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Unseeded Gaston Gaudio upset Guillermo Coria 0-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6 to win the French Open.
Five years ago: President Barack Obama visited the American cemetery at Omaha Beach in France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Summer Bird won the Belmont Stakes, rallying past Mine That Bird to spoil jockey Calvin Borel's attempt at winning all three legs of the Triple Crown. Svetlana Kuznetsova beat top-ranked Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 in an all-Russian final at the French Open.
One year ago: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper moved to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of secret surveillance programs involving phone and Internet records, declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila Putina, announced they were divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage. Esther Williams, 91, the swimming champion turned actress, died in Los Angeles. Longtime soap opera actress Maxine Stuart, 94, died in Beverly Hills, California.

Today's Birthdays: Financier Kirk Kerkorian is 97. Actress Billie Whitelaw is 82. Civil rights activist Roy Innis is 80. Singer-songwriter Gary "U.S." Bonds is 75. Country singer Joe Stampley is 71. Actor Robert Englund is 67. Folk singer Holly Near is 65. Singer Dwight Twilley is 63. Playwright-actor Harvey Fierstein (FY'-ur-steen) is 62. Comedian Sandra Bernhard is 59. International Tennis Hall of Famer Bjorn Borg is 58. Actress Amanda Pays is 55. Comedian Colin Quinn is 55. Record producer Jimmy Jam is 55. Rock musician Steve Vai is 54. Rock singer-musician Tom Araya (Slayer) is 53. Actor Jason Isaacs is 51. Rock musician Sean Yseult (White Zombie) is 48. Actor Max Casella is 47. Actor Paul Giamatti is 47. Rhythm-and-blues singer Damion Hall (Guy) is 46. Rock musician Bardi Martin is 45. Rock musician James "Munky" Shaffer (Korn) is 44. TV correspondent Natalie Morales is 42. Country singer Lisa Brokop is 41. Rapper-rocker Uncle Kracker is 40. Actress Sonya Walger is 40. Actress Staci Keanan is 39. Actress Amber Borycki is 31. Actress Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is seven.

Thought for Today: "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (1606-1684).

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