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2016: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May. [+-]

2013: George Zimmerman is acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator, had visible injuries and claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot Martin. Allegations of racist motivation for both the shooting and police conduct, the six-week wait to charge Zimmerman, and questions about Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law brought the case to national and international attention. [+-]

2013: Actor and singer Cory Monteith, best known for his role as Finn Hudson on the musical TV series "Glee," dies of an alcohol and heroin overdose at age 31 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [+-]

2012: Film producer Richard D. Zanuck, who produced such movies as "Jaws," "Cocoon" and "Driving Miss Daisy," dies of a heart attack at age 77 in Beverly Hills, California. Zanuck won an Academy Award for Best Picture for "Driving Miss Daisy" and also was known for working with director Tim Burton, producing six of his movies, including "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Dark Shadows." [+-]

2012: Filmmaker and actor Sage Stallone, the son of action star Sylvester Stallone, is found dead in his Los Angeles home at the age of 36. It was later ruled that he died of a heart attack three to seven days prior to being found. Sage Stallone (seen here with his uncle Frank Stallone in 2006) made his acting debut alongside his father in 1990s "Rocky V" and also appeared with his father in 1996's "Daylight." [+-]

2010: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies from a heart attack at age 80 in Tampa, Florida. During Steinbrenner's 37-year ownership the Yankees earned seven World Series titles and 11 pennants. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries made him one of the sport's most controversial figures. [+-]

2006: Actor and comedian Red Buttons, best known for movie roles in "Sayonara," "Hatari!," "The Longest Day," "The Poseidon Adventure," "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and "Pete's Dragon," dies of complications from high blood pressure at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California. Buttons won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Sayonara." [+-]

1985: Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the acting president for eight hours when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon. [+-]

1985: The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. The artists performing include Elton John, David Bowie, Queen, U2, Madonna, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, The Who, Phil Collins, a reunited Led Zeppelin and more. [+-]

1982: The MLB All-Star Game is played outside the United States for the first time, with the game taking place at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada. [+-]

1973: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in. [+-]

1972: Carroll Rosenbloom (owner of the Baltimore Colts) and Robert Irsay (owner of the Los Angeles Rams) trade teams. In 1984, Irsay would move the Colts to Indianapolis. [+-]

1969: Actor Ken Jeong, best known for the sitcom "Community" and "The Hangover" movies, is born in Detroit, Michigan. [+-]

1968: Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" is released. The third single off their debut album, it would become their most successful single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts. [+-]

1957: Director and former Rolling Stone magazine writer Cameron Crowe is born in Palm Springs, California. Crowe wrote the screenplay for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and has directed such movies as "Say Anything...," "Singles," "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous." [+-]

1956: Boxer Michael Spinks, an Olympic gold medalist and world champion in the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He went undefeated in his first 31 professional fights, first becoming undisputed world light-heavyweight champion and then moving up to heavyweight to upset IBF heavyweight champion Larry Holmes in 1985. By doing so, he became the first reigning light-heavyweight champ to win the heavyweight title. Spinks was knocked out by Mike Tyson in 1988 in the final fight of his career for his only professional defeat. He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame. [+-]

1954: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (center), best known for her self-portraits and her surrealist paintings, dies from a pulmonary embolism at age 47 in Coyoacn, Mexico. [+-]

1946: Actor and comedian Cheech Marin, known for the Cheech & Chong stoner comedy movies with Tommy Chong, is born Richard Anthony Marin in Los Angeles. Marin also co-starred with Don Johnson in the TV show "Nash Bridges" and has appeared in movies like "Born in East L.A.," "From Dusk till Dawn," "Tin Cup" and "Spy Kids." He has also voiced characters in several Disney movies, including "Oliver and Company," "The Lion King," "Cars" and "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." [+-]

1944: Erno Rubik, the inventor of Rubik's Cube, is born in Budapest, Hungary. [+-]

1942: Actor Harrison Ford, best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original "Star Wars" trilogy and the title character of the "Indiana Jones" film series, is born in Chicago, Illinois. Ford has also appeared in movies such as "Blade Runner," "Witness," "Patriot Games," "The Fugitive" and "Air Force One." [+-]

1942: Singer-songwriter and guitarist Roger McGuinn, best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records, is born James Joseph McGuinn III in Chicago, Illinois. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with The Byrds. [+-]

1940: Actor Patrick Stewart, best known for the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the "X-Men" movie franchise, is born in Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. [+-]

1939: Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut with the Harry James band, singing "Melancholy Mood" and "From The Bottom of My Heart." [+-]

