Fitness expert Kailia Posey

Events in 2006 and 19-4

Events in US in the birth year of Kailia Posey

• President Bush signs a law renewing the Patriot Act, including a signing statement stating that he does not consider himself bound by its requirement to tell Congress how the law is being used (Mar. 9).
• House releases a report on the response to Hurricane Katrina, assigning blame on all levels of government (Feb. 15).
• Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist with ties to several members of Congress, is sentenced to six years in prison by a Florida judge on fraud charges (Mar. 29).
• George Bush and Tony Blair express regret for the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, for removing all Baathists from positions of power in Iraq, and for other missteps (May 25).
• The Supreme Court rules that military tribunals cannot be set up to try prisoners in the absence of Congressional authorization and that prisoners are entitled to fair trials under the Geneva Conventions (June 29).
• President Bush uses his veto power for the first time, striking down legislation that would have expanded the number of stem cell lines available for embryonic research using federal financing. (July 19).
• Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections (Nov. 7).
• John Bolton steps down as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations when it becomes clear that he does not have enough votes in the Senate to win confirmation (Dec. 4).

Birthday Kailia Posey (19-4) in history

• Day 19-4 year 1775: They were the beginning of the American Revolution. "The shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minutemen joined the regular forces of the British Army at Lexington and Concord, Mass.
• Day 19-4 year 1824: Lord Byron passed away of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks.
• Day 19-4 year 1882: Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died.
• Day 19-4 year 1897: The first Boston Marathon was run.
• Day 19-4 year 1933: The United States went off the gold standard.
• Day 19-4 year 1943: The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.
• Day 19-4 year 1993: The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.
• Day 19-4 year 1995: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.
• Day 19-4 year 2005: Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.