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ARA General Belgrano (C-4) was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy as USS Phoenix , she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold to Argentina .
The Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano was sunk on May 2, 1982, by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War.The sinking of the General Belgrano led to the death of 323 Argentine sailors, [1] [2] almost half of all Argentine casualties during the conflict, [3] [4] and sparked controversy, as the attack occurred outside the exclusion zone established by the ...
Clive Sheridan Ponting (13 April 1946 – 28 July 2020) [2] [3] [4] was a senior British civil servant and historian. In 1984, he leaked classified documents about the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano in the Falklands War in 1982, which showed that government statements about the sinking were untrue.
Legacy.com is a privately held company based in Chicago, Illinois, [1] with more than 1,500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Europe and Australia, [4] [8] [9] including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Manchester Evening News. [10]
Thomas J. White was born on March 10, 1920, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Joseph F. White and Dorothy Aylward White. [1] He attended Cambridge Latin School and graduated in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in Romance languages from Harvard College. [2] [3] He joined the U.S. Army a week later to become a paratrooper and an officer. [2]
On February 4, 2021, 23-year-old American woman Sandra Birchmore (May 1997 – February 1, 2021) [2] was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. Her death was initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia. Federal authorities later determined that her death was a homicide, with a local police officer alleged to have killed her. [3] [4]
Reflecting on Bellotti's legacy following his death, the current Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell wrote in The Boston Globe that: "His forward thinking and innovation positioned the attorney general’s office as a guardian of the rule of law and social justice. He wielded the law to protect fundamental rights and uphold public trust.
In 1903, the 21-year-old Glynn was elected to the Boston Common Council. In 1905 he defeated former state senator Thomas F. Curley a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives . Curley's defeat was a setback for the Boston Tammany Club, run by Thomas F. Curley and James Michael Curley , however Glynn joined the organization a few years ...