ken follett fall of giants trilogy book 2

Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them sleeping women and children, pleaded guilty to murder at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to avoid the death penalty. President Barack Obama named Susan Rice his national security adviser, and nominated Samantha Power to replace Rice as United Nations ambassador. Ten years ago: British newspaper The Guardian reported the National Security Agency was collecting the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. In 2020, Minneapolis banned chokeholds by police, the first of many changes in law enforcement practices to be announced in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death officers would also now be required to intervene any time they saw unauthorized force by another officer. In 2016, Novak Djokovic (NOH’-vak JOH’-kuh-vich) became the first man in nearly a half-century to win four consecutive major championships, finally earning an elusive French Open title with a win over Andy Murray to complete a career Grand Slam. In 2006, more than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a crackdown by President George W. In 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. One kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, was sentenced to life without parole the other, Wanda Barzee, was released in September 2018.) (Smart was found alive by police in a Salt Lake suburb in March 2003.

In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City home. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control reported that five men in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS. In 1976, 14 people were killed when the Teton Dam in Idaho burst.

In 1975, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel. Israel, anticipating a possible attack by its Arab neighbors, launched a series of airfield strikes that destroyed nearly the entire Egyptian air force Syria, Jordan and Iraq immediately entered the conflict. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars.

In 1794, Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.

Ken follett fall of giants trilogy book 2