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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/15/09 at 7:13 am
1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/15/09 at 7:14 am
1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 8:59 am
Yes
Thanks for confirming that.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:41 am
November 16th 1384 – Jadwiga was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:42 am
November 16th 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, Peru, capturing Sapa Inca Atahualpa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:43 am
November 16th 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", was executed by hanging for high treason.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:43 am
November 16th 1907 – Two years after the failed attempt by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory to achieve U.S. statheood, they joined with the Oklahoma Territory to become the 46th U.S. state to enter the union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:43 am
November 16th 1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:44 am
November 16th 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline, an oil pipeline connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:44 am
November 16th 534 – A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:44 am
November 16th 1532 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:45 am
November 16th 2000 – Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:46 am
November 16th 1857 – Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses awarded in a single day with 24.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 1:46 am
November 16th 1945 – UNESCO is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:43 am
November 17th 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:43 am
November 17th 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole in a maneuver to cut the latter's line of retreat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:44 am
November 17th 1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:44 am
November 17th 1869 – The Suez Canal, which allows water transportation between Europe and Asia by linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, opened to shipping.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:44 am
November 17th 1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:45 am
November 17th 1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by terrorists outside the Deir el-Bahri, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions, in Luxor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:45 am
November 17th 284 – Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:45 am
November 17th 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:46 am
November 17th 1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow, to a warm reception by the Russian people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:46 am
November 17th 1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:47 am
November 17th 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:47 am
November 17th 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/17/09 at 7:07 am
1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston. Freed by abolitionists in cause celebre
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/17/09 at 7:08 am
1858 Origin of Modified Julian Calendar Period
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/17/09 at 7:08 am
1938 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:16 pm
1858 Origin of Modified Julian Calendar Period
Was that when the 11 days were added?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:03 am
November 18th 1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam, proclaiming "there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:04 am
November 18th 1903 – The United States signed the Hay–Bunau Varilla Treaty, agreeing to give the newly independent Panama a down payment of US$10 million and annual rental payments of $250,000 for the exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:04 am
November 18th 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark became Haakon VII, the first King of Norway after the personal union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:04 am
November 18th 1978 – Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:07 am
November 18th 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Yugoslav People's Army forces captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:08 am
November 18th 1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed, killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:09 am
November 18th 326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:09 am
November 18th 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:10 am
November 18th 1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:10 am
November 18th 1987 – King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:02 am
November 19th 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:02 am
November 19th 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:02 am
November 19th 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops under General Georgy Zhukov launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad, with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in the Soviet Union's favor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:02 am
November 19th 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama at Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian football player Pelé scored his 1000th goal on a penalty kick.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:03 am
November 19th 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashed while attempting to land at Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, killing more than 130 people on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:03 am
November 19th 1999 – Shenzhou 1, China's first unmanned test flight of the Shenzhou spacecraft, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:04 am
November 19th 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:04 am
November 19th 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:05 am
November 19th 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:05 am
November 19th 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 11/19/09 at 2:05 am
November 19th 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..etc...
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:22 pm
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..etc...
A true historic day?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:22 pm
November 20th 284 – Diocletian became Roman Emperor, eventually establishing reforms that brought an end to the Crisis of the Third Century.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:23 pm
November 20th 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:24 pm
November 20th 1820 – The American whaleship Essex sank 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of the western coast of South America after it was attacked by a sperm whale.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:24 pm
November 20th 1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto during a lunch meeting in Paris, sports journalists Henri Desgrange and Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:26 pm
November 20th 1979 – A group of armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 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 11/20/09 at 2:26 pm
November 20th 1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:26 pm
November 20th 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:27 pm
November 20th 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:27 pm
November 20th 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 11/20/09 at 2:27 pm
November 20th 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 11/20/09 at 2:28 pm
November 20th 1969 – Vietnam War: The Cleveland 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 11/20/09 at 2:28 pm
November 20th 1945 – Nuremberg Trials: Trials of 24 Nazi war criminals begin at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:40 am
November 21st 1783 – The first successful untethered flight by humans in a hot air balloon was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in Paris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:41 am
November 21st 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army killed more than a dozen British intelligence officers known as the Cairo Gang, and the Auxiliaries of the Royal Irish Constabulary opened fire on players and spectators at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:41 am
November 21st 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a suspension bridge connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, opened to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:42 am
