A room at Crowne Plaza London Docklands. Originally branded as Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, the first United States Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel was opened in Rockville, Maryland, in 1983. Within a couple of years the brand was spun off as an independent chain (still owned at the time by Holiday Inn).
Americans have a better chance of being killed in Chicago than U.S. troops do in Afghanistan, figures from the nationâs third-largest city show. This year 228 Chicago residents have been killed, while the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan during the same period is 144, The Huffington Post reported.
10 years later, many see Iraq War as costly mistake. The U.S. suffered more than 4,480 deaths and 32,000 wounded during the Iraq War, which opened 10 years ago this week. Story Highlights. War opened with 'shock and awe' bombing of Baghdad.