From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/quotes/s-569132-746943
In 1845, the Congress of the Republic of Texas agreed to annexation by
the United States.
In 1865, the last Confederate holdouts formally surrendered in the
Oklahoma Territory.
In 1947, The U.S. Congress enacted the Taft-Hartley labor act over the
veto of U.S. President Harry Truman.
In 1956, Gamel Abdel Nasser was elected first president of the
Republic of Egypt.
In 1967, the U.S. Senate censured Sen. Thomas Dodd, D-Conn., for
misusing campaign funds.
In 1984, an auction of John Lennon's possessions raised $430,000,
including $19,000 for a guitar used while Lennon was with the Beatles.
In 1985, an Air India Boeing 747 from Toronto crashed off the Irish
coast, killing all 329 people aboard in the world's worst commercial
air disaster at sea.
In 1991, the Group of Seven industrialized democracies agreed to offer
the Soviet Union associate membership in the International Monetary
Fund.
In 1992, the largest study of its kind found that eating a large bowl
of oat bran cereal each day leads to a "modest" drop in cholesterol.
In 1993, United Nations-imposed oil and arms sanctions against Haiti
took effect.
In 1994, a United Nations-approved French intervention force crossed
into civil war-torn Rwanda.
In 2001, Pope John Paul II began a Ukrainian visit.
Also in 2001, Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian quintuplets whose
1934 birth was hailed as a medical miracle, died at age 67 in
Montreal.
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in a
University of Michigan case by a 5-4 vote. The high court also upheld
the Children's Internet Protection Act, under which federally funded
libraries must block obscene material from computers to which minors
have access.
In 2004, a U.S. lawyer sued Germany in a New York court for $18
billion as compensation for victims of the Holocaust.
In 2005, U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., called on U.S. Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign, accusing him of mismanaging the
Iraq war. Rumsfeld said he had tried twice to quit but was rebuffed.
In 2006, seven men, described by the FBI as "homegrown" terrorists,
were held in Miami in an alleged plot against Chicago's Sears Tower
and five federal buildings.
In 2008, the U.S. Defense Department said roadside bombings and
American troop fatalities in Iraq were down by nearly 90 percent
compared to a year earlier. Eleven troop deaths were reported in May
of 2008, compared with 92 in '07. New, heavier armored ambush
resistant vehicles were given as a major reason.