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Chicago Tribune
13 hours ago
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: Sue, one of the largest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons, found
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2025. There are 141 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 12, 1990, fossil collector Sue Hendrickson found one of the largest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons ever discovered; nicknamed 'Sue' after Hendrickson, the skeleton is now on display at Chicago's Field Museum. Vintage Chicago Tribune: Sue the T. rex's journey to the Field MuseumAlso on this date: In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with whom he had clashed over Reconstruction policies. (Johnson was acquitted by the Senate.) In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War came to an end. In 1909, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the Indianapolis 500, first opened. In 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England. In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb. In 1960, the first balloon communications satellite — the Echo 1 — was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral. In 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York. In 1985, the world's worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. Four passengers survived. In 1994, in baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972, players went on strike rather than allow team owners to limit their salaries. In 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea. In 2013, James 'Whitey' Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives, was convicted in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant. (Bulger was sentenced to life; he was fatally beaten at a West Virginia prison in 2018, hours after being transferred from a facility in Florida.) In 2017, a driver sped into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring more than a dozen others. (The attacker, James Alex Fields, was sentenced to life in prison on 29 federal hate crime charges, and life plus 419 years on state charges.) In 2022, Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. Today's Birthdays: Investor and philanthropist George Soros is 95. Actor George Hamilton is 86. Singer-musician Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 76. Singer Kid Creole (Kid Creole and the Coconuts) is 75. Film director Chen Kaige is 73. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is 71. Actor Bruce Greenwood is 69. Basketball Hall of Famer Lynette Woodard is 66. Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is 62. Actor Peter Krause is 60. Tennis Hall of Famer Pete Sampras is 54. Actor-comedian Michael Ian Black is 54. Actor Yvette Nicole Brown is 54. Actor Casey Affleck is 50. Boxer Tyson Fury is 37. Actor Lakeith Stanfield is 34. NBA All-Star Khris Middleton is 34. Actor Cara Delevingne is 33. Tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas is 27.
UPI
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
On This Day, Aug. 12: Japan Air Lines flight crashes in deadliest air accident
1 of 6 | Families of the deceased from the JAL Flight 123 crash on August 12,1985, pay their respects following a memorial service conducted at the Memorial Garden in Ueno Village, Japan, on August 12, 2006. File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo Aug. 12 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine. He set up business in Boston with $40 in capital. In 1898, a peace protocol was signed, ending the Spanish-American War. The United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, and annexed Hawaii. In 1939, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, had its world premiere in Oconomowoc, Wis. In 1966, as the Beatles were beginning their last tour, John Lennon apologized for saying they were more popular than Jesus Christ. In 1973, Jack Nicklaus won the PGA championship for his 14th major title, surpassing Bobby Jones' record of 13. Nicklaus won 18 majors in his career. In 1981, IBM introduced the first personal computer. In 1984, the 23rd Olympic Games ended in Los Angeles. It had a record attendance of 5.5 million people despite a Soviet-led boycott. File Photo by Steve W Grayson/UPI In 1985, in aviation's worst single-plane disaster, a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 slammed into a mountain in central Japan, killing 520 people. Four passengers survived. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush announced the completion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada, creating the world's largest free trade bloc. President Bill Clinton signed the agreement into law on December 8, 1993. In 2012, officials in Iran said the death toll from two earthquakes that struck the northwestern part of the country rose to 250, with at least 2,000 others injured. File Photo by Maryam Rahmanian/UPI In 2015, a series of powerful explosions rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing 173 people and injuring hundreds more. In 2016, swimmer Katie Ledecky became the most decorated U.S. woman athlete at a single Olympics, winning four golds and one silver. In 2017, a car plowed through a crowd of counterprotesters at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., killing Heather Heyer. The driver of the vehicle, James Fields Jr., was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years after pleading guilty to federal hate crime charges. In 2021, census data showed that the white population in the United States declined for the first time in history. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
