{UAH} Way Back When: Today In History

Way Back When: Today In History

• Way Back When: Today In History

  

  Archbishop John Sentamu, the new archbishop of York, plays the bongos at his enthronement service in York, England. Associated Press file

Posted: Saturday, November 30, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 7:40 am, Sat Nov 30, 2013.

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1974 - Ex-emperor gives away fortune

Deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie approved the transfer of his personal fortune -— believed to be about $15 billion —- to help drought victims in Ethiopia. A government spokesman said the 82-year-old former monarch had authorized the transfer "of his own free will." The Provisional Military Administrative Council denied reports that it had threatened to kill Selassie if he refused. The council said Selassie grew rich during his 46-year reign while Ethiopians starved.

1991 - Dust storm crashes kill 17

A blinding dust storm that reduced visibility to zero triggered a chain-reaction pileup by 93 cars and 11 big rigs on Interstate 5 that killed 17 people and injured 150. The crashes began about 2:30 p.m. when the wind suddenly picked up near the farm town Coalinga, causing dust from freshly plowed fields that were dry because of five years of drought to become airborne. Wreckage of vehicles was strewn over a one-mile stretch of the highway that links Los Angeles and San Francisco.

2005 - Black archbishop installed

John Sentamu, 56, who moved to London in 1974 after clashing with dictator Idi Amin in his native Uganda, was installed as the 97th archbishop of York, making him the first black archbishop of the Church of England. The installation ceremony featured Sentamu playing bongos with dancers in leopard skin-print outfits during a dance of rejoicing. Sentamu recalled in a sermon that a predecessor in the 1960s spoke of longing for the church's second-highest position to be filled by a black and told the cheering crowd: "Well, here I am!"

2007 - Clinton office seized

A man later identified as Leelande Eisenberg, who was known to be mentally unstable, walked into Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, N.H., with what looked like a bomb taped to his chest. Eisenberg, 47, demanded to speak with the candidate for president and held several people in the office hostage for five hours before surrendering to a SWAT team. The package appeared to have been made with road flares.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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