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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:40 pm
1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:40 pm
1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:40 pm
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 11/15/11 at 1:41 pm
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:41 pm
1969 – In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:41 pm
1971 – Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:42 pm
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:42 pm
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:42 pm
1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:42 pm
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:42 pm
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:42 pm
1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:42 pm
1987 – In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:43 pm
1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:43 pm
1988 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:44 pm
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:44 pm
1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:44 pm
1990 – The People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:45 pm
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:45 pm
2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:45 pm
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:45 pm
2005 – Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 1:45 pm
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:06 pm
1626 - The original Mayflower "pilgrims" (Separatists), having lived in their American colony for six years, bought out their London investors for 1,800 pounds.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:06 pm
1760 - Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Our love to Him is the proof and measure of what we know of His love to us.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:07 pm
1804 - Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Corruption always begins the day, but morning prayer never fails to set my mind in a right frame.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:07 pm
1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/11 at 2:07 pm
1957 - Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III officially established the Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, Archbishop Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, former Syrian Orthodox metropolitan of Jerusalem, was appointed primate of the new archdiocese, and soon after took up residence in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 2:26 am
1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 2:26 am
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington from the Patriots.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 2:26 am
1944 – World War II: Operation Queen commenced in Düren, Germany, with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombing attacks of the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 2:26 am
1959 – The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 2:27 am
1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng (pictured) was released for "medical reasons" after spending 17½ of the previous 18 years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 2:27 am
1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng (pictured) was released for "medical reasons" after spending 17½ of the previous 18 years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Wei-jingsheng.jpg/72px-Wei-jingsheng.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:08 pm
534 – A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:08 pm
1532 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:08 pm
1776 – American Revolution: the United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:08 pm
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:08 pm
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:09 pm
1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:09 pm
1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:09 pm
1857 – Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:09 pm
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:09 pm
1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:10 pm
1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:11 pm
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:11 pm
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:11 pm
1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:11 pm
1940 – World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry, England by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:11 pm
1940 – Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:12 pm
1943 – World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:12 pm
1944 – Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:12 pm
1945 – Cold War: Operation Paperclip – the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:12 pm
1945 – UNESCO is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:13 pm
1965 – Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:13 pm
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:13 pm
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:13 pm
1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:13 pm
1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:13 pm
1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:13 pm
1989 – A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:14 pm
1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:14 pm
2000 – Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/11 at 1:14 pm
2010 – Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement at Clarence House.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 am
1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 am
1869 – The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 am
1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (pictured), was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 am
1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (pictured), was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg/60px-Dalai_Lama_1430_Luca_Galuzzi_2007crop.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:23 am
1970 – The Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 landed on the Moon to become the first roving remote-controlled robot to operate on another celestial body.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:23 am
2009 – Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:08 pm
473 – The future Leo II is named associate emperor by Leo I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:08 pm
794 – Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:08 pm
1183 – The Battle of Mizushima.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:09 pm
1511 – Spain and England ally against France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:09 pm
1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:09 pm
1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:09 pm
1659 – The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:09 pm
1777 – Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:11 pm
1796 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:11 pm
1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:11 pm
1810 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:12 pm
1811 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:13 pm
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:13 pm
1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:14 pm
1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:15 pm
1839 – Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:18 pm
1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:19 pm
1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:20 pm
1858 – Modified Julian Day zero.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:20 pm
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:21 pm
1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:22 pm
1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:24 pm
1878 – First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:26 pm
1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:27 pm
1919 – King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:28 pm
1922 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:29 pm
1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:31 pm
1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:33 pm
1947 – The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:36 pm
1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 1:37 pm
1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 pm
1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 pm
1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 pm
1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 pm
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:22 pm
1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:23 pm
1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:23 pm
1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:23 pm
1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:24 pm
1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:24 pm
1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:24 pm
1973 – The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:24 pm
1979 – Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:24 pm
1982 – Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:24 pm
1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:25 pm
1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:25 pm
1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:25 pm
1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:25 pm
2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:25 pm
2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/11 at 2:25 pm
2004 – Kmart Corp. announces that it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for US$11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 2:20 am
1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after he commanded the Pope to annul the Concordat of Worms.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 2:20 am
1928 – Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first completely post-produced synchronized sound animated cartoon, was released.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 2:20 am
1943 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force began its bombing campaign against Berlin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 2:21 am
1978 – Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 2:21 am
1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (remains pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 2:21 am
1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (remains pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Bonfire-Daylight-Recovery.JPG/100px-Bonfire-Daylight-Recovery.JPG
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 2:22 am
1928 – Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first completely post-produced synchronized sound animated cartoon, was released.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Steamboat_Willie.jpg/220px-Steamboat_Willie.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:04 pm
326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:05 pm
401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:05 pm
1105 – Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:05 pm
1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:05 pm
1307 – William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
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1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed.
