Ten years ago: Mohammed Sohel Rana, the fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building in Bangladesh that collapsed and killed more than 1,100 people, was captured by a commando force as he tried to flee into India. In 2015, urging Americans to “do some soul-searching,” President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration over recurring Black deaths at the hands of police, rioters who responded with senseless violence and a society that would only “feign concern” without addressing the root causes. (Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison Nancy Garrido was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison.) In 2011, convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a California girl, Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in 1991 at the age of 11 and rescued 18 years later. In 2001, a Russian rocket lifted off from Central Asia bearing the first space tourist, California businessman Dennis Tito, and two cosmonauts on a journey to the international space station. In 1990, the musical “A Chorus Line” closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway. In 1986, the Soviet Union informed the world of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. King Charles III crowned with regal pomp, cheers and shrugs

The Station by Jonathan D. Allen