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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:26 am
1945 – Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:27 am
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:28 am
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
http://www.hellomagazine.com/imagenes/brides/201004273381/iconic-weddings/queen-elizabeth-ii/prince-philip/0-7-733/queen--b.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:28 am
1952 – Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:29 am
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:29 am
1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:29 am
1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:29 am
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:30 am
1979 – A group of armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders, Muhammad bin abd Allah al-Qahtani, was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:30 am
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:30 am
1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:30 am
1991 – An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:31 am
1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:31 am
1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:32 am
1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:32 am
1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:32 am
1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:33 am
2001 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:33 am
2003 – After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/11 at 6:33 am
2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 2:18 am
1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 2:18 am
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: The Japanese Second Army killed an estimated 20,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians in the city of Lüshunkou.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 2:18 am
1910 – The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Bahia, and Deodoro mutinied in what became known as the Revolt of the Lash (pictured).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 2:18 am
1910 – The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Bahia, and Deodoro mutinied in what became known as the Revolt of the Lash (pictured).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Joao_Candido.jpg/100px-Joao_Candido.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 2:19 am
1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the Queen", which had been the traditional one since 1840.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:44 pm
164 BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:44 pm
235 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:45 pm
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:45 pm
1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:45 pm
1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:45 pm
1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:45 pm
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:45 pm
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:46 pm
1916 – World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:46 pm
1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:46 pm
1918 – A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:47 pm
1920 – Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:48 pm
1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:48 pm
1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:48 pm
1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:48 pm
1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash. Twenty-one people are killed, seventeen of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:49 pm
1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:49 pm
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:50 pm
1962 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:50 pm
1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:50 pm
1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:51 pm
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:51 pm
1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:51 pm
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:51 pm
1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:52 pm
1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:52 pm
1972 – Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:52 pm
1974 – The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:53 pm
1979 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:53 pm
1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:53 pm
1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:53 pm
1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:54 pm
1990 – The Charter of Paris for a New Europe refocuses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:54 pm
1995 – The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:54 pm
1996 – Antonio Salinass in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:55 pm
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:55 pm
2004 – The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:55 pm
2004 – The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:55 pm
2004 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:55 pm
2006 – Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/11 at 12:55 pm
2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, kills 108.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 2:32 am
498 – Following the death of Anastasius II, both Symmachus and Laurentius were elected pope, causing a schism that would last until 506.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 2:32 am
1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 2:32 am
1928 – Boléro, Maurice Ravel's most famous musical composition, made its debut at the Paris Opéra.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 2:33 am
1988 – The first B-2 stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 2:33 am
2005 – Angela Merkel (pictured) assumed office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 2:33 am
2005 – Angela Merkel (pictured) assumed office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Angela_Merkel_%282008%29.jpg/100px-Angela_Merkel_%282008%29.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 11/22/11 at 7:59 am
The 48th anniversary of JFK's death.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:36 pm
The 48th anniversary of JFK's death.
1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald is shot two days later by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:37 pm
845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:38 pm
1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:38 pm
1573 – The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:38 pm
1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:38 pm
1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:38 pm
1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:38 pm
1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against Great Britain in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:39 pm
1858 – Denver, Colorado is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:39 pm
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:39 pm
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:39 pm
1908 – The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:39 pm
1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:39 pm
1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:40 pm
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:40 pm
1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:40 pm
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:40 pm
1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:40 pm
1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:41 pm
1969 – In American football, the University of Michigan upset Ohio State University, 24-12, in Bo Schembechler's first season as Michigan's head coach. The win set off the 10 Year War between Schembechler and Ohio State's Woody Hayes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:41 pm
1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:41 pm
1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:41 pm
1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:42 pm
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:42 pm
1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:42 pm
1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:43 pm
1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:43 pm
1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:43 pm
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:43 pm
1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 12:43 pm
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 2:26 am
1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while assisting two Irish nationalists, who had played important roles in the failed Fenian Rising, to escape from custody.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 2:27 am
1876 – William "Boss" Tweed, a major New York City politician who had been arrested for embezzlement, was handed to US authorities after having escaped from prison to Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 2:31 am
1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden encountered a garrison of Somalis in Italian service at Walwal, which led to the Abyssinia Crisis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 2:32 am
1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked by three Ethiopians seeking political asylum, then crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 2:32 am
2005 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured) was declared the winner of the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state of an African country.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 2:32 am
2005 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured) was declared the winner of the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state of an African country.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf%2C_April_2010.jpg/75px-Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf%2C_April_2010.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:17 pm
534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:17 pm
1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:18 pm
1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:18 pm
1510 – First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:18 pm
1531 – The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:19 pm
1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:19 pm
1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:19 pm
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:19 pm
1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:20 pm
1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:20 pm
1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:20 pm
1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:20 pm
1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:21 pm
1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:21 pm
1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:21 pm
1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:21 pm
1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:21 pm
1946 – French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:22 pm
1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:22 pm
1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, "from the Atlantic to the Urals."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:22 pm
