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On the local front:

A year ago today:
Juliett 484 was once a movie star, captained by Harrison Ford in an action film. Before that, it was a feared piece of the Soviet nuclear arsenal and a large player in any doomsday scenario. Even in its dotage, as a museum boat in Providence Harbor, it was a destination for tour groups and military buffs. Now, Juliett 484, a Soviet-era ballistic-missile submarine, is still stuck in the mud on the bottom of Providence harbor, flooded and rusting inside, and home to plants, crabs, and the few fish hardy enough to live in Providence's murky waters. The sub sank in April 2007 in a severe storm, and now rests on its side in 35 feet of water just off Collier Point Park. A team of Army and Navy salvage divers are to pull the sunken Juliett 484 upright using heavy machinery.

5 years ago today:
Two men die when a helicopter en route to videotape this weekend's Rhode Island Air National Guard Air Show at Quonset Point plunges into thick woods at the edge of a state park in Killingly, Conn., which borders Foster. The tree-shielded wreckage lay hidden to searchers for more than 12 hours after the crash. It was spotted by a helicopter from WTNH-TV in New Haven in early afternoon, the police said.

25 years ago today:
Providence Gas Co. announces it will build a $2-million, six-story addition to its downtown headquarters at Weybosset and Orange Streets. The project, which Providence Gas president Louis R. Hampton called "an expression of the company's faith in the revitalization of the city and the strengthening of the company's roots," will require the demolition of the Dorrance Building. The new structure, with 25,114 square feet of office space, will rise between the Narragansett Garage and the Teste Block, occupied by Philip Wolfe Haberdasher. It will fill in part of the alley between the Teste Block and the gas company building and provide an added entrance on Dorrance Street.

On the international front:

On this day in 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, "This was their finest hour."

Read the Associated Press's Today in History.

Watch video highlights from Today in History.

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