3 things to know today

ASUA voting begins

The ballot for this year’s student government primary elections is available via the ASUA Web site, asua.arizona.edu, from 8 a.m. today until 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Meet the ‘hexapus’

Marine experts in Britain believe they have discovered the first six-legged octopus, or “”hexapus,”” which they have named Henry, according to Agence France-Presse. The creature is believed to be the result of a birth defect.

This all happened

On this date, Chicago was incorporated as a city (1837), the Food and Drug Administration approved an AIDS blood test in the United States (1985) and U.S. President Bill Clinton banned federally funded human cloning research (1997).