TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1930: American astronomer Clyde W Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.OTHER EVENTS1685: La Salle, French explorer, establishes first settlement on American soil in Texas.1861: Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the secessionist Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. 1885: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published in the United States. Battle for Iwo Jima begins in Pacific in World War II. 1953: Bwana Devil, the movie that heralded the 3D fad of the 1950s, opens in New York City. 1964: Earthquakes rock Azores in eastern Atlantic, and ships battle high waves to evacuate people from San Jorge Island. African nation of Gambia becomes independent within British Commonwealth. The space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, goes on its maiden flight above the Mojave Desert. 1988: Boris Yeltsin is ousted from ruling Communist Party Politburo in Moscow. 1991: Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for bomb that explodes in London’s Victoria Station during rush hour, killing one person and injuring at least 40. 1992: Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to trial in the West. UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali rebukes a top official for suspending relief shipments to eastern Bosnia and Sarajevo, and orders the aid deliveries resumed.1996: Two car bombs explode near Algiers, Algeria, killing 12 and wounding 35 during the final hours of Ramadan celebrations. 1997: Mexico’s top anti-drug official, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, is dismissed and later sentenced for taking money from a drug kingpin. Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, is charged with concealing information about a failed coup. In June, the charges are dropped and Kaunda is freed from house arrest.2000: The Alabama Supreme Court rules that a waitress who received a lottery ticket worth $10 million as a tip does not have to share the jackpot with her co-workers. 2001: Veteran FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen is arrested on charges of spying for Russia for more than 15 years. A 56-year-old man ignites a container of flammable liquid inside a subway train in Taegu, South Korea, starting a blaze that engulfs two trains, killing at least 133 people.2004: Runaway train cars carrying a lethal mix of fuel and chemicals derail, catch fire and then explode hours later in northeast Iran, killing more than 200 people, injuring at least 400 and leaving dozens trapped beneath crumbled mud homes.2005: Togo’s new militaryinstalled leader promises to hold presidential elections within two months, bowing to intense pressure at home and abroad to end his summary succession to power following the death of his 38-year dictator father.2006: Muslim protesters attack Christians and burn churches when a march against cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad turns violent in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 15 people in the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa’s most populous nation.2007: British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces plans to overhaul gun laws after three teenage boys were shot dead in south London in February, prompting a national debate about guns and youth gangs. Pakistan’s opposition parties win a parliamentary majority, threatening the rule of President Pervez Musharraf, a key American ally in the fight against terrorism.2009: French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledges to spend euro2.6 billion on measures to soften the blow of the global financial crisis on France’s most vulnerable citizens. President Barack Obama personally welcomes the Dalai Lama to the White House and lauds his goals for the Tibetan people, but he keeps their gettogether off-camera and low-key in an attempt to avoid inflaming tensions with China. 2013: President Hugo Chavez returns to Venezuela after more than two months of treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery, triggering street celebrations by supporters while he remains out of sight at Caracas’ military hospital. — AP TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTAlessandro Volta, Italian physicist (1745-1827); Nicolo Paganini, Italian composer-violinist (1784-1840); Milos Forman, Czech film director (1932-); George Kennedy, US actor (1925-); Toni Morrison, US author (1931-); Yoko Ono, Japanese singer/John Lennon’s widow (1933-); John Hughes, US screenwriter/director (1950-2009); Cybill Shepherd, US actress (1950-); Randy Crawford, US singer (1952-); John Travolta, US actor (1954-); Greta Scacchi, British-Italian actress (1960-); Matt Dillon, US actor (1964-); Dr Dre, US rapper (1965-)

1945:

1965:

1977:

1993:

1998:

2003:

2008:

2010: