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Highlights in history on this date:
1787 - The Northwest Ordinance is enacted by Congress; outlining how the territory north of the Ohio River will be governed and evolve into states.
1863 - Rioting against U.S. Civil War military conscription breaks out in New York City, and about 1,000 people are killed in three days of disorder.
1992 - President George Bush announces that the United States will no longer produce plutonium and highly enriched uranium for weapons.
1995 - A jury in Panama declares former President Manuel Antonio Noriega innocent of the murders of nine army officers who participated in a 1989 coup attempt against him.
1997 - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, recently told about her Jewish heritage, finds names of family members who were killed by Germans during Holocaust on wall of Prague synagogue.
2004 - The Red Cross says it suspects that the United States is holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world despite granting the organization access to thousands of detainees in Iraq and elsewhere.
2008 — An assault by militants on a U.S. base close to the Pakistan border kills nine American soldiers and wounds 15 in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years.
2009 - U.S. government budget deficit hits milestone, tops $1 trillion, intensifying fears about higher interest rates and inflation.
Today's Birthdays:
John Dee, English alchemist and mathematician (1527-1608); Gustav Freytag, German novelist (1816-1895); Souphanouvong, Laotian communist leader (1909-1995); Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate (1934--); Harrison Ford, U.S. actor (1942--); Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor of Rubik's Cube (1944--); Cheech Marin, actor/comedian (1946--).
