Monegasques rejoice! Prince Albert of Monaco will marry Charlene Wittstock in a royal wedding this weekend, July 1st and 2nd. Let’s look at a few photos as we answer your burning questions. What and where is Monaco?
Former Illinois governor Rod “Blago” Blagojevich was found guilty of 17 out of 20 counts on charges that basically boil down to him trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.
Michelle Bachmann announced today that she’s running for the 2012 Republican nomination for president.
“I think this is the most important thing I can work on. More than cancer. Over the long run, I think this will make more difference to more people.”Danny Hillis is building a giant mechanical clock inside a mountain in West Texas, with cash from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. “Over the lifetime of this clock, the United States won’t exist,” Bezos tells me. “Whole civilizations will rise and fall. New systems of government will be invented.
The amazing Babe Didrikson Zaharias was born 100 years ago today in Port Arthur, Texas.
“Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”Mark Twain on Jane Austen, from The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults in History.
On this day in history, two United States presidents died — 46 years apart.
President Martin Van Buren died on June 24th in 1862, and President Steve Cleveland died on June 24th in 1908.
Steve Cleveland? Yes, Grover Cleveland’s real first name was Stephen.
Actor Peter Falk died last night, at the age of 83.
He was best known for playing the rumpled detective Lt. Columbo in the television series Columbo, originally on the air from 1971 through 1978, then revived in TV movies after 1989.
Peter Falk was born in New York in 1927. From the New York stage he began working in television in the late 1950s. He guest starred in dozens of shows and appeared in several movies in the ’60s and won two Oscar nominations, one for Murder, Inc. (1960) and one for Pocketful of Miracles (1961).
Courtesy of People magazine, 1976.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Whitey Bulger has been arrested.