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See also:

• 2003 in film
• 2003 in literature
• 2003 in music
• 2003 in politics
• 2003 in science
• 2003 in sports
• 2003 in television
• 2003 in memoriam

• The International Year of Freshwater
• The European Disability Year

Events

• January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for the period (2003-2007)
• January 1 - Pascal Couchepin becomes President of Switzerland
• January 21 - Convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick is allowed to use a computer again.
• January 24 - The new United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
• January - Iraq disarmament crisis: Facing worldwide criticism, leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic release a statement showing support for the U.S.'s position on Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein should not be allowed to violate U.N. resolutions.
• February 1 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts onboard.
• February 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the U.N. Security Council on Iraq.
• February 15 - Global protests against war on Iraq - more than six million people protest in over 600 cities worldwide, one of the largest protests in history.
• February 23 - New York City is the site of the 2003 Grammy Awards, with Nickelback, No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Britney Spears and some other bands and performers.
• February 26 - An American businessman is admitted to the Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. WHO doctor Carlo Urbani report the unusual highly contagious disease to WHO. Both the businessman and Carlo Urbani die of SARS in March.
• February 26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush talks publicly about his vision of a post-invasion democracy in Iraq. Bush says it will be "an example" to other nations in Arabia.
• March 1 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Arab Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Kuwait.
• March 2 - War on Terrorism: Authorities in Pakistan capture Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks along with money man Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
• March 2 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Bahrain becomes the third Arab country to call for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down.
• March 5 - The U.S. Supreme Court by a 5-4 margin upholds California's "three strikes and you're out" law.
• March 6 - U.S. President George W. Bush holds a live, televised press conference on the latest developments in the War on Terrorism, the situation with North Korea and the disarmament standoff with Iraq.
• March 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi fighters threaten two U.S. U-2 surveillance planes, flying missions for U.N. weapons inspectors, forcing them to abort their mission and return to base. Iraqi officials described the incident as a "technical mistake" by the U.N. inspectors. Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for UNMOVIC, said that Iraqi officials had been notified about the flight beforehand.
• March 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: According to Arab media, Saddam Hussein opens terrorist training camps in Iraq for Arab volunteers willing to carry out suicide bombings against U.S. forces if a U.S.-led attack takes place.
• March 12 - WHO issues a global alert on SARS.
• March 12 - Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated.
• March 12 - Iraq disarmament crisis: British prime minister Tony Blair proposes an amendment to the possible 18th U.N. resolution, which would call for Iraq to meet certain benchmarks to prove that it was disarming. The amendment is immediately rejected by France, who promises to veto any new resolution.
• March 13 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy.
• March 14 - U.S. Rep. James P. Moran Jr steps down as a regional Whip for the House Democrats for making what he called "insensitive" remarks about Jews pushing the nation into war with Iraq. At a March 3 anti-war rally in Reston, Virginia, Moran said, "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this."
• March 15 - Hu Jintao becomes president of the People's Republic of China, replacing Jiang Zemin.
• March 16 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The leaders of the United States, Britain, Portugal and Spain meet at a summit in the Azores Islands. U.S. President Bush calls Monday, March 17th, the "moment of Truth", meaning that the "coalition of the willing" would make its final effort to extract a resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would give Iraq an ultimatum to disarm immediately or to be disarmed by force.
• March 16 - Largest co-ordinated worldwide vigil as part of the global protests against war on Iraq.
• March 17 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush gives an ultimatium: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his sons must either leave Iraq, or face military action at a time of the U.S.'s choosing.
