U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he saw and heard evidence the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province. Gates on Friday toured U.S. bases in the thick...
In 1189, England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Half Moon entered present-day New York Harbor and began sailing up the river that now bears his name. (They reached present-day Albany before turning back.)
In 1658, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died in London.
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