"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said in a statement read during a Combatant Status Review Tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began on this day in 1987 with National Security Council staff member Oliver North testifying before a Congressional committee. He was ultimately indicted on 16 felony counts.
It was on this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O’Connor turned 81 in March.
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is 77 years old today.
Ringo Starr was asked to join The Beatles after their drummer Pete Best had a falling out with the band.
On this day in 2002 In New York, a ceremony was held to officially mark the end of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
On this day in 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.
Bronze statue of Joan of Arc on Rue de Rivoli in Paris.
Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986)
Benny Goodman was a jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". He led the first American jazz band to play in the Soviet Union on this day in 1962.