Pop - Singer Hannah Richardson

Events in 2001 and 4-7

Events in US in the birth year of Hannah Richardson

• 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 Hannah Richardson (4-7) in history

• Day 4-7 year 1776: The United States declares independence. Officially free from British domination. 
• Day 4-7 year 1826: Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.
• Day 4-7 year 1831: Former president James Monroe died.
• Day 4-7 year 1845: Writer Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond.
• Day 4-7 year 1862: Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice's Adventures Underground to the Liddell sisters.
• Day 4-7 year 1884: The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris.
• Day 4-7 year 1895: Katharine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.
• Day 4-7 year 1939: Lou Gehrig, stricken with ALS, made his farewell at Yankee Stadium.
• Day 4-7 year 1976: The United States celebrated its bicentennial.
• Day 4-7 year 1997: The U.S. Pathfinder probe landed on Mars.
• Day 4-7 year 2012: The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, announced the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson.