TIME
July 24, 1972 12:00 AM EDT
One of the sad ironies of justice is that noble legal principles sometimes derive from ignoble lives. So it was with Andrew Mallory, a 19-year-old drifter from South Carolina, who was arrested in Washington in 1954 on a charge of choking and raping a 38-year-old woman while she was doing her laundry. The police interrogated him for seven hours and got him to confess. Read More...
Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the first National Assembly for Wales (now Senedd) in 1999
She then opened every session following an election in Wales, up to her death in 2022. She also opened the newly built Senedd building on St David’s Day (the first day of March) in 2006.
Wales has two Royal golf courses
Edward VII, a passionate golfer, granted Royal status to his two favourite golf courses in Wales: Royal St David’s (1908) and Royal Porthcawl (1909). Read More...
Revered Founding Father of the United States, its third president, and an author of the Declaration of Independence.
Before Fame He completed his collegiate studies at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg in two years and earned his law degree five years later.
Trivia He sold his collection of 6,000 books to Congress after the British burned down the Library of Congress in 1814. He soon found himself at a loss without his books and began buying more. Read More...