<div dir="ltr"><div class="" style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;clear:both">On this day in the year <b>1856</b>, members of the secretive, nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic <b>Know-Nothing Party</b> hold their first ever convention in Philadelphia. Little did they know that the Lord would fail to provide them with their perfect presidential candidate until one-hundred-and-fifty-six years after their short-lived party's demise.</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1861</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, in Montgomery, Alabama, </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Jefferson Davis</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1927</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, the United States officially opens diplomatic relations with the post-revolutionary British Loyalist refugee nation of </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Canada</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">. "No hard feelings, eh?"</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1930</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, while studying photographs taken in January, </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Clyde Tombaugh</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> discovers </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Pluto</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1930</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Elm Farm Ollie</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1943</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, Nazi propaganda minister </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Joseph Goebbels</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> delivers his Sportpalast - or </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(116,33,174)">Total War</a></b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> - speech.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1954</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, the first </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Church of Scientology</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> is established in Los Angeles, California.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1968</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">David Gilmour</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> joins </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Pink Floyd</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">. If you're wondering why this news merits a mention in the Daily Dirt, go listen to </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Meddle</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Wish you were Here</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, or </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Animals</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">. If you're still left wondering after that, then there's nothing yer old pal Jerky can do for you.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1970</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, an ever-humble President </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Richard Nixon</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> launches a campaign to promote his "Nixon Doctrine." Meanwhile, in Chicago, the so-called </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Chicago Seven</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1972</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, the California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment... including </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Charles Manson</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> and others.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1978</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, the first ever </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Iron Man Triathlon</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> - consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike race and a complete marathon - is held in beautiful Kona, Hawaii.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1983</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, 13 people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1995</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, surgically-enhanced </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Baywatch</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> starlet </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Pamela Anderson</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> marries millionaire </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Motley Crue</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> stickman </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Tommy Lee</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">. They squirt out a brat, accidentally star in the most popular porno movie of all time, have drug and violence problems, and eventually get a divorce. Then a neighbor's kid drowns at the bottom of a pool during their son's birthday party. It's like </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Dynasty</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, only with dumb white trash instead of the Upper Crust.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">2001</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, FBI agent </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Robert Hanssen</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.</span><br></div>