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From today's featured article  Thaddeus McCotter The Thaddeus McCotter 2012 presidential campaign began when McCotter filed papers on July 1, 2011, to run for the Republican Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States. He officially announced his candidacy the next day at a rock festival near Detroit. McCotter, a congressman from Michigan since 2003, was first mentioned as a potential candidate on an April 2011 episode of the Fox News show Red Eye. During his campaign, he focused on reform of government and Wall Street. Commentators noted that McCotter's lack of name recognition hindered his chances; he regularly received less than one percent support in Republican presidential preference polls. Following a last-place finish in the Ames Straw Poll and the lack of any invitation to presidential debates, he dropped his candidacy on September 22, 2011, and endorsed Mitt Romney. He resigned from Congress in July 2012 amid a fraud investigation surrounding his congressional re-election campaign. (Full article...)

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 * 1283 – During the First Mongol invasion of Burma, the fort at Ngasaunggyan was overrun after a two-month siege.
 * 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first official film featuring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, was released.
 * 1967 – Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard (pictured) performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
 * 1979 – As per the results of a two-day referendum, the current Constitution of Iran was adopted.
 * 1990 – Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first female President of Ireland.

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