Federal agents raided the New York home and office of Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer they seized computers and cellphones. One year ago: In his first address to Congress, President Joe Biden called for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the pandemic and broadly extend the social safety net on a scale not seen in decades. Ten years ago: Syria derided United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as biased and called his comments “outrageous” after he blamed the regime for widespread cease-fire violations.įive years ago: President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for gun rights, telling attendees of a National Rifle Association convention in Atlanta that “the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.” Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. In 1967, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title after he refused to be inducted into the armed forces. Marines to the Dominican Republic to protect American citizens and interests in the face of a civil war. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied commander in Europe he was succeeded by Gen. In 1952, war with Japan officially ended as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before took effect. In 1947, a six-man expedition set out from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to the Polynesian Islands. In 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.