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• It all means that, while merchants have known for months that the future heir to the throne is due in mid-July, they'll be sent into a mad dash to create, or at least put finishing touches on, royal baby memorabilia.
• Sophie Allport, a designer of fine bone china, is one manufacturer waiting for the future monarch's name to send her commercial plans into motion. She has thousands of pre-orders for hand-crafted commemorative mugs but can't fill them until the baby's name can be etched on the rims.
• She's as ready as she can possibly be -- having prepared both blue and pink designs depending on whether it's a prince or princess.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2013. There are 173 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 11, 1533, Pope Clement VII issued a bull of excommunication against England's King Henry VIII for the annulment of the king's marriage to Catherine of Aragon and subsequent marriage to second wife Anne Boleyn.
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• On this date:
• In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.
• In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.
• In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.
• In 1859, Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time.
• In 1922, the Hollywood Bowl officially opened with a program called "Symphonies Under the Stars" with Alfred Hertz conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
• In 1937, American composer and pianist George Gershwin died at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38.
• In 1952, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated (Continued on page 33)
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