Days gone by

By The Associated Press
and Courier Post Reports

Today is Tuesday, May 13, the 134th day of 2008. There are 232 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On May 13, 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were introduced with a face value of 24 cents. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane was printed upside-down; the “inverted Jenny,” as it came to be called, instantly became a collector’s item.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Beatrice Arthur is 86. Critic Clive Barnes is 81. Actor Buck Taylor is 70. Actor Harvey Keitel is 69. Author Charles Baxter is 61. Actor Franklyn Ajaye is 59. Actress Zoe Wanamaker is 59. Singer Stevie Wonder is 58. Basketball player Dennis Rodman is 47.

10 years ago in the C-P:The Hannibal Board of Public Works (BPW) is nearing completion of the relocation of major water transmission mains required by the new U.S. 36 construction.

Thought for Today: “A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.” — William Ralph Inge, English religious leader and author (1860-1954).