November 26, 1968
U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution against capital punishment following an official report which said, “Examination of the number of murders before and after the abolition of the death penalty does not support the theory that capital punishment has a unique deterrent effect.”
November 26, 1983
Despite frequent and consistent reports of Iraqi use of chemical weapons (mustard gas), a clear violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, Ronald Regan signed National Security Decision Directive 114, stating that the United States would do “whatever was necessary and legal” to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran and calling for heightened regional military cooperation to defend oil facilities.