November 21st 1974 – Explosives placed in two central pubs in Birmingham, England, killed 21 people and injured 182 others, and eventually led to the arrest and imprisonment of six people that became known as the Birmingham Six.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:42 am
November 21st 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 11/21/09 at 12:43 am
November 21st 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 11/21/09 at 12:43 am
November 21st 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 11/21/09 at 12:45 am
November 21st 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 11/21/09 at 12:47 am
November 21st 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 11/21/09 at 12:47 am
November 21st 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 11/21/09 at 12:48 am
November 21st 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 11/21/09 at 4:43 am
November 21st 1272 – Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:23 am
November 22nd 1831 – After a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silkworkers seized Lyon, France, beginning the First Canut Revolt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:24 am
November 22nd 1869 – The Cutty Sark, one of the last sailing clippers ever to be built, was launched at Dumbarton in Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:24 am
November 22nd 1887 – The first college lacrosse game was played between New York University and Manhattan College.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:25 am
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:25 am
November 22nd 1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States aboard Air Force One hours after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:26 am
November 22nd 2004 – Massive protests started in cities across Ukraine, resulting from allegations that the Ukrainian presidential election between sitting Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and leader of the opposition coalition Viktor Yushchenko was rigged.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:27 am
November 22nd 2004 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:27 am
November 22nd 1573 – The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:27 am
November 22nd 1859 – Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species is first offered for sale, in London, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:28 am
November 22nd 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 11/22/09 at 8:28 am
November 22nd 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/22/09 at 2:45 pm
1963 - Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis both pass away, but their deaths go largely overlooked due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Subject: Re: Yesterday in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 4:58 am
November 23rd 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama.
Subject: Re: Yesterday in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 4:58 am
November 23rd 1936 – The first edition of Life is published.
Subject: Re: Yesterday in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 4:59 am
November 23rd 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 11/24/09 at 5:00 am
November 24th 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat became de jure uxoris King of Jerusalem after marrying Queen Isabella I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:00 am
November 24th 1863 – American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga Campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:01 am
November 24th 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers was executed by firing squad by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying an automatic pistol.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:01 am
November 24th 1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of US$200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:02 am
November 24th 1974 – A group of paleoanthropologists led by Donald Johanson discovered a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, nicknaming it "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:02 am
November 24th 380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:02 am
November 24th 1429 – Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:03 am
November 24th 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting is broadcast live on television.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:03 am
November 24th 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:04 am
November 24th 1906 – The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:04 am
November 24th 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/24/09 at 11:45 am
1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 3:47 pm
November 24th 1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus, an event he had predicted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:23 am
November 25th 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland 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.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:24 am
November 25th 1120 – William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, drowned in the White Ship Disaster, leading to a succession crisis which would bring down the Norman monarchy of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:25 am
November 25th 1936 – Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing that if in case the Soviet Union attacks one of them, they would consult each other on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:25 am
November 25th 1947 – McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:25 am
November 25th 2000 – A 7 Ms earthquake struck Baku, Azerbaijan, killing 26 people and injuring over 400 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:26 am
November 25th 1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:27 am
November 25th 1755 – King Ferdinand IV of Spain grants the Beaterio dela Compania de Jesus or now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary(RVM) a royal protection.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:27 am
November 25th 1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:28 am
November 25th 1999 – Establishment of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by United Nations to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance of Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:28 am
November 25th 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 2:29 am
November 25th 1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/25/09 at 8:56 am
1983 World's greatest robbery- 25,000,000 in gold, Heathrow, England
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/25/09 at 8:57 am
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 8:58 am
1983 World's greatest robbery-oe25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
Brinks Mat Robbery
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 3:53 pm
November 25th 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:30 am
November 26th 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:31 am
November 26th 1778 – An expedition led by James Cook reached Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:44 am
November 26th 1842 – The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA, was founded as an all-male institution by members of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:44 am
November 26th 1917 – Unable to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, the other ice hockey clubs of Canada's National Hockey Association officially agreed to leave that sports league and to form a new one: the National Hockey League.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:45 am
November 26th 1939 – The Soviet Red Army shelled Mainila, and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland across a nearby border, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:45 am
November 26th 1942 – World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened 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 11/26/09 at 2:46 am
November 26th 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 11/26/09 at 2:46 am
November 26th 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 11/26/09 at 2:47 am
November 26th 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 11/26/09 at 2:47 am
November 26th 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:48 am
November 26th 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
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Written By: danootaandme on 11/26/09 at 6:50 am
1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
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Written By: danootaandme on 11/26/09 at 6:51 am
