Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, August 6, 2003
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On August 4, 1914,
President Woodrow Wil-
son proclaimed the
United States neutral in
the European war ... Au-
gust 7, 1942, the Marines
landed on Guadalca-
nal ... August 6, 1945,
the atom bomb was
dropped on Hiroshima,
killing about 75,000 peo-
ple ... August 9, 1945,
the atom bomb was
dropped on Nagasaki,
killing about 40,000 peo-
ple ... August 4, 1964,
the bodies of three civil
rights workers reported
missing in Mississippi in
June were found bur-
ied ... August 7, 1964,
Congress passed the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolu-
tion, authorizing presi-
dential action in Vietnam
after North Vietnamese
boats reportedly attacked
two U.S. destroyers ...
August 6, 1965, a new
Voting Rights Act was
signed into law ... August
8, 1974, President Rich-
ard Nixon announced his
resignation ... August 9,
1974, Vice President Ge-
rald R. Ford was sworn
in as the 38th U.S. presi-
dent ... August 4, 1977,
President Jimmy Carter
signed on act creating a
new cabinet level Energy
Department ... August 5,
1981, President Reagan
fired the federal air traffic
controllers who had de-
fied a back-to-work order
after staging an illegal
strike ... August 9, 1989,
President George H.W.
Bush signed a measure
to rescue the savings
and loan industry into
law ... August 10, 1989,
Army General Colin Pow-
ell was nominated by
President Bush as chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, becoming the
first African-American to
hold the post ... August
7, 1999, Operation De-
sert Shield forces left for
Saudi Arabia to defend
the country following the
invasion of its neighbor
Kuwait by Iraq ... August
10, 1993, Judge Ruth
Bader Ginsburg was
sworn in as the 107th
justice of the Supreme
Court ... August 10,
1993, President Clinton
signed a measure de-
signed to cut federal
budget deficits $496 bil-
lion over five years
$59
through spending cuts
and new taxes ... August
6, 1998, Monica Lewin-
sky, testifying before the
Whitewater grand jury,
admitted having had a
sexual relationship with
President Clinton but
said she was never
asked to lie ... August 9,
2001, President Bush
announced he would al-
low federal funding of
limited stem-cell re-
search utilizing human
embryos.
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