Christopher Tate

Gay rights rally in Poland sparks violence

June 11, 2005 03:27:00 pm

Violence broke out on the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw Saturday when right-wing activists confronted over 2,000 homosexuals marching for gay rights in the predominantly Catholic country. Three people were injured and ten were...

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GOP Senator calls for Guantanamo closure

Christopher Tate

June 11, 2005 02:59:00 pm

Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

ABC News correspondent shot and killed by Nicaraguan security forces

An ABC News correspondent, Bill Stewart, was shot and killed on June 20, 1979, by a member of the Nicaraguan National Guard while on assignment in the civil-war-torn Central American country. Video of the execution-style shooting sparked outrage in the US and drastically reduced the country's support for Nicaragua's right-wing Somoza regime. Read a retrospective on the incident from ABC, and read a statement from then-President Jimmy Carter on Stewart's murder.

World Refugee Day

On June 20, 2001, the first World Refugee Day was celebrated.

Lizzie Borden acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother

On June 20, 1893, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden was found not guilty of the brutal axe murders of her stepmother and father. Learn more about Lizzie Borden and the trial that set her free.