Baseball player Mo'ne Davis

Events in 2001 and 24-6

Events in US in the birth year of Mo'ne Davis

• In final days of presidency, Bill Clinton issues controversial pardons, including one for Marc Rich, billionaire fugitive financier (Jan. 20).
• George W. Bush is sworn in as 43rd president (Jan. 20).
• U.S. submarine Greeneville sinks Japanese fishing boat, killing 9 (Feb. 9).
• FBI agent Robert Hanssen is charged with spying for Russia for 15 years (Feb. 20).
• Race riots in Cincinnati continue for several days following a shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer (April 7 et seq.).
• Four are declared guilty in 1998 terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (May 29). Background: U.S. Embassy Bombings.
• Balance of the Senate shifts after Jim Jeffords of Vermont changes his party affiliation from Republican to Independent. The move strips Republicans of control of the Senate and gives Democrats the narrowest of majorities (50-49-1) (June 5).
• Bush signs new tax-cut law, the largest in 20 years (June 7). Background: Economic Downturn and a Tax Cut.
• Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed (June 11).
• Budget surplus dwindles. The Congressional Budget Office attributes this rapid change in the nation's fortunes to the slowing economy and the Bush tax cut (Aug. 22). Background: Economic Downturn and a Tax Cut.
• Terrorists attack United States. Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashes 80 mi outside of Pittsburgh (Sept. 11). Toll of dead and injured in thousands. Within days, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist network are identified as the parties behind the attacks.
• Anthrax scare rivets nation, as anthrax-laced letters are sent to various media and government officials. Several postal workers die after handling the letters (throughout October).

Birthday Mo'ne Davis (24-6) in history

• Day 24-6 year 1509: Henry VIII is officially crowned king of England.
• Day 24-6 year 1647: Early American feminist Margaret Brent requested a seat and vote in the Maryland Congress but was removed from that body.
• Day 24-6 year 1675: The day of the deadliest war commanded by King Philip between the colonists and the Indians began with the Indians attacking the settlement of Swansea (Mass).
• Day 24-6 year 1908: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.
• Day 24-6 year 1947: Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
• Day 24-6 year 1948: The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
• Day 24-6 year 1997: The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
• Day 24-6 year 2011: New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
• Day 24-6 year 2012: Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.