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Dec 4, 1942: Polish Christians come to the aid of Polish Jews
On this day in Warsaw, a group of Polish Christians put their own lives at risk when they set up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews. The group was led by two women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz.
Since the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Jewish population had been either thrust into ghettos, transported to concentration and labor camps, or murdered. Jewish homes and shops were confiscated and synagogues were burned to the ground. Word about the Jews' fate finally leaked out in June of 1942, when a Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, made public the news that tens of thousands of Jews were being gassed at Chelmno, a death camp in Poland—almost seven months after the extermination of prisoners began.
Despite the growing public knowledge of the "Final Solution," the mass extermination of European Jewry and the growing network of extermination camps in Poland, little was done to stop it. Outside Poland, there were only angry speeches from politicians and promises of postwar reprisals. Within Poland, non-Jewish Poles were themselves often the objects of persecution and forced labor at the hands of their Nazi occupiers; being Slavs, they too were considered "inferior" to the Aryan Germans.
But this did not stop Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz, two Polish Christians who were determined to do what they could to protect their Jewish neighbors. The fates of Kossak and Filipowicz are unclear so it is uncertain whether their mission was successful, but the very fact that they established the Council is evidence that some brave souls were willing to risk everything to help persecuted Jews. Kossak and Filipowicz were not alone in their struggle to help; in fact, only two days after the Council was established, the SS, Hitler's "political" terror police force, rounded up 23 men, women, and children, and locked some in a cottage and some in a barn—then burned them alive. Their crime: suspicion of harboring Jews.
Despite the bravery of some Polish Christians, and Jewish resistance fighters within the Warsaw ghetto, who rebelled in 1943 (some of whom found refuge among their Christian neighbors as they attempted to elude the SS), the Nazi death machine proved overwhelming. Poland became the killing ground for not only Poland's Jewish citizens, but much of Europe's: Approximately 4.5 million Jews were killed in Poland's death and labor camps by war's end.
Dec 4, 1945: Senate approves U.S. participation in United Nations
In an overwhelming vote of 65 to 7, the U.S. Senate approves full U.S. participation in the United Nations. The United Nations had officially came into existence on October 24, 1945, when its charter was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and a majority of other signatories. Senate approval meant the U.S. could join most of the world's nations in the international organization, which aimed to arbitrate differences between countries and stem military aggression.
In approving U.S. participation in the United Nations, the Senate argued fiercely on a number of issues. Some senators proposed a resolution designed to force the president to receive congressional consent before approving U.S. troops for any U.N. peacekeeping forces. This resolution was defeated. The Senate also defeated a proposal by Senator Robert Taft that the United States urge its U.N. representatives to seek "immediate action" on arms control and possible prohibition of weapons such as atomic bombs.
The Senate action marked a tremendous change in the U.S. attitude toward international organizations. In the post-World War I period, the Senate acted to block U.S. participation in the newly established League of Nations. With the horrors of World War II as a backdrop, however, the Senate and the American people seemed willing to place some degree of trust in an even more powerful organization, the United Nations. The United Nations provided a forum for some of the most dramatic episodes in Cold War history. In 1950, the Security Council, prodded by the United States and with the Russian delegation absent, approved a peacekeeping force for Korea. This was the first time a UN peacekeeping force was committed to an armed conflict. The U.N. also allowed world leaders to observe each other as never before, as in the 1961 incident when Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev presented an unforgettable spectacle by taking off one of his shoes and pounding his table with it for emphasis during a U.N. debate.
Dec 4, 1917: Psychiatrist reports on the phenomenon of shell shock
Well-known psychiatrist W.H. Rivers presents his report The Repression of War Experience, based on his work at Britain s Craiglockhart War Hospital for Neurasthenic Officers, to the Royal School of Medicine, on this day in 1917. Craiglockhart, near Edinburgh, was one of the most famous hospitals used to treat soldiers who suffered from psychological traumas as a result of their service on the battlefield.
