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Events in 2001 and 21-8

Events in US in the birth year of Skeckles

• 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 Skeckles (21-8) in history

• Day 21-8 year 1680: The Pueblo Indians drove out the Spaniards and took possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Day 21-8 year 1831: Preacher Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Virginia.
• Day 21-8 year 1858: The famous debates between Senator Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln began in Illinois.
• Day 21-8 year 1911: The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.
• Day 21-8 year 1940: Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City.
• Day 21-8 year 1945: Harry S. Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
• Day 21-8 year 1959: Hawaii became the 50th state in the United States.
• Day 21-8 year 1983: Corazon Aquino's husband Benigno, who was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos's chief political opponent, was assassinated.
• Day 21-8 year 1991: Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.