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Juniper Releases Out-of-band Security Advisory for ScreenOS

I realize that as I post this most of who read this the subject isn't in their day-to-day responsibilities, but folks; this is a REALLY BIG deal.


Reading the information it says that the unauthorized code they found in the FIREWALLS they create have had this problem since the release of their 6.2 version. That was seven (plus) years ago in 2008. To go on and read you'll see where the access allowed the attacker to delete any references to their presence in the log files.


So even if this isn't your cup of tea you may want to pass this along to someone in your IT department because Juniper Firewalls are pretty popular.


Read More:
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/12/17/Juniper-Releases-Out-band-Security-Advisory-ScreenOS

Dorkbot

Systems Affected

Microsoft Windows

Overview

Dorkbot is a botnet used to steal online payment, participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and deliver other types of malware to victims’ computers. According to Microsoft, the family of malware used in this botnet “has infected more than one million personal computers in over 190 countries over the course of the past year.” The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Microsoft, is releasing this Technical Alert to provide further information about Dorkbot.

Description

Dorkbot-infected systems are used by cyber criminals to steal sensitive information (such as user account credentials), launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, disable security protection, and distribute several malware variants to victims’ computers. Dorkbot is commonly spread via malicious links sent through social networks instant message programs or through infected USB devices.
In addition, Dorkbot’s backdoor functionality allows a remote attacker to exploit infected system. According to Microsoft’s analysis, a remote attacker may be able to:

• Download and run a file from a specified URL;
• Collect logon information and passwords through form grabbing, FTP, POP3, or Internet Explorer and Firefox cached login details; or
• Block or redirect certain domains and websites (e.g., security sites).

Impact

A system infected with Dorkbot may be used to send spam, participate in DDoS attacks, or harvest users' credentials for online services, including banking services.

Solution

Users are advised to take the following actions to remediate Dorkbot infections:

• Use and maintain anti-virus software – Anti-virus software recognizes and protects your computer against most known viruses. Even though Dorkbot is designed to evade detection, security companies are continuously updating their software to counter these advanced threats. Therefore, it is important to keep your anti-virus software up-to-date. If you suspect you may be a victim of Dorkbot, update your anti-virus software definitions and run a full-system scan. (See Understanding Anti-Virus Software for more information.)
• Change your passwords – Your original passwords may have been compromised during the infection, so you should change them. (See Choosing and Protecting Passwords for more information.)
• Keep your operating system and application software up-to-date – Install software patches so that attackers cannot take advantage of known problems or vulnerabilities. You should enable automatic updates of the operating system if this option is available. (See Understanding Patches for more information.)
• Use anti-malware tools – Using a legitimate program that identifies and removes malware can help eliminate an infection. Users can consider employing a remediation tool (see example below) to help remove Dorkbot from their systems.
• Disable Autorun­ – Dorkbot tries to use the Windows Autorun function to propagate via removable drives (e.g., USB flash drive). You can disable Autorun to stop the threat from spreading.

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx (link is external)
The above example does not constitute an exhaustive list. The U.S. Government does not endorse or support any particular product or vendor.

References

• Microsoft Malware Protection Center – Worm: Win32/Dorkbot (link is external)
• Microsoft Malware Protection Center – Microsoft assists law enforcement to help disrupt Dorkbot botnets

Second IRS Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the second in a series of tips intended to increase public awareness of how to protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January, and will continue through the April tax deadline. US-CERT and the IRS recommend taxpayers prepare for heightened risk this tax season and remain vigilant year-round.


The second tip focuses on awareness of phishing attempts and prevention of malware infection when conducting business online. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review IRS Security Awareness Tax Tip Number 2 for additional information.




https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/12/03/IRS-Releases-Second-Tax-Security-Tip

IRS Releases First in a Series of Tax Security Tips

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the first in a series of tips intended to increase public awareness of how to protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January, and will continue through the April tax deadline.


The first tip focuses on seven simple steps to secure your computer when conducting business online. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review IRS Security Awareness Tax Tip Number 1 for additional information.

