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1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.
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44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
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1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die.
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![]() ![]() "There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai. I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry.... If you are asking why I did not stand up to them when I was given the orders, I will have to say that I was a 2nd Lieutenant getting orders from my commander and I followed them—foolishly, I guess." At least he talks about it....41 years later.
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1898 - John Philip Holland achieves successful test runs of the first modern submarine off Staten Island.
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1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
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1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
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1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.
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1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa.
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1990: A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, finds Captain Hazelwood not guilty in the Valdez oil spill. The defense argued that the blood samples were taken nearly ten hours after the incident and were mishandled. Most states, including Alaska, do not allow samples after three hours and a preservative required to halt fermentation was not added to the sample. As a result of the accident, in 1991 the United States Coast Guard suspended his masters' license for a period of nine months. Hazelwood was acquitted on all felony charges, but was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of negligent discharge of oil, fined $50,000, and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service...picking up trash on Alaska highways. After his trial Captain Hazelwood became a teacher at a maritime academy. His reinstated license is still valid.
![]() Third mate Gregory Cousins, testifying in the criminal and the civil trials, shouldered much of the blame for failing to execute the turn that Hazelwood, having routinely left the bridge, had ordered. After outlining the maneuver and asking Cousins twice if he was comfortable making the turn, Hazelwood left the bridge at 11:50 p.m. Cousins phoned Hazelwood at 11:55 to say he was beginning the turn but then failed to check that helmsman Robert Kagan followed his commands, spending precious minutes charting the ship's position. ![]() "There was no reason to do what I did that evening," Cousins testified. "I shouldn't have allowed myself to become inattentive." Hoping to secure testimony against Hazelwood, the state gave Cousins immunity against prosecution; plaintiffs in the civil suit did not press charges against him lest he complicate their case against Exxon and Hazelwood-ie the 'fall guy'; the Coast Guard cited him for negligence and suspended his license for nine months. "To the public and the press, 'third mate' has the ring of 'cabin boy,'" says Hazelwood. "Cousins was a trained, licensed navigational officer, a good man. He's still a good man." Helmsman Kagan, when ordered to make the turn, did not execute it fully. Employment records showed that Kagan required "constant supervision." "I put a lot of it on Kagan," says Paul Larson, who led the Coast Guard investigation. "He does his job, and we're talking about something else today." The post-grounding radio transmissions in which Hazelwood said he was trying to "extract the ship from the reef" were misleading. He only called for forward throttle—not reverse, as would have been necessary if he'd wanted to free the vessel. By keeping the ship pressed firmly against the reef, he minimized the spill and the danger to his crew....And achived immortality in the movie Waterworld as the villain's (Dennis Hopper) patron saint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.
1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington. 1888 - English Football League established. 1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought. 1941 - Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II. 2014 - The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia.
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1903 - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent.
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1603 - Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.
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1807 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; a penalty of £120 per slave is introduced for slave ship captains.
1957 - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market). 1960 - 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut).
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