On This Day: U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima
On Feb. 19, 1945, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima, opening one of the major battles in the Pacific during World War II.
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The Iwo Jima Memorial is covered by snow in Arlington, Va., on January 28, 2007. On February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima, opening one of the major battles in the Pacific during World War II. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
A Japanese-American woman visits the National Japanese American Memorial during the dedication November 9, 2000, in Washington, D.C. The memorial is dedicated to the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were interned in camps and the 800 who died fighting during World War II. President Roosevelt signed an executive order starting the relocations on February 19, 1942. File Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI | License Photo
George Ryan Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of George Ryan, the former governor of Illinois who served time in prison after being convicted on racketeering, conspiracy and fraud charges.
Personal
Birth place: Maquoketa, Iowa
Father: Thomas Ryan, pharmacist
Children: Nancy; Lynda; triplets Julie, Joanne, Jeanette; and George Jr.
Education: Ferris State College, B.S., 1961
Military service: Army, 1954-1956
Worked as a pharmacist in his family’s business.
“Our capital punishment system is haunted by the demon of error error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die,” Ryan said in a 2003 speech announcing blanket commutations.
George Ryan Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of George Ryan, the former governor of Illinois who served time in prison after being convicted on racketeering, conspiracy and fraud charges.
Personal
Birth place: Maquoketa, Iowa
Father: Thomas Ryan, pharmacist
Children: Nancy; Lynda; triplets Julie, Joanne, Jeanette; and George Jr.
Education: Ferris State College, B.S., 1961
Military service: Army, 1954-1956
Worked as a pharmacist in his family’s business.
“Our capital punishment system is haunted by the demon of error error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die,” Ryan said in a 2003 speech announcing blanket commutations.
Teamsters union boss James R. Hoffa vanished in 1975 and his death has never been solved
He disappeared after arranging a meeting with the mafia in Detroit
Now, Fox Nation says it may have found where he was secretly buried
It is a landfill site in New Jersey that was formerly owned by mobsters
The son of one of those mobsters claims Hoffa was stuffed in a steel barrel and put in the ground, beneath other barrels
Fox Nation brought in radar excavation teams to survey the site
They detected curved metal shapes beneath the ground that could be the barrels
Under the new Joe Biden administration in the United States, significant changes in foreign policy are already taking place. The 15 executive orders Biden signed during his first day in office make this very clear. One of his next foreign policy challenges, and opportunities, will be Cuba.
Instead, Trump introduced measures that reduced remittance money from exiles, prohibited cruise ship traffic, stopped flights from the U.S. to most Cuban cities, encouraged legislation against the Cuban state, outlawed the possibility of U.S. investment on the island, fined companies that assisted trade with Cuba, and made cultural and academic exchanges almost impossible.