TODAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.
Today's Highlight in History:
In 1962, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court's order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address,"We will not drink from the cup of genocide." In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.In 1998, former Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace died in Montgomery at age 79.
Ten years ago: The body of missing Yale University graduate student Annie Le was found behind a research lab wall on what would have been her wedding day. Kim Clijsters, capping a comeback from two years out of tennis, became the first unseeded woman to win the U.S. Open as she defeated No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki, 7-5, 6-3.
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