Yankees are dumb.....
The Yankees are only interested in one thing and I don't know what that is.
baseball player Luis Polonia
1836 | James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died in Montpelier, Va., at age 85. |
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1838 | Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey. |
1894 | Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees. |
1902 | Broadway composer Richard Rodgers was born in New York City. |
1919 | The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. |
1919 | Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Mo. |
1950 | North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea. |
1967 | Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the Six-Day War. |
1967 | Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was named a cardinal. |
1997 | Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during their WBA heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas. |
2000 | The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. |
2001 | Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal. |
2004 | The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government two days ahead of schedule. |
2004 | The Supreme Court ruled that enemy combatants can challenge their detention in U.S. courts. |
2007 | The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list. |
2010 | Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., the longest-serving senator in the nation's history, died in Fairfax, Va., at 92. |
2010 |
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live. |