On March 28, 1941, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowned herself near her home in England.
Ten years ago
President George W. Bush replaced longtime chief of staff Andy Card with budget director Joshua Bolten. More than a million people poured into streets across France while strikers disrupted air, rail and bus travel in the largest nationwide protest over a youth labor law. The Kadima Party won Israel’s parliamentary elections. Former Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger died in Bangor, at age 88.
Five years ago
Vigorously defending American attacks in Libya, President Barack Obama declared in a nationally broadcast address that the United States intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians; yet he ruled out targeting Moammar Gadhafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a mistake as costly as the war in Iraq.
One year ago
Afghanistan’s highest court ruled that the police officer convicted of murdering Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding AP correspondent Kathy Gannon should serve 20 years in prison.
— By The Associated Press
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