Today is the 284th day of 2023. There are 81 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1865: Jamaican Baptist deacon and activist Paul Bogle leads hundreds in a march from Stony Gut to Morant Bay (later known as the Morant Bay Rebellion), in protest against injustice and widespread poverty under the British Crown.

OTHER EVENTS

1993: US President Bill Clinton assails efforts by members of Congress to limit the president’s authority to commit US armed forces to peacekeeping efforts in foreign countries.

2000: Nature reports scientists seeding barren portions of the oceans near Antarctica are rewarded with blooms of phytoplankton, which pull carbon dioxide from the air.

2001: Erin M O’Connor, an assistant to NBC newsman Tom Brokaw, is diagnosed with cutaneous anthrax in New York City; the spores apparently came in the mail.

2010: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says US forces may have detonated a grenade that killed a captive British aid worker during a rescue attempt to free Linda Norgrove in eastern Afghanistan.

2012: A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung.

2014: Nature publishes a report by neurologists Doo Yeon Kim and Rudolph Tanzi ,who grew human brain cells in a petri dish from embryonic stem cells, gave them Alzheimer genes, and thus brought about the development of plaques and tangles seen in brains of Alzheimer victims; it’s seen as a new route for testing drugs intended to treat Alzheimer disease.

2018: The world’s new longest flight takes 17 hours 52 minutes — from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey.

2019: Indian cricket Captain Virat Kohli scores a career-best 254 not out to move past 7,000 Test runs.

2020: British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins the Eifel Grand Prix at Germany’s Nürburgring to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 Formula One victories. LA Lakers’ MVP LeBron James is the first to win the award with three different teams.

2021: Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden steps down after The New York Times details emails in which he made homophobic and misogynistic remarks; earlier reports alleged racist statements about a union leader.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Eleanor Roosevelt, US first lady and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1884-1962); Francois Mauriac, French writer and Nobel laureate (1885-1970); Luke Perry, US actor (1966-2019); Nesta Carter, Jamaican former sprinter (1985- ); Cardi B, American rapper (1992- )

– AP/Jamaica Observer