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I can custom make these in just about any color, a wide assortment of woods with Chrome or 24ct Gold.

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Big Changes in Overtime Pay, Big Challenges for Companies | Corporate Counsel

This is a game-changer……

In a long-awaited announcement this week, the U.S. Department of Labor released new regulations requiring companies to give overtime pay to a whole new group of formerly exempt workers. Under these revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act, it’s estimated that the rules will lead to time-and-a-half pay for all hours logged over the 40-hour workweek for nearly 5 million additional members of the U.S. workforce.

Big Changes in Overtime Pay, Big Challenges for Companies | Corporate Counsel

Lax Network Administration: OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data | Ars Technica

Yet another lackadaisical network administrator has given ColdFusion a black-eye.
 

According to many published articles (link below) the Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was a ColdFusion based application managing the data that was stolen by hackers. They were able to obtain the records of 14 million people who work for, applied for or provided services to the US Federal Government.
 

That is 5% of the adult population of the US. One out of twenty people (to keep this massive breach in perspective).
 

The cracked system was operating an older version of ColdFusion, one which used the Adobe JRun engine.
 

Adobe stopped using JRun over eight years ago moving to Apache Tomcat.
 

Eight years…. Amy Winehouse won a Grammy, Barack Obama was running for president, before Bernie Madoff was busted.
 

Yet the headline you will all see in computer security stories is how it is the fault of Adobe’s ColdFusion.
 

The story should not focus on the mark-up language of the application, but the underlining platform.

The server itself was not kept up-to-date.
 

If it had, the information of those fourteen-million of our neighbors and fellow Americans would not have fallen into the hands of the CHINEESE GOVERNMENT.
 

This information should have those who have purview over server farms and have been given the responsibility to keep them up-to-date a wake-up call.
 

Software companies and those who are creating the applications can only do so much to provide secure code. The servers and the supporting infrastructure is just as important as data encryption and session management.
 

“EPIC” fail—how OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data | Ars Technica

Encryption “would not have helped” at OPM, says DHS official | Ars Technica

 

I occurs to me that the individuals on the news channels and those in our government asking questions about the large data breach at OPM are asking the wrong questions.

One of the news channels was interviewing a guy who’s data had been stolen. He hadn’t worked for the federal government since 1992. What was obtained was his initial resume and the paperwork associated with hiring him along with security background check documents and subsequent work evaluations.

Since the data about this person hadn’t been relevant well over ten years that data should have been recognized as not vital to the current needs of the government and been put in an ‘At Rest’.

“Data At Rest” is a term that is sometimes used to refer to all data in computer storage while excluding data that is traversing a network or temporarily residing in computer memory to be read or updated. [REF: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/data-at-rest ]

With the reported amount of data that was taken we need to ask two things:

1. How much of the data taken was actively being used for day-to-day operations of OPM (Office of Personnel Management).
2. Of the data that was not being used to meet the immediate (or imitate) needs of OPM why was it still available on an accessible network?

The long-and-the-short of it is the information that was taken should not have been that readily available in the first place.

Encryption “would not have helped” at OPM, says DHS official | Ars Technica

Engine Reduction System

I'm just testing out some programming to connect a website I'm working on to social media ... please ignore ( thanks )



Engine Reduction System

How to play Agile Poker

How to play Agile Poker

 

 

http://youtu.be/a8z8V4VrJ2o

We had a situation where we were experiencing a bottleneck in our Agile process at the point of the Quality Assurance checks. A part of the problem was a lack of manpower at QA, but a larger part was the developers and the fact that they may not have had enough information to properly address the story.

So I need a mechanism whereby the individual developer would be encouraged to ask more questions and communicate a little more closely with product owners and other stake holders to make sure they were addressing the request with a more targeted effort.

I addressed this as a management issue.

How can I get the development team to feel it is OK to ask questions, gather information about the task at hand before writing or adjusting code? How can I get the product owners to provide better stories in their requests so the developer would have enough information right out of the gate?

