On this day in ...... 1988 (10 years ago today), Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (left), then U.N. Secretary-General, said he planned the next day to announce a truce in the 8-year-old war between Iran and Iraq, after Iran announced on this day its acceptance of "Iraq's compromise proposal for a cease-fire." It's estimated that "as many as 750,000 Iranian soldiers and perhaps a third that number of Iraqi troops died on the battlefield."
... 1935, in Kansas City, Missouri, Jane Dee Hull (below right) was born. She "moved to Arizona in 1962 after hearing a Barry Goldwater speech," was elected a state legislator in 1978 and then Arizona's Secretary of
State. From the latter post she assumed the post of Governor of Arizona -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor swore in the Republican Hull on September 8, 1997 -- when the incumbent was forced to resign after a federal fraud conviction. Hull, who served until 2003, was the 2d of 3 women to govern Arizona. The other 2, both Democrats, are Rose Mofford (who served 1987-1991) and Hull's successor, current Governor Janet Napolitano.
