In 2014, it was announced that a grand jury in St. In 2012, fire raced through a garment factory in Bangladesh that supplied major retailers in the West, killing 112 people an official said many of the victims were trapped because the eight-story building lacked emergency exits. Take some time to relax and enjoy the whimsical wonder of Connecticut's fall foliage with this visual experience of Fairfield County. Bush’s appeal against the hand recounting of ballots in Florida.
Supreme Court stepped into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. In 1991, rock singer Freddie Mercury died in London at age 45 of AIDS-related pneumonia. (The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. In 1987, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on terms to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles.
In 1974, the bone fragments of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid were discovered by scientists in Ethiopia the skeletal remains were nicknamed “Lucy.” Cooper”) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the Pacific Northwest after receiving $200,000 in ransom his fate remains unknown. In 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” (but who became popularly known as “D.B. In 1950, the musical “Guys and Dolls,” based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser (LEH’-suhr), opened on Broadway. John Steinbeck’s novel “The Pearl” was first published.
In 1947, a group of writers, producers and directors that became known as the “Hollywood Ten” was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry.