Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia dismantled Occupy Wall Street encampments. Ten years ago: The central banks of the wealthiest countries, trying to prevent a debt crisis in Europe from exploding into a global panic, swept in to shore up the world financial system by making it easier for banks to borrow American dollars. Bush, a World War II hero who rose through the political ranks to the nation’s highest office, died at his Houston home at the age of 94 his wife of more than 70 years, Barbara Bush, had died in April. Rodas, who was at the wheel of a Porsche sports car that crashed and burned north of Los Angeles.
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In 2013, Paul Walker, 40, the star of the “Fast & Furious” movie series, died with his friend, Roger W. had begun collecting names, genders and birth dates of passengers so the government could check them against terror watch lists before they boarded flights. In 2010, the Obama administration announced that all 197 airlines that flew to the U.S. Bush in case the courts did not by appointing their own slate of electors. Supreme Courts meanwhile, GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee moved to award the presidency to George W. In 2000, Al Gore’s lawyers battled for his political survival in the Florida and U.S. In 1982, the Michael Jackson album “Thriller” was released by Epic Records.
In 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe. auto industry, was first released in hardcover by Grossman Publishers. In 1965, “Unsafe at Any Speed” by Ralph Nader, a book highly critical of the U.S. In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.
In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace. In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - was born in Florida, Missouri. In 1803, Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States. In 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War the Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783.
30, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill, which required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.