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• Today is Thursday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2013. There are 152 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On August 1, 1913, the Joyce Kilmer poem "Trees" was first published in "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse."
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• On this date:
• In 1714, Britain's Queen Anne died at age 49; she was succeeded by George I.
• In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
• In 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.
• In 1933, the National Recovery Administration's "Blue Eagle" symbol began to appear in store windows and on packages to show support for the National Industrial Recovery Act.
• In 1936, the Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
• In 1943, rioting broke out in New York City's Harlem neighborhood after a false rumor spread that a police officer had shot and killed a black U.S. Army soldier who in fact had only been wounded; six people were killed in the violence.
• In 1944, an uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasted two months before collapsing.
• In 1957, the United States and Canada agreed to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• In 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, went on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas in Austin, killing 14 people. Whitman, who had also murdered his wife and mother hours earlier, was gunned down by police.
• In 1973, the movie "American Graffiti," directed by George Lucas, first opened.
• In 1988, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh began broadcasting his nationally syndicated radio program.
• In 2007, the eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, col

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