Wednesday August 11th

 

Today in History

 

1755

Charles Lawrence gives expulsion orders to remove the Acadians from Nova Scotia beginning the Great Upheaval.

 

1929

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career

 

1944

Canadian tanks enter the outskirts of Florence with the British Eighth Army, forcing the Germans to evacuate the city.

 

2006

The Transportation Security Administration banned all liquids, gels and aerosols from passenger cabins on airliners one day after a thwarted terrorist attack.

 

2009

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy. She was 88.

 

National news headlines this morning: An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.

Potentially in the path of this unstoppable giant are oil platforms and shipping lanes — and any collision could do untold damage. In a worst case scenario, large chunks could reach the heavily trafficked waters where another Greenland iceberg sank the Titanic in 1912.

It's been a summer of near biblical climatic havoc across the planet, with wildfires, heat and smog in Russia and killer floods in Asia. But the moment the Petermann glacier cracked last week — creating the biggest Arctic ice island in half a century — may symbolize a warming world like no other.

"It's so big that you can't prevent it from drifting. You can't stop it,"

 

 

 

 

Birthdays

 

-5- Steve Earle and Allison Moorer are married at the Hermitage Hotel in downtown Nashville. It's his seventh wedding, her second