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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:13 pm
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:14 pm
1933 – Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:14 pm
1935 – A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:14 pm
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:14 pm
1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:15 pm
1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:15 pm
1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:15 pm
1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:15 pm
1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:16 pm
1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:16 pm
1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:17 pm
1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:17 pm
1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:17 pm
1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:17 pm
1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:18 pm
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:18 pm
1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:18 pm
1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:18 pm
1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:19 pm
1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:19 pm
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:19 pm
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:24 pm
1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:25 pm
1950 - Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:26 pm
1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John Lennon
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:26 pm
1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:28 pm
1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:29 pm
1990 - "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:29 pm
1990 - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:30 pm
1990 - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:30 pm
1990 - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/10 at 1:30 pm
1990 - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: DoRitos on 11/08/10 at 9:40 pm
TODAY in history will have to wait until tomorrow before it can be considered history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:51 am
TODAY in history will have to wait until tomorrow before it can be considered history.
That day has arrived now and was yesterday a historic day?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:00 pm
694 – Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:00 pm
1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:00 pm
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:01 pm
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:01 pm
1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, was assassinated in Belgrade.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:01 pm
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:01 pm
1494 – The Family de' Medici were expelled from Florence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:03 pm
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:03 pm
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:03 pm
1688 – The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:03 pm
1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:04 pm
1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:06 pm
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:06 pm
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:07 pm
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:07 pm
1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:08 pm
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:08 pm
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:08 pm
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:08 pm
1857 – The Atlantic founded in Boston.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:09 pm
1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:10 pm
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:10 pm
1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:10 pm
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:10 pm
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:11 pm
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:12 pm
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:12 pm
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:12 pm
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:13 pm
1914 – SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:13 pm
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:14 pm
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:14 pm
1921 – Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:14 pm
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:14 pm
1932 – Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:14 pm
1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:15 pm
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:15 pm
1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:15 pm
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:15 pm
1947 – Junagadh is annexed as to Indian military intervention.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:16 pm
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:16 pm
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:16 pm
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:17 pm
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:17 pm
1965 – Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:17 pm
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:18 pm
1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:20 pm
1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:21 pm
1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:21 pm
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:24 pm
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:25 pm
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
I just knew that there was something familiar about today for JTR
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:25 pm
1990 – Mary Robinson is elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:26 pm
1993 – Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:26 pm
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:28 pm
1998 – A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:28 pm
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:28 pm
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:28 pm
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:28 pm
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:41 pm
1970 - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 1:42 pm
1980 - Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: DoRitos on 11/09/10 at 2:55 pm
That day has arrived now and was yesterday a historic day?
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift... That is why we call it the "present". ;)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/10 at 2:58 pm
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift... That is why we call it the "present". ;)
Too true.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:05 pm
1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:06 pm
1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:06 pm
1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:06 pm
1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King killed Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:06 pm
1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:06 pm
1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:07 pm
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:07 pm
1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:07 pm
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:08 pm
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:08 pm
1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:08 pm
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, allegedly greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:08 pm
1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:09 pm
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:10 pm
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:11 pm
1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:11 pm
1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:11 pm
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:11 pm
1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:12 pm
1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:12 pm
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:12 pm
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:15 pm
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:15 pm
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:15 pm
1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:17 pm
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:17 pm
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:17 pm
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:18 pm
1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:18 pm
1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:19 pm
1989 – Fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:19 pm
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:19 pm
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:20 pm
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/10 at 1:20 pm
2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 11/11/10 at 7:58 am
Armistice Day
November 11 commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:49 pm
Armistice Day
November 11 commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:49 pm
November 11th 1918 – End of World War I: Canadian soldier George Lawrence Price was killed in action minutes before the armistice treaty signed by Germany and the Allies came into effect.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:50 pm
November 11th 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiègne in France. The war officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:50 pm
308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:50 pm
1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:51 pm
1500 – Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:51 pm
1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
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1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:51 pm
1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:52 pm
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:53 pm
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Integral_example.svg/220px-Integral_example.svg.png
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:53 pm
1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:54 pm
1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:54 pm
1778 – Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:54 pm
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:54 pm
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:54 pm
1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:54 pm
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:55 pm
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:55 pm
1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:55 pm
1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:55 pm
1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:56 pm
1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 12:56 pm
1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
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1889 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
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1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:10 pm
1918 – Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence, celebrated each year on this day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:10 pm
1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
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1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:10 pm
1919 – Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:11 pm
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:11 pm
1924 – Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
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1926 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
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1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:12 pm
1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:12 pm
1935 – Canadian Doctor Gilles R. Bouchard from Stanstead, Quebec is born.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:13 pm
1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:13 pm
1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:13 pm
1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:13 pm
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:13 pm
1944 – Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:14 pm
1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:15 pm
1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:15 pm
1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:15 pm
1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:16 pm
1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:16 pm
1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:16 pm
1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:16 pm
1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:16 pm
1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:18 pm
1975 – Independence of Angola.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:19 pm
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:19 pm
1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:19 pm
1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War was dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:19 pm
1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:19 pm
2000 – Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:20 pm
2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:20 pm
2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:21 pm
2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:21 pm
2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:21 pm
2008 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:22 pm
November 11th 2010 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows premiered.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:22 pm
November 11th 2010 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows premiered.
....Part One
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:22 pm
November 11th 2010 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows premiered.
....Part One
Part Two has it's premier next summer.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:37 pm
1640 - John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:37 pm
1909 - J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premieres in London
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:38 pm
1980 - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:40 pm
1985 - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
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1990 - "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 169 perfs
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/10 at 1:40 pm
1990 - Calif's Chuck Finley & Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:19 pm
764 – Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:20 pm
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:22 pm
1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:22 pm
1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:22 pm
1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
Elizabeth I was behind all this.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:22 pm
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:23 pm
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:23 pm
1892 – William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:23 pm
1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:23 pm
1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:24 pm
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:24 pm
1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
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1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:24 pm
1922 – The Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:24 pm
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:25 pm
1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:25 pm
1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
I was lead to believe that this was done on 1st April of the same year.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:26 pm
1936 – In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:26 pm
1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:26 pm
1941 – World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:26 pm
1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:27 pm
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:27 pm
1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:27 pm
1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:27 pm
1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:28 pm
1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:28 pm
1968 – Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:28 pm
1968 – Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District is argued before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:29 pm
1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:29 pm
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:29 pm
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:30 pm
1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:31 pm
1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:32 pm
1978 – Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:32 pm
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in theran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:32 pm
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:34 pm
1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:35 pm
1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:35 pm
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:35 pm
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:35 pm
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:36 pm
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
Good o' Tim!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:37 pm
1991 – Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:37 pm
1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:37 pm
1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:37 pm
1998 – U.S. Vice President Al Gore signs the Kyoto Protocol.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/10 at 1:38 pm
1998 – Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.