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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:30 am
1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:31 am
1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
It took nine years?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:32 am
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:33 am
1922 – Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:34 am
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:34 am
1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:34 am
1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:34 am
1932 – Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:35 am
1934 – The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:35 am
1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:36 am
1939 – William Joyce makes his first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:36 am
1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:37 am
1942 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is authorized.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:37 am
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:37 am
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:38 am
1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:38 am
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:38 am
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:38 am
1948 – Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:39 am
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:40 am
1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:40 am
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:41 am
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:41 am
1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:41 am
1964 – Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:42 am
1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:43 am
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:43 am
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:44 am
1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:45 am
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:46 am
1978 – Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:48 am
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:49 am
1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:49 am
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:50 am
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:50 am
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:50 am
1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:50 am
1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:51 am
1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:52 am
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:53 am
1997 – Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:53 am
1998 – ICANN is formed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:54 am
1998 – ICANN is formed.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:54 am
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:54 am
2006 – Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape is made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:54 am
2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:55 am
2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:55 am
2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/10 at 2:56 am
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
http://www.negotiationlawblog.com/earth_moon.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:56 am
335 – Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:56 am
1356 – Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:56 am
1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:58 am
1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:58 am
1777 – First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:58 am
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:59 am
1796 – George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:59 am
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 2:59 am
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:00 am
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:00 am
1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:00 am
1881 – President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:00 am
1893 – Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:01 am
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:01 am
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:01 am
1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:01 am
1945 – Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:02 am
1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:02 am
1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:02 am
1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:03 am
1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test.
But where underground?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:03 am
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:04 am
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
Too tall for the rides?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:04 am
1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:05 am
1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
Are there any pictures?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:05 am
1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:05 am
1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of Geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:08 am
1971 – Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:08 am
1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:08 am
1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:09 am
1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:09 am
1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:09 am
1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:09 am
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:10 am
1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:10 am
1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:13 am
1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:13 am
1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:13 am
1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:13 am
1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:13 am
2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:15 am
1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
http://www.12vn.net/images/%D6tzi%20the%20Iceman.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:16 am
1873 - Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:16 am
1981 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/10 at 3:18 am
1853 - Baptist pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor, 21, set sail from England to China. In 1865, Taylor founded the China Inland Mission, now known as Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Its U.S. branch is HQ'd today in Robesonia, PA.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:24 am
1378 – Papal Schism: Unhappy with Pope Urban VI, a group of cardinals started a rival papacy with the election of Antipope Clement VII, throwing the Roman Catholic Church into turmoil.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:24 am
1854 – The Crimean War began with a Franco-British victory over Russian forces at the Battle of Alma near the River Alma in Crimea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:24 am
1870 – The Bersaglieri entered Rome, ending the temporal power of the Pope and completing the unification of Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:25 am
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival opened in Cannes, France, with eleven films eventually sharing the Palme d'Or award, then known as the Grand Prize of the Festival, that year.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:25 am
1979 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic, was ousted in a coup d'état backed by the French government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:25 am
2001 – During a televised address to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a "war on terror" against Al-Qaeda and other global terrorist groups.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:25 am
1967 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:25 am
1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:53 pm
1891 – The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 1:53 pm
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 2:46 pm
1633 – Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 2:47 pm
1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 2:48 pm
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/10 at 2:49 pm
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/10 at 1:12 pm
1792 – French Revolution: The National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, and proclaimed the First Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/10 at 1:12 pm
1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform in China was abruptly terminated when Empress Dowager Cixi forced the reform-minded Guangxu Emperor into seclusion and took over the government as regent.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/10 at 1:12 pm
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, a predecessor to The Lord of the Rings, was first published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/10 at 1:13 pm
1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu was assassinated in Bucharest by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/10 at 1:13 pm
1942 – The prototype model of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a four-engine heavy bomber that became one of the largest aircraft to see service during World War II, flew for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/10 at 1:13 pm
1999 – A 7.6 Mw earthquake struck Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan, killing 2,416 people, injuring over 11,000 others and causing about NT$300 billion in damage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/10 at 1:14 pm
1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/10 at 1:33 pm
1792 – The epoch of the French Republican Calendar occurred, marking the first full day of the newly proclaimed French First Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/10 at 1:33 pm
1827 – According to his own record of his early life, Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. obtained the golden plates, a set of engraved plates that he said was his source material for the Book of Mormon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/10 at 1:33 pm
1862 – Slavery in the United States: President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory by January 1, 1863.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/10 at 1:33 pm
1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by German composer Richard Wagner, was first performed in Munich.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/10 at 1:34 pm
1914 – In World War I, German naval forces bombard Papeete in French Polynesia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/10 at 1:34 pm
1979 – The Vela Incident: An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:29 pm
622 – Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:29 pm
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:30 pm
1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:30 pm
1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:30 pm
1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:30 pm
1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:31 pm
1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:31 pm
1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:31 pm
1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:31 pm
1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:32 pm
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:32 pm
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:32 pm
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:33 pm
1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:33 pm
1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:33 pm
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:34 pm
1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:34 pm
1957 – Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:34 pm
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:35 pm
1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:35 pm
1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:35 pm
1968 – Swaziland joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:35 pm
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:35 pm
1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:36 pm
1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:36 pm
1990 – Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
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Written By: nally on 09/24/10 at 12:36 pm
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
And a particular friend of mine was born that day, for the record.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:38 pm
And a particular friend of mine was born that day, for the record.