My answer was Agile Poker.

Now you can’t do this with every sprint otherwise it gets boring; detracts from the novelty.

First, obtain some wooden nickels. They are inexpensive and you can customize them with a team name, product name and release info. Designed right you can give them to the folks in marketing (opps, business development) afterwards they can use at trade shows and stuff like that.

Anyway, for every sprint task a developer completes and promotes to the Peer Review they get one token. You can also work out the token values on the front end, i.e. more time for task the more tokens it is worth.

If the task fails the peer review or QA checks they lose their tokens.

The developer with the most tokens as the end of the sprint wins.

The prize can be a crisp hundred dollar bill or a gift card or a years’ worth of Netflix or something – the prize could even be something the team picks prior to the sprint.

Anyway….

I’m Jim Harris – let me know if your team uses something like this.

http://www.wooden-nickel.com/

Video Resume:   https://youtu.be/Yao1DVQV1Tk

In my position as Vice President of Product Development at Lawtrac, a position I held for nearly fifteen years, I oversaw the desktop and mobile development teams, quality assurance team and worked directly with clients to ensure every release or update contained the advancements they desired.

I have handled vary large software implementations which included data conversions and training.

As the VP of Product Development I helped add value to the company which was sold at the end of 2014. During my tenure I transformed my entire staff to the Agile methodology of production and personally obtained my Certified Scrum Master standing as I am a lead-by-example manager. I have been three-times published by OWASP and have spoken at national events by Adobe and Legal Technologies Association on developing secure applications. I bring experience, confidence, and self-discipline; together we can accomplish anything.

 

Tuesday morning rant.....

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed

Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

Let's substitute Shakespeare’s use of the word 'gentlemen' for the phrase 'hiring managers' or 'recruiters'.

I feel very strongly that the individuals conducting an initial review of resumes upon seeing military experience automatically pass over the individual.

Case(s) in point:

A recruiter last week asked me to remove my military experience and substitute 'additional experience upon request' even though what I did in the Army Signal Corps was exactly what the company was looking for.

Google Fiber passed me by for a position working with the team installing Google Fiber in Austin, TX even though I'm a certified fiber optic field engineer - not too many of those running around.

I believe (too) that individuals in the age group dubbed ‘millennial’ are doing the initial review(s) and that the sediments expressed in the St. Crispin’s Day Speech penned in 1599 are right on the money.

Video Cover:   https://youtu.be/Yao1DVQV1Tk

Jim's Soapbox: Video Resume: Jim Harris - IT Product Development ...

Jim's Soapbox: Video Resume: Jim Harris - IT Product Development ...: I put this together for any potential employer to review. I find it difficult to put 30+ years of IT experience on a single sheet of paper. ...

Video Resume: Jim Harris - IT Product Development Manager

I put this together for any potential employer to review. I find it difficult to put 30+ years of IT experience on a single sheet of paper.  Even this three minute video is lacking the minor details, but covers the 'experience' portion of my background fairly well.

Anyway, if anyone is hireing - 512 688-0790

Ford accused by software maker of intellectual property theft

 

As a developer I am very interested in seeing how this specific lawsuit plays out.

The suit is not that Ford copied their software, the phrase being used is “derived from” – I’m guess that is the same as reverse engineering.

This happens all the time in the software world, in fact, in every industry; from stock trading firms to your corner bakery.

The only thing missing from this article is a mention of the people who did the actual programming. If it was done with individuals who first programmed in in Texas then maybe Versata has a case, and then only if they poached the person or persons and moved them to Michigan or they remotely programmed saving their work to Ford servers.

Anyway, this will be interesting…..

Ford accused by software maker of intellectual property theft

WordPress Fixes More XSS Flaws With Automatic Update

Wordpress is what wordpress is – websites for those who can’t program websites.

With so many cooks in the kitchen this is going to continue to happen.

Be careful what you “don’t” pay for.

