Today in History: Ted Bundy murders his second victim
Also Janet Jackson's breast is briefly exposed by Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl half time show.
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Lynda Ann Healy becomes the second victim murdered by Ted Bundy. During that summer Bundy attacked and murdered at least seven young women in Washington. He was eventually caught and confessed to the murder of 36 murders and was executed on January 24, 1989
Barack Obama has canceled NASA’s plans for taking men to the Moon. The Constellation program had been looking at new rockets and a crewship to put astronauts on the lunar surface by 2020. In the 2011 budget request that was issued on Monday, February 1st, Obama has said that the project is too costly, ‘behind schedule, and lacking in innovation.’
A ban on smoking in workplaces has come in to force in France. Anyone smoking in airports, railway stations, hospitals, schools, shops or offices will be fined. Restaurants and bars will have until December 2007 to comply. 70% of people in France are said they favour the ban, as do half of all smokers. France is the latest country to introduce a complete or partial ban on smoking in public.
J.K. Rowling’s Web site has announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on Saturday July 21st , 2007 at 00:01 B.S.T. in the U.K. and at 00:01 in America. It will also be released at 00:01 B.S.T. on Saturday 21st July in other English speaking countries around the world.
George Bush says that scientists are close to a breakthrough on making ethanol from biodegradable materials. Speaking in Nashville, he says that this sort of technology will help the U.S. ‘reduce if not end’ his country’s reliance on Middle Eastern oil. He had been critical of the U.S. addiction to oil in his State of the Union address. He told the Nashville audience that America was close to a breakthrough in making ethanol from materials like grass or wood, and explains that the substances can be converted into energy. ‘We’re told that if we continue to focus on research, we’ll be able to within six years have a competitive fuel to gasoline,’ he concluded.
Janet Jackson’s breast is briefly exposed by Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl half time show. Timberlake later referred to the incident as a “wardrobe malfunction.”
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