Children’s book author Maurice Sendak, 83, died in Danbury, Connecticut.
In 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany’s forces had surrendered, and that “the flags of freedom fly all over Europe.”In 1972, President Richard Nixon announced that he had ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor during the Vietnam War.In 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
In 1984, the Soviet Union announced it would boycott the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.In 2003, the Senate unanimously endorsed adding to NATO seven former communist nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.Ten years ago: Six-term veteran Indiana Sen.
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