By the end of World War I, the army had been forced to deal with 80,000 cases of "shell shock," a term first used in 1917 by a medical officer named Charles Myers to describe the physical damage done to soldiers on the front lines during exposure to heavy bombardment. It soon became clear, however, that the various symptoms of shell shock?including debilitating anxiety, persistent nightmares, and physical afflictions ranging from diarrhea to loss of sight?were appearing even in soldiers who had never been directly under bombardment, and the meaning of the term was broadened to include not only the physical but the psychological effects produced by the experience of combat.
The most important duty of doctors like Rivers, as prescribed by the British army, was to get the men fit and ready to return to battle. Nevertheless, only one-fifth of the men treated in hospitals for shell shock ever resumed military duty. Rivers's patients included the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who later wrote of his fellow inmates of Craiglockhart: These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished/Memory fingers in their hair of murders/Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.
Dec 4, 1780: Washington's cousin tricks Loyalists
A force of Continental dragoons commanded by Colonel William Washington--General George Washington's second cousin once removed--corners Loyalist Colonel Rowland Rugeley and his followers in Rugeley's house and barn near Camden, South Carolina, on this day in 1780.
After nearly a year of brutal backcountry conflict between Washington and the fierce British commander Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton (who was infamous for Tarleton's Quarter, the murder of colonial POWs on May 29, 1780 at Waxhaws), Washington had retreated to North Carolina the previous October. Commanded to return to the South Carolina theater by Brigadier General Daniel The Old Wagoner Morgan, Colonel Washington still lacked the proper artillery to dislodge the Loyalists. He told his cavalrymen to dismount and surround the barn. While out of Rugeley's sight, Washington's men fabricated a pine log to resemble a cannon.
This Quaker gun trick, named so because Quakers used it to be intimidating without breaching their pacifist vow of non-violence, worked beautifully. Washington faced the cannon toward the buildings in which the Loyalists had barricaded themselves and threatened bombardment if they did not surrender. Shortly after, Rugeley surrendered his entire force without a single shot being fired. When informed of the pacifist victory, General Charles Cornwallis, commander of the British armies in America, informed Tarleton that Rugeley's performance ensured he would never rise to the rank of brigadier. A few weeks later, Tarleton would himself face an even worse humiliation at the hands of General Morgan during the devastating Battle of Cowpens. The harrowing civil war for the hearts and minds of the Carolina backcountry had finally begun to favor the Patriots.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
771 - King Carloman joint King of the Franks, dies, leaving
his older brother Charlemagne, sole ruler of the Frankish Kingdom.
1110 - Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to
Crusaders
1154 - Pope Hadrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to
become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until
recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
1197 - Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1259 - Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III & French
king Louis IX
1489 - Battle of Baza - Spanish army captures Baza from
Moors
1534 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1563 - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1619 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England
disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many as the first
Thanksgiving in the Americas.
1644 - 1st European peace congress opens in Munster
1655 - Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue
1665 - Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand"
premieres in Paris
1674 - Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now
Chicago
1676 - Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of
King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal
Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
1680 - Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen
until Dec 16th
1682 - 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
1688 - General John Churchill (later 1st Duke of Marlborough)
changes allegiance from James II to William of Orange
1691 - Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania
1691 - Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of
S Netherlands
Holy Roman Emperor CharlemagneHoly Roman Emperor Charlemagne
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
1783 - Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's
Tavern, NYC
1791 - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the
world, 1st published
1798 - Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
1812 - Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn
mower
1816 - James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating
Federalist Rufus King
1829 - Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow
burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
1832 - French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan
in Phila
1836 - Whig party holds its 1st national convention,
Harrisburg, Pa
1843 - Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope)
patented, Mass
1843 - Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die
Peri" premieres in Leipzig
1844 - James K Polk elected 11th president of USA
1851 - Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte's forces crush an
attempted coup d'etat in France
1863 - Storm flood ravages Netherlands coastal provinces
1864 - Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA
1864 - Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
1867 - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds
the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
1875 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany
Hall) escapes from jail
1881 - The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is
published.
