LOCAL HEADLINES
- A Philly First: Parkway Fest with Fences (Inquirer)
- Nutter, Clyburn Campaign for Obama (Tribune)
- Fire Forces Apartment Evacuation in Univ. City (6ABC)
- Warming up a bit
- HIGHS: 82°
- WIND: NNW 6 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the Union as the 50th state.
- 1911 – An amateur painter sets up his easel near Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, only to discover that the masterpiece is missing.
- 1987 -Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze as a dance instructor at a summer resort, opens in theaters across the United States.
- 1961 – Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenyan independence movement, is released by British colonial authorities after nearly nine years of imprisonment and detention.
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