Today in HistoryToday is Saturday, July 7, the 188th day of 2007. There are 177 days left in the year.

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In 1994, Northern Yemeni forces gained total control of their southern foes’ last bastion, Aden, crushing a bid to recreate an independent state.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in their judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.” — Margaret Fuller, American critic and social reformer (1810-1850).