TIM MAGUIRE
UN War Crimes panel tries Slobodan Melosevic for genocide in
Bosnia.
Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych declares win in disputed vote on this
date in 2004. He was poisoned during the election campaign when
it was confirmed that he ingested hazardous amounts of TCDD, the
most potent dioxin and a contaminant in Agent Orange.
He suffered disfigurement as a result of the poisoning, but he has
since made made a full physical recovery (below).
The first edition of "Life" magazine was hit the newsstands on
this day in 1936. The cover depicted the Fort Peck Dam in
Montana.
Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967)
Luce was a magazine magnate who was called “the most
influential private citizen in America of his day".
On this day in 1903, Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso made
his U.S. debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in "Rigoletto." He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses
of Europe and America, appearing in a wide variety of roles from
the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to
the dramatic.
Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921)
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