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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:17 pm
1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:18 pm
1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:18 pm
1939 – New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:18 pm
1942 – Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:18 pm
1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:19 pm
1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:19 pm
1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:19 pm
1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:19 pm
1956 – The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:19 pm
1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:20 pm
1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:20 pm
1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:20 pm
1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:21 pm
1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:22 pm
1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:22 pm
1980 – Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:23 pm
1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:23 pm
1993 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:23 pm
1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:23 pm
1999 – Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/11 at 4:24 pm
2008 – Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:34 am
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:35 am
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:35 am
1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:35 am
1834 – The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:35 am
1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:36 am
1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:36 am
1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
How many words!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:36 am
1904 – Himalia, the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:37 am
1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:37 am
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:38 am
1912 – First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:38 am
1917 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:38 am
1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first official film featuring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy (pictured), was released.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:38 am
1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first official film featuring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy (pictured), was released.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/The_Flying_Deuces_%281939%29_1.jpg/100px-The_Flying_Deuces_%281939%29_1.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:40 am
1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:40 am
1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:40 am
1960 – The musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway, and would become associated with the Kennedy administration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:40 am
1964 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:41 am
1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:41 am
1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:41 am
1971 – The formal initiation of hostilities of the Indo-Pakistani War began with the Pakistani Air Force launching pre-emptive airstrikes on several forward airbases and radar installations of the Indian Air Force.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:41 am
1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:42 am
1976 – Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt by unknown assailants.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:44 am
1979 – In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:45 am
1982 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:45 am
1984 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:45 am
1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:45 am
1990 – At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 7 passengers and 1 crew member aboard flight 1482.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:46 am
1992 – UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:46 am
1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:46 am
1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:46 am
1997 – In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign The Ottawa treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:46 am
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:46 am
1999 – Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:47 am
2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:47 am
2007 – Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:47 am
2009 – A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claims the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:42 pm
1170 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, 52, returned to England after six years of exile in France. (Becket would be martyred on December 29th of this year killed by soldiers sent by his former friend, English King Henry II.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:42 pm
1841 - Birth of Clara H. Scott, American music teacher and composer. A contributor to the collections published by Horatio R. Palmer, she is best remembered today as author and composer of the hymn, "Open My Eyes, That I May See."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:42 pm
1902 - Birth of Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who flew the lead plane in Japan's air attack on Pearl Harbor (12/7/1941). Following WWII, through representatives of the Pocket Testament League, Fuchida was converted to Christianity in 1950.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:43 pm
1908 - Birth of C.F.D. Moule, Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar. He authored numerous autographs on Biblical studies, including "The Phenomenology of the New Testament" (1967).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:43 pm
1976 - In Chicago, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) was formally organized. The bulk of membership derived from former affiliates of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:44 pm
1995 - Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket vs South Africa, a record
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 5:46 pm
1988 - New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winners (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:07 am
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Barbara.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:07 am
771 – Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:07 am
1110 – First Crusade: The Crusaders sack Sidon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:08 am
1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:08 am
1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:08 am
1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:09 am
1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks (pictured) made the first observation of a transit of Venus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:09 am
1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks (pictured) made the first observation of a transit of Venus.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/JeremiahHorrocks.jpg/100px-JeremiahHorrocks.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:10 am
1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:11 am
1676 – Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:11 am
1745 – Charles Edward Stewart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the second Jacobite Rising.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:12 am
1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:12 am
1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:12 am
1829 – Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves, was formally abolished in British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:13 am
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta, Georgia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:14 am
1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:14 am
1872 – The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship had been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:14 am
1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:15 am
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:15 am
1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Police officers is killed in battle by an estimated 3,000 Ndebele on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:15 am
1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc The first intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization is founded at Cornell University.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:16 am
1909 – The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 3:18 am
1909 – 1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:22 am
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:22 am
1921 – The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:23 am
1939 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:23 am
1942 – Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:24 am
1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:24 am
1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:25 am
1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:25 am
1945 – By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN is established on October 24, 1945).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:26 am
1951 A double-decker bus plows over a marching column of teenage Marine Cadets in Kent, England, killing 24 and injuring an additional 18.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:28 am
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, United States
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:34 am
1958 – Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:36 am
1967 – Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:36 am
1969 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:36 am
1971 – The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:36 am
1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:37 am
1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:37 am
1971 – McGurk's Bar bombing: An Ulster Volunteer Force bomb kills 15 civilians and wounds 17 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:41 am
1975 – Suriname joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:41 am
1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:41 am
1977 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:42 am
1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first female mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:42 am
1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:42 am
1980 – English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:43 am
1981 – South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:43 am
1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:44 am
1984 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:44 am
1991 – Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:45 am
1991 – Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:46 am
1991 – Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:46 am
1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:46 am
1993 – A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:46 am
1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:46 am
2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:47 am
2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 mi) south of Tokyo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 6:47 am
2006 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, US; the subsequent court case becomes a cause célèbre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 9:41 am
1154 - Adrian IV, 54, was elected to the papacy. Born Nicholas Breakspear, near St. Albans, England, he was the only Englishman ever elevated to the office of pope.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 9:41 am
1674 - French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette erected a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan, in present_day Illinois. His log cabin became the first building of a settlement that afterward grew to become the city of Chicago.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/11 at 9:41 am
1809 - The International Bible Society was founded in New York City as an interdenominational agency for translating, producing and distributing the Scriptures. The I.B.S. has since distributed the Bible to over 150 countries in the world.
