“Politics is the art of looking for problems, finding them everywhere, diagnosing them wrong, and applying the wrong solutions.” — Groucho Marx
Today is
Today is Saturday, May 25th, the 146th day of 2024. There are 220 days left this year.
Historical highlights:
In 2016, actor Johnny Depp’s wife, Amber Heard, filed for divorce in Los Angeles after 15 months of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
10 years ago
Continuing their quest for a third straight dynasty championship, the Miami Heat stormed back from an early deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers and take a 2-1 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals. LeBron James led all scorers with 26 points, and Ray Allen hit four 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to help Miami win.
On this date:
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy told Congress, “I believe that this Nation should do everything in its power to accomplish the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griffin v. Prince Edward County Board of Education, ordered a Virginia county to reopen public schools that had been closed to avoid the 1954 desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
In 1968, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was opened by Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall.
The first Star Wars film was released in 1977 by 20th Century Fox.
In 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after taking off from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, killing 273 people.
In 2011, a Salt Lake City judge sentenced street preacher Brian David Mitchell to life in prison for the kidnapping and rape of Elizabeth Smart, who was 14 years old when she was abducted in 2002.
In 2018, Harvey Weinstein was charged in New York with rape and another sex offense in the first of a series of allegations against him. (Weinstein was convicted of two felony counts in 2020, but an appeals court overturned the conviction in 2024.)
Celebrity Birthdays
Former White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen is 90 years old.
Actor Sir Ian McKellan is 85 years old.
Country singer Jessi Colter is 81 years old.
Actor and singer Leslie Uggams is 81 years old.
Actress Karen Valentine is 77 years old.
Actor Patty D’Arbanville is 73 years old.
Actor Connie Sellecca is 69 years old.
Actor and comedian Mike Myers is 61 years old.
Actors Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush (“Little House on the Prairie”) are 54 years old.
Actress Molly Sims is 51 years old.
