On March 17, 1966, a U.S. Navy midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. (It took several more weeks to actually recover the bomb.)
Ten years ago
Federal regulators reported the deaths of two women in addition to four others who had taken the abortion pill RU-486; Planned Parenthood said it would immediately stop disregarding the approved instructions for the drug’s use.
Five years ago
The U.N. Security Council paved the way for international air strikes against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, voting to authorize military action to protect civilians and impose a no-fly zone over Libya. Michael Gough, the British actor best known for playing Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred in a series of Batman movies, died in England at age 94.
One year ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections after an acrimonious campaign, giving him a mandate to form the next government.
— By The Associated Press
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