National News

The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in Clydebank, Scotland.

The administration of President George W. Bush laid out a radical bailout plan calling for a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions.

Several commercial vessels were targeted in potential cyberattacks in late August.

Tony and Grammy winner Duncan Sheik has died at 56. The “Barely Breathing” singer-songwriter composed the music for “Spring Awakening.”

Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners. The act was repealed in 1864 during the American Civil War.

A Los Angeles jury convicted New York real estate heir Robert Durst of killing his best friend 20 years earlier.

An NBC/Telemundo news helicopter covering a bus collision crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood and burst into flames, killing three people.

The Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new opera house at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”

A commuter train headed for New York City plunged into Newark Bay after missing a stop signal and sliding off the open Newark Bay lift bridge, killing 48 people.

On the 34th day of a strike by players, Acting Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced the 1994 season was over.