Today would have been the 95th birthday of Milton Friedman. It also marks the end of the British army's 38-year Operation Banner in Northern Ireland to quell sectarian violence.
Today in History (1946) - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. Thirty-one years later, President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka Tokyo Rose).
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