657 Mu'awiyan defeats Caliph Ali in the Battle of Siffin in Mesopotamia.
1526 Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon and colonists leave Santo Domingo for Florida.
1529 Francisco Pizarro receives a royal warrant to "discover and conquer" Peru.
1758 British forces capture France's Fortress of Louisbourg after a month siege.
1759 The French relinquish NY Fort Ticonderoga to the British under Gen. Amherst.
1775 Congress establishes a postal system with Ben Franklin as postmaster general.

The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has expanded the Moderate Risk for severe weather slightly south. The main threat will be from widespread, damaging winds. The is also a chance for tornadoes from Northeast Pennsylvania into Southern New England.

Severe thunderstorms expected to batter much of the northeastern U.S., including New York. These dangerous weather risks includes thunderstorms, hail and possibly tornadoes across an area that stretches from Indiana all the way to New England.

While addressing members of the National Urban League last night, President Barack Obama spoke about gun violence for the first time since the deadly shooting in Aurora, Colo.

GOP candidate Mitt Romney has also weighed in on this issue, as well as the Mayor of New York City, and many more are soon expected to follow.

Most everyone agrees that more actions need to be taken to keep dangerous assault weapons from criminals with lengthy rap sheets as well as the mentally unstable. But Congress continues it's opposition to deal with this politically charged issue of gun control.

The United Nations peacekeeping chief has announced that half of the 300 UN observers in Syria have left the country, while adding that the crisis there remains “of utmost concern” and the world body will continue to promote a political solution.

“We will try to work towards contributing to a political solution which would help alleviate all the suffering,” the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, told a press conference in Damascus.

After unveiling their brand new bird in flight logo last month, Twitter crashed in flight and abruptly landed back on earth this Thursday and stalling a possibility of 140 million users.

The site goes up and down for portions of the day as users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter.

Engineers are currently working to resolve the issue, which is apparently on-going and they are working to resolve it.

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