Amtrak, city officials consider new high-speed lines in Philadelphia

LOCAL HEADLINES

1. High-Speed Rail Plan Eyes Market East (Inquirer)
2. Local Small Business Owner Lauds Obama (Tribune)
3. Person Struck, Killed by Train (NBC10)

WEATHER

• Scattered storms
• HIGHS: 85°
• WIND: SSW 5 mph

TODAY IN HISTORY

• 1969 – The Woodstock Music Festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of bethel.
• 1899 – Henry Ford resigns his position as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant in order to concentrate on automobile production.
• 1914 – The American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is inaugurated with the passage of the U.S. vessel Ancon, a cargo and passenger ship.
• 1947 – The Indian Independence Bill, which carves the independent nations of India and Pakistan out of the former Mogul Empire, comes into force at the stroke of midnight.