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<br /> <br />ColoJadoSprings The Gazette: July 20,2006 -Page 21 <br />CircUlation: 102,000 <br /> <br />TODAY IN HISTORY <br /> <br />In 1810, Colombia declared indepen- <br />denceJrom Spain. <br />In 1861, the Congress of the Confed- <br />erate States began holding sessions <br />In Richmond, I/a, <br />In 1881, Sioux Indian leader SiUing <br />'liUIl, a fugitive since the B~ttle ,of the <br />Little Big Horn. surrendered to federal <br />troops.. <br />In 1942. the first detachment aBhe <br />.Vlomen's Army Auxiliary Corps -later <br />known as WACs - began basic train- <br />Jlngat Fort Des Moines, Iowa. <br />In 1944, Adolf Hitler survived an at- <br />tempt by a group of German officials <br />100 assassinate him with a bomb. <br />'n 1944, President Roosevelt was <br />. nominaledfor an unprecedented <br />fourth term of office at the Democrat- <br />ic convention in Chicago. <br />In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Arm- <br />strong and Edwin "Buzzfi Aldrin be- <br /> <br /> <br />came the first to walk on the moon. <br />In 1976, America's Viking I robot <br />spacecraft landed on Mars. <br /> <br /> <br />In 1999, after 38 years at the bottom <br />of 'fhe Atlantic, astronaut Gus Gris. <br />som's Libertv Belli Mercury capsule <br />was lifted' to the surface. <br />In 1996, in hiS weekly radio address, <br />,president Clinton pald tribute to Amer- <br />ica's Olympic athletes at the just- <br />opened Atlanta games - as well as 16 <br />high school students from Montours- <br />ville. fa.. who died In the crash of <br />TWA flight 800, <br />In 2001, the G-8 economic summit <br />opened in Genoa. Italy, with raging <br />street battles between police and <br />demonstrators; one protester was fa- <br />tally shot by officers. Ira Einhorn, con- <br />victed in absentia of killing his girl- <br />friend. was flown from france and <br />handed over to Philadelphia police. <br />In 2005, a day after beinq tapped by <br />President 8ush, Supreme Court nomi- <br />nee John Roberts paid caUs on sena- <br />tors while a conservative group <br />bought TV ad time to support his nom- <br />ination and abortion-rights groups <br />staged protests. Actor James Doohan, <br />who played Scotty in the original <br />"Star Trek" TV series. died at age 8S, <br /> <br />