New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
Sept. 7, 1977
The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.
ON THIS DATE 1996
Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
2008
Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship.
2019
President Donald Trump said he had canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghan leaders, just days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.