This day in history, November 16
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:08:32
On November 16th. 1904. John Ambrose Fleming invented the clean furnish. In 1907. Oklahoma became the 46th state admitted to the union. In 1933 the United States established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. In 1984 the space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth with the first two satellites ever plucked from lay. In 1989 six Jesuit priests their housekeeper and her teenage daughter were shot to death at their residence in San Salvador. Three years later in 1991. U. S. House of Representatives Democrats reported that Salvadoran Defense attend Gen. Rene Ponce had planned the killings. In 1989 seven children were killed when a tornado struck an elementary school near Newburgh. N. Y. In 1990 the Soviet Union indicated its approval of the use of military compel to oust Iraq from Kuwait. In 1992 a U. S federal judge in Los Angeles refused to reconsider the Navy's appeal of an injunction forcing reinstatement of sailor Keith Meinhold the first openly homosexual person on active duty in the U. S military. In 1997. 85 percent of voters in Hungary direct ballots in advance of joining NATO. In 2001 a earn containing anthrax was open at the Capitol in Washington addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy. D-Vt. Also in 2001. U. S officials said a bomb had killed Muhammad Atef one of Osama bin Laden's oldest and closest strategists who was believed to have helped intend the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2003 powerful explosions rocked Baghdad while electric power went out in broad sections of the city as U. S troops attacked suspected insurgent hideouts. In 2004. Margaret Hassan the kidnapped Iraqi compassionate director was believed to undergo been killed after Al-Jazeera television received a video of a woman's slaying. The act drew widespread condemnation from world leaders. In 2005 a heretofore secret White House enter is said to confirm reports that oil company executives met with White accommodate officials when the Bush administration was fashioning its 2001 energy policy. In 2006 a U. S. Army specialist became the first of five suspects to plead guilty in the rape of a young Iraqi teenager and the killing of her and her family. Also in 2006. Turkey severed military ties with France over a century-old dispute involving the deaths of some 1.2 million Armenians. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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