Today In History
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2017. There are 152 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1957: The United States and Canada announced they had agreed to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
ON THIS DATE
› 1876: Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
› 1907: The U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.
› 1913: The Joyce Kilmer poem “Trees” was first published in “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.”
› 1944: An uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasted two months before collapsing.
› 1947: Mickey Spillane’s first novel, “I, the Jury,” featuring the debut of private eye Mike Hammer, was published.
› 1975: A 35-nation summit in Finland concluded with the signing of a declaration known as the Helsinki Accords dealing with European security, human rights and East-West contacts.
› 1981: The rock music video channel MTV made its debut.
› 1994: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they’d been secretly married 11 weeks earlier. (Presley filed for divorce from Jackson in Jan. 1996, citing irreconcilable differences.)
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is 86. Former Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, R-N.Y., is 80. Actor Giancarlo Giannini is 75. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams is 67. Blues singer-musician Robert Cray is 64. Singer Michael Penn is 59. Rock singer Joe Elliott (Def Leppard) is 58. Rock singer-musician Suzi Gardner (L7) is 57. Rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy) is 57. Actor Jesse Borrego is 55. Actor Demian Bichir is
54. Rapper Coolio is 54. Actor John Carroll Lynch is 54. Rock singer Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) is 53. Movie director Sam Mendes is 52. Country singer George Ducas is 51. Country musician Charlie Kelley is 49. Actress Jennifer Gareis is 47. Actor Charles Malik Whitfield is 45. Actress Tempestt Bledsoe is 44. Actor Jason Momoa is 38. Actress Honeysuckle Weeks is
38. Singer Ashley Parker Angel is 36. Actress Taylor Fry is 36. Actor Elijah Kelley is 31. Actor James Francis Kelly is 28. Actress Ella Wahlestedt is 19.