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Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Temperatures are expected to remain above average, gradually dropping back lower 70s by early in the new week. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1764 Birth of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol. 1805 The state of Virginia passes a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation. 1830 Birth of Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, reformer and labor organizer. 1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville begins as Union General Joe Hooker starts his three-pronged attack against Confederate General Robert E. Lee. ....
This spy plane played a key role in many Cold War episodes. Key point: The A-12 helped fill a missing capability as Soviet air defenses were able to threatend the U-2. Here is how the CIA used the A-12. But the Blackbird’s was actually an enlarged evolution of the Lockheed A-12, designed for service with the Central Intelligence Agency. The single-seat A-12 could fly slightly faster and higher, but it was doomed to be replaced by its heavier Air Force spinoff. By the late 1950s, aviation engineers knew that new Soviet surface-to-air missiles could effectively threaten high-altitude U-2 spy plane overflights of the Soviet Union. This was dramatically illustrated by the shoot down of Gary Power’s U-2 in 1960 over the Soviet Union, which triggering a humiliating political crisis. A second U-2 was shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis an event which could have sparked a global nuclear war. ....