One year ago: A Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in eastern Ukraine, killing as many as 60 people. Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who had played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on “The Young and the Restless,” and the mother of actor Corbin Bernsen, died in Los Angeles at age 84. An apparent game-tying homer by Oakland’s Adam Rosales was ruled a double by umpires in the ninth inning, and the Cleveland Indians held on to beat the Athletics 4-3. George Karl was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year for leading the Denver Nuggets to a team-record 57-win regular season. Ten years ago: A jury in Phoenix convicted Jodi Arias of first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander (Arias was later sentenced to life in prison). In 2020, the unemployment level surged to 14.7%, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Great Depression the government reported that 20 million Americans had lost their jobs in April amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. In 2003, the Senate unanimously endorsed adding to NATO seven former communist nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. In 1993, the Muslim-led government of Bosnia-Herzegovina and rebel Bosnian Serbs signed an agreement for a nationwide cease-fire. In 1984, the Soviet Union announced it would boycott the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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