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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:33 am
1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:33 am
1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:33 am
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:34 am
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:35 am
1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:35 am
1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:35 am
1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:36 am
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:37 am
1945 – World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:37 am
1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:37 am
1958 – Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:38 am
1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:38 am
1963 – Guinea-Bissau War of Independence offially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:38 am
1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:39 am
1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:40 am
1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:40 am
1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:40 am
1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:41 am
1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
Is that the same volcano that caused all the travel disruption last year?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:41 am
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:42 am
1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:43 am
1997 – Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:43 am
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:43 am
2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and is subsequently murdered .
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:43 am
2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:43 am
2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
Where did it go?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 2:44 am
2009 – Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:14 pm
1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:15 pm
1531 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:15 pm
1564 – The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:15 pm
1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:15 pm
1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:16 pm
1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:16 pm
1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:16 pm
1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:16 pm
1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:17 pm
1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:17 pm
1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:17 pm
1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:17 pm
1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:18 pm
1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:18 pm
1855 – Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:18 pm
1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:19 pm
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:19 pm
1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:19 pm
1863 – American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:19 pm
1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:20 pm
1885 – Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:20 pm
1905 – The Cullinan Diamond is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:20 pm
1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:21 pm
1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:22 pm
1911 – Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:22 pm
1918 – Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:23 pm
1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:24 pm
1924 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:24 pm
1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:24 pm
1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:24 pm
1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:25 pm
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:25 pm
1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:25 pm
1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:25 pm
1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:25 pm
1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:25 pm
1960 – Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:26 pm
1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:28 pm
1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:28 pm
1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:29 pm
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:29 pm
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
Were they ever found?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:29 pm
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
Disappeared on Australia Day too!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:30 pm
1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:30 pm
1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:30 pm
1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:30 pm
1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:30 pm
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:31 pm
2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:31 pm
2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:31 pm
2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 1:31 pm
2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 01/26/11 at 3:05 pm
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
He did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 01/26/11 at 3:06 pm
1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
I was 4 years old at that time going on 5 in March.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/11 at 3:12 pm
He did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Allegedly!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 01/26/11 at 3:13 pm
Allegedly!
But no sex videos were leaked.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:49 pm
But no sex videos were leaked.
I have not noticed any?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:51 pm
1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:52 pm
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:52 pm
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:52 pm
1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:52 pm
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:52 pm
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:53 pm
1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:53 pm
1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:54 pm
1813 – Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:54 pm
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:54 pm
1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:54 pm
1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:54 pm
1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:56 pm
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:56 pm
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:57 pm
1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:57 pm
1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:57 pm
1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:58 pm
1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:59 pm
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:59 pm
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:00 pm
1917 – Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:00 pm
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:01 pm
1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:01 pm
1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:01 pm
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:01 pm
1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:02 pm
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:02 pm
1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:03 pm
1941 – French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:03 pm
1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:07 pm
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:09 pm
1964 – An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:09 pm
1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:09 pm
1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affects and cripples much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow on this one day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:10 pm
1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:10 pm
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:12 pm
1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:12 pm
1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:12 pm
1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:14 pm
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:14 pm
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:15 pm
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów / Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:15 pm
2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed were hanged.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:15 pm
1581 Scotland's King James VI, who in 1603 would become England's James I, signed the Second Scottish Confession of Faith.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:16 pm
1822 Birth of William D. Longstaff, English philanthropist. A close acquaintance of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey, Longstaff is better remembered today as author of the hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:16 pm
1834 Birth of Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican clergyman and author. A man of widely diverging interests, he published numerous books on history, biography, poetry and fiction. He also penned the enduring hymns, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day is Over."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:16 pm
1947 In NY City, a copy of the 1640 Bay Psalm Book was purchased at an auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries for $150,000 --the highest price ever paid to date for a single volume. (The original title of the book was: "The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.")
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 2:16 pm
1977 The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith published an 18-page document ruling out the admission of women to the Roman Catholic priesthood because women lacked a "natural resemblance which must exist between Christ and his ministers."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 01/28/11 at 2:18 pm
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
I posted something similar in the 25 Years Ago thread. There was even a look back on it during one segment of the Today Show this morning.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 12:23 am
I posted something similar in the 25 Years Ago thread. There was even a look back on it during one segment of the Today Show this morning.
