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- Pa. Fraternal Order of Police Meets in Philadelphia at Critical Time (CBS3)
- Stormy and humid
- HIGHS: 83°
- WIND: SSE 9 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 2003 – A major outage knocked out power across the eastern United States and Canada. Fifty million people were affected.
- 1784 – On Kodiak Island, Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founds Three Saints Bay, the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska.
- 1945 – Comedian, actor and writer Steve Martin is born in Waco, Texas.
- 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Social Security Act.
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