Today In History

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 29, 1929, stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling. Thousands of investors were wiped out.

2007- Glenn Greenwald got caught fabricating slanted stories...again.

1923The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.

1940	Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number - 158 - in America's first peacetime military draft.
AP Photo

1956 Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.

1998John Glenn, the first American to orbit the moon, returned to space 36 years later, at age 77.

2002A memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone in Minneapolis turned into a virtual political rally as friends and relatives urged Minnesotans to honor his memory by putting a Democrat in his seat.

2004Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks.

Today In History

Catch Up Post...



10/23

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

AP Photo/Bill Foley

1915Some 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote.

1942 Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt during World War II.

1946The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow.

1956An anti-Stalinist revolt began in Hungary.

1973President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.

1998Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a land-for-peace agreement at the White House, following nine days of talks at Wye River, Md.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

King Hussein of Jordan

2002Gunmen seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage and threatening to kill them unless the Russian army pulled out of Chechnya.



10/24

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations charter took effect.

1648The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War and, effectively, the Holy Roman Empire.

1861The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from California to President Abraham Lincoln.

1931	The George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, opened to traffic.
AP Photo

1939Nylon stockings were sold publicly for the first time, in Wilmington, Del.

1940The 40-hour work week went into effect in the United States.

1962The U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis began under a proclamation signed by President John F. Kennedy.

1987 Thirty years after it was expelled for refusing to answer allegations of corruption, the Teamsters union was welcomed back into the AFL-CIO.

2001The House passed a $100 billion economic stimulus package in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.



10/25


AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 25, 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charged the Russian army in the Battle of Balaclava and suffered heavy losses.

1812The U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian during the War of 1812.

1951 Peace talks aimed at ending the Korean War resumed in Panmunjom.

1962 U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council.

1971 The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

1983 U.S. Marines and Rangers, assisted by soldiers from six Caribbean nations, invaded Grenada; President Ronald Reagan said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.

1999Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan bolted the GOP to mount a bid for the Reform Party nomination.

2005Iraq's election commission declared that final results from the Oct. 15 referendum showed the new constitution was ratified by a huge margin, paving the way for elections.



10/26

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.

AP Photo/Doug Mills

1962In one of the most dramatic verbal confrontations of the Cold War, American U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asked his Soviet counterpart during a Security Council debate whether the USSR had placed missiles in Cuba.
Read the original AP story

1967The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.

1972National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared "peace is at hand" in Vietnam.

National security adviser Henry Kissinger

1994Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.

2001 The Supreme Court building was closed for anthrax testing, and traces of anthrax were found in the State Department and CIA headquarters.

2002A hostage siege by Chechen rebels at a Moscow theater ended with 129 of the 800-plus captives dead, most from a knockout gas used by Russian special forces who stormed the theater.

2004The final vote count in the Afghan presidential election gave a resounding victory to interim leader Hamid Karzai.



10/27


AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 27, 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.

1997The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

1978 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Today In History

This is another history catch up post


10/18

1685King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots.

1767 The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.

1867The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.

1892The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was opened.

1898The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the United States.

1944 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.

1968	The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.
AP Photo

1977 West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.

2001 Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

2001It was announced that a New Jersey letter carrier and an employee in CBS news anchorman Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin anthrax.

2006 The Dow Jones industrial average passed 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.



10/19

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent - its second biggest percentage drop. Read the original AP story

AP Photo/Peter Morgan

1765The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.

781 British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.

1812French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began a retreat from Moscow.

1944The Navy announced that black women would be allowed into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

1950 United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

1951President Harry S. Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.

1960The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba.

1969Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

AND HE WAS CORRECT!!!

2001Two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.

001It was announced that a New Jersey postal worker and a New York Post employee had tested positive for skin anthrax.

2004Insurgents in Iraq abducted Margaret Hassan, the local director of CARE International, from her car in Baghdad. (Hassan was later slain by her captors.)

2005 A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in the former headquarters of his Baath Party in Baghdad.

2006Gunmen ambushed a car carrying Afghan civilians working for a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, killing eight of them execution-style.

2006 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, ending at 12,011.73.



10/20

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 20, 1967, seven of 18 defendants were convicted in Mississippi of violating the civil rights of three young men who were murdered while trying to help blacks register to vote in 1964.

AP Photo/Jack Thornell

1944	Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after he'd said, "I shall return."
AP Photo

1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence in the motion picture industry.

And we need to do it again!

1973 Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus were fired and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigned in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre.

1977 Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Miss.

2000Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

2004A U.S. Army staff sergeant, Ivan "Chip" Frederick, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. (Frederick was sentenced to eight years in prison.)

2005A defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's mass murder trial was abducted from his office and found murdered hours later.



10/21

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 21, 1917, American soldiers first saw action in World War I on the front lines in France.

AP Photo

1797The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor.

1805 A British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed.

1967Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C.

1988 A federal grand jury in New York indicted former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, on charges of fraud and racketeering.

2001Washington postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhaled anthrax.

2002A car packed with explosives blew up next to a bus in northern Israel during rush hour; 14 people were killed in addition to two suicide attackers.

