The very first Peanuts comic strip, written by Charles M. Schulz, appeared in seven newspapers on October 2, 1950.

He was an amazing pitcher. He could hit a baseball farther than most people imagined possible. He also lived wildly with drinking, driving, and lots of women. Learn more about Babe Ruth, the man considered the greatest baseball player of all time.
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who had been murdered in Mississippi after whistling to a white woman, died in 1955. The story of Emmett Till's murder and a picture of him in a glass-covered casket was shown around the U.S. and helped spur the civil rights movement
In 2005, Till's body was exhumed in the hopes of finding more evidence in the murder investigation. Afterwards, he was reburied, apparently as is customary, in a new coffin. The old coffin, however, was supposed to be used for a memorial for Till. Instead, police officers found the old casket in an old shed, with a family of possums in it. Also, the money donated for the memorial for Till was allegedly taken by one of the cemetery workers. For more about the condition and circumstances of finding Emmett Till's coffin, please read the Chicago Sun Times article.
What will become of this gun? Plans are being made to include Hussein's gun in President Bush's Presidential Library, which will open in 2013 on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas.
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Luna 15's crash, audio tapes of the event have been found. The tapes reveal British astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell narrating events as he observed them with his radio telescope.
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