Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman whose condition sparked an epic legal, medical and political battle that gripped America, died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by the wishes of her husband and the orders of several courts.
Now that the United States was directly involved in both the Pacific and European wars, it was incumbent upon both Great Britain and America to create and project a unified front.
Toward that end, Churchill and Roosevelt created a combined general staff to coordinate military strategy against both Germany and Japan and to draft a future joint invasion of the Continent.
Niagara Movement members began meeting on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls on this day in 1905. This all-African American group of scholars, lawyers and businessmen came together for three days to create what would soon become a powerful post-slavery Black rights organization. Although itonly lasted five years, the Niagara Movement was an influentialprecursor to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963)
William Monroe Trotter (1872 – 1934)
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 18, 1856 – November 14, 1915)
On this day in 1868, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson due to his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson on May 26, 1868.
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He was was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869)
The impeachment trial against President Andrew Johnson opens in the Senate Chambers.
George T. Brown, sergeant at arms of the Senate (left), serving the summons on President Andrew Johnson.