1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally erased an 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:24 pm
1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally erased an 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
Accidentally ?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 4:34 pm
November 26th 1962 - The Beatles recorded "Please Please Me."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 1:57 am
November 27th 1095 – At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, declaring holy war against the Muslims who had occupied the Holy Land and were attacking the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 1:57 am
November 27th 1868 – American Indian Wars: George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry defeated Chief Black Kettle and the Cheyenne Indians on the Washeesha River near present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 1:57 am
November 27th 1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 1:58 am
November 27th 1978 – San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 1:58 am
November 27th 1999 – The Labour Party defeated the governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, making the Labour Party's Helen Clark the first female to win the office of Prime Minister at an election.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 1:59 am
November 27th 2005 – French oral and maxillofacial surgeon Bernard Devauchelle performed the world's first partial face transplant on a living human, replacing Isabelle Dinoire's face after her Labrador retriever mauled her.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 1:59 am
November 27th 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 2:00 am
November 27th 2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 2:00 am
November 27th 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 2:00 am
November 27th 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 2:01 am
November 27th 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
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Written By: danootaandme on 11/27/09 at 6:10 am
1957 Army withdraws from Little Rock AR, after Central HS integration
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 5:01 pm
November 27th 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 5:01 pm
November 27th 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
:\'(
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:31 am
November 28th 1443 – Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg and his forces liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:32 am
November 28th 1520 – Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean from the now-eponymous Strait of Magellan, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:32 am
November 28th 1785 – The United States signed the first Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee Indians, laying out a western boundary for white settlement.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:32 am
November 28th 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:33 am
November 28th 1998 – The current Constitution of Albania, sanctioning a parliamentary republic, people's sovereignty, fundamental rights of the citizens, and other important points, was ratified via a voter-approved referendum.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:34 am
November 28th 1095 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:34 am
November 28th 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:34 am
November 28th 1811 – Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, was premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:36 am
November 28th 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:36 am
November 28th 1994 – In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 12:37 am
November 28th 1943 – World War II: theran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in theran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
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Written By: Frank on 11/28/09 at 12:38 am
November 28th 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
How long was Thatcher Prime Minister of UK? A little over 10 years?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 1:06 am
How long was Thatcher Prime Minister of UK? A little over 10 years?
From 4th May 1979 to 28th November 1990, over 11 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 6:21 am
November 28th 1984 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 6:23 am
November 28th 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
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Written By: danootaandme on 11/28/09 at 9:58 am
1942 Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston MA
"The tragedy shocked the nation and briefly replaced World War II news headlines. The fire led to a reform of fire codes and safety standards across the country and prompted a seminal study of grief"
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Written By: danootaandme on 11/28/09 at 10:02 am
1958 Chad, Congo, and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:54 am
November 29th 1781 – The crew of the overcrowded British slave ship Zong murdered 133 African slaves by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:55 am
November 29th 1864 – American Indian Wars: A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing 133 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:55 am
November 29th 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:55 am
November 29th 1890 – The Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met after the Meiji Constitution went into effect.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:56 am
November 29th 1929 – American explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:56 am
November 29th 1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 exploded over the Andaman Sea after two North Korean agents left a time bomb in an overhead compartment, killing all 115 people on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:57 am
November 29th 800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:57 am
November 29th 2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:58 am
November 29th 1922 – Howard Carter opens the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:58 am
November 29th 1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/09 at 2:58 am
November 29th 1934 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Detroit Lions 19-16 in the first nationally broadcast game.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:49 am
November 30th 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of Narva.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:49 am
November 30th 1939 – The Winter War broke out as the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland and quickly advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:50 am
November 30th 1979 – The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd, was first released.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:50 am
November 30th 1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a background check.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:51 am
November 30th 2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first member of an ethnic minority to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:51 am
November 30th 1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:52 am
November 30th 1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:52 am
November 30th 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:52 am
November 30th 1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:53 am
November 30th 2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/09 at 1:53 am
November 30th 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:11 am
December 1st 1640 – John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:11 am
December 1st 1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first Emperor of Brazil, less than two months after he actually began his reign on October 12.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:12 am
December 1st 1934 – Soviet Communist Party member Leonid Nikolaev assassinated Politburo member Sergey Kirov at his office in the Smolny in Leningrad.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:12 am
December 1st 1955 – African-American Civil Rights Movement: Seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for violating the racial segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, precipitating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:13 am
December 1st 1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in Antarctica and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:13 am
December 1st 1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:13 am