WordPress Fixes More XSS Flaws With Automatic Update

Time Lapse: Full Moon Rising

Today in History: March 24

King James I of England

Aleksandr Romanov
Harry Houdini
Sherlock Homes begins a quest
1^st Automobile Sold
Thomas E Dewey
England Rules
Clyde Barrow
1^st Coast Guard Air Station
Steve McQueen
Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov
The Great Escape
Laurence Olivier
Jane Wyman
Kennedy Half Dollar
Peyton Manning
Exxon Valdez Spill
Space Shuttle Atlantis

http://youtu.be/TJAM0ZSjrTU

Year	Event
1188	Born: Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
1379	End of Gelderse war victory
1441	Born: Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)
1494	Born: Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)
1545	German Parliament opens in Worms
1550	France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603	Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1607	Born: Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1628	Born: Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
1629	1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1630	Born: Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal
1645	Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III
1657	Born: Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1664	Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1693	Born: John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1703	Born: Jose F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer
1714	Born: Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
1721	Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1725	Born: Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725	Born: Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1731	Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1732	Born: Gian Francesco de Majo, composer
1734	Neth's William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
1740	Born: John Antes, composer
1749	Born: Bernard Jumentier, composer
1755	Born: Rufus King, framer of US constitution
1762	Born: Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo)
1765	Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
1782	Born: Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1792	Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1796	Born: John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1797	Born: Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity)
1801	Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1802	Born: Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP
1808	Born: Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809	Born: Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
1814	Born: Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove
1817	Born: Aime Maillart, composer
1820	Born: A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1820	Born: Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1821	Born: Elisa Felix, [Rachel], tragedienne
1821	Born: [George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828	Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1829	Born: George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829	Born: Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1830	Born: Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
1832	Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
1834	Born: John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
1834	Born: William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
1835	Born: Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
1837	Born: Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
1837	Canada gives blacks the right to vote
1848	State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
1848	Born: Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1850	Born: Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1855	Born: Andrew W Mellon, founder (Mellon Bank)/US Sec of Treasury
1855	Born: Olive Schreiner, S African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
1855	Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
1860	Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
1866	Born: Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
1868	Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1874	Born: Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist
1874	Born: Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
1877	University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878	British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1878	Born: Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer
1880	Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT
1882	German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1883	1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
1883	Born: James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
1884	Born: Gino Marinuzzi, composer
1884	Born: Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
1885	Born: Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)
1886	Born: Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1886	Born: Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887	Born: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)
1887	Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1888	Born: Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)
1888	Born: Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1889	Born: Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1890	Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"
1891	Born: Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)
1891	Born: John Knittel, writer
1891	Born: Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1893	Born: George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1894	37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
1895	Born: Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
1895	Born: Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
1896	Born: Gianna Manzini, writer
1897	Born: Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor
1897	Born: Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis)
1898	Born: Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard)
1898	Born: George Alpert, railroad executive
1898	1st automobile sold
1900	New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1900	Born: June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet
1901	Born: Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
1902	Born: Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)
1903	Born: Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
1903	Born: John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha)
1903	Born: Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life)
1905	Born: Andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)
1905	Born: Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
1906	Born: John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS]
1906	Born: Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1906	"Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1907	The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1907	Born: Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
1907	Born: Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
1907	Born: Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater)
1907	Born: Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
1907	Born: Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
1907	Born: Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1909	Born: Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
1909	Born: Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor (Phoenix)
1910	Born: Jacques Chailley, composer
1910	Born: Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel)
1910	83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1911	Born: Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)
1911	Born: Jane Beverly Drew, architect
1911	Born: Joseph Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera)
1913	Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England
1913	Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1914	Born: Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
1915	Born: Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
1916	Born: Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1917	Born: John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1917	Born: Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1918	Born: Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter
1919	Born: John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-TN, 1965- )
1919	Born: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author (Coney Island of the Mind)
