-- Ronald Reagan, refusing a gift of a mule

Bush, Karzai Formalize Partnership — Story
Operation Goal: Crack Down on Terrorists — Story

ON THE GROUND
A-10 Pilots Ready for Combat in Minimal Time — Story
Pallet, Net Recovery Effort Proves Successful — Story
Soldiers Prepare Bosnian Troops for Iraq Duty — Story

FACE OF DEFENSE
Fuels Specialist is 'For the Birds' — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Indy Speedway Supports Troops — Story
Operation Links Troops, Families

IN AFGHANISTAN
Local Police Turn In Weapons
U.S. Warplanes Kill Insurgents
Former Chief Talks Afghanistan
Defense Leaders' Views on Afghanistan
Enduring Freedom Marks 3 Years
Afghanistan Daily Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty — Story

Today in History
1059 - Henri I crowns his son King Philip I of France.
1275 - King Edward I of England orders that persecution of French Jews cease.
1420 - Jews are expelled from Syria and Austria.
1421 - Jews in Austria are imprisoned and expelled.
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians; later sold to the British.
1660 - King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England.
1701 - Captain (William) Kidd is hanged in London, convicted of piracy and murder.
1774 - Tea is dumpted into the Chester River in the Chestertown tea party.

1785 - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
1788 - South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratifythe U.S. Constitution.
1861 - Virginia citizens vote 3-1 in favor of secession.
1862 - Stonewall Jackson's Confederates take Front Royal, VA.
1864 - Battle of Dallas (GA); First day of fighting at the Battle of North Anna (VA)
1865 - For the first time since Lincoln's assassination, the flag at the White House flies at full staff; The Grand Review victory parade takes place in Washington, DC.

1867 - The Jesse James Gang robs a bank in Richmond, MO, getting away with $4,000. Two people are killed.

1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms.
1900 - The Associated Press (AP) News Service forms.
1903 - Wisconsin adopts the first U.S. direct primary election law.

1915 - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany.
1928 - 22 die in a bomb attack on the Italian embassy in Buenos Aires.
1939 - The St. George Cross (British) is first presented; Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1940 - The first great Spitfire dogfight occurs.

1943 - Over 800 Allied bombers attack Dortmund.
1944 - Chinese counter-attack at the Hunan front

1945 - The British arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz; The German island of Helgoland surrenders to the British; Heinrich Himmler commits suicide; Lord Haw-Haw is arrested; Winston Churchill resigns as PM.

1953 - Schools first use Cliff's Notes.
1956 - A World Trade Center is dedicated in Ferry Building in San Fransisco.
1977 - Moluccan extremists hold 155 people hostage (over 100 are children) on a hijacked Dutch train. The children are released six days later; the siege ends on June 11th; the Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeals of H. R. Halderman, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell (Watergate)
1981 - Barcelona fascists take 200 hostages.
1991 - The last Cubans troops leave Angola.
1994 - 270 pilgrims die in the crowd crush in Mina, Saudi-Arabia.

Birthdays:
1790 - Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, explorer
1813 - Union Brevet Major General Mason Brayman
1824 - Union Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside
1837 - Union Brevet Major General James Sanks Brisbin
1848 - German WWI General / chief of staff Helmuth J. L. von Moltke; Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator.
1908 - Max Abramovitz, American architect (Lincoln Center, U.N. Building)
1913 - Major General Ian Graeme
1933 - Bruce A. Peterson, American test pilot (M2, HL-10)
1938 - John R. Miller (Representative-WA)
1958 - Thomas Reiter Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22)

Passings:
1153 - David I, king of Scotland
1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence, tortured & executed
1701 - Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged in London
1881 - Kit Carson, frontiersman
1934 - Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in shootout with police in Shreveport, LA.
1945 - Heinrich Himmler Nazi/Gestapo leader, suicide while in prison
1983 - Albert Claude Belgian, biologist, Nobel prize winner
1991 - Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier General / playwright

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Walker, Orien Judson, US Army (MA); presumed dead as of February,1966

1967
Homuth, Richard W., USN (CA); KIA, body not recovered
Pettis, Thomas E., USN (AL); KIA, body not recovered
Schmittou, Eureka Lavern, USN (AL); KIA, body not recovered
Soucy, Ronald Philip, USN (IN); KIA, body not recovered

1968
Cochran, Isom Carter, Jr.,US Army (TX)
Lane, Glen O., US Army SF (TX)
Owen, Robert D., US Army SF (VA)
Schrump, Raymond C., US Army (WI); Released injured by PRG February, 1973; alive in

1969
Benton, Gregory R., USMC (CA); family states is Native American (record lists caucasian)
Ramirez, Armando, US Army (AZ)

1972
Byrns, William G., USAF (MO); Released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well in 1998

Bean, William R., Jr. USAF (AL); Released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well in 1998

Barnett, Charles E. USN (TX); KIA in Nhan Dan, remains returned February, 1989