Ten years ago: President Barack Obama, in an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, said he didn’t want war but that he would not hesitate to attack Iran if that were the only option left to stop it from getting a nuclear weapon. Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia’s presidential election to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power. Nearly 300 people in the Republic of Congo were killed after a series of blasts at an arms depot in the capital Brazzaville.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of tapping his telephones during the 2016 election; an Obama spokesman declared that the assertion was “simply false.” Tommy Page, a former pop star whose song “I’ll Be Your Everything” went to No. 1 in 1990 and who later became a record company executive, died in New York at age 46.
One year ago: Breaking from other Southern GOP governors, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey extended her state’s mask order for another month but said the requirement would end for good in April. Demonstrators in Myanmar protesting the previous month’s military coup returned to the streets, undaunted by the killing of at least 38 people a day earlier by security forces.
