Tag: History Today

Shimla, Dec.5 Keekli Bureau 2017 The International Olympic Committee banned Russia from the 2018 Winter Games in P'yŏngch'ang, South Korea, after uncovering a Russian state-sponsored doping program. 2013 South African nationalist and statesman Nelson Mandela,...

Shimla, Nov. 24 Keekli Bureau 2001 The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ratified changes to the country's legal code that made women equal to men before the law and no longer subject to...

Shimla, Nov 22 Keekli Bureau 2005 German politician Angela Merkel was sworn in as the country's chancellor, becoming the first woman to hold the post. 1995 Pixar's Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated feature-length film,...

Shimla, Nov. 20 Keekli Bureau 2015 American civil defense analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was released from prison, having served 30 years for selling classified information to Israel. 2006 American filmmaker Robert Altman—an unconventional and independent...

Shimla, Nov. 18 Keekli Bureau 2015 New Zealand rugby union football player Jonah Lomu, who was perhaps rugby's first global icon, died of a heart attack at age 40 after a long battle...

Shimla, Nov. 16 Keekli Bureau 2006 American economist Milton Friedman, who was a leading proponent of monetarism and won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died at age 94. 1988 Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister...

Shimla, Nov. 15 Keekli Bureau 2011 Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski recorded his 903rd career win, surpassing Bob Knight to become the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men's history. 2001 Microsoft released Xbox,...

Shimla, Nov. 13 Keekli Bureau 2001 On the heels of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan prompted by the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, the army of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance captured the...

Shimla, Nov. 9 Keekli Bureau 2004 Swedish writer and activist Stieg Larsson died from a heart attack in Stockholm, a year before The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first installment in his...

Shimla, Nov 7. Keekli Bureau 2016 American Attorney and public official Janet Reno, who was the first female attorney general (1993–2001) of the United States, died at age 78. 2000 American politician Hillary Clinton was...

Shimla, Nov. 6 Keekli Bureau 2012 American politician Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, became the first openly gay person to be elected to the U.S. Senate. 2000 American environmentalist David Brower, who spent nearly...

Shimla, Nov.5 Keekli Bureau 2013 India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned. 1998 The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed (still disputed by some) that...