Pop - Singer Thomas Stringfellow

Events in 1998 and 10-3

Events in US in the birth year of Thomas Stringfellow

• President accused in White House sex scandal; denies allegations of affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky (Jan. 21 et seq.).
• President outlines first balanced budget in 30 years (Feb. 3).
• US Supreme Court rules line-item veto unconstitutional (Feb. 12).
• Unabomber sentenced to four life terms (May 4).
• Life sentence meted out to Terry Nichols, convicted in Oklahoma City bombing fatal to 168 (June 4).
• Starr Report by independent counsel outlines case for impeachment proceedings against President (Sept. 11).
• Matthew Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime; two arrested (Oct. 6 et seq.).
• House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice. (Dec. 19).

Birthday Thomas Stringfellow (10-3) in history

• Day 10-3 year 1629: King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament to prevent an annual reassessment of the King's revenues.
• Day 10-3 year 1785: The founder of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was appointed Minister of France.
• Day 10-3 year 1848: Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
• Day 10-3 year 1864: U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
• Day 10-3 year 1876: The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• Day 10-3 year 1948: The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
• Day 10-3 year 1969: James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.