Todayâs Highlight in History:
On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.
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In 1517, Londoners began attacking foreign residents in rioting that carried over into the next day; no deaths were reported from what came to be known as âEvil May Day,â but about a dozen rioters, maybe more, ended up being executed.
In 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York as the first president of the United States.
In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.
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The United Nations plans to celebrate this September the twentieth anniversary of its so-called âWorld Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intoleranceâ held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. The Durban Declaration and Program of Action served as the conferenceâs agreed-upon output. The 2001 conference, and the two that followed in 2009 and 2011, turned out to be nothing more than global platforms for the worldâs most vicious anti-Semites, such as Iranâs former President Ahmadinejad, to engage in blood libel against the Jewish State of Israel. Charges of racism and apartheid were leveled at Israel by the Palestinians and their enablers who themselves are guilty of racism and ethnic cleansing.