TODAY IN HISTORY
Today’s highlight:
toric health-care legislation, President Barack Obama signed an executive order against using federal funds to pay for elective abortions covered by private insurance.
In 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people
In 1765, Britain enacted on board; investigators said the Quartering Act, requir- the jetliner was deliberately ing American colonists to downed by the 27-year-old provide temporary housing co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz. to British soldiers. In 2016, a U.N. war crimes
In 1832, a mob in Hiram, court convicted former Ohio, attacked, tarred and Bosnian Serb leader Radofeathered Mormon leaders van Karadzic of genocide Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney and nine other charges for Rigdon. orchestrating a campaign of
In 1882, German scientist terror that left 100,000 peoRobert Koch announced in ple dead during the 1992Berlin that he had discov- 95 war in Bosnia; Karadzic ered the bacillus responsi- was sentenced to 40 years ble for tuberculosis. in prison. (The sentence
In 1934, President Frank- was later increased to life lin D. Roosevelt signed a bill in prison.) granting future indepenIn 2020, the Internadence to the Philippines. tional Olympic Committee
In 1980, one of El Salva- announced that the Summer dor’s most respected Roman Olympics in Tokyo would be Catholic Church leaders, postponed until 2021 because Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo of the coronavirus. Romero, was shot to death Five years ago: In the by a sniper as he celebrated streets of the nation’s capital Mass in San Salvador. and in cities across the coun
In 1995, after 20 years, try, hundreds of thousands British soldiers stopped rouof teenagers and their suptine patrols in Belfast, North- porters rallied against gun ern Ireland. violence, spurred by a call
In 1999, NATO launched to action from student surairstrikes against Yugoslavivors of the school shootvia, marking the first time ing in Parkland, Florida, that in its 50-year existence that left 17 people dead. it had ever attacked a sovOne year ago: Senate ereign country. Thirty-nine Republican leader Mitch people were killed when fire McConnell announced that erupted in the Mont Blanc he would vote against contunnel in France and burned firming Ketanji Brown Jackfor two days. son, saying he “cannot and
In 2010, keeping a prom- will not” support the groundise he’d made to anti-abor- breaking nominee for a lifetion Democratic lawmakers time appointment on the to assure passage of his his- Supreme Court.
On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alas- ka’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an esti- mated 11 million gallons of crude oil.