1934: Babe Ruth hits his 700th career home run. It would be almost another 40 years before another major-leaguer matched the Yankee great's feat. Hank Aaron reached 700 homers in 1973 and Barry Bonds followed in 2004. [+-]

1928: Actor Bob Crane, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," is born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment on June 29, 1978, a murder that remains officially unsolved. [+-]

1923: The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally read "Hollywoodland," but the four last letters were dropped after renovation in 1949. [+-]

1919: The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight. [+-]

1863: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting that will be later regarded as the worst in United States history. [+-]

1832: Henry Schoolcraft officially establishes the source of the Mississippi River as Lake Itasca in Minnesota. [+-]

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July 13, 2017

Today is Thursday, July 13, the 194th day of 2017. There are 171 days left in the year.

Today in local history

In 1902, a new Christian Science Church in Wilmington became the second in the state. The First Church of God, Scientists, held a meeting to organize and elect officers at the Murchison Bank building, where it was preparing a meeting hall.

In 1984, Armand Amato Jr. was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a racketeering charge. He agreed to cooperate with federal officials investigating what they described as one of the biggest drug-smuggling operations ever discovered in North Carolina.

Elsewhere on this date

In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation adopted the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory, an area corresponding to the eastern half of the present-day Midwest.

In 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.

In 1863, deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City. (The insurrection was put down three days later.)

In 1939, Frank Sinatra made his first commercial recording, "From the Bottom of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood," with Harry James and his Orchestra for the Brunswick label.

In 1955, Britain hanged Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old former model convicted of killing her boyfriend, David Blakely (to date, Ellis is the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom).

In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot at his party's convention in Los Angeles.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to be U.S. Solicitor General; Marshall became the first black jurist appointed to the post. (Two years later, Johnson nominated Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court.)

In 1972, George McGovern received the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Miami Beach.

In 1977, a blackout hit New York City in the mid-evening as lightning strikes on electrical equipment caused power to fail; widespread looting broke out. (The electricity was restored about 25 hours later.)

In 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.

In 1985, "Live Aid," an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa's starving people.

In 1999, Angel Maturino Resendiz, suspected of being the "Railroad Killer," surrendered in El Paso, Texas. (Resendiz was executed in 2006.)

In 2013, a jury in Sanford, Florida, acquitted neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman of all charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager; news of the verdict prompted Alicia Garza, an African-American activist in Oakland, California, to declare on Facebook that "black lives matter," a phrase that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Ten years ago: Former media mogul Conrad Black was convicted in Chicago of swindling the Hollinger International newspaper empire out of millions of dollars. (Black was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison, but had his sentence reduced to three years; he was freed in May 2012.) Family prayer services and a huge public outpouring in Austin, Texas, ushered in three days of memorial ceremonies honoring the late Lady Bird Johnson.

Five years ago: His credibility under attack, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney insisted he had "no role whatsoever in the management" of Bain Capital, a private equity firm, after early 1999, and demanded that President Barack Obama apologize for campaign aides who persisted in alleging otherwise. JPMorgan Chase said its traders may have tried to conceal the losses from a soured investment bet that embarrassed the bank and cost it almost $6 billion far more than its chief executive first suggested. Movie producer Richard Zanuck, 77, died in Beverly Hills, California.

One year ago: With emotions running raw, President Barack Obama met privately at the White House with elected officials, law enforcement leaders and members of the Black Lives Matter movement with the goal of getting them to work together to curb violence and build trust. Theresa May entered No. 10 Downing Street as Britain's new prime minister following a bittersweet exit by David Cameron, who resigned after voters rejected his appeal to stay in the European Union.

Today's Birthdays: Game show announcer Johnny Gilbert (TV: "Jeopardy!") is 93. Actor Patrick Stewart is 77. Actor Robert Forster is 76. Actor Harrison Ford is 75. Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is 75. Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 71. Actress Daphne Maxwell Reid is 69. Actress Didi Conn is 66. Singer Louise Mandrell is 63. Rock musician Mark "The Animal" Mendoza (Twisted Sister) is 61. Actor-director Cameron Crowe is 60. Tennis player Anders Jarryd is 56. Rock musician Gonzalo Martinez De La Cotera (Marcy Playground) is 55. Comedian Tom Kenny is 55. Country singer-songwriter Victoria Shaw is 55. Bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent is 55. Actor Kenny Johnson is 54. Roots singer/songwriter Paul Thorn is 53. Country singer Neil Thrasher is 52. Actor Ken Jeong is 48. Bluegrass musician Mike Barber (The Gibson Brothers) is 47. Singer Deborah Cox is 44. Actress Ashley Scott is 40. Rock musician Will Champion (Coldplay) is 39. Actor Fran Kranz is 36. Actress Aya Cash is 35. Actor Colton Haynes is 29. Actor Steven R. McQueen is 29. Soul singer Leon Bridges is 28. Actor Kyle Harrison Breitkopf is 12.

