Ten years ago: Insurgents shot down a U.S. RELATED: 6 books examining Chicago and its history Jon Stewart bade an emotional goodbye after 16 years as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” In 2015, “Hamilton,” the hip-hop flavored biography about Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first treasury secretary, opened on Broadway.
(Hasan, who admitted carrying out the attack, was convicted and sentenced to death.) Nidal Malik Hasan went on trial at Fort Hood, Texas, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 attack. John Hughes, 59, Hollywood’s youth movie director of the 1980s and ‘90s, died in New York City. In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31. In 2005, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier-son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, began a weeks-long protest outside President George W.
