Today In History
AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
1863President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1929The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1991 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1997Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
2001 The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
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1777George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Penn., resulting in heavy American casualties.
1958The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corp. with flights between London and New York.
1965 Pope Paul VI became the first reigning pontiff to travel to North America when he flew to New York and addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
1985Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley.
1990 German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country's parliament in the
1993Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
1997Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.
2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.
2002John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va.
2002 Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2003A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
1863President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1929The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1991 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And brought all his sluts with him
1997Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
Ja. Schure.
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AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. |
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1777George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Penn., resulting in heavy American casualties.
Good thing Reid wasn't alive then. We would have had to quit.
1958The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corp. with flights between London and New York.
1965 Pope Paul VI became the first reigning pontiff to travel to North America when he flew to New York and addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
So much for the "separation", eh?
1985Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley.
And we did...what?
1990 German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country's parliament in the
Reichstag in Berlin.
1993Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
Thanks for nothing, Bill.
1997Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.
2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.
2002John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va.
2002 Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2003A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
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