LOCAL HEADLINES
- Mega-Deal for Cole Hamels (Inquirer)
- Local Singer Destinee to Compete in Hoodie Awards (Tribune)
- Teen Brothers Shot Dead Inside W. Philly Home (MyFoxPhilly)
- Warm and sunny
- HIGHS: 87°
- WIND: NNW 12 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1978 – Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization, is born in Manchester, England.
- 1985 – Actor Rock Hudson announces he has AIDS, becoming the first major celebrity to go public with the diagnosis.
- 1897 – Jack London leaves for the Klondike to join the gold rush, where he will write his first successful stories.
- 1943 – Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and is arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who tells Il Duce that the war is lost.
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