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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:16 pm
1989 – Longtime leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:17 pm
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:17 pm
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 2:17 pm
2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush and annonces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 2:24 am
1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council, which defined the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, convened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 2:24 am
1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the Mayflower's passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 2:24 am
1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 2:24 am
1918 – The armistice treaty between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France (signatories pictured).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 2:25 am
1918 – The armistice treaty between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France (signatories pictured).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Armisticetrain_%28slight_crop%29.jpg/75px-Armisticetrain_%28slight_crop%29.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 2:25 am
1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured top secret documents from SS Automedon that would later influence Japan's decision to enter the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: seamermar on 11/11/11 at 12:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0t66xvMdH0
You never lose a date :)
This one is closer to my trade ;)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 1:41 pm
You never lose a date :)
This one is closer to my trade ;)
Oh yes, so it is and a wonderful (sad) song too.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:09 pm
308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:09 pm
1500 – Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:10 pm
1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:10 pm
1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:10 pm
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:11 pm
1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:11 pm
1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:11 pm
1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:11 pm
1778 – Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 11/11/11 at 4:12 pm
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
Aha! So that's where the theory came from!
He's the one who devised the dy/dx notation for finding the derivative of a function.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:12 pm
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:13 pm
Aha! So that's where the theory came from!
He's the one who devised the dy/dx notation for finding the derivative of a function.
I somehow knew it would strike a chord with you.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:13 pm
1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:13 pm
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:13 pm
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:14 pm
1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:14 pm
1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:14 pm
1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:14 pm
1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 11/11/11 at 4:14 pm
I somehow knew it would strike a chord with you.
Yes, it has been ten years since I took a calculus class in college. I did very well in the class.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:14 pm
1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:15 pm
Yes, it has been ten years since I took a calculus class in college. I did very well in the class.
Well done.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:15 pm
1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:15 pm
1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:17 pm
1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th 1919.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 11/11/11 at 4:17 pm
Well done.
Three years later I took a multivariable calculus class, with the same professor, but that proved to be a bit more difficult. Still, I managed a decent grade in that class.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:18 pm
1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th 1919.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/NYTimes-Page1-11-11-1918.jpg/300px-NYTimes-Page1-11-11-1918.jpg
Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:19 pm
1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:19 pm
1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:19 pm
1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:19 pm
1919 – Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:19 pm
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:20 pm
1924 – Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:20 pm
1926 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:20 pm
1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:20 pm
1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:20 pm
1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
Did it sell well?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:22 pm
1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:22 pm
1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:23 pm
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:23 pm
1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:23 pm
1944 – Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:24 pm
1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:24 pm
1961 – thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:25 pm
1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:25 pm
1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:25 pm
1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:25 pm
1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:26 pm
1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:26 pm
1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:26 pm
1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:26 pm
1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:29 pm
1975 – Independence of Angola.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:30 pm
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:31 pm
1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:31 pm
1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:32 pm
1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:32 pm
2000 – Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:33 pm
2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:33 pm
2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:34 pm
2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:34 pm
2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 4:34 pm
2008 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:40 am
764 – Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:41 am
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe first took the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:41 am
1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:41 am
1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:41 am
1602 – Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:42 am
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:43 am
1892 – William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:44 am
1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:44 am
1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:44 am
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:44 am
1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:45 am
1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:45 am
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:45 am
1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:45 am
1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:46 am
1936 – The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:46 am
1936 – The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/SF_and_Bay_Bridge.JPG/260px-SF_and_Bay_Bridge.JPG
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:47 am
1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:47 am
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:47 am
1941 – World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:48 am
1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:48 am
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Japanese air attack pictured), the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, began.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:48 am
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Japanese air attack pictured), the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, began.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Japanese_air_attack_off_Guadalcanal_12Nov42.jpg/100px-Japanese_air_attack_off_Guadalcanal_12Nov42.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:49 am
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:49 am
1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:49 am
1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:49 am
1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:49 am
1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:50 am
1968 – Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:50 am
1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:50 am
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:51 am
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:51 am
1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:51 am
1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:52 am
1978 – Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:52 am
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in theran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:52 am
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:52 am
1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:53 am
1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:53 am
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:53 am
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:53 am
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
Good ol' Tim!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:54 am
1991 – In Dili, East Timor, Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor, killing at least 250 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:55 am
1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:56 am
1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:56 am
1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:56 am
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:56 am
2001 – Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:57 am
2003 – Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 12:57 am
2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 7:23 am
1989 - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 10:41 am
1556 - Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 10:42 am
1701 - The Carolina Assembly passed a Vestry Act making the Church of England the official religion of the Carolina Colony. (Strong opposition by Quakers and other resident Nonconformists forced the colony's proprietors to revoke their legislation two years later.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 10:42 am
1818 - Birth of Henri F. Hemy, English church organist. Of his several original compositions, best known is the tune ST. CATHERINE, to which we commonly sing the hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 10:42 am
1899 - American evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, 62, began his last evangelistic campaign in Kansas City, Missouri. Becoming ill during the last service, Moody was unable to complete his message, and died a few days later, on Dec 22.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 10:42 am
1954 - American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Loyalty to organizations and movements has always tended over time to take the place of loyalty to the person of Christ.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 10:42 am
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 10:43 am
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
Regrettably!
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Written By: seamermar on 11/12/11 at 1:31 pm
Insert Quote
2001 – Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
An Spanish sergeant died days ago under Taliban fire
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Written By: nally on 11/12/11 at 2:20 pm
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
Good ol' Tim!
Aha!
A few years later, it would come to fruition.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 2:35 pm
Aha!
A few years later, it would come to fruition.
...and where will we be without him?
