Snippets of History

In 1533, Atahualpa, last of the Inca rulers, was strangled under orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The Inca Empire died with him. In 1973, Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order. In 1991, in Kiev, the republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to remain in the Soviet Union and negotiate a loose federation. ----------------------------------------------------------- In 1992, an FBI report said the number of violent crimes increased 5 percent in 1991; people under 25 accounted for nearly half of those arrested. In 1994, Israel and the PLO signed a new agreement to shift West Bank administrative functions to the Palestinian National Authority. In 1995, Eduard Shevardnadze, the head of state in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, was slightly injured when a bomb exploded near his motorcade in Tbilisi, the capital. In 1996, Clinton political adviser Dick Morris resigned after the tabloids reported he had been seeing a prostitute and letting her listen in on phone conversations with the president. +------------------ Birthdays ------------------+ English philosopher John Locke in 1632 Author and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1809 Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, in 1811 Automotive inventor Charles Kettering in 1876 Actor Barry Sullivan in 1912 Actress Ingrid Bergman in 1915 Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in 1920 British filmmaker Sir Richard Attenborough in 1923 (age 78) Jazz and pop singer Dinah Washington in 1924 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in 1936 (age 65) Actor Elliott Gould in 1938 (age 63) Filmmaker William Friedkin in 1939 (age 62) TV personality Robin Leach ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous") in 1941 (age 60) Pop singer Michael Jackson in 1958 (age 43) Actress Rebecca De Mornay ("Risky Business") in 1962 (age 38. To SUBSCRIBE visit: http://af3.shagmail.com/sub/sub-time.html