Thought for Today: "Individuality is freedom lived." John Dos Passos, American author (1896-1970).

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FLASHBACK: This date in history, July 13, 2017 - StarNewsOnline.com

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A bill has been submitted to the Russian parliament which would require social networks and messenger services to remove defamatory statements or comments deemed to promote war or national, racial and religious strife.

If passed, the law would come into force on January 1, 2018 and would compel social networking sites to remove incendiary comments within 24 hours of receiving a complaint or face a fine of 30 to 50 million roubles ($495,000 to $825,000).

The draft bill, submitted by members of the ruling United Russia party, also stipulates that all social networks and messaging services with over 2 million registered users in Russia open a representative office in the country.

In recent years the Russian parliament has passed a number of restrictions on social media and online publishers including a 2016 law commonly referred to as Yarovaya law (named after one of its authors) which requires telecommunications and internet companies to retain copies of all content and communications for six months, including text messages, voice, data and images.

Freedom of expression advocates have described these raft of laws as draconian attempts to limit free speech online.

Dozens of Russians are believed to have been arrested and even imprisoned for their posts on social media.

An explanatory note submitted with the current bill states that it seeks to preserve the informational function of social networking sites, but prevent them from being used for illegal means.

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Facebook has a new addition to its Marketplace where people post bicycles, guitars, and other goods for sale.

The social networking titan said Friday that it is now testing online ads for the Craigslist-like service, similar to what they would see in Facebook's core newsfeed.

Currently, only a small percentage of U.S. users will see the ads, which resemble the product listings in Marketplace, said Mike Manning, a Facebook spokesperson about the companys monetization efforts. The ads are labeled with the advertisers name along with the word sponsored to distinguish them from other Marketplace postings, he said.

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The ads will only be shown in the mobile version of Facebook and not on the desktop computer version, said Manning.

Facebook ( fb ) debuted Marketplace in October as a way to expand beyond the companys primary social networking service. Facebook does not handle transactions via Marketplace, and instead acts as a facilitator between buyers and sellers who handle the transactions and delivery of items themselves.

By testing ads on Marketplace, Facebook is attempting to expand its multi-billion dollar advertising business, which had $7.9 billion in sales in its latest quarter . People posted over 18 million items on Marketplace in May alone, Manning said, which indicates that many people are using the service.

Manning declined to say which third-party advertisers are part of the trial, but he said they currently run advertising campaigns across other Facebook services, like the core service and the photo-sharing app Instagram.

Facebook is not charging advertisers during the test, which is intended to see how successful the ads are. Manning said the test will run for the foreseeable future, and that it's too early to tell if ads will become a permanent addition to Marketplace.

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Some Facebook users will now be able to create their own GIFs using the camera function in the social networking giant's app.

Facebook is testing a built-in GIF creator in its iOS app with some users. The website The Next Web was the first to spot the app update on Friday, noting that the function lets you create short, looping GIFs that last just a few seconds.

Users can access the feature in the app's camera mode, where they have the choice between a "normal" or "GIF" tab at the top of the screen. The GIF function will also offer access to Facebook's wide range of effects (such as augmented reality masks and animations) and filters that were already available in the normal camera function. The new function follows last month's full rollout of a GIF comment button on Facebook that allows users to search an online library of existing GIFs and post them directly in Facebook's comments sections.

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Facebook-owned Instagram already has the two-year-old Boomerang feature, which allows users to create short, looping videos. Earlier this year, rival Snapchat introduced its own Loop feature for creating looping videos up to 10 seconds long. That new feature from Snapchat was the rare example of parent Snap Inc.'s ephemeral messaging service rolling out a copy-cat of something already available from either Instagram or Facebook, rather than the other way around .

Either way, now Facebook has joined the build-your-own GIF party, but its new feature does have limits. Notably, The Verge points out that Facebook's new GIF creations are primarily for use within Facebook's own platform, as they are only available to share on users' Facebook pagesor in Facebook's Stories feature for sharing feeds of photos and videosand they can only be saved as videos.

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