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In 2008, Shapiro married Mor Toledano, an Israeli medical doctor of Moroccan descent, [174] [175] and they lived in Los Angeles. [4] The couple has two daughters and two sons. [176] [177] They practice Orthodox Judaism. [178] In 2019, the FBI arrested a man from Washington for making death threats against Shapiro and his family. [179] [180]
Islam portal Politics portal. v. t. e. The 1977 Hanafi Siege was a terrorist attack, hostage-taking, and standoff in Washington, D.C., lasting from March 9 to March 11, 1977. Three buildings (the District Building, B'nai B'rith headquarters, and Islamic Center of Washington) were seized by twelve Hanafi Movement gunmen, who took 149 hostages. [ 1]
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were James Chaney from Meridian ...
One of Peterson’s staunchest supporters in the documentary is his sister-in-law Janey Peterson, who became a lawyer in part to fight for his freedom, She tells PEOPLE that Scott's affair and his ...
Thomas K. Delahanty (born c. 1935) is an American retired police officer who served in the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. He was one of the people wounded during the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan on Monday, March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C.
On March 30, 1981, then President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton. Hinckley believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had developed an erotomanic obsession after ...
Part of the broader riots that affected at least 110 U.S. cities, those in Washington, D.C.—along with those in Chicago and in Baltimore —were among those with the greatest numbers of participants. President Lyndon B. Johnson called in the National Guard to the city on April 5, 1968, to assist the police department in quelling the unrest.
During the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1 and November 9. The vast majority of them died of yellow fever, making the epidemic in the city of 50,000 people one of the most severe in United States history. By the end of September, 20,000 people had fled the ...