Birthday wishes to your friend for today.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:38 pm
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:38 pm
2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/10 at 12:39 pm
2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
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Written By: nally on 09/24/10 at 12:42 pm
Birthday wishes to your friend for today.
Thank you; I already sent her an electronic card. :)
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Written By: Howard on 09/24/10 at 2:58 pm
1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
and years later there was Outlook Express.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:00 am
1066 – Harold Godwinson of England defeated Harald Hardråde of Norway in Yorkshire at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of Viking invasion of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:00 am
1396 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary in the Battle of Nicopolis near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:00 am
1513 – Conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa upon a peak in present-day Darién, Panama, became the first European known to have seen the Pacific Ocean from the New World, naming it Mar del Sur, or South Sea, a few days later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:00 am
1944 – World War II: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:01 am
1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:01 am
1996 – The last Magdalene Asylum, an institution to rehabilitate so-called "fallen" women, in Ireland was closed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:01 am
275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:01 am
303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:02 am
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:02 am
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:02 am
1775 – Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:03 am
1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:03 am
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:03 am
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:03 am
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:03 am
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:03 am
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:04 am
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
Okay then, who broke it?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:04 am
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:04 am
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:04 am
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:05 am
1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:05 am
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:05 am
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:06 am
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:06 am
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:06 am
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:06 am
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:06 am
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:07 am
1972 – In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:07 am
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:08 am
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:08 am
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:08 am
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:08 am
1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:09 am
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:10 am
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/25/10 at 5:11 am
2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:54 am
46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:54 am
715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:54 am
1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:55 am
1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:55 am
1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:55 am
1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:55 am
1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:56 am
1783 – The first battle of Shays' Rebellion begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:56 am
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:56 am
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:56 am
1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:57 am
1820 – Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proved tomatoes weren't poisonous by eating several on the steps of the courthouse in Salem, New Jersey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:57 am
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:57 am
1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:57 am
1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 2:59 am
1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:00 am
1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:00 am
1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:01 am
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:01 am
1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:01 am
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:01 am
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:01 am
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:02 am
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:02 am
1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:04 am
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
While JFK was being busy.....
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:04 am
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:04 am
1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:05 am
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:05 am
1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:06 am
1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:06 am
1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:06 am
1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:06 am
1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:07 am
2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:08 am
2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:08 am
2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:08 am
2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 3:09 am
2009 – Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/10 at 12:31 pm
1774 - Birth of pioneer environmentalist Jonathan Chapman (Johnny Appleseed). Distributing apple seeds and religious tracts from the Alleghenies to the Ohio Valley, Chapman's theology was strongly reminiscent of Swedenborgianism, which taught an empathy with the natural world.
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Written By: Howard on 09/27/10 at 7:36 am
September 27th,1985: Hurricane Gloria makes it's way toward Long Island and NYC.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:27 pm
489 – Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:27 pm
1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:27 pm
1422 – after the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:27 pm
1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:28 pm
1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:28 pm
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:28 pm
1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:28 pm
1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:29 pm
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:29 pm
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
Then Washington took over?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:29 pm
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:29 pm
1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:29 pm
1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:32 pm
1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:33 pm
1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:33 pm
* 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:34 pm
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:34 pm
1916 – Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.