2003 Yoo military interrogation memo [US DOJ] News
2003 Yoo military interrogation memo [US DOJ]

Re; Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States, Memorandum for William Haynes II, US Department of Justice, March 14, 2003 [memo by deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo finding that military interrogators could employ a wide range of interrogation methods when questioning foreign detainees outside the United States without fear of criminal liability or constitutional sanction; made public by the Department of Justice, April 1, 2008]. Read the full text of the memo [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Treaty relinquishing Panama Canal signed

On September 7, 1977, US President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaty relinquishing American control over the canal effective in the year 2000.

Boxer Protocol signed, ending Boxer Rebellion in China

On September 7, 1901, the Boxer Protocol was signed between the Qing Dynasty of China on one side and 8 Western Powers and Japan on the other. The treaty ended the Boxer Rebellion in China. Among other clauses, it levied an indemnity on China and allowed foreign troops to be stationed in Peking.