• March 19 - Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) gives a speech in the Senate, saying "I weep for my country" as he attests that America is discarding its image of a strong, benevolent peacekeeper.
• March 20 - 2003 Iraq war: Land troops from United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq, preceded by a surgical air strike on the suspected bunker of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.
• March 22 - The United States and the United Kingdom begin their shock and awe campaign with a massive air strike on military targets in Baghdad using cruise missiles fired from US Navy warships, Royal Navy submarines and B-52 bombers; and laser guided missiles fired by Stealth Bombers.
• March 29 - WHO doctor Carlo Urbani, who first identified SARS, dies of the disease.
• April 9 - US forces seize control of Baghdad, apparently ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.
• April 21 - Retired US General Jay Garner becomes Interim Civil Administrator of Iraq.
• May 24 - Eurovision song contest in Riga, Latvia. Winner was Turkey and Sertab Erener performed the song, Everyway That I Can.
• May 26 - A draft of the proposed European constitution is unveiled.
• May 27 - Three hundreth anniversary celebration of Saint Petersburg, Russia, begins.
• May 31 - Annular solar eclipse (Northern Scotland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland with partial eclipse covering much of Europe and Russia)
• June 12 - Robert Angleton goes missing while on bond five days before he was to be tried for weapons charges and conspiracy to commit the 1997 murder of wife Doris Angleton. He was arrested at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam for passport fraud, and was sent back to Houston the same day.
• June 20 to June 29 - 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games, Dublin, Ireland
• June 23 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in university admissions in Grutter v. Bollinger
• June 26 - U.S. Supreme Court rules sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas
• July 1 - 500,000 Hongkongers march to protest Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, which redefined treason controversially.
• July 2 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is declared the Host City for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.
• July 5 - SARS is declared to be contained by WHO.
• July 18 - Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European constitution.
• July 23 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army.
• July 30 - The last old-style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off its production line in Puebla, Mexico.
• August 2 - The United Nations authorizes an international peacekeeping force for Liberia.
• August 2 - Scientists announce that the ozone layer may be showing signs of recovery due to an international ban on chlorofluorocarbons. [1]
• August 11 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
• August 11 - Jemaah Islamiah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
• August 14 - Widespread power outage affects northeast United States and Canada.
• August 27 - Perigee of Mars
• September 5 - Roller coaster accident at Disneyland injures 10 and kills one.
• September 10 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the next day
• September 14 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)
• September 14 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
• September 27 - Smart 1 is launched.
• October 12 - Belarus mental hospital fire: Thirty patients die in a mental hospital fire in Randilovshchina, Belarus.
• October 15 - China launches Shenzhou 5, their first crewed space mission.
• October 24 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to a close, at least for the time being.
• November 9 - Lunar eclipse (the Americas, Europe, Africa, Central Asia)
• November 12 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
• November 18 - George W. Bush makes a state visit to London in the midst of massive protests against him.
• November 18 - Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health rules anti-same-sex marriage laws unconstitutional in Massachusetts
• November 20- several bombs explode in Istanbul, Turkey destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Holdings and the British consulate.
• November 20- Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation, a charge that can carry an 8 year jail term.
• November 22 - England wins the Rugby Union World Cup defeating Australia 20-17 after extra time.
• November 23 - Beleaguered Georgiann president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• November 23 - Total solar eclipse (Antarctica)
• November 24- Glasgow High Court imposes a minimum sentence of 27 years for Al Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
• November 26 - Last ever flight by Concorde.
• December 1 - the use of hand- held mobile phoness, while driving, is made illegal, in England, Wales and Scotland.
• December 1 - Boeing chairman Phil Condit resigns, unexpectedly.
• December 7 - Parlamentary election in Russia.