2003 The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel tear down a barrier jutting into the West Bank.



10/22

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island. President John F. Kennedy

AP Photo

1797French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.

1928 Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1954 West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

1979The U.S. government allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment.

2001Washington postal worker Joseph P. Curseen died of inhaled anthrax.

2004 In a wrenching videotaped statement, kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, saying these "might be my last hours." (Hassan was later killed by her captors.)

Today In History

10/17

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 17, 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage.

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma

1777 British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.

1931Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

1933 Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1973Arab oil-producing nations announced they would cut back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was a total embargo that lasted until March 1974.

1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

1997The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.

Remember...a good communist is a dead communist

2001 The House of Representatives announced plans to close for an anthrax sweep after 31 people at the Capitol tested positive for exposure; New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office was evacuated after anthrax was detected.

2001 Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians.

Today In History

10/16

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 16, 2002, President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

1859 Abolitionist John Brown, hoping to start an anti-slavery rebellion, led 21 men in a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia. (The raid was put down and Brown was executed for treason.)

1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.

1962The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.

1964 China detonated its first atomic bomb.

1973Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who negotiated a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.

1987Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.

1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.

2002The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.

Today In History

10/15

1945The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed.

1946	Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
AP Photo

1964 It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.

1969Peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.

Ring any bells? Crickets?

2005 Iraqis voted to approve a constitution.

Today In History

10/14

1912Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee.

1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.

1944German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.

1947Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1968The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.

1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

2001Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.

2003John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)

2006 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.

Today In History

10/13

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

1943Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.

1981 Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

2000South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Today In History

10/12

1942During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.

1960	Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute. Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
AP Photo/Urbano Medici

986 Superpower talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate, with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States.

1999 Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

2000Two suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat rammed into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors.

2001NBC News said an assistant to anchorman Tom Brokaw had tested positive for skin anthrax after opening a letter addressed to Brokaw.

2002A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists. Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida were blamed.

Today In History

10/10

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 10, 2002, the House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. (The Senate followed suit the next day.)

1911Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.

1943Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.

1985U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody




10/11


1776The first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought during the American Revolution

1890The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.

1986	President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
AP Photo

2002 The Senate joined the House in approving 77-23 the use of America's military might against Iraq.

Today In History

10/9



Don't forget to send condolences cards to the anti-Americanists...Che Is Dead (YEAH!!!)...get over it.

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 9, 1967, guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.

AP Photo

Always remember, a good communist is a dead one.

1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1985The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.

2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.

Today In History

10/8

1918 Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.

1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.

1982All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.

That's socialism/communism for ya...

1985	The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body and wheelchair overboard.
AP Photo

2001Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.

Actress Emily Procter ("CSI: Miami") turns 39 years old today.

AP Photo/Matt Sayles

Today In History

10/7

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 7, 2001, the United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.

1963President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.

1985 Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard.

And they killed a disabled American by rolling him and his chair into the sea.

2000Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.

2003 California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.

We need to recall CONgress

Today In History

10/6

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade.

AP Photo

1949American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.

1973 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

2004The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.

Today In History

10/5

1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.

1947President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised address from the White House.

1986American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the Contra supply plane he was riding in was shot down over southern Nicaragua.

2001A man died of inhaled anthrax in Boca Raton, Fla.

2003 Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria.

2005 Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.

And the idiots did not specify

Today In History

10/3

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.

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.

2001 The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.



10/4

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.

AP Photo

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.

Today In History

10/2

1835 The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.

1941 German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow.

1944 Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which 250,000 people were killed.

1980Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, D-Pa., convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's ABSCAM sting operation, was expelled from the House.

And Murtha?

Today In History

10/1

AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 1, 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market; each car cost $825.

AP Photo

1800Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.

Bush did it

1936 General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.

1939 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".

Just like our own morons of the Leftinistra

1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.

Like we didn't have it already? Friggin' morons. Leftinistra...hang them all.

1989Thousands of East Germans received a triumphal welcome after the communist government agreed to let them flee to West Germany.

2001The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.

Now there is something to be proud of...where was THIS in his book?

2006The Israeli army completed its withdrawal from Lebanon, clearing the way for a U.N. peacekeeping force.

Oh boy. Now THAT is something that worked out, eh?

Today In History

Catch up post



9/29

1789 The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1918	Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
AP Photo

1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.

1988The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.

2005New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.

And Armitage is STILL free. He was The leaker but the Democrats don't care.

9/30

AP Highlight in History: On Sept. 30, 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. Read the original AP story

AP Photo

1946An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.

1949The Berlin airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.

1954The U.S. Navy commissioned the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus.

1991The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.

1997France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.

2003The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.

And they STILL cannot find Armitage?

Today In History

9/28

AP Highlight in History:
On Sept. 28, 1066, William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.

1781American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., during the Revolutionary War.

1787 Congress voted to send the Constitution to state legislatures for their approval.

1850Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.

1939During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.

1972 Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.

1995	Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
AP Photo/Dennis Paquin

How did that work out again?