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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:04 pm
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:05 pm
1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:05 pm
1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:05 pm
1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:05 pm
1867 – Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:06 pm
1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:06 pm
1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:06 pm
1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:06 pm
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:06 pm
1913 – The United States introduces an income tax.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:07 pm
1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:07 pm
1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:07 pm
1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:08 pm
1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:08 pm
1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:09 pm
1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:09 pm
1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:09 pm
1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:09 pm
1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:09 pm
1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:09 pm
1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:09 pm
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:10 pm
1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:10 pm
1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:11 pm
1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:12 pm
1982 – The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:12 pm
1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:12 pm
1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:13 pm
1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:13 pm
1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:13 pm
1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:25 pm
753 - Death of St. Pirminius, first abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Reichenau (located in modern Germany). His name endures today as author of a book entitled "Scarapsus," which is the earliest known writing to contain the Apostles' Creed as it is worded in its present form.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:25 pm
1631 - English clergyman John Eliot, 27, first arrived in America, at Boston. He afterward became the first Protestant minister to devote himself to evangelization of the American Indian.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:25 pm
1784 - English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, first arrived in America, at New York City. He was the first Methodist bishop to come to the New World.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:25 pm
1818 - Pliny Fisk, 26, set sail for Palestine. Ordained by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Fisk became the first American missionary to journey to the Near East.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/11 at 2:25 pm
1925 - The Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance was organized at St. Louis, MO. It became the forerunner of a new denomination, established in 1932 as the Pentecostal Church, Inc.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:08 am
1889 – Menelik II (pictured), who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:08 am
1889 – Menelik II (pictured), who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Menelik_2_ethiopia.jpg/84px-Menelik_2_ethiopia.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:08 am
1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:08 am
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool use by animals.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:09 am
1966 – The River Arno flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:09 am
1970 – Authorities in Temple City, California, discovered a 13-year-old feral child known as "Genie", who had spent almost her entire life in social isolation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:09 am
1955 – After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:10 am
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/11 at 2:10 am
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 11/04/11 at 11:29 am
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
An election I will remember greatly.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 11/04/11 at 7:35 pm
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
I remember that day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 2:32 am
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 2:32 am
1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" (pictured) in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 2:32 am
1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" (pictured) in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/LastSpike_Craigellachie_BC_Canada_-_cropped.jpg/100px-LastSpike_Craigellachie_BC_Canada_-_cropped.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 2:32 am
1917 – Vladimir Lenin led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 2:33 am
1940 – Four months after the bridge's completion, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge across the Tacoma Narrows in the U.S. state of Washington collapsed in a windstorm.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 2:33 am
1991 – Professional basketball player Magic Johnson announced his retirement from the game because of his infection with HIV.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:31 pm
335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:32 pm
680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:33 pm
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:36 pm
1619 – Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:37 pm
1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:38 pm
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:39 pm
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:40 pm
1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:40 pm
1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:40 pm
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:41 pm
1872 – The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:41 pm
1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:41 pm
1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:42 pm
1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:42 pm
1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:42 pm
1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:42 pm
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:43 pm
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
I saw that in a film!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:43 pm
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:43 pm
1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:44 pm
1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:44 pm
1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:44 pm
1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:44 pm
1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:44 pm
1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:45 pm
1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:45 pm
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:46 pm
1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:47 pm
1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:47 pm
1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:47 pm
1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:48 pm
1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:48 pm
1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:48 pm
1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:49 pm
1944 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:49 pm
1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:49 pm
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:49 pm
1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:49 pm
1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:50 pm
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:50 pm
1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:50 pm
1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:51 pm
1973 – The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:51 pm
1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:51 pm
1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:51 pm
1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:52 pm
1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:52 pm
1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:52 pm
1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:53 pm
1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:53 pm
1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:54 pm
1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:54 pm
2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:54 pm
2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:55 pm
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:55 pm
2001 – SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:55 pm
2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:55 pm
2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 1:57 pm
2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 2:22 am
1576 – The provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Pacification of Ghent, to make peace with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland, and also to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 2:22 am
1861 – American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between Great Britain and the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 2:22 am
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that is known today as X-ray (example pictured).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 2:22 am
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that is known today as X-ray (example pictured).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/X-ray_by_Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen_of_Albert_von_K%C3%B6lliker%27s_hand_-_18960123-01.jpg/69px-X-ray_by_Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen_of_Albert_von_K%C3%B6lliker%27s_hand_-_18960123-01.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 2:22 am
1965 – Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead in her New York City townhouse, in what was rumored to be a murder because of information she had regarding controversial stories such as the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 2:23 am
1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which would go on to be one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:15 pm
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:15 pm
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:18 pm
1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:19 pm
1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:19 pm
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:19 pm
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:20 pm
1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:21 pm
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:21 pm
1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
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1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
