Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., as his running mate.

Mondale lost in November to incumbent Ronald Reagan. In 1990, Boris Yeltsin quit the Soviet Communist Party, saying he wanted to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian republic.

Brown complained that I “even went so far as to minimize America’s security obligations under the Budapest Memorandum of which it was a signatory.” He believed that “one could argue that if any of the ...

1712: Death of former Lord Protector Richard Cromwell aged 85. 1730: Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII. On the same ...