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1775 ThefirstAmerican society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia. 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth dur- ing a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. 1912 The British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40p.m. ship's time and began sinking. 1935 The "Black Sunday" dust storm descended upon the central Plains, turning a sunny a er- noon into total dark- ness. 1939 The John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first pub- lished by Viking Press. 1981 The first test flight of America's first opera- tional space shuttle, the Columbia, ended suc- cessfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Birthdays Country singer Loretta Lynn is 85. Actress Julie Christie is 77. Retired MLB All-Star Pete Rose is 76. Actor Brad Garrett is 57. Actor Robert Car- lyle is 56. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 49. Actor Adrien Brody is 44. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 40. Roots singer JD McPherson is 40. Actor Christian Alexander is 27. Actress Abigail Breslin is 21. TODAYINHISTORY EddieMurphy mourns brother Charlie Murphy Eddie Murphy has released a statement concerning the death of his older brother, Charlie Murphy, who died of leukemia on Wednesday. He was 57. "Our hearts are heavy with the loss today of our son, brother, father, uncle and friend Char- lie," the actor said, in a statement to Variety. "Charlie filled our family with love and laughter and there won't be a day that goes by that his presence will not be missed." Charlie Murphy gained fame on "Chapelle's Show." He died in a New York City hospital while undergoing che- motherapy. — Tony Hicks, Bay Area News Group Star Report WINNING NUMBERS Daily 3A ernoon: 5, 5, 7 Daily 3Evening: 1, 4, 2 Daily 4: 8, 4, 4, 4 Fantasy 5: 2, 11, 16, 23, 27 Daily Derby 1st: 3, Hot Shot 2nd: 8, Gorgeous George 3rd: 7, Eureka Race Time: 1:44.24 SUPER LOTTO PLUS Wednesday's drawing: 9, 14, 17, 23, 29 Mega number: 5 Saturday's estimated jackpot: $29million MEGA MILLIONS Tuesday's drawing: 19, 34, 35, 38, 49 Mega number: 8 Today's estimated jackpot: $30million POWERBALL Wednesday's drawing: 8, 14, 61, 63, 68 Powerball: 24 Saturday's estimated jackpot: $70million LOTTERY By Sudhin Thanawala TheAssociatedPress SAN FRANCISCO Afederal agent unnecessarily de- graded an elderly woman when he interrogated her for nearly two hours in 2011 after seizing a moon rock she said her late hus- band had received from as- tronaut Neil Armstrong, a federal appeals court said Thursday. Joann Davis was hav- ing financial problems and reached out to NASA for help selling a paperweight containing the rock. Her email prompted an investigation by Norman Conley, a special agent with NASA's Office of In- spector General, that led to a sting operation at a Cali- fornia Denny's restaurant. Lunar material gathered on the Apollo missions is considered government property, and NASA has gone after people selling it. Conley detained Davis — who was nearly 75 years old — even though he knew she had urinated in her pants during the sting, had reached out to NASA her- self and was having finan- cial problems stemming in part from her son's med- ical care, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Cir- cuit Court of Appeals said. "Conley's detention of Davis, an elderly woman, was unreasonably pro- longed and unnecessar- ily degrading," 9th Cir- cuit Chief Judge Sidney Thomas wrote for the court. Instead of telling Da- vis that her possession of the paperweight was ille- gal and asking her to sur- render it to NASA, Conley "organized a sting opera- tion involving six armed officers to forcibly seize a lucite paperweight con- taining a moon rock the size of a rice grain from an elderly grandmother," Thomas said. The appeals panel up- held a lower court ruling denying Conley immunity from Davis' lawsuit alleg- ing wrongful detention. John Rubiner, an attor- ney for Conley, said he was examining the ruling and had not decided what to do next. He said a lower court judge, Consuelo Mar- shall in Los Angeles, de- termined that Conley had asked Davis if she wished to use the bathroom to clean up and whether she wanted to speak with him at her home, but she de- clined. Marshall also said there was no evidence that Da- vis or her husband legally acquired or possessed the moon rock. Marshall said Davis told a confidential informant retained by NASA that she knew of other people who had gotten in trouble for possessing lunar rock, according to court docu- ments. Davis sought $1.7 mil- lion for the rock. In addition to the moon rock, Davis claimed she had a nickel-sized piece of the heat shield that pro- tected the Apollo 11 space capsule as it returned to earth from the first suc- cessful manned mission to the moon in 1969. Investigators did not seek to seize that item. NASA lunar experts later confirmed the authenticity of the moon rock in Da- vis' possession, but prose- cutors never filed charges against her, the 9th Circuit said. Armstrong, who died in 2012, had told investiga- tors that he never gave or sold lunar material to any- one, according to an affida- vit in the case. 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