

unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.) Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In 1966, comedian Lenny Bruce, whose raunchy brand of satire and dark humor landed him in trouble with the law, was found dead in his Los Angeles home he was 40.

In 1949, the National Basketball Association was formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League. In 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint. In 1916, Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, a strong advocate of independence for Ireland, was hanged for treason. In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas. Crusius has pleaded not guilty to state murder charges he also faces federal hate crime and gun charges.) (A man who was wounded in the shooting died in April 2020 after months in the hospital, raising the death toll to 23. 3, 2019, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, leaving 22 people dead prosecutors said Patrick Crusius targeted Mexicans in hopes of scaring Latinos into leaving the U.S., and that he had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
