Historical Day – Past and Present

  • Sonia Sotomayor won Senate confirmation for the Supreme Court. She’ll be sworn in Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. She’ll be the court’s first Hispanic justice, and only the third woman (Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg).
  • John Hughes, director of 1980’s classics such as “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died of a heart attack in Manhattan today. He was only 59 years old.
  • 64th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Let’s never – no one – do this again. And let’s not “celebrate” this anniversary, OK?