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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1937: The state of Alabama drops charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the “Scottsboro case.” Four other defendants are convicted.
1959: During a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard Nixon gets into a “Kitchen Debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a U.S. exhibition.
SOURCE: Associated Press
U-T QUOTE OF THE DAY
Business, C1: “For a variety of reasons, the possibility of oil and gas exploration in the Arctic has become much less hypothetical than it once was.”
– Donald Gautier, chief geologist for the largest-ever survey of petroleum resources north of the Arctic Circle