![]() The Oakland Raiders broke ground on a 65,000-seat domed stadium in Las Vegas. (Moore went on to lose a special election to Democrat Doug Jones.) A North Korean soldier was shot several times by his comrades as he fled over the border to the South he underwent surgery and recovered at a South Korean hospital. In 2017, a second woman accused Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her as a teenager in the late 1970s Moore described the charge as “absolutely false” and a “political maneuver.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Moore should drop out of the race. In 2015, Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris on the national stadium, restaurants and streets, and a crowded concert hall, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II. Christie’s auctioned off the Archduke Joseph Diamond in Geneva for nearly $21.5 million, a world auction record price per carat for a colorless diamond. In 2012, President Barack Obama put a hold on the nomination of Afghan war chief General John Allen to become the next commander of US European Command as well as the NATO supreme allied commander in Europe amid questions over documents and emails involving Allen and Tampa socialite Jill Kelley (a Pentagon investigation cleared Allen of professional misconduct). In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city. ![]() In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In 1979, former California Governor Ronald Reagan announced in New York his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter. In 1971, the US space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars. In 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
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