35 Years Later: Europe’s 9/11

Every date on the calendar has a historic moment. The Titanic struck an iceberg late on the night of April 14, 1912, and sunk early the next morning. On December 14, the year before, Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole. Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, and we heard the famous phrase uttered by Neil Armstrong, “That’s one small step…