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In 1997, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. In 1995, by three votes, the Senate killed a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against Old Glory. (Helmsley served 18 months behind bars, plus a month at a halfway house and two months of house arrest.) In 1989, in New York, hotel queen Leona Helmsley, 69, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $7.1 million for tax evasion. In 1985, 248 American soldiers and eight crew members were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.
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In 1977, the dance movie "Saturday Night Fever," starring John Travolta, premiered in New York. In 1963, Kenya became independent of Britain. to be the site of the U.N.'s headquarters. In 1946, a United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska. In 1917, during World War I, a train carrying some 1,000 French troops from the Italian front derailed while descending a steep hill in Modane (moh-DAN') at least half of the soldiers were killed in France's greatest rail disaster. In 1915, singer-actor Frank Sinatra was born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1913, authorities in Florence, Italy, announced that the "Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, had been recovered. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. In 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida's contested election. Bush became president-elect as a divided U.S.