1919	Born: Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
1920	Born: Gene Nelson, [Berg], Seattle Wash, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma)
1920	1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1921	Born: Wilson Harris, Guayanese author
1922	Born: Dave Appell, singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour)
1922	Born: Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women)
1922	Born: Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
1922	Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
1923	Greece becomes a republic.
1923	Born: Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families & prisoners of war
1923	Born: Murray Hamilton, Washington NC, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1924	Born: Lois Andrews, actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk)
1924	Born: Lorraine Gourley, LA CA
1924	Born: Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
1924	Greece becomes a republic
1925	KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
1925	Born: Duncan Wood, TV director/producer
1925	Born: Mai Zetterling, Vaeras Sweden, actress (Hidden Agenda, Ringer)
1925	Born: Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1926	Born: Dario Fo, Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997)
1926	The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
1927	Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927	Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
1927	Born: Janos Decsenyi, composer
1927	Born: Martin Walser, writer
1928	Born: Byron "Yanks" Janis, McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orch)
1928	Born: Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1929	Born: Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for S Africa, 1 career no-ball)
1930	Born: Kenneth Nelson, Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1930	Born: Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)
1930	1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
1930	Planet Pluto named
1931	Born: Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1932	Born: William Smith, Columbia Mo, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0)
1932	Born: Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup)
1932	1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1933	Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1933	Born: David Harries, composer
1934	Born: William Smith, American actor
1934	US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
1934	U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
1935	Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1935	Born: Peter Bichsel, writer
1936	Born: Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
1936	Born: David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
1936	Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
1937	Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
1937	National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1937	Born: Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
1937	Born: Bill Tillman, basebal player
1937	Born: Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I Do Love You)
1937	Born: Erskine Sandiford, premier (Barbados, 1987-94)
1938	Born: Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
1938	Born: Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
1938	Born: David Irving, British historian
1940	Born: Bob Mackie, Monterey Parks Calif, designer (Streisand, Cher)
1940	Born: Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1941	British troops defeat British Somalia
1941	German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1941	Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1941	LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
1941	Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in NYC
1943	Born: H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-NC)
1943	Born: Jesus Alou, baseball outfielder (SF Giants)
1943	Born: Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64)
1944	Born: Denny McLain, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968)
1944	Born: Patti Labelle, singer (Phoenix, Tasty, Chameleon)
1944	Born: R. Lee Ermey, American actor
1944	Born: Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
1944	76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
1944	811 British bombers attack Berlin
1944	In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
1945	Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945	Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945	Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings E of Rhine
1945	US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1945	Born: Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1945	Born: Curtis Hanson, American film director
1946	Born: Lee Oskar, Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends)
1946	Born: Paul Williams, climber
1946	Born: Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk)
1947	Born: Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)
1947	Born: Mike Kellie, rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1947	Born: Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake)
1947	Born: Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
1947	Born: Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
1947	Born: Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1947	Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
1947	John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
1949	21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win
1949	Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win
1949	Born: Steve Lang, Montreal Canada, rock bassist (April Wine)
1950	Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
1950	US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950	US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1951	Born: Dougie Thompson, rocker (Supertramp-Bloody Well Right)
1951	Born: Earl Williams, NBAer
1951	Born: Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60)
1951	Born: Pat Bradley, Westford MA, LPGA golfer (1981 US Women's Open)
1952	Born: Nicholas Campbell, Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-Insiders)
1952	Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953	US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953	Born: Steve Lubbers, cricketer (capt of Dutch World Cup team 1996)
1954	Born: Donna Pescow, Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
1954	Born: Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit)
1954	Born: Robert Carradine, LA Calif, actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength)
1955	Born: Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
1955	1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955	British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1955	Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
1956	Born: Ijaz Faqih, cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88)
1957	Born: Scott J Horowitz, Phila Pa, PhD/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82)
1958	Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1959	Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1959	The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
1959	Born: Renaldo Nehemiah, US, hurdler (110m at 12.93)/NFLer (SF 49ers)
1960	Born: Kelly LeBrock, NYC, actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red)
1960	Born: Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1960	Born: Nena, German pop singer
1960	US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene
1961	NY Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
1961	Born: Dean Jones, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman & fielder 1984-92)
1961	Born: James T Gallagher Jr, Johnstown PA, PGA golfer (1990 Greater Milw)
1962	Born: Penny Hammel, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (Jamie Farr Toledo-1985, 89)
1962	Born: Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)
1962	Born: Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1962	24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59
1962	Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1962	Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1963	Born: Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch soccer goalie (Vitesse, Manchester)
1963	Born: Sammy Giammatva, Houston Tex, tennis star
1964	Born: Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star
1964	Kennedy half-dollar issued
1965	US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
