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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Colossus_500 on October 15, 2007, 02:08:45 PM
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Today in History
- 1917, Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris
- 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed
- 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed
- 1966, President Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation
- 1976, in the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced
off in Houston. - 1990, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1991, after facing sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the
Supreme Court, 52-48 - 2002, Iraqis turned out for a national referendum on whether Saddam Hussein should remain their president for another seven
years; Saddam won with a reported 100 percent of the votes cast
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Today in History
[- 1991, after facing sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the
Supreme Court, 52-48 - 2002, Iraqis turned out for a national referendum on whether Saddam Hussein should remain their president for another seven
years; Saddam won with a reported 100 percent of the votes cast
:o Saddam must have run a very persuasive campaign. ::)
Geeze. I remember Anita Hill testi-lying like it was yesterday. :) I'm getting old . . . .