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A Look Back This
Week
On July 30, 1619,
the House of Bur-
gesses, the first repre-
sentative assembly in
the New World, was
elected in Jamestown,
Va. ... July 28, 1915,
U.S. troops landed in
Haiti ... August 2, 1939,
in a letter to President
Franklin Roosevelt, Al-
bert Einstein alerted the
president to the A-bomb
opportunity ... July 1,
1943, wage and salary
earners were subject to
a paycheck withholding
tax for the first time ...
August 1, 1951, tariff
concessions made by
the U.S. to the Soviet
Un io n,
Com m uni st
China, and all Commu-
nist-dominated lands
were suspended ... July
30, 1967, race riots
ended in Detroit Mich.,
with 43 dead, 2,000 in-
jured, and 5,000 left
homeless by rioting,
looting and burning in
the city's black ghetto ...
July 29, 1974, the
House Judiciary Com-
mittee voted on a sec-
ond article of impeach-
ment against President
Nixon - abuses of
power ... July 30, 1974,
the House Judiciary
Committee voted on a
third article of impeach-
ment against President
Nixon - defiance of
committee
subpoe-
nas ... July 29, 1981,
Congress passed Presi-
dent Reagan's tax-cut
legislation, which was
expected to save tax-
payers $750 billion over
five years ... August 2,
1990, Iraq invaded Ku-
wait ... July 28, 1998,
Monica
Lewinsky
agreed to testify before
a Whitewater grand jury
in exchange for immu-
nity ... July 30, 2002,
Senator Robert Tor-
ricelli (D-N.J.) was
"severely admonished"
in a letter from the Sen-
ate Ethics Committee,
for accepting expensive
gifts from businessman
David Chang while tak-
ing "official actions of
benefits" to him ... July
30, 2002, the presidents
of Rwanda and the De-
mocratic Republic of
Congo signed a peace
agreement intended to
end the hostilities be-
tween the two countries
after Rwandan Hutu
rebels fled to the
Congo.
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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, July 30, 2003