This Day in History......
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On this day in ...
* 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency,
following the death of President Taylor.
* 1919, President Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of
Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification.
* 1951, tarmistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began
at Kaesong.
* 1973, the Bahamas became independent after three centuries of
British colonial rule.
* 1985, bowing to pressure from irate customers, Coca-Cola Co. said
it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell
New Coke.
* 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first
elected president of the Russian republic.
* 1996, in a tough speech to the U.S. Congress laying out conditions
for Mideast negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
demanded that Syria and the Palestinians stop terrorists from
attacking Israel.
* 2001, for the second time in a month, a jury in New York rejected
the death penalty for one of the men convicted in the bombings of
two U.S. embassies in Africa, opting instead for life in prison
without parol.
On this day in ...
* 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency,
following the death of President Taylor.
* 1919, President Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of
Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification.
* 1951, tarmistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began
at Kaesong.
* 1973, the Bahamas became independent after three centuries of
British colonial rule.
* 1985, bowing to pressure from irate customers, Coca-Cola Co. said
it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell
New Coke.
* 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first
elected president of the Russian republic.
* 1996, in a tough speech to the U.S. Congress laying out conditions
for Mideast negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
demanded that Syria and the Palestinians stop terrorists from
attacking Israel.
* 2001, for the second time in a month, a jury in New York rejected
the death penalty for one of the men convicted in the bombings of
two U.S. embassies in Africa, opting instead for life in prison
without parol. 
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