UPI
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
On This Day, July 1: Canada becomes self-governing
1 of 7 | On July 1, 1867, Canada became a self-governing state within the British Empire File Photo by Paul Hanna/UPI | License Photo July 1 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1847, the first U.S. postage stamps were issued. In 1859, the first intercollegiate baseball game was played in Pittsfield, Mass., and it was a high-scoring contest. Amherst beat Williams, 66-32. In 1867, Canada became a self-governing state within the British Empire, setting the stage to become fully independent in 1931. Today, Canadians celebrate July 1 as Canada Day. In 1874, the Philadelphia Zoological Society, the first U.S. zoo, opened to the public. In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders led a charge up Cuba's heavily fortified San Juan Hill in a key Spanish-American War battle. In 1908, more than a thousand suffragettes in London attempted to rescue 28 of their fellow protesters who were arrested by police following a demonstration in Parliament Square. In 1916, in the worst single day of casualties in British military history, 20,000 soldiers were killed and 40,000 injured in a massive offense against German forces in France's Somme River region during World War I. In 1932, Democrats nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president. FDR was elected to four consecutive terms. In 1941, NBC broadcast the first FCC-sanctioned TV commercial, a spot for Bulova watches shown during a Dodgers-Phillies game. It cost Bulova $9. In 1941, Mammoth Cave National Park was established in Kentucky, protecting 52,830 acres of caverns and a diverse group of animal and plant species. The park is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1946, the United States conducted its first post-war test of the atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. In 1961, Haleakalā National Park was split off from Hawai'i National Park to become its own park. In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, known as the Soundabout, in U.S. stores. It sold for about $200. In 1984, the Motion Picture Association of America introduced the PG-13 rating to warn parents that a film may be too violent for children under the age of 13. A top U.S. Catholic Conference official said the move was just another way to exploit young people. In 1990, the West and East German economies were united, with the Deutsche Mark replacing the mark as currency in East Germany. In 1997, Hong Kong was returned to China after 156 years as a British territory. Britain's Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary Madeleine Albright attended the ceremony. Britain first occupied Hong Kong in the 1840s amid the First Opium War. In 2002, in a rare high-altitude accident, a passenger airliner collided with a cargo plane over Germany, killing all 71 people on the two planes -- 69 on the airliner and two on the cargo aircraft. In 2013, Croatia became the 28th member state of the European Union. In 2013, a year after Mohamed Morsi became president of Egypt, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in cities across the country, calling for him to step down. Morsi was ousted by the military two days later and died in June 2019. File Photo by Ahmed Jomaa/UPI In 2019, Japan resumed commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years. In 2023, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands acknowledged and apologized for the Dutch role in the historical slave trade in a speech marking the 150th anniversary of the end of slavery in Dutch Suriname. In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump has partial immunity for official acts while he was president in a case tied to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. File Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI
UPI
20-06-2025
- Politics
- UPI
On This Day, June 20: Arctic Circle reaches record-setting 100 degrees
1 of 5 | On June 20, 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic Circle. File Photo by Anatoli Zhdanov/UPI | License Photo On this date in history: In 1893, a jury in Fall River, Mass., acquitted Lizzie Borden in the ax murders of her father and stepmother. In 1898, the U.S. Navy seized Guam, the largest of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, during the Spanish-American War. The people of Guam were granted U.S. citizenship in 1950. In 1900, in response to widespread foreign encroachment upon China's national affairs, Chinese nationalists launched the so-called Boxer Rebellion in Beijing. In 1945, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. approved the resettlement of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the United States. Von Braun would go on to lead the U.S. space program. File Photo courtesy of NASA In 1963, the United States and Soviet Union agreed to establish a hot line communications link between Washington and Moscow. In 1967, the American Independent Party was formed to back George Wallace of Alabama for president. In 1977, oil began to flow through the $7.7 billion, 789-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline. In 1988, armed forces commander Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy declared himself leader of Haiti in a military coup overthrowing President Leslie Manigat. In 1991, the German Parliament voted to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin. In 2004, Pakistan and India reached agreement on banning nuclear testing. In 2009, insurgents, striking in a series of attacks as U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq as planned, set off a truck bomb near a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing 82 people and injuring 250. In 2010, Juan Manuel Santos easily defeated former Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus to become Colombia's president. