2008 Woodie Awards
This day in history (6/25/08)
Issue date: 7/2/08 Section: News
1314 The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
1509 Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
1807 A grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he was later acquitted).
1908 The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.
1940 France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1968 "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington, D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1975 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1983 The space shuttle Challenger - carrying America's first woman in space, Sally K. Ride - coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1998 President Clinton left on a nine-day visit to China amid a swirl of controversy over his policy toward the Beijing government.
2007 Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali," and two other ex-officials in Saddam's were sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children two decades earlier.
- Compiled by The Associated Press
1509 Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
1807 A grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he was later acquitted).
1908 The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.
1940 France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1968 "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington, D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1975 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1983 The space shuttle Challenger - carrying America's first woman in space, Sally K. Ride - coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1998 President Clinton left on a nine-day visit to China amid a swirl of controversy over his policy toward the Beijing government.
2007 Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali," and two other ex-officials in Saddam's were sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children two decades earlier.
- Compiled by The Associated Press
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