Tuesday, April 24, 2007
David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist and tireless author of books on topics as varied as America’s military failings in Vietnam, the deaths of firefighters at the World Trade Center and the high-pressure world of professional basketball, was killed on Monday April 23,2007 in a car... Sign in to see full entry.
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet-era reformer and later a towering figure of his time as the first freely elected leader of Russia, presiding over the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Communist Party, died Monday April 23,2007 in Moscow,Russia. His death, at a hospital, came at 3:45 p.m., the Kremlin... Sign in to see full entry.