1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:23 pm
1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:23 pm
1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket. The launch is a failure and the rocket is destroyed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:23 pm
1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:24 pm
1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:24 pm
1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:24 pm
1981 – Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:25 pm
1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:25 pm
1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:25 pm
1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:25 pm
2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:26 pm
2003 – Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:27 pm
2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:27 pm
2006 – A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injured 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:27 pm
2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:27 pm
2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/11 at 1:28 pm
2010 – The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 2:16 am
1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scottish prisoners with its victory in the Battle of Solway Moss.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 2:16 am
1859 – On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 2:16 am
1906 – A local newspaper accused members of two American football teams of conspiring to deliberately lose games, the first known case of professional gamblers attempting to fix a professional sport.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 2:17 am
1963 – Businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 2:17 am
1974 – A group of paleoanthropologists discovered a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, nicknaming it "Lucy" (reconstruction pictured)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 2:17 am
1974 – A group of paleoanthropologists discovered a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, nicknaming it "Lucy" (reconstruction pictured)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Lucy_Mexico.jpg/57px-Lucy_Mexico.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:12 pm
380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:12 pm
1227 – Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:12 pm
1429 – Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:14 pm
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:14 pm
1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:14 pm
1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:14 pm
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:14 pm
1922 – Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:15 pm
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:16 pm
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:16 pm
1940 – World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:16 pm
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:16 pm
1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:17 pm
1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:17 pm
1950 – The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:17 pm
1962 – The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:18 pm
1963 – Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:18 pm
1965 – Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:18 pm
1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:18 pm
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:18 pm
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:19 pm
1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 1:19 pm
1992 – A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/11 at 2:25 am
1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland (pictured) died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/11 at 2:25 am
1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland (pictured) died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Malcolm_II_of_Scotland.jpg/82px-Malcolm_II_of_Scotland.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/11 at 2:25 am
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/11 at 2:25 am
1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/11 at 2:25 am
1952 – Agatha Christie's mystery play The Mousetrap, the play with the longest initial run in history, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/11 at 2:26 am
1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier became its first president.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:57 am
43 BC – The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:57 am
783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:57 am
1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:57 am
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:58 am
1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:58 am
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:58 am
1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (pictured), the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 5:59 am
1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (pictured), the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/WalesC0047.jpg/100px-WalesC0047.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:02 am
1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:02 am
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:03 am
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:03 am
1865 – Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:03 am
1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:03 am
1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:04 am
1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:05 am
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:05 am
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:05 am
1922 – Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:06 am
1939 – The Soviet Red Army shelled Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:06 am
1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:06 am
1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:07 am
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:07 am
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:07 am
1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:07 am
1950 – Korean War: With the battles of Chosin Reservoir and the Ch'ongch'on River, China launched a massive counterattack against United Nations forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:07 am
1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:07 am
1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:08 am
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:08 am
1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted the Southern Television broadcast in South East England, warning viewers that "All your weapons of evil must be destroyed."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:09 am
1983 – Brink's-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:09 am
1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:10 am
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:10 am
1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:10 am
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:11 am
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:11 am
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:11 am
2004 – Male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 6:11 am
2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing a total of 173 people and wounding more than 300 others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:20 am
1539 - In England, the monastery at the Fountains Abbey was surrendered to the crown. It was the richest of the Cistercian houses, prior to the time of the Dissolution of all monasteries in England, under the reign of Henry VIII.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:20 am
1775 - The American Navy began using chaplains within its regular service.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:20 am
1789 - President George Washington proclaimed this date (a Thursday) to be the first national Thanksgiving Day holiday. (National Thanksgiving days were periodically proclaimed by presidents, until in 1863 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated the practice of annually setting the fourth Thursday in November aside for Thanksgiving Day.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:21 am
1962 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'No doubt has often led me astray: but not half so often, I suspect, as my soul has led IT astray. For the spiritual evils ... arise more from the imagination than from the appetites.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:21 am
1970 - During a 10 day visit to the Philippines, Pope Paul VI was attacked by a knife wielding man in Manilla. The pontiff was unhurt and continued his journey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:21 am
1962 - First recording session under the name "The Beatles"
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:28 am
1865 - Alice in Wonderland first published
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 7:29 am
1865 - Alice in Wonderland first published
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandTitlePage.jpg/160px-AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandTitlePage.jpg
Title page of the original edition (1865)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:17 am
176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:17 am
395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:17 am
1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:17 am
1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:18 am
1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:18 am
1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Eddystone_lighthouse00.jpg/170px-Eddystone_lighthouse00.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:19 am
1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:19 am
1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:19 am
1830 – St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:20 am
1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:20 am
1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:20 am
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:20 am
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:20 am
1868 – American Indian Wars: George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry defeated Chief Black Kettle and the Cheyenne on the Washeesha River near present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:23 am
1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for "Effi Briest", a classic work of German literature.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:23 am
1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:23 am
1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:24 am
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:24 am
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:24 am
1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:25 am
1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Baby_face_nelson.png/150px-Baby_face_nelson.png
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:25 am
1940 – In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/11 at 5:25 am
1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.