Last year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said about 4,500 Americans had been evacuated so far from Afghanistan officials believed there were about 6,000 Americans wanting to leave when the US airlift began in mid-August. (Rittenhouse, who was taken into custody in Illinois the next day, said he was defending himself after the three men attacked him as he tried to protect businesses from protesters he was acquitted on all charges, including homicide.) In 2020, two people were shot to death and a third was wounded as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. In 2018, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who had spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before a 35-year political career that took him to the Republican presidential nomination, died at the age of 81 after battling brain cancer for more than a year.
President Donald Trump pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of a misdemeanor contempt-of-court charge for defying a judge’s orders that he stop conducting immigration patrols the 85-year-old retired lawman had faced the prospect of jail time at his sentencing in October. The hurricane left at least 68 people dead and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage in Texas. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey, the fiercest hurricane to hit the United States in more than a decade, made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, with 130 mph sustained winds the storm would deliver five days of rain totaling close to 52 inches, the heaviest tropical downpour that had ever been recorded in the continental United States. Louis for Michael Brown, the Black 18-year-old who was shot to death by a police officer in suburban Ferguson. In 2012, Neil Armstrong, 82, who commanded the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing and was the first man to set foot on the moon in July 1969, died in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kennedy, the liberal lion of the US Senate, died at age 77 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a battle with a brain tumor. In 2001, R&B singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas she was 22. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, died with her father in an airliner crash in Auburn, Maine, that also killed four other passengers and two crew members. In 1985, Samantha Smith, 13, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. In 1981, the US spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet. (Producer David Merrick stunned the cast and audience during the curtain call by announcing that the show’s director, Gower Champion, had died earlier that day.) In 1980, the Broadway musical “42nd Street” opened.
In 1958, the game show “Concentration” premiered on NBC-TV. In 1944, during World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to Antarctica. Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, getting from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.