http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a MSN - AP World Copyright © 2010-2018 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:41:14 +0000 http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a/83f1885705e64ba08a4c921670354332 Highlights of this day in history: Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act; Anthrax tainted letters sent to NBC and the New York Post. (Sept. 18) 83f1885705e64ba08a4c921670354332 Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:02:36 +0000 RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:CLIENTS NOTE: VIDEO ONLY - SHOTLIST AND STORYLINE TO FOLLOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SOURCE - RESTRICTIONLocation - Date1. See ScriptSTORYLINE: September 18th, 1850: (AP Photos)In Washington, America's divide between North and South over slavery deepens.Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slaveowners to reclaim slaves who escaped to other states.The law helps fuel the outbreak of the Civil War a decade later.2001:Letters postmarked Trenton, New Jersey that later test positive for anthrax are sent to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw and the New York Post.The letters are part of the anthrax scare that kills five people and infects more than a dozen others, just weeks after the September 11th  terror attacks.1975:(AP Photos / AP Archive Video)  In San Francisco, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured, more than a year-and-a-half after her kidnapping.Hearst says her kidnappers --- known as the Symbionese Liberation Army --- brainwashed her into joining them in at least two robberies.She spends prison time for bank robbery, but her sentence is later commuted.1961:(AP Photos)In Africa, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (HAM-mar-shold) is killed when his plane crashes in what's now Zambia.Hammarskjold --- who was on a peace mission in what's now the Democratic Republic of Congo --- was 56 years old.1905:(AP Photos)Actress Greta Garbo --- the enigmatic movie star of the 1920s and 1930s --- is born in Stockholm, Sweden. And, 1970: (AP Photos)(NAT of 'Purple Haze')In London, guitarist Jimi Hendrix --- a music icon of the Sixties counterculture --- dies of a drug overdose. He was 27 years old.Today in History, September 18th --- ___ ___, The Associated Press. ===========================================================Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Highlights of this day in history: Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act; Anthrax tainted letters sent to NBC and the New York Post. (Sept. 18) Today in History for September 18th