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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 3:46 am
August 14th 1888 – A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord one of the first recordings of music ever made, was played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 3:47 am
August 14th 2006 – The United Nations brokered a ceasefire in the Lebanon War between Lebanon and Israel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 3:47 am
August 14th 2007 – Four co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Iraqi towns of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, killing an estimated 796 people and wounding 1,562 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 3:47 am
August 14th 1908 – The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 4:26 am
August 14th 1948 – Don Bradman, widely regarded as the best cricket batsman in history, makes a duck in his final Test innings.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 6:35 am
August 14th 1935 – United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/10 at 6:36 am
August 14th 1947 – Pakistan and India gain Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/14/10 at 7:02 am
August 14th 1935 – United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
and disabled.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:23 pm
August 15th 1947 – The British Raj was partitioned into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:24 pm
August 15th 1945 – The Gyokuon-hōsō was broadcast in Japan, announcing the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army and naval forces, bringing World War II to a close.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:24 pm
August 15th 1914 – The Panama Canal opened to traffic, providing a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:24 pm
August 15th 1695 – Nine Years' War: French forces ended their three-day bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:25 pm
August 15th 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, was laid.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:25 pm
August 15th 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:26 pm
August 15th 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:27 pm
August 15th 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:27 pm
August 15th 1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/10 at 12:29 pm
August 15th 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/10 at 12:40 pm
August 20th 636 – Rashidun Caliphate forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid took control of Syria and Palestine in the Battle of Yarmouk, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests after the death of Muhammad.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/10 at 12:40 pm
August 20th 1794 – American troops defeated the Western Confederacy, a Native American alliance, at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the decisive battle of the Northwest Indian War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/10 at 12:41 pm
August 20th 1882 – Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was first performed at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/10 at 12:41 pm
August 20th 1977 – NASA's Voyager 2 lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on a mission to explore the outer planets of the Solar System.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/10 at 12:41 pm
August 20th 1989 – The final stage of the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia, was completed, becoming the world's longest and fastest guided busway with buses travelling a total of 12 km (7.5 mi) at maximum speeds up to 100 km/h (62 mph).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/10 at 12:41 pm
August 20th 2008 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashed just after take off from Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 154 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/21/10 at 2:59 am
August 21st 1983 – Philippines opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated moments after stepping off a plane at the Manila International Airport from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:19 am
August 22nd 1485 – Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:19 am
August 22nd 1639 – The British East India Company bought a small strip of land on what is today Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, from the King of the Vijayanagara Empire, Peda Venkata Raya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:19 am
August 22nd 1791 – A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, starting the Haitian Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:20 am
August 22nd 1864 – The Red Cross movement led by Henry Dunant officially began when twelve European nations signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:20 am
August 22nd 1910 – Korea was annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:21 am
August 22nd 1770 – James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:22 am
August 22nd 1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:23 am
August 22nd 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/10 at 1:23 am
August 22nd 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 08/27/10 at 12:09 pm
August 27, 2005: Coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to get out of the way of Hurricane Katrina, which was headed toward New Orleans. President George W. Bush asked Americans in his weekly radio address to be patient with the U.S. military mission in Iraq as thousands of pro-Bush and anti-war demonstrators competed for attention in his tiny hometown of Crawford, Texas.
