Lightning can strike twice. Just ask Don Frick.
Frick says he survived his second lightning strike Friday - 27 years to the day of his first - and emerged a bit shaken, with only a burned zipper and a hole in the back of his jeans.
“I’m lucky I’m alive,” Frick said in a phone interview Sunday [...]

On July 31, 1964, the American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon’s surface. (Go to article.)
1556 St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order of Catholic priests and brothers, died in Rome.
1777 The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American [...]

On July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people. (Go to article.)
1593 France’s King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1866 Ulysses S. Grant was named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.
1868 [...]

Take heart, weary sports fans. There is good news in your morning newspaper, if you can get past the referee betting scandal in the NBA, the Bad Newz about Michael Vick contributing to the rogue state that is the NFL, steroids in golf and Barry Bonds trying to become the all-time home run champion under [...]

Derek Fisher completed his widely anticipated return to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday on a three-year contract reported to be worth $14 million.
The 32-year-old guard asked to be released from his contract with the Utah Jazz just over two weeks ago so he could move to a city with more advanced medical care for [...]