The Senate voted to exonerate President Trump on February 5, 2020, ending the third presidential trial in American history. However, a majority of senators had previously expressed unease with Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, which led to the two articles of impeachment. Only one Republican, Utah’s Mitt Romney, voted against his party and for conviction.
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As a result of his father King George III of Britain’s mental illness, George, the Prince of Wales, was named Prince Regent in 1811.
The United States Congress passed a law restricting Asian immigration in 1917 despite Wilson’s veto.
In 1918, more than 200 people were killed when a German U-boat torpedoed the Cunard liner SS Tuscania in the Irish Sea. The ship was carrying around 2,000 American troops to Europe.
Reader’s Digest debuted with its first issue in 1922.
Roosevelt was accused of trying to “pack” the nation’s highest court after his 1937 proposal to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices was rejected by Congress.
Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell made the first of two moonwalks in 1971 aboard the Apollo 14 spacecraft.
Military honours for U.S. Army Col. William B. Nolde, the last American combat casualty before the Vietnam ceasefire, were held at Arlington National Cemetery in 1973.
After being expelled from Bolivia in 1983, former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie was extradited to France and brought to the city of Lyon (lee-OHN’). (He was found guilty, given a life sentence, and passed away in prison in 1991.)
The Family and Medical Leave Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and it allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year to deal with family medical issues.
Byron De La Beckwith, a white separatist, was found guilty of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and given a mandatory life sentence by a Jackson, Mississippi, court in 1994. (Beckwith passed away at the age of eighty on January 21, 2001.)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, passed away in 2008 at the age of about 90 at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop.
CVS Caremark announced in 2014 that it would stop selling tobacco products.
In an effort to postpone the implementation of even deeper automatic cuts that were set to go into effect on March 1, 2009, President Barack Obama asked Congress for a short-term deficit reduction package consisting of spending cuts and tax revenue. (Since the president and congressional leaders were unable to come to an agreement, the $85 billion in federal spending cuts known as sequester were implemented.)
More than 1,100 points were wiped off the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the stock market suffered its worst loss in over six and a half years five years ago. On February 3, 2018, Jerome Powell became the 16th chairman of the Federal Reserve. Larry Nassar, a former sports doctor, was sentenced to 40-125 years in prison for sexually abusing young gymnasts at a top facility in Michigan. On Tuesday, President Trump tweeted that Democrats were “un-American” and possibly “treasonous” for their booing during his State of the Union address a week prior.
The future of the British Monarchy was decisively shaped a year ago, on the eve of the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th anniversary on the throne, when the monarch announced her approval for the Duchess of Cornwall to be formally referred to as Queen Camilla. Rayan, a young boy of five, was killed after being stuck in a well in Morocco for four days. The rescue operation, which took a long time and attracted international attention, eventually resulted in his being retrieved from the well.
Here are some people who celebrate their birthdays today: John Guare, a Tony Award-winning playwright, is 85 years old. Jane Bryant Quinn, a writer specialising in the financial industry, has reached the age of 84. David Selby, an actor, has reached the ripe old age of 82. Football legend Roger Staubach has reached the ripe old age of 81. Michael Mann, a film director, turns 80 today. Al Kooper, the rock singer, turned 79 recently. Actress Charlotte Rampling turned 77 today. Darrell Waltrip, a legend in auto racing, has reached the ripe old age of 76. Barbara Hershey, who plays a variety of roles, turns 75 today. Christopher Guest, an actor, is 75 years old now. The age of actor Tom Wilkinson is 75. Jennifer Granholm, the current U.S. Energy Secretary, is 64 years old. Tim Meadows, an actor and comedian, turns 62 this year. Jenifer Jason Leigh, an actress, turned 61 recently. Laura Linney, who plays acting roles, is 59 years old. Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses) is an old rock star, at 59 years young. Jose Maria Olazabal, a golfing legend who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2014, is 57 years old. Chris Parnell, the actor and comedian, is 56 years old. Chris Barron, lead singer for Spin Doctors, turned 55 in 2018. Bobby Brown, the singer, turned 54 recently. Michael Sheen, an actor, turned 54 recently. Actor David Chisum is 53 years old. the 52-year-old country singer Sara Evans. He’s 39 years old, and he sings country music as Tyler Farr. Darren Criss, an actor and singer, was born 36 years ago. Alex Brightman, an actor, was born 36 years ago. The actor Henry Golding was born on July 1, 1980, making him 36 years old today. Kyle Simmons, the lead singer for the band Bastille, is 35 years old. Actor Jeremy Sumpter is 34 years old. Echosmith’s drummer Graham Sierota is a 24-year-old man.