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Large explosion hits Norewegian Capital




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14254705

(22-07-2011 16:00 )bombshell Wrote:  Large explosion hits Norewegian Capital




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14254705

...and on that bombshell... lol

Media reports are suggesting that the Norwegian attacks are NOT linked to Islamic extremists as was first thought.

Latest news from BBC says 84 were shot dead on the island.
There has been no figure given for those who were just wounded. I would be surprised if this was not a high figure as well.
It seems strange that there were no security police at such a large gathering.

1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.

1940 - The Local Defence Volunteers were renamed the Home Guard by Winston Churchill.

1972 – The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.

1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.

1984 - Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs of her that ended up in Penthouse magazine.

1986 – In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

1995 - Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneously discovered the comet Hale-Bopp, it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.

2000 - American Tiger Woods, at age 24, became the youngest golfer to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open.

2008 - 'Back from the dead' canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne were jailed for more than six years for fraudulently claiming £250,000. The couple had conned family, friends, police and insurance companies into believing that Mr Darwin drowned in the North Sea off Teesside in 2002.

Births:
1938 – Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)
1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer
1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
1965 – Slash, English-born American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1972 – Marlon Wayans, American actor
1973 – Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
1973 – Francis Healy, English-born Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Travis)
1974 – Maurice Greene, American sprinter
1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981 – Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1985 – Blake Harrison, English actor
1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
1989 – Katy B, English singer-songwriter

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1974: Nixon 'must hand over Watergate tapes'
The United States Supreme Court has ordered President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair.
Giving the judgement to a packed and hushed courtroom, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger said the court rejected Mr Nixon's claims of executive privilege.

Instead, he said they "must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial".

The president said he was "disappointed" by the decision, but would comply with the ruling.

Scandal

The White House has already released edited transcripts of the tapes, which cover 64 conversations made between June 1972 and April of this year.

But President Nixon has until now refused to comply with a court order awarded to Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation, requiring him to produce the tapes themselves.

Mr Jaworski alleges the tapes implicate the president himself in covering up a break-in at the Watergate hotel headquarters of the Democratic National Committee during the election campaign in 1972.

The burglars were caught rifling through confidential papers and bugging the office of President Nixon's political opponents.

Evidence

The tapes will now be available for use as evidence in the trial of some of the president's closest aides, due to take place in September.

It is likely to take several weeks to produce transcripts of the tapes, so they will not be available in time to be used during the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee debate on impeachment, which began this evening.

However, the timing of the Supreme Court decision just hours before the debate began, as well as the fact that all eight judges voted unanimously, is likely to have a strong influence on the impeachment process.

If the committee decides to recommend impeaching the president, the matter goes to the full House for debate.

If the House agrees, President Nixon could face an impeachment trial before the Senate - the first such trial in over a century.


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President Nixon had defied an earlier court order to hand over the tapes





In Context
When the tapes were finally released, more than 18 minutes of a crucial meeting were found to be missing.
The official explanation was that the president's secretary had accidentally erased it by pressing the wrong foot-pedal while answering the phone.

On 27 July, the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend that the president be impeached and removed from office.

But before the House debate on his impeachment could begin, President Nixon resigned.

Richard Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, formally pardoned him just two months after coming into power, saving him from possible prosecution.

But the five Watergate burglars and two co-plotters, former White House staff member G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt, were jailed.

In total 40 government officials were either indicted or jailed.

Nixon eventually re-established himself as a respected statesman. He died in 1994.

In June 2005, former FBI deputy head Mark Felt was revealed to be the anonymous source "Deep Throat", who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate affair.


Stories From 24 Jul
1974: Nixon 'must hand over Watergate tapes'
2000: Loyalist killer Michael Stone freed from Maze
1987: Archer wins record damages
1959: Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words
1969: Briton freed from Soviet prison

1567 - Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned and forced to abdicate her throne to her 1 year old son, James VI of Scotland.

1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.

1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

1883 - Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English channel (1875) drowned whilst attempting to swim the rapids at Niagara Falls.

1911 - Machu Picchu was re-discovered by Hiram Bingham.

1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.