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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:42 am
1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:43 am
1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:43 am
1922 – The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:43 am
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:44 am
1929 – About 16 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange on "Black Tuesday", a record that stood for almost 40 years, making a total of $30 billion that had been lost over two days.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:45 am
1941 – Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:45 am
1942 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:46 am
1944 – The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:47 am
1945 – Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:47 am
1948 – Safsaf massacre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:47 am
1953 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:48 am
1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:48 am
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:48 am
1956 – Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:49 am
1957 – Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:49 am
1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:52 am
1961 – Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:52 am
1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:52 am
1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:56 am
1967 – London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:57 am
1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:58 am
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:08 am
1971 – In Macon, Georgia, Guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a Motorcycle Accident.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:09 am
1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:09 am
1980 – Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:09 am
1983 – Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:09 am
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:10 am
1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opened the last segment of the M25 motorway, an orbital road encircling London that is one of the world's longest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:12 am
1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opened the last segment of the M25 motorway, an orbital road encircling London that is one of the world's longest.
http://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/media/musuems-images/margaret-thatcher-at-m25-opening.-1986/145060-1-eng-GB/Margaret-Thatcher-at-M25-Opening.-19861_museumimage.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:12 am
1991 – Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra (pictured).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:13 am
1991 – Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra (pictured).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/951_Gaspra.jpg/100px-951_Gaspra.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:13 am
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:14 am
1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:14 am
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:14 am
1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:14 am
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:14 am
1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:15 am
1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
Looks like October 29th 1998 was a busy day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:16 am
1998 – Four teenagers who were denied entry to a discothèque in Gothenburg, Sweden, set it on fire, killing 63 patrons and injuring over 200 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:16 am
1999 – About 15,000 people died when a supercyclone hit the Indian state of Orissa near the city of Bhubaneswar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:17 am
2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:17 am
2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:17 am
2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution which, however, failed to be ratified by all signatory countries and therefore never entered into force.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:17 am
2005 – 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:18 am
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 4:18 am
2008 – The Philadelphia Phillies claim the world series title over the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3. This was the first major sports title in Philadelphia for 25 years and was 28 years since the Phillies last World Series title in 1980.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 5:14 am
1869 - Birth of E. O. Sellers, American Baptist musician. At various times the song evangelist for R.A. Torrey, Gipsy Smith, A.C. Dixon and J. Wilbur Chapman, Sellers is remembered today for his two original hymns: "Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart" and "Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 5:14 am
1870 - Birth of Juji Nakada, Japanese Christian evangelist. In 1901 he influenced Charles and Lettie Cowman (authors of "Streams in the Desert") to come to Japan, where in 1910 they incorporated the Oriental Missions Society.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 5:15 am
1889 - New York City missions pioneer Albert B. Simpson, 46, incorporated the International Missionary Alliance. Combined in 1897 with a group formerly also organized by Simpson, it became the Christian and Missionary Alliance, one of the most missions-minded denominations in modern American Protestantism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 5:15 am
1919 - The Apostolic Christian Association was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. It later merged with what is now the International Pentecostal Church of Christ, headquartered in London, Ohio.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 5:15 am
1955 - American missionary Jim Elliot, 28, wrote in his journal: 'First time I ever saw an Auca--1500' is a long ways if you're looking out of an airplane.' Ten weeks later, on Jan 8, 1956, Jim and four other missionaries would be speared to death by these same Indians they had come to Ecuador in hopes of evangelizing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 9:41 am
1945 - First ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 9:42 am
1958 - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 9:43 am
1991 - Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 9:47 am
1986 - West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 9:48 am
1982 - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 9:49 am
1941 - Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 10/29/11 at 8:06 pm
1982 - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
one of my favorites.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:26 am
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:26 am
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:27 am
1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forced Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:27 am
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:27 am
1340 – Battle of Rio Salado.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:27 am
1470 – Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:28 am
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:28 am
1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:28 am
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:28 am
1863 – Seventeen-year-old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens to become George I (pictured), King of Greece.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:29 am
1863 – Seventeen-year-old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens to become George I (pictured), King of Greece.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/King_George_of_Hellenes.jpg/74px-King_George_of_Hellenes.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:29 am
1864 – Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:30 am
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:30 am
1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:30 am
1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:30 am
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:31 am
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:31 am
1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:32 am
1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2007-1022-506%2C_Italien%2C_deutsche_Frontk%C3%A4mpfer_in_Rom_crop.jpg/250px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2007-1022-506%2C_Italien%2C_deutsche_Frontk%C3%A4mpfer_in_Rom_crop.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:32 am
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:32 am
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:32 am
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:33 am
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:33 am
1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:34 am
1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:34 am
1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:34 am
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:35 am
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:35 am
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:36 am
1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:36 am
1960 – Surgeon and scientist Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:37 am
1961 – The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean as a test.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:38 am
1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:40 am
1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:40 am
1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:40 am
1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:41 am
1973 – The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:41 am
1973 – The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bosphorus_Bridge_Night.jpg/250px-Bosphorus_Bridge_Night.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:41 am
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:42 am
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:42 am
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:42 am
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:43 am
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:43 am
1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:44 am
1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:44 am
1993 – Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:45 am
1995 – Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:46 am
2000 – The last Multics machine is shut down.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:46 am
2000 – The last Multics machine is shut down.
Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) was an influential early time-sharing operating system. The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The last known running Multics installation was shut down on October 30, 2000 at the Canadian Department of National Defence in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:46 am
2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/11 at 2:20 am
1517 – According to traditional accounts, Martin Luther first posted his Ninety-Five Theses onto the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, present-day Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/11 at 2:21 am
1864 – Nevada was admitted as the 36th U.S. state, in part to help ensure Abraham Lincoln's re-election as President of the United States eight days later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/11 at 2:21 am
1941 – More than 101 crew members of the USS Reuben James (pictured) perished when their vessel became the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action during World War II after it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-552.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/11 at 2:22 am
1941 – More than 101 crew members of the USS Reuben James (pictured) perished when their vessel became the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action during World War II after it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-552.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Dd245reubenjames.jpg/100px-Dd245reubenjames.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/11 at 2:22 am
1973 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after a hijacked helicopter landed in the prison's exercise yard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/11 at 2:22 am
1999 – All 217 people on board EgyptAir Flight 990 were killed when the aircraft suddenly plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:17 am
996 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto III issued a document containing the earliest known use of "Osterrîchi", the Old High German name of Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:18 am
1611 – The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitheall in London, exactly seven years to the day after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello was held in the same building.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:18 am
1755 – A 9.0 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami devestated Lisbon, an event which led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:18 am
1928 – Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pictured) introduced the current 29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:18 am
1928 – Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pictured) introduced the current 29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/MustafaKemalAtaturk.jpg/80px-MustafaKemalAtaturk.jpg
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1998 – The European Court of Human Rights was instituted as a permanent court with full-time judges to monitor compliance by the signatory parties of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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365 – The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
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1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
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1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists."
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1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
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1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
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1520 – The Strait of Magellan is discovered, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during the first global circumnavigation voyage.
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1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitheall Palace in London.
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1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
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1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
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1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to liberate England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
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1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
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1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
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1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
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1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
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1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
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1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
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1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
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1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
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1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
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1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
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1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
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1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
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1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
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1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
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1897 – The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
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1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
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1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
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1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
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1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
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1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
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1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
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1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
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1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
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1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
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1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
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1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
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1942 – Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
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1943 – World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
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1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
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1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
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1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
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1945 – Australia joins the United Nations.
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1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68–66.
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1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
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1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
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1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
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1950 – Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
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1951 – Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
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1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" , in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
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1953 – Andhra Pradesh attained statheood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
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1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
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1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
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1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
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1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district was joined to Tamilnadu state from Kerala.
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1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
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1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
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1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
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1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
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1961 – 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
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1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
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1966 – The New Orleans Saints football team is founded.
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1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
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1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
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1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
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1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
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1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
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1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
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1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
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2000 – Serbia joins the United Nations.
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1889 – The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
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1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world's first regular, public all-electronic high-definition television service.
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1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
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1960 – The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales acquitted publisher Penguin Books of obscenity in the publishing of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (pictured).
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1960 – The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales acquitted publisher Penguin Books of obscenity in the publishing of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (pictured).
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1963 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Duong Van Minh.
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1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed.
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1570 – A tsunami in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
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1675 – King Philip's War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
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1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
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1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
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1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
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1795 – The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
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1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
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1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
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1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882.
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1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
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1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
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1899 – The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
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1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
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1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
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1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
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1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
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1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
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1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
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1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
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1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
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1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
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1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
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1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
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1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
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1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
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1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
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1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
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1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
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1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
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1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
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1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
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1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
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2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31.
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1164 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, 45, began a six_year self_imposed exile in France. Once a close friend of England's Henry II, Thomas had more recently become an outspoken opponent of the king's royal policies.
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1600 Staunch Anglican theologian Richard Hooker died at 46. His last words were: 'God hath my daily petitions, for I am at peace with all men, and He is at peace with me... and this witness makes the thoughts of death joyful.'
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1789 During the chaos of the French Revolution, the property of the Church in France was taken over by the state.
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1830 A general convention of Methodist reformers opposed to the episcopal (i.e., bishop_led) form of church government met in Baltimore, MD, to establish the Protestant Methodist Church.
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1917 British foreign secretary Arthur J. Balfour, 69, issued the Balfour Declaration, calling for "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." The document's recognition of a Jewish nationalism planted the seed which in 1948 led to an establishment of the modern state of Israel.
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644 – Umar, the Muslim Caliph who succeeded Muhammad, was fatally stabbed by Pirouz Nahavandi, a Persian slave.
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1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
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1935 – Almost 98% of the reported votes in a Greek plebiscite supported the restoration of George II (pictured) as King of the Hellenes.
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1935 – Almost 98% of the reported votes in a Greek plebiscite supported the restoration of George II (pictured) as King of the Hellenes.
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1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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2007 – Pakistani President and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency across Pakistan, suspending the Pakistani Constitution.
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1913 – The United States introduces an income tax.
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1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
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361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
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1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
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1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
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1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
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1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.