British clergyman Roger Williams arrived in Salem, Mass., seeking religious freedom. He founded the colony of Rhode Island.
1971
Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell walked on the moon for four hours.
1981
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a nationwide address, said the United States was in "the worst economic mess since the Great Depression" and called for sweeping spending and tax cuts.
1986
World oil prices plunged toward $15 per barrel from $30 three months earlier after OPEC failed to curb production. Prices dropped to $9 by the summer of 1986.
1988
Two U.S. grand juries in Florida announced indictments of Panama military strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega and 16 associates on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1989
Radio Moscow announced the last Soviet soldier had left Kabul, Afghanistan.
1990
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed the Communist Party give up its monopoly on power in the Soviet Union. Two days later, the party's Central Committee agreed.
1991
U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent his top military advisers to Saudi Arabia to decide whether a ground assault was needed to liberate Iraqi-occupied Kuwait.
1992
Euthanasia advocate Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian was freed on bond following his arrest in the assisted suicides of two women.
1994
A mortar shell fell onto a crowded weekend market in Sarajevo, Bosnia, killing 69 people and injuring 200.
1994
White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the 1963 killing of Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1996
A judge ordered U.S. President Bill Clinton to testify in the Whitewater land dispute trial. He later did so via videotape.
2003
Making a case for U.N.-endorsed military action in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused the Saddam Hussein regime of deceiving U.N. weapons inspectors and having ties with the al-Qaida terrorist network.
2004
Speaking out strongly against his war critics, U.S. President George Bush said Iraq's nightmare was over and the United States was safer because he made the tough call to go to war.
2005
A Moroccan family of four was charged in Spain in the March 11 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.
2006
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad added more heat to his country's nuclear controversy by telling the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran was halting all voluntary cooperation, reports said.
2006
The far-flung, often violent Muslim protest against Danish-published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed spread to Turkey, Indonesia, India, Thailand and New Zealand.
2007
U.S. astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak was arrested on several charges, including attempted kidnapping, after she drove from Houston to Orlando, Fla., to confront another officer whom she viewed as a rival for a fellow astronaut.
2008
On "Super Tuesday," Barack Obama took a slim lead in delegates over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic contest while John McCain outscored all of his opponents combined in the delegate battle for the Republican nomination.
2008
Mike McConnell, the U.S. director of national intelligence, warned Congress that al-Qaida had progressed to the point that it could carry out an attack in the United States.
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