LOCAL HEADLINES
- Cop Shot By Partner During Car Stop (Inquirer)
- Smiley, West Launch Second Poverty Tour (Tribune)
- Philadelphia Man Sues Hooters Over Racial Slur on Receipt (CBS3)
- Getting warmer
- HIGHS: 81°
- WIND: SW 6 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1940 – Near Montignac, France, a collection of prehistoric cave paintings are discovered by four teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork after following their dog down a narrow entrance into a cavern.
- 1993 – The rebuilt Lacey V. Murrow Bridge over Lake Washington opens in Seattle, allowing I-90 to stretch from coast to coast.
- 1953 – Six months after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev succeeds him with his election as first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1944 – Barry White, the pop singer whose career spanned five decades, is born in Galveston, Texas.
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