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Apollo 11 Wild Card — 7.16.09

Today is Thursday, July 16, the 197th day of 2009. There are 168 days left in the year. On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins, blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. Actor-comedian Will Ferrell is 42. Thought for Today: "What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth." — Norman Cousins, American author and journalist (1915-1990). In the news this afternoon: A Southern California teen becomes the youngest person to sail solo around the world here. And the Apollo 11 Wild Card is in play ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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