On this date in history:
In 1845, the Congress of the Republic of Texas agreed to annexation by the United States.
In 1865, the last Confederate holdouts formally surrendered in the Oklahoma Territory.
In 1894, the International Olympic Committee was founded in Paris.
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal inspects a guard of honor during ceremony at an aviation base for Afghan National Army in Herat, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2010. On June 23, 2010, McChrystal resigned as commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan after he and senior aides made disparaging remarks in a magazine interview about administration officials. File Photo by Hossein Fatemi/UPI
In 1933, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, in an interview with Roy Howard of United Press, stressed the importance of friendship with the United States.
In 1947, the U.S. Congress enacted the Taft-Hartley labor act over the veto of President Harry Truman. The law limits the power of labor unions.
John Bobbitt made headlines when his wife, Lorena Bobbitt, cut off his penis while he slept. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
In 1956, Gamel Abdel Nasser was elected first president of the Republic of Egypt.
In 1985, Air India Flight 182, flying from Montreal to London, was brought down by a terrorist bomb off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people aboard.
Nik Wallenda speaks at a news conference following his two successful, world-record setting high wire walks on November 2, 2014, in Chicago. On this day in 2013, Wallnda walked on a 2-inch thick cable across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon in under 23 minutes. File Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI
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In 1991, the Group of Seven industrialized democracies agreed to offer the Soviet Union associate membership in the International Monetary Fund.
For the first time in West Africa, a case of Ebola was confirmed on March 21, 2014, three weeks after the first alert of a possible viral hemorrhagic fever emerged from Guinea’s Forest region. On this day in 2014, the World Health Organization said 350 Ebola virus deaths had been reported in West Africa since March. File Photo by ECHO/UPI
In 1993, John Bobbitt made headlines when his wife, Lorena Bobbitt, cut off his penis while he slept. She testified she did so because he sexually and emotionally abused her during four-year marriage. A jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity.
In 2010, U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal resigned as commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan after he and senior aides made disparaging remarks in a magazine interview about administration officials. President Barack Obama named Gen. David Petraeus as McChrystal’s replacement.
In 2013, daredevil Nik Wallenda walked on a 2-inch thick cable across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon in Arizona — 1,500 feet above the gorge — in just under 23 minutes.
In 2014, the World Health Organization said 350 Ebola virus deaths had been reported since March in West Africa. A doctor called it an epidemic “out of control.”
In 2018, 12 members of a teenage soccer team and their coach became lost and trapped inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand. They were extricated 18 days later in a rescue effort that left one former Thai Navy SEAL dead.
In 2024, extremists attacked two Orthodox churches and a synagogue in Russia’s majority Muslim Dagestan region, killing 22 victims. The five attackers, inspired by the Islamic State, were also killed.