Nation Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of 1st Lunar Footsteps

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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first footsteps on another world Saturday, gathering in record heat at races and other festivities to commemorate Apollo 11’s “giant leap” by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Aldrin showed Vice…

Speeches, Marches Mark Martin Luther King Anniversary

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By ERRIN HAINES WHACK, AP National Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the civil rights leader’s family and admirers were marking the anniversary of his death with marches, speeches and quiet reflection Wednesday. The commemorations stretch from his hometown of Atlanta to Memphis, where he died,…