International Tennis Hall of Famer Monica Seles is 48. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is 52. Rock singer Jimi (cq) HaHa (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack) is 53. Rock musician Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) is 53.
Rock musician Rick Savage (Def Leppard) is 61. Although Kramer caught 138 passes for 2,202 yards, a 16-yard average, during his four years as a starter in Lombardis run-first offense, Ditka had better numbers. Broadcast journalist Stone Phillips is 67.
Today’s Birthdays: Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III is 90. Issuing a final rule covering animals on airplanes, the Transportation Department said only dogs could fly as service animals, and that pets used for emotional support didn’t count. In a video released on social media, President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden, unspooling one misstatement after another to back his baseless claim that he really won. One year ago: Britain became the first country in the world to authorize a rigorously tested COVID-19 vaccine, giving the go-ahead for emergency use of the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (tsy ying-WEN’) in a highly unusual move that was bound to antagonize China. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee) vowed to work together to promote democratic reforms in Suu Kyi’s long-isolated and authoritarian homeland.įive years ago: A fire that raced through an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California, during a dance party killed 36 people. In 2015, a couple loyal to the Islamic State group opened fire at a holiday banquet for public employees in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 21 others before dying in a shootout with police. history, Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection. In 2001, in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. Bush flatly asserted, “I’m soon to be the president” and met with GOP congressional leaders. In 2000, Al Gore sought a recount in South Florida, while George W. We reviewed hundreds of pages of police reports, criminal case filings and court data related to intimate partner violence in Connecticut.