Most e-mailed U-T stories
As of 8 p.m. yesterday:
1.“S.D. subtracts physics requirement”
2. “Jungle gem”
3. “City Council tentatively OKs smoking ban at beaches, parks”
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1987: Alonzo Horton sets aside a 200-by-45-foot plot as a plaza and certifies it as a permanent open space in downtown San Diego “free from buildings for any purpose whatever.”
1892: Lizzie Borden is found not guilty of the hacking deaths of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Mass.
SOURCEs: union-tribune archives, world almanac
U-T QUOTE OF THE DAY
PAGE E1: “Compared to when I was in private practice – 28 hours a day, eight days a week – this is a breeze.”
– DR. HERBERT McCOY, an 85-year-old physician who travels as a ship's doctor, devotes several hours a week to medical literature and conferences and recently took on a new gig serving as a physician on international trips with fellow scuba divers
