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1999 – The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties. 2019 – The World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan.[7] This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic …and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You get to share birthday cake with… 1869 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954) 1899 â€...

Lawrence Byrne, Former Lawyer for New York Police, Dies at 61 His younger brother, a police officer, was assassinated by a drug gang at 22, a key moment in the city’s crack epidemic of the 1980s. Lawrence M. Byrne in 2016, when the was the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for legal affairs. He served for four years in that post, managing roughly 100 lawyers who handled all legal issues involving the department and its 56,000 employees.Credit...Jake Naughton for The New York Times Dec. 12, 2020 Lawrence M. Byrne, who as the top lawyer for the New York City Police Department...