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DEREKH FROUDE/Arizona Daily Wildcat Molecular and cellular biology freshman Rebecca Peterson fills out the paper work yesterday morning that will hopefully guarantee her a parking permit for next year at the Parking and Transportation Services office. Parking permits for students who didn't previously have passes began yesterday, although current permit-holders had already bought all the available passes for some lots.

Fast facts: RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, is a U.S. law enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages. In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle. In 1996, Christmas caroling was banned at two major malls in Pensacola, Fla. Apparently, shoppers and merchants complained the carolers were too loud and took up too much space. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the first minimum wage in the United States. The new law, considered controversial at the time, established a 25-cent-per-hour minimum wage and a maximum 44-hour workweek for minors. In 1860, the first food and drug act became law in Great Britain.

 

On this date: In 1705, Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton at Trinity College. In 1866, nitroglycerine at a Wells Fargo and Co. office exploded. In 1868, Louisiana voters approved a new state constitution. In 1929, the New York Yankees became the first team to use numbers on its uniforms In 1945, U.S. troops entered Nuremberg, Germany. In 1958, Arnold Palmer won his first Masters golf tournament.

 

Quotable... "He extended his hand in support to the bishops of the United States. The Holy See has demonstrated an extraordinary openness in understanding the particular situation that we face in the United States." - Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, about the pope's desire to help with the sexual-abuse scandal in U.S. parishes.