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OKC Thunder faces a critical Game 5 vs. the Denver Nuggets
The Thunder has been here before. A season ago.
Same situation as last season, down to the very game in the very round. Can the Thunder learn from last year’s failure to get a different result this time?
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Missed Katy Perry in OKC over the weekend? Check out all our photos, both from the show and of the fans. Plus, we’ve got the setlist.
💬 Community Callout
Let’s celebrate this year’s prom stars.
Prom season is here, and the class of 2025 is showing up in style. From dazzling dresses and sharp suits to hilarious group shots and sweet memories, we’re collecting your favorite prom photos in one unforgettable gallery.
🌤️ Oklahoma City Weather
Today’s forecast: Breezy and warm with plenty of sunshine, according to AccuWeather. High of 89, low of 64.
🗓️ Today in History
1846 – The United States declared war on Mexico. Texas had been admitted to the union the previous year, and the two nations could not agree on the location of the new state’s southern border. Texas and the U.S. claimed land stretching to the Rio Grande, while Mexico said the border was north of that at the Nueces River.
1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer for the Confederate Navy, was taken over by a slave, Robert Smalls, who served as the ship’s helmsman. Smalls guided past Confederate forces and surrendered it to the Union.
1864 – On land formerly of Gen. Robert Lee’s estate, Arlington National Cemetery interred its first soldier. The cemetery became the final resting place for approximately 400,000 soldiers, veterans and eligible family members.
1890 – A patent was issued to Nikola Tesla for his pyromagneto-electric generator.
1908 – At the Governors’ Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources, a meeting that made conservation issues a more public priority, President Theodore Roosevelt said in his address, “the occasion for the meeting lies in the fact that the natural resources of our country are in danger of exhaustion if we permit the old wasteful methods of exploiting them longer to continue.”
1958 – The motorcade of Vice President Richard Nixon was attacked in Caracas, Venezuela, during Nixon’s goodwill tour of South America. An angry crowd rushed the motorcade, attacking with stones and fists and attempting to overturn the vehicle carrying Nixon. Several Secret Service agents were wounded.
1973 – In the first Battle of the Sexes tennis match, Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court, 6-2, 6-1. In September 1973, Riggs lost the second Battle of the Sexes to Billie Jean King, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. The pope was wounded but survived. Agca was subdued, convicted and sentenced to life in prison, then pardoned by Italy in 2000 and returned to his native Turkey, where he served another 10 years for a separate murder conviction.
1985 – The Philadelphia Police Department bombed a residential building in an attempt to force out members of the Black activist organization MOVE, for whom police had warrants for charges ranging from parole violation to illegal possession of firearms and making terroristic threats. The bombing and resulting fire killed 11 people, including children, and destroyed 61 homes.
1995 – Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen or a team of sherpas.
2013 – Kermit Gosnell, a provider of illegal late-term abortions, was convicted of first-degree murder of three babies, as well as one count of involuntary manslaughter of an adult. A day later, he struck a deal to forego his right to appeal in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
– William Cain, USA TODAY Network
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