![]() ![]() In 2011, Raj Rajaratnam (rahj rah-juh-RUHT’-nuhm), the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the biggest insider-trading cases in U.S. In 2007, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting with human-rights activists in Moscow, told reporters the Russian government under Vladimir Putin had amassed so much central authority that the power-grab could undermine its commitment to democracy. Security Council approved a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. In 1999, in Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen’s slaying. In 1974, longtime television host Ed Sullivan died in New York City at age 73. In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later. In 1960, the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7, 10-9, with a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski. In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. ![]()
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