In 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.
In 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag , was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children.In 1991, Operation Desert Storm came to a conclusion as President George H.W.
Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.In 1998, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son.The Senate confirmed billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary by a vote of 72-27.The U.S.
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