LOCAL HEADLINES
- Excessive Heat Watch Already Declared (Inquirer)
- Housing Authority Chief Kelly Resigns (Tribune)
- Doylestown Standoff Ends, NJ Officer in Custody (6ABC)
- Beautiful day to get outside
- HIGHS: 75°
- WIND: SE 8 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1812 – The War of 1812 begins after President James Madison signs the declaration of war against Great Britain into law.
- 1923 – The first Checker Cab rolls off the line at the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- 1983 – The space shuttle Challenger is launched into space on its second mission, with Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel into space, aboard.
- 1942 – Roger Ebert, who will become famous as a movie critic, is born in Urbana, Illinois.
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