From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/quotes/s-343599-961283
In 1804, the French Senate declared Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
In 1871, U.S. Marines landed in Korea in an unsuccessful attempt to
open the country to foreign trade.
In 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the
first Oscars. "Wings" was named Best Picture.
In 1969, the unmanned Soviet spacecraft Venus-5 landed on the surface
of Venus.
In 1988, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop described nicotine as
addictive as heroin or cocaine and called for the licensing of tobacco
product vendors.
In 1991, 13 of the 15 Soviet republics agreed on an emergency economic
plan to ban strikes while increasing wages and worker productivity.
In 1992, a poll showed 1-in-8 Southern California households were
victimized within the last two years by crimes involving firearms.
In 1995, the leader of a Japanese religious cult was charged with
murder and attempted murder in the March nerve-gas attacks in a Tokyo
subway that killed 12 people and injured more than 5,000.
In 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton apologized for the "Tuskegee
Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," which was conducted in
1932-72.
Also in 1997, Mobutu Sese Seko -- who'd ruled Zaire for more than 30
years, allegedly looting it of billions of dollars -- fled the capital
as rebel forces advanced.
In 2003, suicidal terrorists set off five bombs simultaneously in
Casablanca, Morocco, killing 41 people and injuring about 100.
In 2004, U.S. Border Patrol agents said confusion over U.S. President
George Bush's proposed guest-worker program for illegal immigrants
fueled a rush at the southwest border from Mexico that threatened to
overwhelm the patrol.
In 2005, Newsweek, after a public apology, printed a retraction to a
story that accused interrogators at the U.S. detention center at
Guantanamo Bay of flushing a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Riots in
Afghanistan that followed the story claimed 16 lives.
Also in 2005, a U.S. Senate panel said high-ranking Russian
politicians made illicit multimillion-dollar oil transactions with
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program.
In 2006, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano appointed Romano Prodi
premier amid charges of election fraud from outgoing Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi.
In 2007, the U.S. Senate, by a 67-29 vote, rejected a proposal that
would have cut off funds for military action in Iraq within the next
year.
Also in 2007, Iraqi police said a bomb northeast of Baghdad killed 32
people and injured 60 others but did not contain chlorine gas as
earlier reported.
And, British authorities decided not to send Prince Harry to serve in
Iraq after hearing of threats against the prince. However, he did
serve later in Afghanistan but was withdrawn after his presence was
discovered.