LOCAL HEADLINES
- Amtrak’s High-Speed Plan at $151 Billion (Daily News)
- King Plaza Homes Now Site of Hawthorne Park (Tribune)
- Heatwave is Over! (NBC10)
- Cooling off a bit
- HIGHS: 87°
- WIND: ENE 10 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1777 – New York elects Brigadier General George Clinton as the first governor of the independent state.
- 1850 – President Zachary Taylor dies suddenly from an attack of cholera morbus. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore.
- 1947 – General Dwight D. Eisenhower appoints Florence Blanchfield to be a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, making her the first woman in U.S. history to hold permanent military rank.
- 1846 – An American naval captain occupies the small settlement of Yerba Buena, a site that will later be renamed San Francisco.
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