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1917 – The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
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1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
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1933 – Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
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1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
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1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
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1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:23 pm
1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
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1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
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1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:24 pm
1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
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1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
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1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
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1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
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1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
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1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:25 pm
1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
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1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:25 pm
1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:25 pm
1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:26 pm
1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:26 pm
1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:27 pm
1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:27 pm
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/11 at 1:27 pm
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 2:06 am
1867 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu (pictured), the last shogun of Japan, tendered his resignation to the Emperor Meiji.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 2:07 am
1867 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu (pictured), the last shogun of Japan, tendered his resignation to the Emperor Meiji.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Tokugawa_yoshinobu.jpg/81px-Tokugawa_yoshinobu.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 2:07 am
1938 – Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of over 25,000 others to concentration camps.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 2:07 am
1989 – East Germany announced the opening of the inner German border and the Berlin Wall, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War, impending collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and beginning of the end of Soviet communism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 2:07 am
1998 – With the passing of the Human Rights Act, the United Kingdom abolished capital punishment for all criminal offences.
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2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing a total of about 60 people and injuring at least 115 others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:18 pm
694 – Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:18 pm
1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
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1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
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1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
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1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:21 pm
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:22 pm
1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
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1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
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1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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1688 – The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
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1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
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1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:25 pm
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
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1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:26 pm
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
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1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
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1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
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1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
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1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
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1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:28 pm
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:28 pm
1857 – The Atlantic founded in Boston.
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1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:29 pm
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:29 pm
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:30 pm
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:30 pm
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
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1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
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1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
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1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:30 pm
1914 – SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:31 pm
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:31 pm
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:31 pm
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:31 pm
1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:31 pm
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:31 pm
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:32 pm
1947 – India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:32 pm
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:32 pm
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:32 pm
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:33 pm
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:33 pm
1965 – Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:33 pm
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:34 pm
1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
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1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:34 pm
1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:34 pm
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:35 pm
1993 – Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:35 pm
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:36 pm
1998 – A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:36 pm
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/11 at 1:36 pm
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:24 am
1865 – Henry Wirz, the superintendent of the Confederacy's Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:24 am
1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:24 am
1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond (pictured), the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:24 am
1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond (pictured), the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/HopeDiamondwithLighting2_%28cropped%29.JPG/100px-HopeDiamondwithLighting2_%28cropped%29.JPG
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:25 am
2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:25 am
2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "¿Por qué no te callas?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:25 am
2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "¿Por qué no te callas?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
¿Por qué no te callas? (English: "Why don't you shut up?") is a phrase that was uttered by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, at the 2007 Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, when Chávez was interrupting Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's speech. The phrase became an overnight sensation, gaining cult status as a mobile-phone ringtone, spawning a domain name, a contest, T-shirt sales, and YouTube videos.
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1981 - "Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
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1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:06 pm
1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:07 pm
1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:07 pm
1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:07 pm
1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:07 pm
1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
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1702 – English colonists besiege Spanish St. Augustine in Queen Anne's War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:08 pm
1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:08 pm
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:08 pm
1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:09 pm
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:09 pm
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:09 pm
1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:09 pm
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:10 pm
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:10 pm
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:10 pm
1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
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1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:11 pm
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:11 pm
1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:11 pm
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:11 pm
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:12 pm
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:12 pm
1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:12 pm
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:12 pm
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:13 pm
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
"Take me to Cuba!"
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:13 pm
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:15 pm
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0t66xvMdH0
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:15 pm
1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:15 pm
1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:15 pm
1984 – The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.