The hype for the new season will reach a new pitch during the 2015 NFL Draft. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have the first overall pick in this yearâs draft, which will run April 30 to May 2. The Patriots, as the defending champions, will pick last.
The CIA has disclosed that four of its officers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past eight years. One of them was Johnny Mike Spann, a paramilitary officer who was killed during a riot at the Qala-i-Jangi compound near Mazar-i-Sharif in November 2001.
Soviet tanks roll into Afghanistan. On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each.