TOP TEN LISTS
Today in History
Sunday, 16 March 2025
2005
Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
1998
Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
1995
Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
1988
Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1985
Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1984
William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
1983
Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1978
Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
Supertanker ''Amoco Cadiz'' splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
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