October 13: On This Progressive DayFour Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction (1977)
The U.S. Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1999)
President B. Hussein Obama thanks RINO U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe of the Senate Finance Committee, for approving the Obamacare bill to Cloward-Pivenize the health insurance industry; then holds a tête-à-tête with Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain; then hosts a "Fiesta Latina" event at the White House (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama hosts his fifth state dinner at the White House (2011)
d: Jozef Tiso (1887), Sidney Webb (1947), Lê Đức Thọ (1990), Gus Hall (2000)
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