From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/quotes/s-340206-756417
In 1502, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain on his fourth and
final voyage to the New World.
In 1926, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett were the first
to fly over the North Pole.
In 1961, in a speech to TV bigwigs at the National Association of
Broadcasters convention, new Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Newton Minow referred to television as "a vast wasteland."
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened its hearing on the
possible impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
In 1978, the body of former Italian minister Aldo Moro, who had been
kidnapped by Red Brigade terrorists, was found shot to death in the
back of a car in Rome.
In 1979, the United States and Soviet Union reached a basic accord on
the SALT 2 nuclear arms treaty.
In 1980, a Liberian freighter rammed a bridge in Florida's Tampa Bay,
collapsing part of the span and dropping 35 people to their deaths. A
new $240 million Sunshine Skybridge opened on April 30, 1987.
In 1987, 183 people died when a Polish airliner bound for New York
crashed near Warsaw.
In 1993, thousands of war veterans, politicians and anti-government
demonstrators gathered across Moscow and the former Soviet Union to
mark the World War II victory over Germany at Stalingrad.
In 2001, at least 123 people were killed during a stampede at a soccer
match in Accra, Ghana.
In 2003, a well-connected Los Angeles socialite, Katrina Leung, who
also allegedly acted as a double-agent for China, was formally charged
with passing sensitive documents on to Chinese intelligence officers.
In 2004, President Akhmad Kadyrov of Chechnya was assassinated in an
explosion at a stadium in Grozny where Russia's World War II victory
was being celebrated. Thirty-one other people also died.
In 2005, a federal appeals court ruled that U.S. Vice President Dick
Cheney didn't have to reveal how the White House energy policies were
developed. There had been accusations of alleged industry involvement.
Also in 2005, the federal bankruptcy court gave United Airlines
permission to terminate its pension plans.
In 2006, the head of Israeli military intelligence predicted that Iran
will produce nuclear bombs within four years.
In 2007, a rare truck bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil
killed at least 19 people and injured some 70 others at a building
housing Interior Ministry offices.