February 21, 2017

February 21st in History Part VII


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On February 21st in 2006 - The US Supreme Court ruled that federal narcotics do not trump the religious expression rights of a Brazilian-based sect that uses a hallucinogenic tea in a sacrament. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, with some 130 members in the US, had filed suit after federal authorities intercepted a shipment of hoasca, whose ingredients included a hallucinogenic plant, and threatened prosecution.

On February 21st in 2006 - US federal courts in Ohio charged 3 men, originally from Jordan and Lebanon, with conspiring to kill US forces in Iraq.

On February 21st in 2007 - The government reported that US consumer prices jumped in January, a week after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke warned that inflation remains the central bank's top concern.

On February 21st in 2008 - President George W. Bush promised US support for Liberia in its recovery from a crippling civil war as he visited the close U.S. ally on the last stop of a five-nation tour of Africa

On February 21st in 2008 - It was reported that the US Defense Dept. had disbursed $80 million monthly, or some $1 billion a year, for the last 6 years to Pakistan to support troops in the tribal area along the Afghan border

On February 21st in 2009 - President Barack Obama ordered the US Treasury to implement tax cuts for 95 percent of Americans, fulfilling a campaign pledge he hopes will help jolt the economy out of recession

On February 21st in 2009 - The US postal service released a set of six 42-cent stamps honoring a dozen early civil rights activists.

On February 21st in 2012 - The Pakistani navy took delivery of two state-of-the-art, US-made surveillance aircraft nine months after Islamist militants destroyed two similar planes.

On February 21st in 2012 - Yemenis voted to instate their US-backed vice president as the new head of state, tasked with steering the country out of a crisis created by an anti-government uprising that has raged for a year. Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi was the only candidate.

On February 21st in 2014 US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama

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