Today In History
9/3/2007
2007-President Bush makes an unscheduled(read: unannounced) visit to Iraq...his third trip to the area.
2007-Move America Forward launches the nationwide Fight For Victory Tour, designed to Wake Up America.
AP Highlight in History:
On Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
1783-The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
1967 -Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1994-China and Russia pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force against each other.
1997-Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. (The conviction was overturned in 1999.)
2004-A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
2004-Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized in New York with chest pains and shortness of breath; he later underwent heart bypass surgery.
2007-Move America Forward launches the nationwide Fight For Victory Tour, designed to Wake Up America.
AP Highlight in History:
On Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
 | British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain |
1783-The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
1967 -Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1994-China and Russia pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force against each other.
1997-Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. (The conviction was overturned in 1999.)
2004-A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
2004-Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized in New York with chest pains and shortness of breath; he later underwent heart bypass surgery.
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