On March 8, 1966, Nelson’s Pillar, a 120-foot-high column in Dublin honoring British naval hero Horatio Nelson, was bombed by the Irish Republican Army.
Ten years ago
Iran threatened the United States with “harm and pain” if the U.S. tried to use the U.N. Security Council to punish Tehran for its suspect nuclear program. Six months after Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush got a closeup look at the remaining mountains of debris, abandoned homes and boarded-up businesses in New Orleans.
Five years ago
Voters in Bell, California, went to the polls in huge numbers and threw out the entire City Council after most of its members had been charged with fraud.
One year ago
Thousands of people crowded the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, many jammed shoulder to shoulder, to commemorate a bloody confrontation 50 years earlier between police and peaceful protesters that helped bring about the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Sam Simon, 59, a cocreator of “The Simpsons” and an animal-rights advocate, died in Pacific Palisades, California.
— By The Associated Press
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