(The hurricane would do its damage two days later.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 12:23 am
August 28th 1963 – During a large political rally in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:36 am
August 28th 1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in Weimar, present-day Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:37 am
August 28th 1901 – Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines, became the first American private school to be founded in the country.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:38 am
August 28th 1914 – In the first naval battle of World War I, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:38 am
August 28th 1955 – African-American teenager Emmett Till was murdered near Money, Mississippi, for flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:39 am
August 28th 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:39 am
August 28th 1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:41 am
August 28th 1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. These will soon be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:41 am
August 28th1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:45 am
August 28th1898 – Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 2:46 am
August 28th 1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/10 at 3:33 am
August 28th 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:32 am
August 29th 2005 – Storm surges of Hurricane Katrina caused multiple breaches in levees around New Orleans, flooding about 80 percent of the city and many neighboring areas for weeks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:32 am
August 29th 2003 – Two car bombs exploded outside of the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, killing Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the spiritual leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, and over eighty others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:33 am
August 29th 1842 – The Treaty of Nanking, an Unequal Treaty ending the First Opium War, was signed, forcing the Chinese Qing Dynasty to give foreign trading privileges, war reparations, control of Hong Kong Island, and other concessions to the British.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:33 am
August 29th 1756 – As neighboring countries began conspiring against him, Frederick II of Prussia launched a preemptive invasion of Saxony, starting the Seven Years' War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:33 am
August 29th 1526 – Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeated and killed Louis II, the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia, at the Battle of Mohács.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:34 am
August 29th 2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:35 am
August 29th 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:36 am
August 29th 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/10 at 1:36 am
August 29th 1910 – Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 08/29/10 at 10:39 am
August 29th 2005 – Storm surges of Hurricane Katrina caused multiple breaches in levees around New Orleans, flooding about 80 percent of the city and many neighboring areas for weeks.
That's right, today marks the 5 year anniversary of that devastating storm. :\'( :\'(
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:43 am
August 30th 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:44 am
August 30th 1574 – Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:44 am
August 30th 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:44 am
August 30th 1791 – HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:44 am
August 30th 1799 – Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:45 am
August 30th 1800 – Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:45 am
August 30th 1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:45 am
August 30th 1813 – Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:45 am
August 30th 1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:47 am
August 30th 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:48 am
August 30th 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:48 am
August 30th 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:48 am
August 30th 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:48 am
August 30th 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:48 am
August 30th 1896 – Eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. These were Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Bataan, Laguna, and Batangas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:50 am
August 30th 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:50 am
August 30th 1914 – Battle of Tannenberg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:50 am
August 30th 1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:50 am
August 30th 1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence”).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:51 am
August 30th 1942 – World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:51 am
August 30th 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:51 am
August 30th 1945 – Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:51 am
August 30th 1956 – Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:51 am
August 30th 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:52 am
August 30th 1963 – Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:52 am
August 30th 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:52 am
August 30th 1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:52 am
August 30th 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:52 am
August 30th 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/10 at 1:53 am
August 30th 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 12:39 pm
August 31st 1422 – As the only heir to the throne, Henry VI became King of England at the age of eight months following the death of his father Henry V.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 12:55 pm
August 31st 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols' body was found on the ground in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row, London, allegedly the first victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 12:56 pm
August 31st 1907 – The Great Game: Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Entente, defining their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 12:57 pm
August 31st 1959 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, failed to kill Sihanouk of Cambodia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 12:57 pm
August 31st 1986 – After a collision with a freighter, the Soviet ocean liner Admiral Nakhimov sank in the Tsemes Bay area of the Black Sea within seven minutes, killing more than 400 people on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 12:57 pm
August 31st 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and their driver Henri Paul were killed in a high speed car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/31/10 at 2:45 pm
August 31st 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and their driver Henri Paul were killed in a high speed car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris.
Wow,13 years passed already. :o
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 2:46 pm
Wow,13 years passed already. :o
..and it was a truly sad day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/31/10 at 2:47 pm
..and it was a truly sad day.
I was suprised.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 2:49 pm
I was suprised.
We all were surprised, it was the suddenness that shocked us all.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/31/10 at 2:49 pm
We all were surprised, it was the suddenness that shocked us all.
I thought it was an accident.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 2:52 pm
I thought it was an accident.
Officially it was an accident, but other say it was not.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/31/10 at 2:53 pm
Officially it was an accident, but other say it was not.
and both were killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/10 at 2:58 pm
and both were killed.
Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the collision. So three died.
