TV actress Trinitee Stokes

Events in 2006 and 12-4

Events in US in the birth year of Trinitee Stokes

• 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 Trinitee Stokes (12-4) in history

• Day 12-4 year 1861: The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.
• Day 12-4 year 1862: James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive "The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie.
• Day 12-4 year 1945: President Franklin Roosevelt died.
• Day 12-4 year 1955: The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called "safe, effective, and potent."
• Day 12-4 year 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
• Day 12-4 year 1981: The first space shuttle, Columbia, took its first test flight.
• Day 12-4 year 1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first African-American mayor.
• Day 12-4 year 1999: Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.