Anticipated Events

• December 2 - Vermont band Phish will celebrate it's 20th Anniversary with a large concert in Boston, Massachusetts.
• December 12 - Paul Martin to be sworn in as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada.

Years in topic

• 2003 in Canada
• 2003 in film
• 2003 in literature
• 2003 in music
• 2003 in politics
• 2003 in science
• 2003 in sports
• 2003 in television

Births

• May 28 - Prometea, the first cloned horse.
• November 8- Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex.

Deaths

• January 5 - Roy Jenkins, British politician
• January 12 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator
• January 12 - Maurice Gibb, Anglo-Australian musician, one-third of the Bee Gees
• January 15 Gladys Kamakakuokalani Ainoa Brandt, a pioneering Hawaiian educator, fought for native Hawaiian rights
• January 18 - Richard Crenna, actor
• January 24 - Gianni Agnelli, Fiat president
• January 26 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete
• February 1 - The crew of STS-107; Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick D. Husband, Willie McCool, Ilan Ramon
• February 14 - Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal
• February 16 - Aleksandar Tisma, 79, Serbian author
• February 24 - Christopher Hill, 92, historian
• February 27 - Fred McFeely Rogers, 74, "Mister Rogers" of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• February 28 - Roger Michael Needham, 68, professor of cryptography at Cambridge University
• March 8 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor
• March 9 - Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
• March 12 - Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia
• March 12 - Ronnie Burk, 47, surrealist and AIDS activist
• March 16 - Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of theInternational Solidarity Movement.
• March 23 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist
• March 26 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United States Senator
• March 29 - Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor who discovered SARS.
• April 1 - Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong singer/actor
• April 1 - Hyosuke Kujiraoka, 87, a former vice speaker of the House of Representatives
• April 16 - Sarah Marple-Cantrell, American student and suicide victim.
• April 17 - Dr. Robert Atkins, 72, developed the Atkins Nutritional Approach
• April 25 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
• May 5 - Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist
• May 14 - Dave DeBusschere, NBA basketball player and team executive, Basketball Hall of Famer
• May 15 - Benedict Jablonski, co-creator of The Hugo Award trophy
• May 28 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977
• May 28 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
• June 2 - Fred Blassie, former professional wrestler
• June 5 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician
• June 10 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration
• June 11 - David Brinkley, broadcast journalist
• June 12 - Gregory Peck, actor
• June 15 - Hume Cronyn, stage and film actor
• June 21 - Roger Neilson, National Hockey League coach
• June 26 - Denis Thatcher, husband of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, former UK Prime Minister
• June 26 - Strom Thurmond, United States Senator
• June 26 - Marc-Vivien Foe, Cameroon football player
• June 29 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress
• July 1 - N!xau, Namibian actor (The Gods Must Be Crazy)
• July 4 - Barry White, singer
• July 6 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor
• July 16 - Carol Shields, Canadian author
• July 22 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi military leader; eldest son of Saddam Hussein
• July 22 - Qusay Hussein, Iraqi military leader, younger son of Saddam Hussein
• July 25 - John Schlesinger, film director
• July 27 - Bob Hope, Anglo-American comedian, actor
• August 8 - Gregory Hines, tap dancer, actor
• August 15 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator
• August 19 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat and statesman
• August 30 - Charles Bronson, actor
• September 4 - Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue (*1921)
• September 7 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter
• September 9 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"
• September 11 - Anna Lindh, Swedish foreign minister (assassinated)
• September 12 - Johnny Cash, American musician
• September 12 - John Ritter, American actor
• September 26 - Robert Palmer, British singer
• September 28 - Althea Gibson, African-American tennis and golf pioneer
• September 28 - Elia Kazan, American movie director
• October 5 - Sid McMath, American former Governor of Arkansas
• October 10 - Eugene Istomin, pianist
• October 14 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond
• October 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist
• October 19 - Faith Fancher, television journalist and breast cancer awareness activist, 53 years
• October 19 - Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian politician and president
• October 23 - Soong May-ling, widow of Chiang Kai-shek
• October 27 - Rod Roddy, game show announcer (The Price is Right)
• October 31 - Richard Neustadt, political historian
• November 5 - Bobby Hatfield, American musician, one-half of the Righteous Brothers
• November 6 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer
• November 9 - Art Carney, American actor
• November 12 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor
• November 20 - Roger Short, the British Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics:
  • Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Russia and United States
  • Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Russia
  • Anthony James Leggett, United Kingdom and United States, "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
• Chemistry:
  • Peter Agre, United States "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes", "for the discovery of water channels"
  • Roderick MacKinnon, United States "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
• Physiology or Medicine:
  • Paul Lauterbur, United States
  • Sir Peter Mansfield, United Kingdom "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
• Literature:
  • John Maxwell Coetzee, South Africa, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"
• Peace:
  • Shirin Ebadi, Iran "for her efforts for democracy and human rights"
• Economics:
  • Robert F. Engle, United States "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility"
  • Clive W. J. Granger, United Kingdom "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends"

    Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "2003."

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Chicago's American

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Chicago's American, an afternoon newspaper in Chicago, Illinois was the last flowering of the aggressive journalistic tradition depicted in the play and movie The Front Page. The American was published by the Chicago Tribune from 1958 through 1969 and then finally, as Chicago Today, from 1969 until it was closed in 1974.

The American was the product of the merger or acquisition of 14 predecessor newspapers and inherited the tradition, and the files, of all of them.

As an afternoon paper, the American was dependent on street sales rather than subscriptions, and it was breaking news that brought street sales. The American was noted for its aggressive reporting. Its editors, writers, and photographers went hard after every story. It was not uncommon for them to pretend to be police officers or public officials to get a story, although many of them could simply talk their way into any place.

These techniques were usually used legitimately. Reporters would demand information as if they had a right to it and would often get it. With its connections with news sources and its bravado, the small staff of the American regularly scooped its larger and more respectable afternoon competition, the Chicago Daily News.

Frank Lloyd Wright announced plans to build a mile-high building in Chicago. The American stole the drawings and printed them.

The tradition was exemplified by the American's longtime night city editor, Harry Romanoff, who could create news stories almost at will with only a telephone. Since the afternoon paper was put together the previous evening, the night city editor was the key news editor.

