Weekend Wild Card — 6.6.09
On this day in history: in 1972, the musical “Grease” opened on Broadway. In 1998, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. In 2006, The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Poet Nikki Giovanni turns 66 today. In the news today: Brazilian search crews found debris and the first two bodies from ill-fated Air France Flight 447 here . And the weekend Wild Card is back in play …
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