(The change came as girls were about to enter the ranks.) In 2018, the Boy Scouts of America announced that the group’s flagship program would undergo a name change after being known simply as the Boy Scouts for 108 years, the program would now be called Scouts BSA. In 2011, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who’d been killed hours earlier in a raid by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, was buried at sea. In 2010, record rains and flash floods in Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee caused more than 30 deaths and submerged the Grand Ole Opry House stage. (A judge later threw out the plea agreement England was then convicted in a court-martial and received a three-year sentence, of which she served half.) Lynndie England, the young woman pictured in some of the most notorious Abu Ghraib photos, pleaded guilty at Fort Hood, Texas, to mistreating prisoners. In 1997, Tony Blair, whose new Labour Party crushed John Major’s long-reigning Conservatives in a national election, became at age 43 Britain’s youngest prime minister in 185 years. Edgar Hoover died in Washington at age 77. In 1972, a fire at the Sunshine silver mine in Kellogg, Idaho, claimed the lives of 91 workers who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. In 1970, jockey Diane Crump became the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby she finished in 15th place aboard Fathom.
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