Who warned: "there's a cancer growing on the presidency"?

Questions

Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km?

UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration?

Fort Sumter, SC, shelled by Confederate troops under General Beauregard. The American Civil War begins.?

Tiny Tim, singer, born.?

Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, 231 mph.?