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1854 - Birth of Mary Reed, American Methodist missionary. She died in 1943, having spent the last 52 years of her life ministering to the lepers of India.
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1966 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'The good Lord, in spite of reports to the contrary, is not dead.'
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1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, giving Dominican Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
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1876 – Fire engulfed the Brooklyn Theater (damage pictured) in Brooklyn, New York, killing at least 278 people, mostly due to smoke inhalation.
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1876 – Fire engulfed the Brooklyn Theater (damage pictured) in Brooklyn, New York, killing at least 278 people, mostly due to smoke inhalation.
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1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. naval TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
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1952 – The "Great Smog" began in London and lasted for five days, causing 12,000 deaths and leading to the Clean Air Act 1956.
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1972 – Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard, ending 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government.
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1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. naval TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
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63 BC – Cicero gave the fourth and final Catiline Orations.
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663 – Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
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771 – Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
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1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
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1408 – Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
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1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
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1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
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1746 – Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
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1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
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1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
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1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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1815 – Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
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1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
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1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
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1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
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1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
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1914 – The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
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1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
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1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
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1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States).
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1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
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1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
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1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
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1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
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1943 – World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
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1944 – World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
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1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
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1955 – E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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1957 – Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
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1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
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1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
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1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
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1974 – In American football, the Birmingham Americans would win what would eventually be the only World Bowl in World Football League history.
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1976 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
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1977 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
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1978 – The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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1979 – Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
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1983 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
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1993 – The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
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1995 – The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
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2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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2005 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
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2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
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2007 – Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
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1060 – Béla I the Champion was crowned king of Hungary.
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1917 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones became the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it was torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
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1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and then came into force exactly one year later, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.
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1989 – Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École Polytechnique in Montreal.
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1992 – The Babri Mosque (pictured) in Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and associated groups, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.
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1992 – The Babri Mosque (pictured) in Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and associated groups, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.
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1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
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1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
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1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
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1704 – Battle of Chamkaur.
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1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
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1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
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1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
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Title page of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
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1877 – The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
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1877 – Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
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1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
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1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
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1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
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1916 – World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
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1917 – Finland declares independence from Russia.
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1917 – Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
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1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
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1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
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1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
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1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
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1956 – A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
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1965 – Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
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1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
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1969 – Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones's concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
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1971 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
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1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
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1975 – Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
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1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
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1978 – Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
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1982 – Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.
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1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
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1991 – In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
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1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
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2001 – The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
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2005 – Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
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2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of theran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more civilians.
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2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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2008 – The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
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2011 – 55 Afghans die as a result of a suicide bomb.
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1538 - German Reformer Martin Luther stated: 'With all our thoughts we can't get beyond the visible and physical. No man's heart comprehends eternity.'
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1769 - During the illness of a close friend, English poet William Cowper, 38, penned the lines to the hymn, "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God."
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1787 - Cokesbury College, the first Methodist college in America, opened its doors in Abingdon, MD. The campus consisted of a three_story building 108 feet long and 40 feet wide.
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1930 - Missionary linguist Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'Sometimes one feels that there is a discord between the cross and beauty. But...a man has not found his highest beauty until his brow is tinged with care for some cause he loves more than himself. The beauty of sacrifice is the final word in beauty.'
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1955 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.'
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43 BC – Cicero, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was assassinated.
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1724 – In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics.
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1815 – Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon.
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1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble" (pictured), the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon.
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1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble" (pictured), the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon.
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2007 – A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever oil spill.
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1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States.
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1696 – Connecticut Route 108, third oldest highway in Connecticut, is laid out to Trumbull.
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1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
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1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
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"Rich's Glory": John Rich takes over (seemingly invades) his new Covent Garden Theatre. (A caricature by William Hogarth)
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1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
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1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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1862 – US Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
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1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
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1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
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1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.