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Today in History FacebookTwitterEmail Today in History Today is Saturday, July 17, the 198th day of 2021. There are 167 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind. On this date: In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States. In 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free. In 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the ...

Photo: Silver Screen Collection (Getty Images) Alfred Hitchcock Presents is versatile in tone and subject matter, but its most common theme is how rotten seemingly respectable people can be. As Hitchcock explained when welcoming viewers back to the show one autumn, “When crime is occasionally dealt with [on this show], it will be crime as practiced by ordinary people, like the fellow next door. I think that, by spring, a large number of you will be thinking of moving.” Many episodes are like Breaking Bad in 30 minutes or less, in which sudden greed or wounded pride can lead someone to bu...

Destiny 2 I can’t say it’s been a worthwhile use of my time, but I’ve been playing a lot of Destiny 2 again. When I checked out the new updates back in November, it was my first time returning to the MMO shooter since 2018 when I wrote about the last major expansion. As I noted in that recent mini-review, the game is less of a job than it was then, allowing me to focus on the real fun: Mindlessly ticking off repetitive tasks while listening to Comedy Bang Bang. It’s good to be back. Or… well, I’m back either way. [Sam Barsanti]