1917: Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto of a law that severely curtailing Asian immigration.

2001: Four followers of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

2003: Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.N. Security Council that Iraq had failed to disarm, was harboring terrorists and was hiding behind a "web of lies" as he sought U.S. support for military action against Iraq.

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