![]() ![]() Ten years ago: President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico City on his first trip to Latin America since winning re-election. (The change came as girls were about to enter the ranks.) In 2018, the Boy Scouts of America announced that the group’s flagship program would undergo a name change after being known simply as the Boy Scouts for 108 years, the program would now be called Scouts BSA. In 2011, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who’d been killed hours earlier in a raid by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, was buried at sea. In 2010, record rains and flash floods in Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee caused more than 30 deaths and submerged the Grand Ole Opry House stage. (A judge later threw out the plea agreement England was then convicted in a court-martial and received a three-year sentence, of which she served half.) Lynndie England, the young woman pictured in some of the most notorious Abu Ghraib photos, pleaded guilty at Fort Hood, Texas, to mistreating prisoners. ![]() In 1997, Tony Blair, whose new Labour Party crushed John Major’s long-reigning Conservatives in a national election, became at age 43 Britain’s youngest prime minister in 185 years. Exceptional rains in drought-struck northern Italy kill 8, cancel Formula One Grand Prix ![]()
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