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1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
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1494 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy.
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1601 – Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
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1626 – St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
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1686 – Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
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1730 – Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
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1803 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
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1809 – In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
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1863 – King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.
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1865 – Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
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1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
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1903 – The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
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1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
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1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
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1909 – Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
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1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
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1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
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1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:11 pm
1929 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
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1930 – Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
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1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
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1940 – New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
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1947 – The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
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1949 – The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:13 pm
1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
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1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:15 pm
1970 – U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:15 pm
1987 – Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
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1987 – King's Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:15 pm
1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:16 pm
1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:16 pm
1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:16 pm
1993 – In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives.
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1993 – In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
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2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 1:17 pm
2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/11 at 5:02 pm
1095 - Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Summoned to plan the First Crusade, it was attended by over 200 bishops. Among its official policies, the Council decreed that a pilgrimage to Jerusalem made every other penance superfluous.
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1302 - Pope Boniface VIII published the bull "Unam Sanctam." It was the first papal writing to decree that spiritual power took precedent over temporal power, and that subjection to the pope was necessary to salvation.
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1626 - In Rome, the newly completed St Peter's Basilica was consecrated by Urban VIII. St. Peter's is presently the largest church in Christendom, with a length of 619 feet.
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1866 - English devotional writer Katherine Hankey, 32, penned the verses that we sing today as the hymn, "I Love to Tell the Story."
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1966 - This was the last required meatless Friday for American Roman Catholics, in accordance with a decree made by Pope Paul VI earlier this year.
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1980 - "Heaven's Gate" premiers
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1980 - "Heaven's Gate" premiers
...and what happened next?
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1932 - "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
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1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
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1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.
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1794 – The United States and Great Britain concluded the Jay Treaty, which was the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
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1816 – Warsaw University is established.
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1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
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1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers'
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1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
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1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
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1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
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1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
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1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
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1941 – Second World War: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney (pictured) and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.
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1941 – Second World War: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney (pictured) and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/HMAS_Sydney_%28AWM_301473%29.jpg/100px-HMAS_Sydney_%28AWM_301473%29.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 2:59 am
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
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1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
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1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
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1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
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1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:00 am
1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
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1947 – George VI of the United Kingdom creates Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George's elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the next day.
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1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
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1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
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1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
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1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
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1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
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1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
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1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
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1969 – Football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
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1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
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1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in theran.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:02 am
1984 – San Juanico Disaster: A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:03 am
1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
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1985 – Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion USD judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:03 am
1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
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1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:04 am
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:04 am
1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:05 am
1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
I still have not won it!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:05 am
1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:05 am
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:06 am
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:07 am
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_102.jpg/220px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_102.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:07 am
1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
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2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 3:07 am
2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha in Iraq.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 6:48 am
1742 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Plead His promises, be much in secret prayer, and never give God rest, till your soul is filled with all His fulness.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 6:49 am
1862 - Birth of William (Billy) Sunday, American revivalist. Orphaned during the Civil War, Sunday became a major league baseball player 1883_91, then turned to evangelism in 1893, speaking to an estimated total audience of 100 million before his death in 1935.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 6:49 am
1885 - Birth of Haldor Lillenas, American hymnwriter. He penned nearly 4,000 Gospel texts and hymn tunes during his lifetime, including "It Is Glory Just to Walk With Him," Wonderful Grace of Jesus" and "Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 6:50 am
1910 - Swedish Pentecostal missionaries Daniel Berg, 26, and Adolf Vingren, 31, arrived in Brazil. In 1918 they established the first Pentecostal church, from which grew Brazil's largest Protestant body, the Assemblies of God.
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1961 - The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 6:52 am
1979 - Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
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1980 - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields
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Written By: Howard on 11/19/11 at 7:38 am
1980 - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/160529/thumbs/s-BROOKE-SHIELDS-CALVIN-KLEIN-large.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:22 am
284 – Diocletian (sculpture pictured) became Roman Emperor, eventually establishing reforms that brought an end to the Crisis of the Third Century.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:22 am
284 – Diocletian (sculpture pictured) became Roman Emperor, eventually establishing reforms that brought an end to the Crisis of the Third Century.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:23 am
762 – During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:23 am
1194 – Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:23 am
1407 – A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:23 am
1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:23 am
1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:24 am
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:24 am
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:24 am
1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
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1861 – American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
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1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto, sports journalist Henri Desgrange came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:25 am
1910 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
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1917 – First World War: The Battle of Cambrai in France began with British forces having initial success over Germany's Hindenburg Line.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:26 am
1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic.
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1923 – Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:26 am
1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
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1940 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:26 am
1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins – United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.