One night floods threatened southern Illinois, and, even worse, the American did not have a big story for the front page. Romanoff called fire departments and police stations throughout the region, posing as "Captain Parmenter of the state police" (a nonexistent individual) urging them to take action. One fire department, bemused by the call, asked what they should do. "Ring those fire bells! Call out the people!"

Romanoff then turned to his rewrite man to dictate the lead story:

Fire bells rang over southern Illinois as police and fire departments called out the people to warn them of impending floods.

It never did flood, but the American had its banner headline. These headlines were necessary for sales of the early editions. Later in the day, breaking news would generally replace them or reduce their importance. Of course, many stories developed in this way were genuine scoops that would be expanded.

The American gave the same attention to smaller stories as to large ones. It was always first with police news. One notable headline:

Mother of 14 kids kills father of 9 in police station

In addition to Romanoff, notable American staff members included:

• Wendell Smith, the African American sports reporter requested by Branch Rickey to travel with Jackie Robinson when he was breaking into baseball.
• Brent Musberger, night sports editor of the American who became a prominent television sports personality.
• Buddy McHugh, thinly disguised as "McCue" in The Front Page
• George Murray, who was once sent to Central America and told to "find a lost city", which he promptly did.
• Jack Mabley, investigative columnist, whose most famous article measured water pressure during commercial breaks on national tv broadcasts and determined that viewers were using the toilet during the breaks.
• Michael McGovern, New York Daily News investigative reporter. McGovern once went door-to-door through Evanston, Illinois asking each woman in one neighborhood if she was the illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding.

In the end, TV news brought an end to most afternoon papers, but up until the 1970s, Chicago had a competitive journalistic scene unmatched by most other American cities, five daily papers and four wire services in competition, and none more competitive than Chicago's American.

The American's Predecessor Newspapers

1. Morning Record, March 21, 1901
2. Chicago Times, June 1, 1861-March 4, 1895
3. Chicago Republican, January 16, 1865-March 25, 1872
4. Inter Ocean, March 25, 1872-May 1914
5. Chicago Daily Telegraph, 1878-1881
6. Morning Herald, March 13, 1893-March 21, 1901
7. Times-Herald, March 4, 1895-March 21, 1901
8. Chicago American July 4, 1900-August 26, 1939
9. Record-Herald, March 21, 1901-May 1914
10. Chicago Examiner, 1902-May 2, 1918
11. Chicago Herald, May 1914-1918
12. Herald-Examiner May 2, 1918-August 26, 1939
13. Herald American August 26, 1939-1958
14. Chicago's American 1958-1969

    Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chicago's American."

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The Today programme

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This article refers to the BBC Today programme, for the NBC Today Show see The Today Show Today, commonly referred to as The Today programme in order to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. from Monday to Friday and from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Saturdays. It consists of regular news bulletins, serious political interviews and in-depth reports.

Today was launched on the BBC's Home Service on October 28, 1957 as a programme of "topical talks" to give listeners a morning alternative to light music. It was initially broadcast as two 20-minute editions slotted in around the exisiting news bulletins and religious items. In 1963 it became part of the BBC's Current Affairs department, and it started to become more news-oriented. The two editions also became longer, and by the end of the 1960s it had become a single two-hour long programme that enveloped the news bulletins and the religious talk that had become "Thought For The Day". It was cut back to two parts in 1976-1978, but was swiftly returned to its former position.

Jack de Manio became its principal presenter in 1958. He became notorious for on-air gaffes. In 1970 the programme format was changed so that there were two presenters each day. De Manio left in 1971, and by 1975 the team of John Timpson and Brian Redhead was well established. This arrangement lasted until Timpson's retirement in 1986, when John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor joined the rotating list of presenters. After Redhead's untimely death in late 1993, James Naughtie became a member of the team. Sarah Montague replaced MacGregor in 2002.

The show reached a peak in terms of influence in the 1980s, when prime minister Margaret Thatcher was a noted listener. Ministers thus became keen to go on the programme and be heard by their leader; but the tough, confrontational interviewing style they encountered led to accusations that the BBC was biased. Criticism was particularly directed against Redhead, who was widely seen as being on the left. The style of the male interviewers was analysed and contrasted with that of McGregor, who was alleged to be giving subjects an easier time. The "big 8.10" interview that follows the 8 o'clock news remains an important institution of British politics to this day.

