May 1, 2011 will be noted in the history books as the date President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden was killed.

It is eight years to the day from another significant date in the U.S.' so-called war on terror.u00a0 It was on this date in 2003, that former President George W. Bush delivered a speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with a large banner announcing "Mission Accomplished" hung over the aircraft carrier.