UPI Almanac for Thursday, June 18, 2009.

VATICAN CITY, May 29 (UPI) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher urged Pope Benedict XVI during a meeting in Vatican City to accept an invitation to visit Britain.

ATLANTA, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Georgia Tech University has signed football coach Paul Johnson to an amended seven-year contract.

WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- Boeing announced Monday that, working with its partner companies and with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, it has finished work on fitting its high-energy laser on the Airborne Laser aircraft and has already started running exercises on the laser with its chemical fuel at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, June 18, 2008.

ATLANTA, May 7 (UPI) -- Georgia Tech assistant football coach Joe Hamilton has resigned a day after being named in several criminal charges, including marijuana possession.

WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- The FBI says it has recovered the remains of three more individuals in the ongoing investigation into the kidnapping of five Western contractors in Iraq.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say seismic waves radiated from earthquakes can spur aftershocks long after the quake has occurred.

ATLANTA, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Paul Johnson Friday left his job as football coach at the U.S. Naval Academy to fill the vacancy at Georgia Tech.