Today regularly holds an end-of-year poll. For many years this took the form of write-in votes for the Man and Woman of the Year. This was stopped after an episode of organised vote-rigging in 1990, but was soon revived as a telephone vote for a single Personality of the Year. A further episode of vote-rigging, in favour of Tony Blair in 1996, forced the programme makers to consider more innovative polling questions.

Since 1970 the programme has featured Thought for the Day, in which a speaker reflects on topical issues from a theological viewpoint. Notable contributors to the slot include Rabbi Lionel Blue and Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford. Over the years the slot has featured an increasing number of speakers from religions other than Christianity, though Christian speakers remain in a substantial majority.

Today found itself in the midst of controversy again in 2002, when its editor Rod Liddle wrote a column in The Guardian that was extremely critical of the Countryside Alliance. He eventually resigned from his post on Today.

Journalist and historian Peter Hennessy has asserted in two books that one of the tests that the commander of a British nuclear-missile submarine must use to determine whether the UK has been the target of a nuclear attack (in which case he has sealed orders which may authorise him to fire his nuclear missiles in retalliation) is to listen for the presence of Today on Radio 4's frequencies. If a certain number of days pass without the programme being broadcast, that is to be taken as evidence that the envelope may be opened. The true conditions are of course secret, and Hennessy has never revealed his sources for this story, leading Paul Donovan, author of a book about Today, to express some scepticism about it.

References

• Paul Donovan: All Our Todays: Forty Years of Radio 4's "Today" Programme; London, Jonathan Cape, 1997; ISBN 0224043587 (revised paperback edition is ISBN 009928037X)
• Peter Hennessy: Muddling Through: Power, Politics and the Quality of Government in Postwar Britain; London, Victor Gollancz, 1996; ISBN 057506361
• Peter Hennessy: The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War; London, Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 2002; ISBN 0713996269

External Links

• Today
• Thought for the Day

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "The Today programme."

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The Today Show

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The Today Show (more commonly called Today) is a long-running morning news show airing on the NBC television network in the United States.

Today was the first of its genre when it first signed on in 1955 with host Dave Garroway. The show successfully blends national news headlines, in-depth interviews with newsmakers, lifestyle features, other light news and gimmicks, and local news updates. It has spawned several other shows of a similar type, including ABC's Good Morning America and CBS's The Early Show.

Today was the brainchild of Pat Weaver, the president of NBC between 1953 and 1955.

The show is currently hosted by Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. Al Roker does weather updates and Ann Curry reads news headlines.

Previous hosts have included Diane Sawyer, Bryant Gumbel, Jane Pauley and Deborah Norville. Popular former weathercaster Willard Scott still appears on the show daily doing 100th birthday announcements he became famous for in the 1980s.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "The Today Show."

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	Pictured are two scientists conferring over a graph. They are in lab coats in an office setting. The new technology available to the scientists today plays an important role in providing them with needed detailed information. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).		Shown is a technician in a white lab coat reading a printout from a computer. The new technology today helps physicians in their research attempts to store and retrieve the vast amounts of data needed to solve the mystery of cancer. In this case the technician is performing a step in the analysis of an estrogen receptor assay. Results will tell whether removal of ovaries will be necessary. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).
	Crowd waiting for oral polio vaccine in 1962. Today CDC now recommends that we give only the injectable vaccine because of the very small chance that the oral dose can lead to a polio infection. Credit: CDC.		Approximately 50% of the horses infected with WEE die from the disease. In 1938, WEE killed approximately 180,000 horses in California. Fortunately, today most horses are routinely vaccinated against WEE and other equine viruses. Credit: CDC.
	The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project team today announced that it has completed efforts to ... Credit: NASA.		A team of astronomers working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced results today of ... Credit: NASA.
	Nautical chart of New York Harbor, ca. 1924 New style chart with yellow land, blue water, and colored buoys Basically, this is the format for NOAA nautical charts today. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Survey launch leaving the PIONEER for a day's work Looks like nasty working conditions today. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	San Luis Bay, to the west of San Luis Obispo. Today called San Luis Obispo Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.		St. Paul village on the island of St. Paul. The Native Americans here are carried on the fur seal industry under the supervision of the Fish and Wildlife Service at the time of this photo. Today the National Marine Fisheries Service monitors the fur seal industry. Credit: America's Coastlines.
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"Cock a doodle do!" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "Here's a cocky little guy I met at the petting zoo today."	"I am kool" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "These kids today. in my day, we thought of more interesting things to say, and we were gosh darn sure to check our spelling. hmmph. ."
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