1889 - Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1899 - 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
1899 - Webb Hayes, son of pres Rutherford Hayes, receives
medal of honor
1901 - Anne Russell's 'Girl and the judge' premieres in NYC
1905 - British government of Balfour resigns
1906 - Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity,
forms
1908 - Haiti's president General Alexis Nord flees from
military coup
1909 - 1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats
Toronto Parkdale, 26-6
1914 - Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League
Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1915 - F F Fletcher is 1st admiral to receive Congressional
Medal of Honor
1915 - Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
1915 - Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
1918 - Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in
France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
1920 - 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at
Polo Grounds
1920 - 8th CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto
Argonauts, 16-3
1921 - The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe
'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
1922 - Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US
foreign service
1923 - Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten
Commandments" premieres
1923 - WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety
show)
1926 - 14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats U of
Toronto, 10-7
1927 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Symphony premieres in
Moscow
Jazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke
EllingtonJazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke Ellington 1927 - Duke
Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
1927 - Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP
1928 - Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical
"Whoopee" premieres in NYC
1930 - French government of Tardieu falls
1930 - Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1931 - "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
1933 - FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1933 - Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road" premieres in
NYC
1935 - 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in
anticommunism class
1941 - Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside
protection of courts
1942 - 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil
(James Hoey)
1942 - FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress
Administration
1942 - US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW
II
1942 - Works Progress Administration liquidated
1942 - Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda
Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1943 - -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill
& Turkish pres Inonu
1943 - Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may
sign Negroes
1943 - Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government
under Dr Ribar
1944 - Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1945 - 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
1945 - Senate approves US participation in UN
1947 - USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
1948 - "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC
after 48 performances
1948 - SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks
killing 2,750 die
1949 - Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1951 - Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper" premieres in
NYC
1951 - Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman
(Philippines), kills 500
1951 - Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed
President of Azad Kashmir Government.
1952 - Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog"
becomes a word
1952 - Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
1954 - "Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger
Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1954 - "On Your Toes" closes at 46th St Theater
NYC after 64 performances
1954 - The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida,
USA
1955 - Mgr Alfrink installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
1956 - 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame
(QB)
1957 - 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events"
published
1957 - 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St
John's, England)
1958 - Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within
French Community
1958 - Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns
1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight
boxing title
1961 - Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside
down for 47 days
1961 - Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden
crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
1961 - Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
1961 - WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1961 - The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on
the National Health Service in Britain
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government (1963-1968)
1963 - Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican
Council
1964 - Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1964 - Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
1964 - Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball
disputes
1964 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, v Pakistan MCG,
11, 0-49, 0-31
1965 - "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert
NYC after 232 perfs
1965 - 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
1965 - 2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent
76ers' owner)
1965 - Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
1965 - SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not
renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1966 - KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf
Invitational
Italian Prime Minister Aldo MoroItalian Prime Minister Aldo
Moro 1970 - Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
1971 - The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to
consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
1971 - The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and
Karachi.
1973 - Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1974 - Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191
Moslem pilgrims
1974 - Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader
Andreas Baader in prison
1975 - 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The
Hague, 1 dead
1977 - Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team
Golf Championship
1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself ruler of Central
African Empire
1977 - NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
1977 - Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" premieres in NYC
1978 - Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
1978 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1979 - Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
Writer Jean-Paul SartreWriter Jean-Paul Sartre 1980 - 2
months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1980 - Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col
Rockies)
1981 - "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
1981 - Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333)
that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1981 - According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence
Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa
1982 - 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia
(RB)
1982 - China adopts its constitution
1982 - Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
1983 - "Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater
NYC after 83 performances
1983 - "Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for
241 performances
1983 - David Shire & R Maltby Jr's musical
"Baby" premieres in NYC
1983 - NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red
Wings 6-0
1983 - US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions
in Lebanon
1984 - Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane,
killing four passengers.
