Also on July 20, 1969, Teddy Kennedy was engaged in the full-fledged coverup of the negligent homicide of Mary Jo Kopechne.
1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1861 The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Va.
1871 British Columbia joined the confederation as a Canadian province.
1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops.
1917 The World War I draft lottery began.
1944 Adolf Hitler was only slightly wounded when a bomb planted by would-be assassins exploded at the German leader’s Rastenburg headquarters.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1976 America’s Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.
1977 A flash flood hit Johnstown, Pa., killing 80 people and causing $350 million in damage.
1990 A federal appeals court set aside Oliver North’s Iran-Contra convictions.
1993 White House deputy counsel Vince Foster was found shot to death in a park near Washington, D.C., in an apparent suicide.
1999 After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was recovered.
I copied this from something that said this is an AP list.
“Teddy Kennedy was engaged in the full-fledged coverup of the negligent homicide of Mary Jo Kopechne.”
Teddy Kennedy was engaged in the full-fledged coverup of the MURDER...