LOCAL HEADLINES
- Bucks Cop Faked Own Shooting (Inquirer)
- Women Gain Strength in Pregnancy Groups (Tribune)
- Madonna to Philly: Don’t Get Fat and Lazy (NBC10)
- A nice, sunny day
- HIGHS: 82°
- WIND: N 8 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans as a Category 4 hurricane.
- 1949 – At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.”
- 1958 – Pop sensation Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.
- 1914 – With World War I approaching the end of the first month, the Women’s Defense Relief Corps is formed in Britain.
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