US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President &
Actor Ronald Reagan 1985 - "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre,
London
1985 - French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader
Jaruzelski
1985 - President Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as
security adviser
1986 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
1986 - Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" premieres in
NYC
1987 - Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
1988 - Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle
crash
1988 - Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf
Classic
1988 - Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1990 - Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon
price in NYC
1990 - Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet
hostages
1991 - Judds final concert (Nashville)
1991 - Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson
(held 6½ years)
1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations
1991 - Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith
raped her
US President George H. W. BushUS President George H. W. Bush
1992 - Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to
Somalia in Northeast Africa.
1993 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
1993 - Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
1993 - A truce is concluded between the government of Angola
and UNITA rebels.
1994 - "Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W
Kerr NYC after 216 perfs
1994 - "Angels in America-Millennium Approach"
closes at Kerr after 367 perfs
1994 - 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
1994 - Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C
Penney Golf Classic
1995 - Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save
Johannesburg Test
1996 - 7th Billboard Music Awards
1996 - NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1996 - Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored
since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
1997 - "Diary of Anne Frank" opens at Music Box
Theater NYC
1997 - NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for
attacking his coach
1998 - The Unity Module, the second module of the International
Space Station, is launched.
2005 - Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for
democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2006 - An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera
near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo.
2012 - 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha,
Syria
2012 - Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines
killing at least 81 people
1783 - Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. 1791 - Britain's Observer newspaper was first published. 1812 - Peter Gaillard patented the power mower. 1867 - The National Grange of Husbandry was founded. 1875 - William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the U.S. 1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. Wilson became the first chief executive to travel to Europe while in office. 1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration. The program had been created in order to provide jobs during the Great Depression. 1942 - U.S. bombers attacked the Italian mainland for the first time during World War II. 1943 - Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players. 1945 - The U.S. Senate approved American participation in the United Nations. 1965 - The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board. 1973 - Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter. 1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later. 1978 - Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been murdered. 1979 - For the second time, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to urge Iran to free American hostages that had been taken on November 4. 1980 - The bodies of four American nuns slain in El Salvador two days earlier were unearthed. Five national guardsmen were later convicted of the murders. 1983 - U.S. jet fighters struck Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon in retaliation for attacks directed at American reconnaissance planes. Navy Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was shot down and captured by Syria. 1984 - A five-day hijack drama began as four men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran. Two American passengers were killed by the hijackers. 1986 - Both U.S. houses of Congress moved to establish special committees to conduct their own investigations of the Iran-Contra affair. 1987 - Cuban inmates at a federal prison in Atlanta freed their 89 hostages, peacefully ending an 11-day uprising. 1988 - The government of Argentina announced that hundreds of heavily armed soldiers had ended a four-day military revolt. 1990 - Iraq promised to release 3,300 Soviet citizens it was holding. 1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon. 1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations. 1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia. 1993 - The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated 1,000 people per day. 1994 - Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of about 400 UN peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes. 1997 - The play revival "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened. 1997 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended Latrell Sprewell of the Golden State Warriors for one year for choking and threatening to kill his coach, P.J. Carlesimo. 2000 - O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses. 2001 - O.J. Simpson's home in Florida was raided by the FBI in an ongoing two year international investigation into drug trafficking, satellite service pilfering and money laundering. Some satellite equipment was taken from Simpson's home and no drugs were found.
1783 George Washington delivered his farewell address to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City. 1816 James Monroe of Virginia was elected (by electors) the fifth president of the United States. 1875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall escaped from jail and fled the country. 1945 The Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations. 1978 Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first female mayor. 1991 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson is released after seven years as a hostage in Lebanon. 1993 Rock musician and composer Frank Zappa died at age 52. 2003 Interpol put the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, on its most-wanted list.
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