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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:34 pm
1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:34 pm
1928 – The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:35 pm
1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:37 pm
1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:37 pm
1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:37 pm
1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:37 pm
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:37 pm
1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:38 pm
1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:38 pm
1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:38 pm
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:38 pm
1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:38 pm
1959 – Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:39 pm
1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:39 pm
1964 – The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:39 pm
1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 made its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:40 pm
1968 – The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:41 pm
1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:41 pm
1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:41 pm
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:42 pm
1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:42 pm
1995 – The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:42 pm
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:42 pm
1996 – The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:43 pm
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:43 pm
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
Okay, who lost it?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:43 pm
1998 – Google is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:43 pm
2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:44 pm
2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:44 pm
2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 09/27/10 at 12:46 pm
1998 – Google is founded.
happy 12th anniversary. :)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:46 pm
1998 – Google is founded.
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/Phil_O-Sopher/googbday10-hp.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 09/27/10 at 12:47 pm
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/Phil_O-Sopher/googbday10-hp.jpg
I remember in 98',It was Windows 98 and boy that was awful.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:50 pm
I remember in 98',It was Windows 98 and boy that was awful.
Everyone has to start somewhere.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 09/27/10 at 12:53 pm
Everyone has to start somewhere.
and Windows 98 always seemed to crash everytime I closed the browser.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:54 pm
and Windows 98 always seemed to crash everytime I closed the browser.
It did not crash for me, you must had had a dodgy computer back then?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 09/27/10 at 12:56 pm
It did not crash for me, you must had had a dodgy computer back then?
It was time for a change.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 12:58 pm
It was time for a change.
A change for the better.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 09/27/10 at 1:00 pm
A change for the better.
after that My father switched to Windows 2000
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/10 at 1:01 pm
after that My father switched to Windows 2000
Better applications have been available since then.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 09/27/10 at 1:02 pm
Better applications have been available since then.
XP,Vista....
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:49 pm
48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:50 pm
351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:50 pm
365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:50 pm
935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:50 pm
995 – Members of Slavník's dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:51 pm
1066 – William the Conqueror invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:52 pm
1066 – William the Conqueror invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
Setting the scene for "The Battle of Hastings"
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:52 pm
1106 – The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:53 pm
1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:53 pm
1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:53 pm
1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:54 pm
1542 – Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:54 pm
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:55 pm
1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:55 pm
1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:56 pm
1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:56 pm
1791 – France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:57 pm
1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:57 pm
1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:58 pm
1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:58 pm
1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:58 pm
1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:59 pm
1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:59 pm
1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:59 pm
1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 12:59 pm
1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:00 pm
1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:00 pm
1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:00 pm
1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:00 pm
1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:02 pm
1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:02 pm
1962 – The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:02 pm
1971 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:03 pm
1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:03 pm
1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:04 pm
1987 – The beginning of the Palestinian civil disobedience uprising, "The First Intifada" against the Israeli occupation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:04 pm
1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:04 pm
1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:05 pm
2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:06 pm
2008 – SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/28/10 at 1:06 pm
2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, sexually assaulted, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 1:09 am
1955 – Film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California, US.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 1:09 am
1791 – The Magic Flute, one of the last operas composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 1:11 am
1967 – BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 12:33 pm
1960 - The Flintstones first broadcasted.
The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 12:35 pm
1960 - The Flintstones first broadcasted.
