From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/quotes/s-73899-792728
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, 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 arrested and
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 1996, U.S. Navy Adm. Jeremy Boorda, chief of naval operations and
the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, shot himself to death
after learning that Newsweek magazine wanted to question him about the
propriety of wearing combat medals.
In 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton apologized for the "Tuskegee
Study of Untreated Syphillis in the Negro Male," which was conducted
from 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
city as rebel forces advanced. The rebels entered the city the next
day and Laurent Kabila declared himself head of state.
In 2003, suicidal terrorists set off five bombs simultaneously in
Casablanca, Morocco, killing 41 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 had
fueled a rush across the southwest border from Mexico that threatened
to overwhelm the patrol in some areas.
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 publication of the story claimed 16 lives.
Also in 2005, a U.S. Senate panel said high-ranking Russian
politicians made illicit multi-million dollar oil transactions with
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program.