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Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Temperatures are expected to remain above average, gradually dropping back lower 70s by early in the new week. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1764 Birth of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol. 1805 The state of Virginia passes a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation. 1830 Birth of Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, ref...

This spy plane played a key role in many Cold War episodes. Key point: The A-12 helped fill a missing capability as Soviet air defenses were able to threatend the U-2. Here is how the CIA used the A-12. But the Blackbird’s was actually an enlarged evolution of the Lockheed A-12, designed for service with the Central Intelligence Agency. The single-seat A-12 could fly slightly faster and higher, but it was doomed to be replaced by its heavier Air Force spinoff. By the late 1950s, aviation engineers knew that new Soviet surface-to-air missiles could effectively threaten high-altitude U-2 spy...