. The remaining Jews, more than 40,000 of them, were deported to concentration camps.
Results of area sporting events for Wednesday, May 15.
Today is Wednesday, May 15, the 135th day of 2013. There are 230 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 15, 1863, Edouard Manet’s painting “Le dejeuner sur l’herbe” (The Lunch on the Grass) went on display in Paris, scandalizing viewers with its depiction of a nude woman seated on the ground with two fully dressed men at a picnic in a wooded area.
Results of area sporting events for Tuesday, May 14.
Today is Tuesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2013. There are 231 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 14, 1973, the United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station. (Skylab 1 remained in orbit for six years before burning up during re-entry in 1979.)
Results of area sporting events for Monday, May 13.
Today is Monday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2013. There are 232 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 13, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Brady v. Maryland, upheld, 7-2, a lower court decision overturning the death sentence (but not the conviction) of John L. Brady for murder because the prosecution had withheld from the defense a statement by a separately tried accomplice, Charles D. Boblit, that he’d actually carried out the 1958 killing of William Brooks during a robbery. (Brady spent years in prison in legal limbo, declining his right to another sentencing hearing; he was eventually paroled. Boblit, 79, remains imprisoned in Maryland.)
Today is Sunday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2013. There are 233 days left in the year. This is Mother’s Day.
Today’s Highlights in History
On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington.
Results of area sporting events for Saturday, May 11.
Results of area sporting events for Friday, May 10.
Today is Saturday, May 11, the 131st day of 2013. There are 234 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 11, 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
Results of area sporting events for Friday, May 10.
Today is Friday, May 10, the 130th day of 2013. There are 235 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 10, 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson died of pneumonia, a complication resulting from being hit by friendly fire eight days earlier during the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
Results of area sporting events for Thursday, May 9.
Schedule of area sporting events for Thursday, May 9, 2013.
Today is Thursday, May 9, the 129th day of 2013. There are 236 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 9, 1754, a political cartoon in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette depicted a snake cut into eight pieces, each section representing a part of the American colonies; the caption read, “JOIN, or DIE.”