The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2010/flintstones10-hp.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 12:37 pm
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 12:37 pm
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 12:37 pm
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/10 at 12:38 pm
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 12:59 pm
331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 12:59 pm
959 – Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 12:59 pm
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 12:59 pm
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:00 pm
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:01 pm
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:01 pm
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:02 pm
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:02 pm
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:02 pm
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:02 pm
1827 – The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:03 pm
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:03 pm
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:04 pm
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
...and still is published every Sunday
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:04 pm
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:05 pm
1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:05 pm
1869 – Austria issues the world's first postcards.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:05 pm
1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:06 pm
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:07 pm
1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:07 pm
1890 – The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:08 pm
1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:08 pm
1898 – Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:08 pm
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:09 pm
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:09 pm
1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:10 pm
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:10 pm
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
How much?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:11 pm
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:11 pm
1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:12 pm
1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
I've seen the film!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:12 pm
1920 – Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:12 pm
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:12 pm
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:13 pm
1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:13 pm
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:13 pm
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:13 pm
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces enter the city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:14 pm
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:14 pm
1942 – USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:14 pm
1942 – First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:14 pm
1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:15 pm
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:15 pm
1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:15 pm
1947 – The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:15 pm
1949 – The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:16 pm
1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:16 pm
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:16 pm
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:16 pm
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:17 pm
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:17 pm
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:17 pm
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:18 pm
1965 – Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:19 pm
1965 – General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:19 pm
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:19 pm
1968 – The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:19 pm
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:19 pm
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:20 pm
1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:20 pm
1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:20 pm
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:20 pm
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:21 pm
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:21 pm
1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:21 pm
1982 – EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:21 pm
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:21 pm
1985 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:22 pm
1987 – The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:22 pm
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:23 pm
1991 – New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 comes into force.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:23 pm
1992 – Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet is crippled causing 27 deaths and injuries, by missiles negligently launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:23 pm
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:23 pm
1998 – Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 1:23 pm
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:39 pm
1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:39 pm
1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:40 pm
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:40 pm
1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:40 pm
1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:40 pm
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:41 pm
1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:41 pm
1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:41 pm
1851 – The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:41 pm
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:42 pm
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:42 pm
1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:42 pm
1924 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:42 pm
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:43 pm
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
Go ahead and blame him!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:43 pm
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:43 pm
1938 – Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:43 pm
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:44 pm
1944 – World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:44 pm
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:44 pm
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:45 pm
1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:45 pm
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:46 pm
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:46 pm
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:47 pm
1990 – A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:47 pm
1992 – The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:49 pm
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:49 pm
1996 – An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:50 pm
1997 – European Union: The Amsterdam Treaty is signed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:50 pm
2001 – NATO backs US military strikes following 9/11.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:51 pm
2001 – Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:51 pm
2001 – Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
Roll over to a new brand name?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:51 pm
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:52 pm
2004 – American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:52 pm
2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:52 pm
2005 – NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:54 pm
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:54 pm
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:55 pm
2009 – Rio de Janeiro is elected the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/10 at 10:55 pm
2009 – The Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland is approved at the second attempt, permitting the state to ratify the European Union's Treaty of Lisbon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/10 at 2:38 am
1990 - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/10 at 2:44 am
1988 - Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/10 at 3:45 am
1971 - Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/10 at 3:57 am
1967 - Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/10 at 4:04 am
1782 - The Baptist Missionary Society was founded in London, England. This first modern mission society was started by William Carey, then 21, who later became England's first great Protestant missionary to India.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 1:58 am
52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 1:58 am
42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 1:58 am
1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 1:58 am
1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 1:59 am
1683 – The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 1:59 am
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:00 am
1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:00 am
1778 – British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:00 am
1795 – General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:01 am
1835 – The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:01 am
1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:01 am
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:01 am
1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:02 am
1908 – The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:02 am
1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:03 am
1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:03 am
1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:04 am
1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:04 am
1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:05 am
1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.The V2 rocket was used later on the WW2 for targeting London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:05 am
1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:06 am
1951 – The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:07 am
1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:07 am
1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:08 am
1957 – Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:08 am
1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:08 am
1964 – First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:08 am
1981 – The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:09 am
1964 – First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
Do buffaloes have wings?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:10 am
1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:10 am
1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:11 am
1990 – Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:12 am
1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:12 am
1995 – O J Simpson acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:13 am
2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 2:13 am
2008 – The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 4:19 am
1990 - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 4:21 am
1974 - Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/10 at 4:21 am
1974 - Watergate trial begins