December 1st 800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:14 am
December 1st 1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:14 am
December 1st 1919 – Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:15 am
December 1st 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:16 am
December 1st 2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA’s purchase by American Airlines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/09 at 2:16 am
December 1st 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:48 am
December 2nd 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: French forces led by Emperor Napoleon I decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army commanded by Czar Alexander I in the Battle of Austerlitz.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:48 am
December 2nd 1823 – U.S. President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:49 am
December 2nd 1942 – The Manhattan Project: Scientists led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in the experimental nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:49 am
December 2nd 1956 – Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:49 am
December 2nd 1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajmān, Dubai, Fujairah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaiwain merged to form the United Arab Emirates.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:50 am
December 2nd 1975 – The Pathet Lao overthrew the royalist government in Vientiane, forcing King Savang Vatthana to abdicate, and established the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:50 am
December 2nd 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:50 am
December 2nd 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:51 am
December 2nd 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:51 am
December 2nd 1939 – New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/09 at 1:52 am
December 2nd 1977 – The first World Series Cricket "supertest" match played between Australia and West Indies
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:52 am
December 3rd 1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before it reached the atmosphere of Mars and disappeared.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:53 am
December 3rd 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: French forces under General Jean Moreau defeated the Austrians and Bavarians under Archduke John in Hohenlinden, near Munich, forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:53 am
December 3rd 1854 – At least 22 people were killed and 35 others were injured when rebelling miners at the Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the military in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:54 am
December 3rd 1967 – Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:54 am
December 3rd 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:56 am
December 3rd 1775 – The USS Alfred became the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:56 am
December 3rd 1917 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:57 am
December 3rd 1968 – Elvis '68 Comeback Special airs nationwide on NBC.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:58 am
December 3rd 1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:59 am
December 3rd 1982 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/09 at 1:59 am
December 3rd 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:55 am
December 4th 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:55 am
December 4th 1676 – Scanian War: Forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated the invading army of Denmark–Norway under the command of King Christian V in an area north of Lund, Sweden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:55 am
December 4th 1829 – The practice of sati was formally abolished in British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy against the Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:56 am
December 4th 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:57 am
December 4th 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the President of the Central African Republic, had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:57 am
December 4th 1992 – Operation Restore Hope: One day after the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 794, U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order after the dissolution of the country's central government during the ongoing Somali Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:57 am
December 4th 771 – Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:58 am
December 4th 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).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:58 am
December 4th 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).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:59 am
December 4th 1967 – Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:59 am
December 4th 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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/09 at 1:59 am
December 4th 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".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:48 am
December 5th 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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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:48 am
December 5th 1492 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:49 am
December 5th 1757 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine at the Battle of Leuthen in Leuthen, present-day Poland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:49 am
December 5th 1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:50 am
December 5th 1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
I'll drink to that!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:50 am
December 5th 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:51 am
December 5th 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
I consider the Bermuda Triangle a total coincidence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:51 am
December 5th 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act came into force, granting civil partnerships in the United Kingdom with rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:51 am
December 5th 63 BC – Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations.
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Written By: nally on 12/05/09 at 1:52 am
December 5th 1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
And that was the only time in U.S. history that a Constitutional amendment was repealed in its entirety.
I'll drink to that!
of course http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/beerchug.gif
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:52 am
December 5th 1360 – The French Franc is created.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:53 am
And that was the only time in U.S. history that a Constitutional amendment was repealed in its entirety.
I learn something new every day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 1:53 am
December 5th 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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Written By: nally on 12/05/09 at 1:55 am
I learn something new every day.
I would know it myself, having been in the US my whole life. I even did well in my US Government class many moons ago.
Likewise, there's probably a multitude of historical facts about the UK that I don't know anything about yet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 2:02 am
Likewise, there's probably a multitude of historical facts about the UK that I don't know anything about yet.
World History is a large subject to learn.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 12/05/09 at 2:13 am
World History is a large subject to learn.
In school, I learned more about UK history that US history. From grade 1 to grade 13 ( end of high school) we never learned anything about US history (oddly enough, I have done lots of reading on US history since than and know more about it than UK history.)
Having gone to French school, I learned a lot about the history of France
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 3:19 am
In school, I learned more about UK history that US history. From grade 1 to grade 13 ( end of high school) we never learned anything about US history (oddly enough, I have done lots of reading on US history since than and know more about it than UK history.)
Having gone to French school, I learned a lot about the history of France
I had to world history from 1812 to 1945
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 3:20 am
I had to world history from 1812 to 1945
...the lesson only lasted 1hr 33min! ;D