Iraqi army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, conduct clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006, to deny insurgents the opportunity to freely operate in the region. Homes were searched and the area was cordoned. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


Iraqi army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, conduct clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006, to deny insurgents the opportunity to freely operate in the region. Homes were searched and the area was cordoned. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


A team of Iraqi army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, prepare to breech a home during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006, in order to deny insurgents the opportunity to freely operate in the region. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


A team of Iraqi army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence prepare to breech a home during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006, in order to deny insurgents the opportunity to freely operate in the region. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


An Iraqi army soldier provides outer security as a team of fellow Iraqi army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, prepare to breech a home during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006, in order to deny insurgents the opportunity to freely operate in the region. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


An Iraqi army soldier with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, searches a home for weapons and dangerous materials during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


U.S. Army Sgt. Andrew Kisz, assigned to Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, observes the actions of Iraqi army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, as they search homes for weapons and dangerous materials during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006.U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


An Iraqi army soldier with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, searches a home for weapons and dangerous materials during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


An Iraqi army soldier with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence searches a home for weapons and dangerous materials during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.


A team of Iraqi army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, from Forward Operating Base Independence, prepare to breech a home during clearance operations in Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2006, in order to deny insurgents the opportunity to freely operate in the region. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr.

RIVER PATROL — Iraqi police patrol along the Tigris River, searching various small islands for hidden weapon caches and insurgent transportation routes near East Baghdad, Iraq, April 5, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Bart A. Bauer

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Today in History
0715 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1241 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1388 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1454 - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1474 - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1483 - Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England
1538 - Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
1555 - Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1609 - Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
1621 - Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1691 - French troops occupy Mons
1770 - Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1783 - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
1808 - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
1814 - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
1829 - Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1831 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough NH)
1864 - Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
1865 - Federals capture Fort Blakely, AL; Robert E. Lee & 26,765 troops surrender to US Grant at Appomattox
1866 - Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
1872 - Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk
1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
1914 - 1st full color film shown "The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London); Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in México
1917 - Battle of Arras begins; Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
1918 - Latvia proclaims independence from Russia
1927 - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state
1940 - German cruiser Blücher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die; Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
1942 - Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
1945 - Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360; Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
1947 - Atomic Energy Commission is formed; Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
1949 - UN International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages
1952 - Popular uprising in Bolivia
1957 - Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
1960 - South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
1963 - Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony
1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out; Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down
1968 - German Democratic Republic adopts constitution; Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta GA
1969 - 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1972 - USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1973 - Otto Kerner, former Governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme; Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1976 - US & Russia agree on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1977 - Communist party legally allowed in Spain after 40 years
1980 - Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; Belgium's Marten's government resigns
1981 - US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1983 - 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
1988 - US imposes economic sanctions on Panamá
1989 - Washington DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
1991 - Georgia SSR votes to secede from the USSR; Release of Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0
1992 - John Major, (Conservative Party) elected Prime Minister of England; Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges
1994 - STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

Birthdays
1634 - Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau
1649 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II
1785 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer; Louis count of Barrthyányi, premier of Hungary
1812 - Randolph Barnes Marcy, Union Brevet Major General
1826 - Thomas Hewson Neill, Union Brevet Major General
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge England, pioneered study of motion, photography
1835 - Leopold II King of Belgians (1865-1909)
1865 - Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German experimenter with AC electricity; Erich Ludendorff, German General
1872 - Léon Blum, French premier (People's front government)
1905 - J. William Fulbright (Senator-AR)
1906 - Todd Naylor "Hugh" Gaitskell, MP (Labour Party)
1910 - Abraham A Ribicoff (Senator-CT)
1919 - John Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)
1926 - Lord Fitt, MP (Belfast Ireland); Harris Wofford (Senator-Republican-PA)
1928 - Floyd D. Spence (Representative-SC)
1932 - Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies); Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov, cosmonaut
1936 - Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister (Paupa & New Guinea)
1940 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Earl F. Hillard (Representative-AL)

Passings
0715 - Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15)
1024 - Benedict VIII [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24)
1483 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38
1765 - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77
1806 - Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 58
1862 - George W. Johnson, US planter/Confederate (Governor-KY), dies at about 50
1865 - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union General-Major, dies at 32
1904 - Isabella II Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged; Hans Oster, German Major-General/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged; Wilhelm Canaris Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
1948 - Jorge Elecier Gaitán, Colombian politician, murdered
1961 - Zog I [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
1966 - Sutan Sjahrir, Premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1976 - Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
1991 - Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1992 - Gale McGee, Senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
1993 - Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74
1994 - Cornelis N. "Cor" van Dis, Jr., Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71; Raouf Khayrat Egyptian General-Major, murdered

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Fegan, Ronald J., USN (NY); F4B crashed at sea after combat (RIO, w/Murphy); Killed, BNR

Murphy, Terence M., USN (NY); F4B crashed at sea after combat (pilot, w/Fegan); Killed, BNR

1967
Schworer, Ronald P., US Army (NV); Killed, BNR

1968
Lawson, Karl W., US Army SF (IN); Killed, BNR

1970
The following USN personnel reported MIA when their E2A caught fire and crashed at sea while attempting to return to the USS Coral Sea; all Killed, BNR:
Bushnell, Brian L. (OR); technician

Horchar, Andrew A. (PA); technician

Knight, Larry C. (OK); co-pilot

Pfaffmann, Charles B. (CT); pilot