LOCAL HEADLINES
- Eagles Great Van Buren Dead at 91 (Daily News)
- State Official Defends Voter ID Law (Tribune)
- Charges Expected Today in Cop Killing (6ABC)
- Getting hotter still
- HIGHS: 87°
- WIND: NE 7 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 79 – After centuries of dormancy, Mt. Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, devastating prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands.
- 1842 – During the War of 1812, British forces overwhelm American militiamen at the Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland, and march unopposed to Washington, D.C.
- 1821 – Eleven years after the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence, Spain signs the Treaty of Cordoba, which approves a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.
- 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for the murder of John Lennon, a founding member of the Beatles.
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