(That trial resulted in Cosby’s conviction, but Pennsylvania’s highest court later overturned it.) The Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald was damaged in a collision with a Philippine-flagged container ship off Japan that killed seven sailors. Open champions Jim Furyk and Graeme McDowell.įive years ago: The jury in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case declared itself hopelessly deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial for the 79-year-old TV star charged with drugging and groping a woman more than a decade earlier prosecutors immediately announced they would pursue a second trial. Ten years ago: Rodney King, 47, whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police sparked widespread outrage and who struggled with addiction and repeated arrests, died in Rialto, California, in an apparent accidental drowning. (Both officers are awaiting trial.) Quaker Oats announced that it would retire the Aunt Jemima brand, saying the company recognized that the character’s origins were “based on a racial stereotype.” In 2020, prosecutors in Atlanta brought murder charges against white police officer Garrett Rolfe in the fatal shooting of a Black man, Rayshard Brooks, following a struggle a second officer, Devin Brosnan, was charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath.
The Trump administration followed Iran’s announcement by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East. In 2019, Iran announced that it was breaking compliance with the international accord that kept it from making nuclear weapons the announcement meant that Iran could soon start to enrich uranium to just a step away from weapons-grade levels. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that states can’t demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so. John Ensign resigned from the GOP leadership a day after admitting an affair with a former campaign staffer. In 2009, President Barack Obama extended some benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
In 2008, hundreds of same-sex couples got married across California on the first full day that gay marriage became legal by order of the state’s highest court. (Simpson was later acquitted in a criminal trial but held liable in a civil trial.) Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In 1994, after leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. In 1972, President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside the Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s, Watergate complex.