Kirk Walters
• Michael Ramirez
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . .
• 1868, the impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote
• 1889, opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public
• 1896, Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
• 1897, Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published
• 1908, at Masjed Soleyman, in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom
• 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session
• 1959, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix retires the first 36 Milwaukee Braves batters to face him, only to lose his bid for a perfect game in the 13th inning
• 1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow
• 1969, Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing
• 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
• 1986, the European Community adopts the European flag
• 1998, the United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York
• 2004, the United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing
• 2005, after a Newsweek article led to the deaths of American soldiers, an investigation by the military found no "credible evidence" that any copies of the Koran were flushed in a toilet
• 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was accelerating its nuclear program to become an exporter of nuclear fuel
• 2008, the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report that Iran's suspected nuclear weapons research was a mystery, "a matter of serious concern."
• 2010, the space shuttle Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy Space Center to end its final mission into space, 32nd flight over 25 years covering an estimated 120 million miles
• 2012, gruesome video posted online showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in Houla, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria's 14-month-old uprising. ALSO: International space station astronauts floated into the Dragon, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship
[ I N S I G H T ]
Wesley Pruden: News from the president in exile
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Man With the Golden Mop | Wrong Place, Wrong Time
L. Brent Bozell III: Al Franken Is 'Sick,' All Right
Jonah Goldberg: Why Trump is right about terrorists being 'losers'
Rich Lowry: The media are totally trolling Trump on Russia
Suzanne Fields: Trump's Harsh Message Worth Sending
Michael Reagan: American Tourist Dollars Are Feeding Castro's Human Zoo
Mona Charen: Assault Is Wrong
David Limbaugh: Pros and Cons of Trump's Budget and Cons of Dem Demagoguery
Michael Barone: Trump Acts Like a Competent, Conventional President Abroad
Charles Krauthammer: Why Middle East peace starts in Saudi Arabia
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
• Mallard Filmore