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On this date in history:

In 1869, the Territory of Wyoming granted women the right
to vote.

In 1898, Spain signed a treaty officially ending the Spanish
-American War. It gave Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines
to the United States.

In 1901, the Nobel prizes were first awarded in Oslo, Norway,
and Stockholm, Sweden.

In 1927, the Grand Ole Opry made its first radio broadcast
from Nashville.

In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry
American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. His brother
succeeded to the throne as King George VI.

In 1941, Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the
Philippines in the early days of World War II.
1950 Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize

In 1950, American diplomat Ralph Joseph Bunche receives the
Nobel Peace Prize for his peace mediation during the first
Arab-Israeli war. He was the first African American to win
the prestigious award.

In 1984, the National Science Foundation reported the dis-
covery of the first planet outside our solar system, or-
biting a star 21 million light years from Earth.

In 1990, the communists won a major victory in the first
postwar multi-party elections in the Yugoslavian republics
of Serbia and Montenegro.

In 1991, TV commentator Patrick Buchanan announced a bid
to challenge President Bush for the Republican presidential
nomination.

In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York law
that allowed a criminal's profits for selling his story to
be seized and given to his victims.

In 1992, Sen. Packwood, R-Ore., apologized to the women who
had accused him of sexual harassment and promised he would
not do it again.

In 1997, the Swiss high court ruled that $100 million of the
money that had been salted away in banks by former dictator
Ferdinand Marcos would be returned to the Philippine govern-
ment.

In 2002, the Roman Catholic diocese of Manchester, N.H.,
admitted responsibility for failing to protect children
from abusive priests.

Nina Gordon - Tonight And The Rest Of My Life

Down to the earth I fell
With dripping wings,
Heavy things won't fly
And the sky might catch on fire
And burn the axis of the world
That's why
I prefer a sunless sky
To the glittering and stinging in my eye

Feel so light
This is all I wanna feel tonight
Feel so light
Tonight and the rest of my life

Gleaming in the darksea
I'm as light as air
Floating there breathlessly
When the dream dissolves I open up my eyes
I realize that
Everything is shoreless sea
Weightlessness is passing over me

Feel so light
This is all I wanna feel tonight
Feel so light
Tonight and the rest of my life

Everthing is waves and stars
The universe is resting in my arms

I feel so alive
This is all I wanna feel tonight
I feel so light
Tonight and the rest of my life

Beyond the stars tonight
a life waiting out time
seeing love fire the moon
and awake his desire
for our calm
The watcher we touch
would not reward us....