| Today in History: Friday, February 05, 2016 |
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AP Highlight in History:
On Feb. 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists – claims that later turned out to be false.
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| On this date in: |
| 1881 |
Phoenix, Ariz., was incorporated. |
| 1917 |
Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians. |
| 1937 |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. Critics charged that he was attempting to “pack” the court.
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| 1958 |
Gamel Abdel Nasser was nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Syria and Egypt. |
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| 1988 |
The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office. |
| 1988 |
Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted on bribery and drug trafficking charges in Florida. |
| 1994 |
White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1997 |
Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter. |
| 2001 |
Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. |
| 2002 |
A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden’s network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans. |
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| Today’s Birthdays: |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron turns 82 years old today. |
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| Name |
Profession |
Age |
| Roger Staubach |
Football Hall of Famer |
74 |
| Michael Mann |
Director |
73 |
| Al Kooper |
Rock musician, singer (Blood, Sweat and Tears) |
72 |
| Charlotte Rampling |
Actress |
70 |
| Christopher Guest |
Actor, screenwriter (“This is Spinal Tap”) |
68 |
| Barbara Hershey |
Actress |
68 |
| Tom Wilkinson |
Actor |
68 |
| Jennifer Granholm |
Former governor of Michigan |
57 |
| Tim Meadows |
Actor, comedian (“Saturday Night Live”) |
55 |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh |
Actress |
54 |
| Laura Linney |
Actress |
52 |
| Chris Parnell |
Actor-comedian (“Saturday Night Live”) |
49 |
| Roberto Alomar |
Baseball Hall of Famer |
48 |
| Bobby Brown |
R&B singer |
47 |
| Michael Sheen |
Actor |
47 |
| Sara Evans |
Country singer |
45 |
| Actor-singer Darren Criss (“Glee”) turns 29 years old today. |
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