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SEC v. Bank of America settlement rejection [US DC]

September 14, 2009 10:25:00 PM

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Bank of America Corporation, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, September 14, 2009 [rejecting a $33 million settlement deal between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Bank of America and...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.