Today’s highlights
1997
Fashion designer Gianni Versace, 50, was gunned down outside his home in Miami Beach. Andrew Cunanan, 27, suspected of being a gunman, committed suicide eight days later. (Investigators believed Cunanan killed four other people before Versace in a riot across the country that began last March.)
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1834
The Spanish Inquisition has been abolished for more than three and a half centuries since its inception.
1870
Georgia is the last confederate state to rejoin the Union army. Manitoba joined the Dominion as Canada’s fifth state.
1910
The term “Alzheimer’s disease†was used by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin to describe progressive presenile dementia in the book “Clinical Psychiatry†in honor of his colleague Alois Alzheimer. It was.
1913
Augusta Bacon, Georgia, became the first person to be elected to the United States Senate under the recently ratified Article 17 Amendment to the United States Constitution, and stipulated the general election of senators.
1916
Originally known as Pacific Aero Products, Boeing was founded in Seattle.
1918
The second battle of the Marne, which led to the victory of the Allies, began during the First World War.
1975
Hours after two Soviet astronauts were launched into the Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included linking two orbiting spacecraft, three US astronauts became the Apollo spacecraft. I went up and I exploded.
1976
The 36-hour kidnapping began when 26 school children and their bus drivers were kidnapped by three shooters near Chowchilla, Calif., And imprisoned in an underground cell. (The prisoners fled unharmed; the kidnapper was captured.)
1985
Visibly in dire straits, Rock Hudson appeared at a press conference with his frequent co-star Doris Day (later revealed Hudson suffered from AIDS).
2002
American John Walker Lindh, who fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, was convicted of a crime escaped life imprisonment by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
2018
President Donald Trump has arrived in Finland for a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier in an interview with CBS News, Trump named the European Union as America’s greatest enemy.
2019
At a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist James Alex Fields, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment and 419 years for deliberately leading a mob of anti-racist protesters. Has been transmitted.
10 years ago: Rupert Murdoch has accepted the resignation of Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton and UK operations manager Rebeka Brooks. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have announced their separation after seven years of marriage.
5 years ago: Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Governor Mike Pence, an experienced politician with close ties to Washington, as his running mate.
1 year ago: George Floyd’s family filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and four police officers charged with his death, violating Floyd’s rights when the police arrested Floyd, and the city was brought under police control. The power that claimed to have thrived a culture of racism and immunity. (The city will agree to pay $ 27 million to settle the proceedings in March 2021.)
Organizers canceled the Rose Parade on New Years Day 2021 in Pasadena for the first time in 75 years as coronavirus cases hit record levels in the Los Angeles area.
Wal-Mart has become the largest retailer requiring customers to wear face coverings in all stores.
Thousands of auto racing fans gathered at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee to compete in the NASCAR All-Star Race, the nation’s biggest sporting event since the start of the pandemic. Chase Elliott won.
Today’s birthday
Actor Patrick Wayne is 82 years old. R&B singer Millie Jackson is 77 years old. Singer and rock musician Peter Lewis (Moby Grape) is 76 years old. Singer Linda Ronstadt is 75 years old. Rock musician Ultima Spir is 73 years old. Actress Celia Imrie is 69 years old. Actor Terry O’Quin is 69 years old. Singer and rock musician David Puck is 69 years old. Rock musician Marky Ramone is 69 years old. Rock musician Joe Satriani is 65 years old. Country singer and songwriter Mac McAnally is 64 years old. Model Kim Alexis is 61 years old. Actor Willie Armes is 61 years old. Acting director Forest Whitaker is 60 years old. Actress Lolita Davidovich is 60 years old. Actress Shari Headley is 58 years old. Actress Brigitte Nielsen is 58 years old. Rock musician Jason Voorhees is 55 years old. Actress Amanda Foreman is 55 years old. R&B singer Stokley (Mint Condition) is 54 years old. Comedy actor Eddie Griffin is 53 years old. Actor Reggie Hayes is 52 years old. Actor screenwriter Jim Rash is 50 years old. Rock musician John Dolmayan is 49 years old. Actor Scott Foley is 49 years old. Actor Brian Austin Lean is 48 years old. Rapper Jim Jones is 45 years old. Actress Diane Kruger is 45 years old. Actress Lana Parrilla is 44 years old. Rocker Ray Toro (My Chemical Romance) is 44 years old. Actress Laura Benanti is 42 years old. Actor Travis Fimmel is 42 years old. Actor Taylor Kinney is 40 years old. Actor and singer Tristan “Mack” Wilds is 32 years old. Actor Medalion Rahimi is 29 years old. Actor Iain Armitage (TV: “Big Little Lies” “Young Sheldon”) is 13 years old.