1965	Born: Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1965	Born: Ben Torriero, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1965	Born: Jeff Reese, Brantford, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965	Born: Marian Vajda, Czech, tennis star
1965	Born: Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965	Born: Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
1965	Born: The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1966	Born: Penny Toler, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1966	Born: Tatjana Patitz, Hamburg German FR, model/actress (Rising Sun)
1966	Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1967	U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
1967	Born: Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel, Fla, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Ark 1987)
1967	Born: Richard Gillam, Atlanta Ga, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad)
1968	Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1969	Born: Yoko Zetterlund, SF Calif, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1969	Born: Houston, American pornographic actress
1970	Born: Lara Flynn Boyle, Davenport Iowa, actress (Donna Hayward-Twin Peaks)
1970	Born: Marques Bragg, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970	Born: Mike Vanderjagt, CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts)
1970	Born: Shannon Lemora, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1.5k runner
1970	Born: Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1970	Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
1971	Born: Megyn Price, American actress
1972	Born: Steve Karsay, American baseball player
1972	Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1973	Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ
1973	Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title
1973	Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
1973	SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1973	Born: Atle Larsen, WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1973	Born: Chip McCaw, Chicago Ill, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1973	Born: David Moravec, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973	Born: Josh Lakatos, Pasadena Calif, trap shooter (Olympics-silver-1996)
1973	Born: Philippe Boucher, St Apollinaire Ca, NHL defense (LA Kings, Oly-G-98)
1973	Born: Jacek Bak, Polish footballer
1974	Born: Terry Killens, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1974	Born: Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
1974	36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64
1975	Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1975	Born: Debbie Keller, Winfield Ill, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1975	Born: Julia Bikbova, Kiev Ukraine, dance skater (& John Lee)
1975	Born: Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1975	Born: Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1976	Born: Danielle Garrett, Camp Hill Penn, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976	Born: Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1976	Born: Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976	Born: Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976	Born: Peyton Manning, American football player
1976	Argentine Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military
1977	Born: Olivia Burnette, San Clemente Calif, actress (Torkelsons)
1977	Born: Corneille, Canadian-Rwandan singer
1977	Born: Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1978	Born: Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
1978	Wings release "With a Little Luck"
1979	"Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1979	1st appearance as Australian cricket capt for Kim Hughes
1979	Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1979	10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts
1979	Born: Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979	Born: Lake Bell, American actress
1979	Born: Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979	Born: Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979	Born: Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1980	Born: Luke Edwards, Nevada City Ca, actor (Newsie)
1980	Born: Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1980	42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
1980	ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1980	Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
1981	"Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
1981	Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1981	Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1981	Born: Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1982	Born: Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982	Born: Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1982	Born: Nivea, American singer
1982	US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1983	Born: T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1984	Born: Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1984	Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
1984	IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
1984	Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
1985	5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
1985	Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
1985	Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1985	Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
1985	Born: Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1986	Born: Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986	Born: Anthony McMahon, English footballer
1986	58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt & G Page win
1986	Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986	US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1986	NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
1987	1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1987	WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
1988	"Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs
1988	Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1988	Born: Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1989	Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973
1989	Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1990	Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
1990	Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1990	Born: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
1991	"Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1991	11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
1991	Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
1991	Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1991	In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
1991	NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
1991	Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter
1992	"Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
1992	Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992	Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die
1992	1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992	Born: Thomas Law, English actor
1993	Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
1994	"Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
1994	"Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
1994	F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die
1994	Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
1996	16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins
1996	Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
1996	Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1996	MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way (2015 price: $8.00 - $16.00 per car)
1997	69th Academy Awards - "English Patient," T Cruise & Brenda Blythen win
1997	Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law
1998	Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
1998	A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999	Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999	Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
2003	The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2006	Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2006	Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.
2007	The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections.
2008	Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2010	Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his resignation in April 21, 2008

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