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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1776, British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War
• 1805, the Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King
• 1845, the rubber band is patented by Stephen Perry
• 1861, the Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed
• 1901, a showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation
• 1941, in Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1945, the strategically important captured railway Bridge at Remagen, having sped the end of WW-II, but ironically no longer taking artillery fire, collapses ten days into the battle rendering the lodgement on the Germany bank of the Rhine dependent entirely on pontoon bridges.
• 1948, Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement
• 1950, University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium"
• 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion
• 1966, off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb
• 1969, Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel
• 1992, practitioners of that "religion of peace" bomb the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. A pickup truck, driven by a suicide bomber and loaded with explosives, smashed into the front of the Israeli Embassy, destroying the embassy, a Catholic church, and a nearby school building. Several Israelis died, but most of the victims were Argentine civilians, many of them children. The blast killed 29 and wounded 242. It was Argentina's deadliest terror attack until the AMIA Bombing of 1994, and as of 2008 it remains the deadliest attack on an Israeli diplomatic mission
• 2000, Smith & Wesson, the nation's oldest and largest maker of handguns, agreed to a wide array of restrictions in exchange for ending some lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the company
• 2003, edging to the brink of war, President Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country. Iraq rejected Bush's ultimatum, saying that a U.S. attack to force Saddam from power would be "a grave mistake." ALSO: In Washington, tobacco farmer Dwight Ware Watson, claiming to be carrying bombs, drove a tractor and trailer into a pond on the National Mall; the threat disrupted traffic for two days until Watson surrendered; there were no bombs
• 2005, baseball players told Congress that steroids were a problem in the sport; stars Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa testified they hadn't used them while Mark McGwire refused to say whether he had. (McGwire owned up to steroid use in January 2010.)
• 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus package into law, hoping to create 3.5 million jobs for Americans in two years. It didn't work
• 2010, Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter became the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passed health reforms requiring residents to buy insurance. ALSO: Michael Jordan became the first ex-player to become a majority owner in the league as the NBA's Board of Governors unanimously approved Jordan's $275 million bid to buy the Charlotte Bobcats from Bob Johnson.
• 2012, John Demjanjuk, 91, onetime Ohio autoworker, died in Germany where, in 2011, he was convicted of assisting in mass murder as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II
• 2016, the Obama administration formally concluded the Islamic State group was committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. AND: An Arizona man was convicted of a terror charge tied to an attack on a Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas, marking the second conviction in the U.S. related to the Islamic State group; Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert, was later sentenced to 30 years in prison. ALSO: Finally bowing to years of public pressure, SeaWorld Entertainment said it would no longer breed killer whales or make them perform crowd-pleasing tricks
Wesley Pruden: Budget Theater, now opening with the follies
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Ironies
Greg Crosby: Spring Fever
Mona Charen: More Conservative Than Thou
Tammy Bruce: Send in the bullies
Rosalind S. Helderman & Tom Hamburger: OOPS! It gets worse. Flynn paid by multiple Russia-related entities, documents show
Declassified by Eli Lake: Trump's wiretapping claims should be taken seriously
Jonah Goldberg: A leisurely drive down the wrong road
L. Brent Bozell III: Hollywood Rebels Under Trump
Rich Lowry: Why Trump may dump House Republicans
David Limbaugh: Judge's Abominable Travel Ban Ruling
John Kass: Trump, the fired feds and St. Preet
Dick Morris: Don't Let Senate Parliamentarian Kill ACA Repeal
Charles Krauthammer: Republicans and entitlements
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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