The POW/MIA flag was first recognized on August 10, 1990.

It honors those who were prisoners of war (POWs) and
those who are still missing in action (MIA).

National Vietnam War Veterans Day is March 29, the date
in 1973 when the last US combat troops departed the
Republic of Vietnam.

On September 18, 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone
to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative
branch of American government.

The building would take nearly a century to complete, as architects
came and went, the British set fire to it, and it was called into use
during the Civil War.         
        

        
       

Newspaper heiress and wanted fugitive Patty Hearst was
captured in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for
armed robbery on this day in 1975.

On February 4, 1974, Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old
daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst,
was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley,
California, by two men and a woman, all three of
whom were armed.

Neighbors who came out into the street were forced to
take cover after the kidnappers fired their guns to cover
their escape.

Three days later, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA),
a small U.S. leftist group, announced in a letter to a
Berkeley radio station that it was holding Hearst as
a “prisoner of war.”

Her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter, and
she was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton.

Patricia Campbell Hearst is now 72.