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• It shouldn't be any different this time.
• As MLB ramps up its investigation into the Florida anti-aging clinic linked to the sale of performance-enhancing drugs to Rodriguez and more than a dozen major league players, the three-time AL MVP quietly rehabs his surgically repaired hip at the Yankees' minor league facility in Tampa, Fla., with plans to return in the second half of the season with "a lot of unfinished business."
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Thursday, June 6, the 157th day of 2013. There are 208 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on "D-Day," beginning the liberation of German-occupied western Europe during World War II.
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• On this date:
• In 1513, troops of the Swiss Confederation defeated the French in the Battle of Novara.
• In 1799, American politician and orator Patrick Henry died at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia.
• In 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.
• In 1912, the greatest volcanic eruption of the 20th century took place as Novarupta in Alaska began a series of explosive episodes over a 60-hour period.
• In 1925, Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.
• In 1932, the Senate approved, and President Herbert Hoover signed, a Revenue Act containing the first federal gasoline tax, which was one cent per gallon.
• In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater was opened by Richard Hollingshead in Camden County, N.J. (The movie shown was "Wives Beware," starring Adolphe Menjou.)
• In 1966, black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
• In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
• In 1978, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a primary (Continued on page 30)
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