That was a sad tragic day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 12:24 am
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
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1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
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1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
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1845 – "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
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1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
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1856 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issued a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that established the Victoria Cross, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
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1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
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1863 – Indian Wars in North America: The United States Army led by Patrick Edward Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and forces of the Shoshone at the Bear River Massacre in present day Franklin County, Idaho.
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1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
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1891 – Liliʻuokalani (pictured) was proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
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1891 – Liliʻuokalani (pictured) was proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Liliuokalani_140x190.jpg/74px-Liliuokalani_140x190.jpg
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1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
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1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
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1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
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1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
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1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
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1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
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1943 – World War II: The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal Campaign, began.
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1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
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1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
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1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
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1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
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1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 12:34 am
1979 – Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
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1985 – Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
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1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
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1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
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1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
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1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 12:38 am
1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 12:39 am
2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 12:40 am
2002 – In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
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2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
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2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
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2009 – Egyptian identification card controversy: The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions are also eligible to receive government identity documents.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 4:25 am
993 - St. Ulrich, who lived c.890-973, and was Bishop of Augsburg from 923, was canonized at a Lateran Synod. With this action by Pope John XV, St. Ulrich became the first individual in Roman Catholic history formally elevated to sainthood.
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1499 - Birth of Katherine von Bora, the former German nun who became Martin Luther's wife in 1525 when he was 41 and she 26. During their 21-year marriage, Katie bore Martin 3 sons and 3 daughters. Her death in 1552 followed six years after her husband's in 1546.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 4:26 am
1780 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/11 at 4:26 am
1921 - The Congregational Holiness Church was formally organized, following a split the previous year with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Headquartered today in Griffin, GA, most CHC churches are located in the Southeast US.
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1967 - Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny conferred at the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state.
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1048 – Protestantism: The villagers around today's Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop. Later, in a move that would not be seen before the Protestant Reformation, he is also elected Pope by acclamatio, just to die that same day. It is rumored that Ildebrando di Soana heard of the acclamatio and used it later to get elected himself as Pope Gregory VII.
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1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
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1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
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1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
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1667 – The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
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1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
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1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
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1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
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1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
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1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
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1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
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1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
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1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:31 am
1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
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1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
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1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London.
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1911 – The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
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1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
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1913 – The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
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1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
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1930 – The world's second radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
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1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
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1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
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1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
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1944 – World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
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1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,000 people.
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1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
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1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
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1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:37 am
1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
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1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
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1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:38 am
1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:39 am
1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:41 am
1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
I must listen to that today.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:41 am
1972 – Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
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1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:42 am
1979 – Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:42 am
1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:42 am
1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
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1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
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1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:43 am
1996 – Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 3:44 am
2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 12:18 pm
435 - Rome recognized the Vandal territories in Northwest Africa as "federati," in an effort to stave off their invasion of Italy. (The invasion was successfully postponed for 20 years.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 12:18 pm
1750 - In Colonial America, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston delivered a sermon entitled, "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission." The sermon attacked both the divine right of kings and ecclesiastical absolutism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 12:18 pm
1788 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Alas for the rich! They are so soon offended.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 12:19 pm
1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'God feeds the wild flowers on the lonely mountain side without the help of man.... So God can feed his own planted ones without the help of man, by the sweetly falling dew of his Spirit.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/11 at 12:19 pm
1867 - The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance was organized at the Bible House in New York City, with William E. Dodge elected president.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:27 pm
314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:27 pm
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
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1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
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1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:28 pm
1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:28 pm
1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:28 pm
1848 – John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:28 pm
1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:29 pm
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:29 pm
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
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1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
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1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
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1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
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1891 – The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:33 pm
1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:33 pm
1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:34 pm
1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:34 pm
1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
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1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
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1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
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1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
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1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:36 pm
1943 – German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/11 at 1:36 pm
1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.