Fayed's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the only survivor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/10 at 1:40 pm
September 1st 1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/10 at 1:41 pm
September 1st 1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/10 at 1:42 pm
September 1st 1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/10 at 1:46 pm
September 1st 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/02/10 at 12:16 pm
September 2nd 1901 – U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first uttered the famous phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/02/10 at 12:17 pm
September 2nd 1990 – The small country of Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but independence has only been recognized by Abkhazia and South Ossetia, who are also partially recognised states.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/02/10 at 12:20 pm
September 2nd 1998 – Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/03/10 at 4:56 pm
September 3rd 1783 – Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:36 am
September 4th 476 – Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy, thus ending Western Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:37 am
September 4th 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty of China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:37 am
September 4th 1260 – The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:37 am
September 4th 1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:38 am
September 4th 1781 – Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:38 am
September 4th 1797 – Coup of 18 fructidor an V in France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:38 am
September 4th 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:38 am
September 4th 1862 – Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:39 am
1870 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:39 am
1884 – The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:39 am
1886 – Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:40 am
1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:40 am
1894 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:40 am
1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:41 am
1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:41 am
1941 – World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/10 at 2:41 am
1944 – World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
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1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
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1949 – Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon.
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1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
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1950 – First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip.
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1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
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1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
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1956 – The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
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1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
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1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
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1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
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1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
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1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
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1971 – A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
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1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
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1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
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1977 – The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
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1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
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1996 – War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
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1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
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1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
Happy birthday Google!
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September 4th 1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images2/sep2_great_fire2.jpg
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1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
happy 12th anniversary! :)
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September 4, 1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
happy 12th anniversary! :)
It's been around that long already... time sure does fly!! :o :o
Around that time I was just beginning my first year of college.
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Written By: Howard on 09/04/10 at 7:52 am
It's been around that long already... time sure does fly!! :o :o
Around that time I was just beginning my first year of college.
and I started with Windows 98.
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Written By: nally on 09/04/10 at 7:53 am
and I started with Windows 98.
Yes, I too was getting acquainted with the Windows operating system family. I had been mainly using Mac operating systems for most of the 90's.
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September 5th 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
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September 5th 1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
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September 5th 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
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September 5th 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
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September 5th 1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
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September 5th 1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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September 5th 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
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September 5th 1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
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September 5th 1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
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September 5th 1800 – Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
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September 5th 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
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September 5th 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
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September 5th 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
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September 5th 1839 – The First Opium War begins in China.
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September 5th 1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
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September 5th 1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
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September 5th 1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
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September 5th 1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
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September 5th 1877 – Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
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September 5th 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
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September 5th 1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
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September 5th 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
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September 5th 1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
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September 5th 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
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September 5th 1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
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September 5th 1918 – Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
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September 5th 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
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September 5th 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
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September 5th 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
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September 5th 1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
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September 5th 1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
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September 5th 1943 – World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
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September 5th 1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
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September 5th 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
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September 5th 1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
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September 5th 1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
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September 5th 1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
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September 5th 1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
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September 5th 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
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September 5th 1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
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September 5th 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
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September 5th 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
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September 5th 1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
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September 5th 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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September 5th 1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
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September 5th 1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
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September 5th 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
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September 5th 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
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September 5th 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
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September 5th 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
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September 5th 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
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September 5th 1990 – Eastern University massacre, massacre of 158 Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan army at the Eastern University in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
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September 5th 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
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September 5th 2000 – The Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
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September 5th 2000 – Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
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September 5th 2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
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September 5th 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
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3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
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394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
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1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
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1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
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1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
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1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
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1669 – The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
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1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
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1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
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1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
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1863 – American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
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1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
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1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
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1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
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1901 – Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
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1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
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1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
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1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
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1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
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1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
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1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
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1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
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1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
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1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
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1949 – A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
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1952 – Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
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1955 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
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1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
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1965 – War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
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1966 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
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1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.
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1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
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1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
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1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
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1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
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1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
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1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
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1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
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1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
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1995 – Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
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1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.