This Day in History

By The Standard Staff - 07/23/2008

Today Wednesday, July 23, the 205th day of 2008. There are 161 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight: On July 23, 1967, a week of deadly race-related rioting that claimed 43 lives erupted in Detroit.

On this date: In 1958, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II named the first four women to peerage in the House of Lords.

In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.) Birthdays Actress Gloria DeHaven is 83. Country singer Tony Joe White is 65. Actor Larry Manetti is 61. Singer-songwriter John Hall is 60. Actress Belinda Montgomery is 58. Actor Woody Harrelson is 47. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is 41. Model-actress Stephanie Seymour is 40. Country singer Alison Krauss is 37. Actor- comedian Marlon Wayans is 36. Country singer Shannon Brown is 35.

Worth repeating ...

“Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.” — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian.