Oliver North began six days of testimony before the congressional Iran-Contra committee. In 1994, 16 people died in Americus, Ga., when 21.
1 inches of rain fell. In 1998, a Los Angeles jury convicted Mikail Markhasev, 19, of murder in the January 1997 shooting death of Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby. In 1999, a Miami-Dade County jury held the leading tobacco companies liable for various illnesses of Florida smokers.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in 1994, was the first of its kind to come to trial. In 2000, the second test of an anti-missile system failed again when the missile missed its target by 100 yards. In 2003, the 37-member Iraqi governing council, representing all major ethnic and religious groups in the nation, began work aimed at taking control by the end of the month.
Also in 2003, actor and dancer Buddy Ebsen, known to millions of TV fans as "Beverly Hillbilly" Jed Clampett and detective Barnaby Jones, died in Southern California. He was 95. In 2004, Ken Lay, founder and former chief executive officer of the bankrupt Enron Corp.
, was indicted on 11 criminal counts, including conspiracy, bank fraud and securities fraud. In 2005, terrorists struck the London transit system setting off explosions in three subway cars and a double-decker bus in a coordinated rush-hour arrack. A reported 56 people were killed and more than 700 injured.
In 2006, three men were arrested overseas in an alleged plot to bomb a commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. A thought for the day: Benjamin Franklin wrote in "Poor Richard's Almanac" that "If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some." Del.
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