Guest guest Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 This Day in History Today in History - May 16th, 2008 2005 - A U.S. Senate panel said high-ranking Russian politicians made illicit multi-million dollar oil transactions with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein under the U.N. Oil-for-food program. 1804 - The French Senate declared Napoleon Bonaparte emperor. 2005 - Newsweek, after a public apology, printed a retraction to a story that accused interrogators at the U.S. Detention center at Guantanamo Bay of flushing a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Riots in Afghanistan that followed publication of the story claimed 16 lives. 2003 - Suicidal terrorists set off five bombs simultaneously in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 41 and injuring about 100. 1997 - U.S. President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphillis in the Negro Male, which was conducted from 1932-72. View This Day in History daily on http://cybercrimeupdates.blogspot.com/ Aseem Kaistha It's your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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