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI In 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic Circle. In 2023, Romanian authorities charged self-styled lifestyle coach and social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, with rape and human trafficking. As of 2025, the brothers were expected to stand trial on the charges. File Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA-EFE
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Fort Gregg-Adams to be named Fort Lee once again, but this time honoring a different Lee
Goodbye, Fort Gregg-Adams, hello, Fort Lee ... again. The Defense Department announced June 10 that the Prince George County military installation will once again bear the name "Fort Lee" two years after it was changed as part of the process of removing the names of Confederate Civil War heroes. Only this time, the original honoree – Robert E. Lee – will not be memorialized. Instead, the post will be named for Army Private Fitz Lee, a Dinwiddie County native and part of the Army's 'Buffalo Soldier' division for soldiers of color. Lee received the Medal of Honor for bravery in the Spanish-American War when he risked enemy fire to save wounded comrades in Cuba. Lee became ill shortly after the rescue and died in 1899 at the age of 33. He is buried in the national cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas. The name change is expected to take place immediately. More: Will Fort Gregg-Adams be renamed? Why a change might be difficult in Virginia The Defense Department announced the changes shortly after President Donald Trump's appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he said he would push for the renamings. At the end of his first term in 2020, Trump vetoed the defense authorization bill that including the name-change requirement, but Congress overrode it. 'We won a lot of battles out of those forts — it's no time to change," Trump said. "And I'm superstitious, you know, I like to keep it going right." In addition to Fort Lee's revision, the Defense Department said two other renamed posts in Virginia – Fort Walker in Caroline County and Fort Barfoot in Nottoway County – will be changed back to Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Pickett, respectively. Just like with Fort Lee, the new names will not honor Confederate heroes. Fort Pickett will be named for 1st Lt. Vernon W. Pickett, a Distinguished Service Cross recipient during World War II. The new Fort A.P. Hill will recognize three Civil War Medal of Honor recipients from the Union Army – Lt. Col. Edward Hill, First Sgt. Robert A. Pinn and Pvt. Bruce Anderson. All three received Medals of Honor at separate Civil War battles in Virginia and North Carolina. More: Retired Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, for whom Fort Lee's name was changed, dies at 96 More: Fort Lee will change 27 names in transition to Fort Gregg-Adams later this month The move was decried by Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, who called it 'a slap in the face to the thoughtful process' of renaming the posts. The original defense authorization bill threatened to withhold funding to any military installation that did not remove the Confederate name. As a result, the Pentagon's Naming Commission vetted names to reflect diversity and inclusion. Chosen for Fort Lee was Fort Gregg-Adams in honor of the late Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, a pioneer in military sustainment [one of the post's core missions], and the late Col. Charity Adams, who led the first all-Black women Army regiment in World War II. It was the first time two former Black military officers would be remembered with a base name. 'It's profoundly disappointing,' McClellan said of the decision. 'The Naming Commission went through a thorough, thoughtful process to choose the names.' Trump's decision, McClellan said, was a 'waste of that effort.' It was done unilaterally and without any community input. 'It's simply political theater,' McClellan said, noting the timing of the announcement to the commemoration of the Army's 250th anniversary this year. It also precludes ceremonies scheduled for June 13 to rededicate the fort's drop zone for paratrooper training and the readjustment of the post's borders to allow unfettered public access to visitors at the post's museums. McClellan said the move also dishonors the legacy of her predecessor in Congress, Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin. McEachin pushed hard for Fort Lee to be named after Gregg, an old family friend, but he died before the name became official. 'It erodes it, and that's a shame,' McClellan said of McEachin. 'But his legacy will live on in other areas.' Bill Atkinson (he/him/his) is an award-winning journalist who covers breaking news, government and politics. Reach him at batkinson@ or on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @BAtkinson_PI. This article originally appeared on The Progress-Index: Fort Gregg-Adams becomes Fort Lee after Trump pushes for renaming
