Check back each day for what’s new … and old.Because on display at this official annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is a plane that caused more profound amazement and abject horror all at the same time than any other in history. Journalism, it’s often said, is the first-draft of history. Basketball Hall of Famer David Robinson is 56. Country singers Patsy and Peggy Lynn are 57. Rock singer Pat MacDonald (Timbuk 3) is 69.
Today’s birthdays: Children’s performer Ella Jenkins is 97. (Morales chose to retire rather than accept the demotion.) Longtime presidential adviser Brent Scowcroft died at 95 he’d served as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. An oversight board voted to demote Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales to captain after questioning how he handled multiple incidents, including ordering officers to fire tear gas and pepper spray against protesters demonstrating over the death of George Floyd. (Three subsequent tests results were negative.) The government reported that nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans had applied for state unemployment benefits in the previous week, just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment expired. Mike DeWine skipped a scheduled meeting with President Donald Trump after testing positive for the coronavirus. Clarinetist Pete Fountain, a Dixieland jazz virtuoso, died in New Orleans at age 86.
Brett Favre, Tony Dungy and Marvin Harrison were among an eight-member class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. At the Rio Olympics, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu stormed to a world-record victory in the women’s 400 individual medley on the first evening of the swimming competition. Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, Chris Hanburger, Les Richter and NFL Films founder Ed Sabol were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.įive years ago: The White House released a version of President Barack Obama’s 3-year-old guidance on the use of lethal force against terrorists overseas, laying out what it said were safeguards to minimize civilian deaths and errant strikes while preserving the capability to take quick action with drone attacks and other means. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy commando unit that had slain Osama bin Laden seven Afghan commandos also died. Ten years ago: Insurgents shot down a U.S. RELATED: 6 books examining Chicago and its history Jon Stewart bade an emotional goodbye after 16 years as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” In 2015, “Hamilton,” the hip-hop flavored biography about Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first treasury secretary, opened on Broadway. (Hasan, who admitted carrying out the attack, was convicted and sentenced to death.)
Nidal Malik Hasan went on trial at Fort Hood, Texas, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 attack.
John Hughes, 59, Hollywood’s youth movie director of the 1980s and ‘90s, died in New York City. In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31. In 2005, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier-son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, began a weeks-long protest outside President George W.