Today is the 110th day of 2021 and the 32nd day of spring.
TODAY S HISTORY: In 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium for the first time.
In 1946, the League of Nations officially dissolved.
In 1999, two gun-wielding students killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
In 2010, a gas explosion and fire killed 11 people on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, beginning an oil spill that would not be capped for several months.
TODAY S BIRTHDAYS: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator; Harold Lloyd (1893-1971), filmmaker; Joan Miro (1893-1983), painter/sculptor; Lionel Hampton (1908-2002), jazz musician; Tito Puente (1923-2000), jazz musician; George Takei (1937- ), actor; Ryan O Neal (1941- ), actor; Steve Spurrier (1945- ), football coach; Jessica Lange (1949- ), actress; Luther Vandross (1951-2005), singer-songwriter; Crispin Glover (1964- ), actor; Andy Serkis (1964- ), actor/director;
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DEAR ABBY: I recently moved from the U.S. to Germany. It has been a big change, and I honestly don t know how to handle it. A lot of the kids at school make fun of me and call me names.
My family plans to stay here another two years. My parents say that when/if we move back to the United States, we won t return to our hometown. I find this very hard to accept because it was the only home I ve ever known. I tried asking them if I could live with a friend there, but they always brush me off.
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