Ten years ago: Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich), the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. In 2018, the man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted of first-degree murder a state jury rejected defense arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. Trent Franks of Arizona said he would resign, after revealing that he discussed surrogacy with two female staffers. Al Franken said he would resign after a series of sexual harassment allegations he took a parting shot at President Donald Trump, describing him as “a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault.” Republican Rep. In 2004, Hamid Karzai (HAH’-mihd KAHR’-zeye) was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president. In 2001, Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar. In 1988, a major earthquake in the Soviet Union devastated northern Armenia official estimates put the death toll at 25-thousand.
Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Ronald Reagan. In 1987, 43 people were killed after a gunman aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in California apparently opened fire on a fellow passenger, the pilots and himself, causing the plane to crash. prisoner to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. In 1982, convicted murderer Charlie Brooks Jr. In 1972, America’s last moon mission to date was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral. In 1946, fire broke out at the Winecoff (WYN’-kahf) Hotel in Atlanta the blaze killed 119 people, including hotel founder W.
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