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Mosul Substation Expansion to Benefit Millions

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Today in History
1636 - Plymouth Colony sees its first code of law.
1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas first volunteer firefighters.
1777 - Battle of Germantown.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic.
1830 - Belgium secedes from the Netherlands.
1862 - The Battle of Corinth ends.
1883 - The Orient Expressmakes its first run, linking Turkey to Europe.
1910 - Portugal becomes a republic; King Manuel II flees to England.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" (Chester Gould) debuts.
1940 - Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1955 - Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul.
1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS-TV; the U.S.S.R. Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite.
1958 - Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service begins (BOAC).
1959 - The U.S.S.R.'s Luna-3 sends back the first photos of the Moon's far side.
1960 - The Courier-1B, first active repeater satellite in orbit, is launched.
1962 - USAF Maorj Robert A. Rushworth takes the X-15 to 32,300 m.
1963 - Gambia achieves full internal self-government.
1965 - Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the Western Hemisphere (UN); the U.S.S.R. launches Luna-7; it crash-lands on Moon.
1966 - Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain.
1969 - The U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at its Geneva headquarters.
1970 - Herbert Schmidtz makes the highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV tower in Tulsa, OK.
1976 - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns over telling a racial joke.
1977 - In San Francisco, Pier 39 opens.
1978 - Funeral are services held for Pope John Paul I.
1983 - Richard Noble reaches a record 1019 kph in a jet-powered car.
1984 - The U.S. government closes down due to budget problems.
1985 - Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley.
1987 - In the first "Scrub Sunday" of the NFL, replacement players take the field.

Birthdays
1289 - King Louis X (the Stubborn) of France (1314-16)
1626 - Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes,19th U.S. President (1877-81)
1850 - John W. McGraw (Gov-WA) (1893-97)
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor, killed by Nazis
1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1923 - Charlton Heston, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
1943 - Buddy Roemer (Gov-LA)
1946 - Susan Sarandon, actress (Bull Durham)
1949 - Armand Assante, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours)

Passings
1904 - Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor ("Statue of Liberty")
1970 - Janis Joplin, rock singer, at 27

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Burns, John D., USN (FL); A4C shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998

1967
Lillund, William A., USAF (CA); F105F shot down (w/McDaniel)

McDaniel, Morris L., Jr., USAF (GA); F105F shot down (w/Lillund)

Schoeffel, Peter V., USN (VA); A4C shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive as of 1998

Zook, David H., Jr., USAF (OH); U10B crashed while on leaflet mission; reportedly collided with larger plane