... profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. In 1987, Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, died in office at age 65. In 1999, 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen ...

... pornography filters. Democrat Howard Dean formally announced his presidential campaign. Maynard Jackson Jr., the first black mayor of Atlanta, died in Washington, D.C., at age 65. One year ago: Searchers in Summit County, Ohio, found ...

... The Green Party of Arkansas has nominated Richard Carroll to run against Dobbins. Hampton, who said he was the first black mayor of Dermott, ran unsuccessfully in 2000 as an independent candidate against Democrat Randy Rankin for a House seat ...

... hastened Detroit's decline and mandatory school busing a decade later stoked unrest. Coleman A. Young, the city's first black mayor and a racially polarizing figure, said before his 1997 death, "No other city in America, no other city in the ...

... candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote. In 1983, Democrat W. Wilson Goode was elected the first black mayor of Philadelphia; Democrat Martha Layne Collins was elected the first female governor of Kentucky. In 1988, Vice ...

... Canaveral on its first test flight. In 1983, Chicagoans went to the polls to elect Harold Washington the city's first black mayor. In 1985, Sen. Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off ...

... secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate. In 1983, Harold Washington was sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago. In 1992, deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, Calif., acquitted four ...

... contentious council meeting on June 7. The council is divided 4-4 along racial lines, and Weaver became the city's first black mayor in March after a special judge declared him the winner of a disputed runoff election. At the June 6 meeting, the ...

... frequently. Glover is not the first black person to complain of taxi bias. In 1994, David Dinkins, the city's first black mayor, described watching a cab pass him by only to stop nearby to pick up a white passenger. "It happened to me before ...

... King Biscuit Blues Festival. The election of the first black mayor in West Helena also ended up in court. As did Miller, Helena's first black mayor, who was sued in federal court when fired the police ...