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Written By: nally on 11/12/11 at 2:36 pm
...and where will we be without him?
Not able to connect with other people via other computers?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/11 at 2:37 pm
Not able to connect with other people via other computers?
...and still reading and researching from books
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Written By: nally on 11/12/11 at 2:39 pm
...and still reading and researching from books
I still do that, because books are great reference materials too. In fact, I have been reading the World Almanac for over 20+ years, and I've been getting a copy of it every year since the mid 1990s.
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Written By: Howard on 11/12/11 at 8:59 pm
...and where will we be without him?
clueless.
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Written By: Howard on 11/12/11 at 9:00 pm
...and still reading and researching from books
or other reading material.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 1:48 am
or other reading material.
What else can you read for proper research?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:46 am
1002 – St. Brice's Day massacre: King Ethelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:47 am
1002 – St. Brice's Day massacre: King Ethelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/EthelUn.jpg/82px-EthelUn.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:48 am
1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:49 am
1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:49 am
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, Quebec, defended by British General Guy Carleton.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:49 am
1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:49 am
1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers in what would become Seattle, Washington.
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1864 – The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
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1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:50 am
1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:50 am
1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:50 am
1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:58 am
1927 – The Holland Tunnel, connecting New York City's Manhattan with Jersey City, New Jersey, under the Hudson River, opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:59 am
1927 – The Holland Tunnel, connecting New York City's Manhattan with Jersey City, New Jersey, under the Hudson River, opened.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Holland.theora.ogv/mid-Holland.theora.ogv.jpg
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1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:03 am
1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:03 am
1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:04 am
1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:04 am
1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:04 am
1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:05 am
1965 – The steamship SS Yarmouth Castle burned and sank about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Nassau, Bahamas, killing about 90 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:05 am
1965 – The steamship SS Yarmouth Castle burned and sank about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Nassau, Bahamas, killing about 90 people.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/33/SS_Yarmouth_Castle.jpg/300px-SS_Yarmouth_Castle.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:05 am
1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:05 am
1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:07 am
1970 – The Bhola tropical cyclone hit the densely populated Ganges Delta in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:08 am
1971 – The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:09 am
1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:09 am
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:09 am
1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:09 am
1985 – Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:10 am
1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:10 am
1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:10 am
1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:11 am
1994 – In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:11 am
1994 – In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
Now, is that a good thing to do?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:11 am
1995 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:11 am
2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:11 am
2001 – War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:12 am
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:12 am
2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:19 am
1564 - Pius IV ordered his bishops and scholars to subscribe to "Professio Fidei," the Profession of the Tridentine Faith recently formulated at the Council of Trent (1545_63) as the new and final definition of the Roman Catholic faith.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:19 am
1618 - In the Dutch commune of Dordrecht, the Synod of Dort convened to discuss the Arminian controversy vexing the Reformed faith. In the end, about 200 Arminian (Remonstrant) ministers were deposed and fifteen were placed under arrest and later expelled from the country.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:20 am
1804 - Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'God and eternal things are my only pleasure.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 5:20 am
1962 - The name of St. Joseph was added to the canon of the Roman Catholic mass. It constituted the first alteration made to this canon since the seventh century.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:21 am
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia, US.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:21 am
1940 – Second World War: Coventry Cathedral (ruins pictured) and much of the city centre of Coventry, England, were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:21 am
1940 – Second World War: Coventry Cathedral (ruins pictured) and much of the city centre of Coventry, England, were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/Coventry_Cathedral_cropped.jpg/100px-Coventry_Cathedral_cropped.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:21 am
1971 – NASA's Mariner 9 reached Mars, en route to becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:21 am
1984 – Cesar Climaco, mayor of Zamboanga City, the Philippines, was assassinated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:22 am
1990 – Germany and Poland signed the German–Polish Border Treaty, confirming their border at the Oder-Neisse line, which was originally defined by the Potsdam Agreement in 1945.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:35 pm
1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:35 pm
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:35 pm
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:35 pm
1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:36 pm
1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:36 pm
1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:36 pm
1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:37 pm
1922 – The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:37 pm
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:37 pm
1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:38 pm
1952 – The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:39 pm
1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:39 pm
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:39 pm
1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:39 pm
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:40 pm
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:40 pm
1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:40 pm
1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:40 pm
1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:41 pm
1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:41 pm
1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:41 pm
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:42 pm
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:42 pm
1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:43 pm
1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:43 pm
1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:44 pm
1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:44 pm
2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:44 pm
2002 – Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:45 pm
2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 2:45 pm
2007 – The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:14 am
655 – Penda of Mercia was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in modern-day Yorkshire, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:14 am
1859 – Sponsored by businessman Evangelos Zappas (pictured), the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:15 am
1859 – Sponsored by businessman Evangelos Zappas (pictured), the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Evangelos_Zappas.jpg/62px-Evangelos_Zappas.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:15 am
1935 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially established, with Manuel L. Quezon inaugurated as its president.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:15 am
1943 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:15 am
1983 – Turkish Cypriots on the northeastern portion of Cyprus declared the creation of a new state known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which currently remains recognised only by Turkey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:26 pm
1683 - War undoubtably raged somewhere in Eastern, Western, Northern, or Southern Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:27 pm
1315 – Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:30 pm
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:30 pm
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:30 pm
1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:30 pm
1791 – The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:31 pm
1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:31 pm
1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:31 pm
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:32 pm
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:33 pm
1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:34 pm
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:34 pm
1928 – The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:34 pm
1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:38 pm
1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:38 pm
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:38 pm
1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:39 pm
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:39 pm
1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:39 pm
1959 – Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:39 pm
1966 – Gemini program: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:39 pm
1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.