Tag: This day that year

Shimla, Nov. 21 2017 After some 37 years as leader of Zimbabwe—first as prime minister and later as president—Robert Mugabe resigned from office as the parliament began impeachment proceedings against him. 2002 A North Atlantic...

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. 17 Keekli Bureau 2008 The first film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular Twilight Saga, a vampire-themed series of novels for teenagers, premiered in Los Angeles. 1989 Massive antigovernment demonstrations in Czechoslovakia were set...

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...

Shimla, Nov. 3 Keekli Bureau 2016 After trailing in the series 3–1, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians to capture the franchise's first World Series title in 108 years; the extra-inning game...

Shimla, Oct. 29 Keekli Bureau 2015 It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. 1995 Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy...