TODAY INHISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

2000

Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency a day after the U. S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Florida; Democrat Al Gore conceded, delivering a call for national unity.

1769

Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.

1918

President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.

1937

the Chinese city of Nanjing fell to Japanese forces during the Sino- Japanese War; what followed was a massacre of war prisoners, soldiers and citizens.

1977

Air Indiana Flight 216, a DC- 3carrying the University of Evansville basketball team on a flight to Nashville, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 29people on board.

1978

The Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, which went into circulation the following July.

1981

Authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement.

1993

The space shuttle Endeavour returned from its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

2001

The Pentagon publicly released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al- Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the September 11attacks exceeded his “most optimistic” expectations.

2002

Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal.

2003

Saddam Hussein was captured by U. S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of Tikrit.