The 3 a.m. phone call
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Much has been made of the TV ad from Hillary Clinton about those 3 a.m. phone calls at the White House, signaling the start of something big. So how important is 3 a.m. in the annals of American history?
Feel free to submit your own but here are a few of the major U.S. news stories of the last several decades and the time a phone call might've been made to the presidential bedroom:
6/5/67 - The six-day war begins - 7:15 p.m.
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4/11/70 - "Houston, we have a problem." - 2:13 p.m.
8/27/78 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan - 9:15 a.m.
11/4/79 - Iran militants takeover the U.S. embassy in Tehran. - 12 a.m.
4/18/82 - U.S. Marine compound in Beirut bombed. - 10:20 p.m.
12/20/89 - U.S. invades Panama - 1 a.m.
4/19/95 - Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City bombed - 10:01 a.m.
8/7/98 - U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed. - 3:45 a.m.
10/12/2000 -- Attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen - 2:22 a.m.
9/11/2001 - Attack on World Trade Center - 8:46 a.m.
3/20/03 - War in Iraq begins. - 9:45 p.m.
8/29/2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. - 5:10 a.m.
