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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:19 am
1138 – Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:19 am
1639 – Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:19 am
1781 – German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus (pictured) while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset, England, thinking it was a comet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:20 am
1781 – German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus (pictured) while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset, England, thinking it was a comet.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Uranus2.jpg/100px-Uranus2.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:20 am
1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:20 am
1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:23 am
1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:23 am
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:23 am
1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:24 am
1884 – Mahdist War: Forces loyal to self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad began a 319-day siege of a combined Anglo-Egyptian force defending Khartoum, Sudan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:24 am
1897 – San Diego State University is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:24 am
1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:25 am
1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:25 am
1921 – Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:25 am
1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:25 am
1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:26 am
1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:26 am
1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:26 am
1938 – Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:27 am
1940 – The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:27 am
1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:28 am
1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:28 am
1954 – Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:29 am
1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:29 am
1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:30 am
1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:30 am
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:31 am
1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:33 am
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:33 am
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
I hope that The Seikan Tunnel has survived the recent events in Japan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:34 am
1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:34 am
1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:35 am
1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:36 am
1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:36 am
1997 – A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:37 am
1997 – A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora.
Any clips on YouTube?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:37 am
2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:37 am
2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:37 am
2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:38 am
1997 – A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora.
Was it a Full Moon that night?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:41 am
1687 - Father Eusebio Kino, 42, an Italian-born Jesuit in the service of Spain, began missionary labors in the American Southwest. In all, Kino established 25 Indian missions in the area now divided between northern Mexico and Arizona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:41 am
1804 - Birth of James W. Alexander, American Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer. It was Alexander who, in 1830, rendered the English text of Paul Gerhardt's immortal German hymn, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:41 am
1868 - Birth of Charles E. Cowman, American missionary pioneer. In 1901 he sailed to Japan with his wife Lettie (who later authored "Streams in the Desert"), where in 1910 they founded the Oriental Missionary Society.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:41 am
1904 - "The Christ of the Andes", a bronze statue of Christ located on the Argentina-Chile border, was formally dedicated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:42 am
1925 - Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signed legislation prohibiting the teaching of evolution within the state's public school system. (A celebrated violation of this law led to the famous July Scopes Monkey Trial.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:42 am
1911 - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in New York NY
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:43 am
1922 - George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh V" premieres in New York NY
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:44 am
1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:44 am
1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:46 am
1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:47 am
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:47 am
1977 - Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:48 am
1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:48 am
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:50 am
1991 - Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:51 am
1992 - Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:51 am
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:51 am
1954 - Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 2:52 am
1954 - Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
Is the rest history?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 1:56 pm
1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 1:57 pm
1677 - Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 1:57 pm
1865 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/11 at 1:57 pm
1900 - In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:39 pm
313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:39 pm
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:40 pm
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:40 pm
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:42 pm
1757 – British Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was court-martialled and executed by firing squad for breaching the Articles of War when he failed to "do his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca at the start of the Seven Years' War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:43 pm
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:43 pm
1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:44 pm
1794 – American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, the first ever machine that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seedpods.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:44 pm
1885 – The Mikado (poster pictured), Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy Opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:44 pm
1885 – The Mikado (poster pictured), Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy Opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/The_Mikado.jpg/65px-The_Mikado.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:46 pm
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:46 pm
1903 – The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:46 pm
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:46 pm
1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:47 pm
1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:47 pm
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:47 pm
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:48 pm
1943 – World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:48 pm
1945 – World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:48 pm
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:48 pm
1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:49 pm
1967 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:49 pm
1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:49 pm
1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:49 pm
1980 – In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:50 pm
1984 – Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:50 pm
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:50 pm
1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:51 pm
2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:52 pm
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:52 pm
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:57 pm
1559 - French-born Swiss reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'If your labors, where you now are, are sterile, and if here an abundant harvest awaits them, which is the most forcible tie? the one by which God draws you hither, or the one that detains you there?'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:57 pm
1908 - Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was chartered in Waco, Texas. Originally named Baylor Theological Seminary, the school campus relocated in 1910 to Fort Worth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:57 pm
1912 - Death of Albert L. Peace, 68. One of the noted Scottish organists of his day, Peace composed many cantatas, organ pieces and hymn tunes __ including the enduring ST. MARGARET, to which the Church today sings George Matheson's "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:57 pm
1937 - English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'Neither the nearness nor the remoteness of Christ's return is a rule to regulate us in the ordering of our temporal affairs. Spiritual preparedness is the great matter.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 2:58 pm
1961 - The New Testament of the New English Bible was simultaneously published by both the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. (The complete Old & New Testament of the NEB was published in 1970.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 3:04 pm
1997 - President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/11 at 3:05 pm
1991 - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:13 am
44 BC – Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:14 am
221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:14 am
351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:14 am
933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:14 am
1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:14 am
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:15 am
1514 – Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:15 am
1545 – First meeting of the Council of Trent.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:15 am
1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:15 am
1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:15 am
1776 – South Carolina became the first of Great Britain's North American colonies to declare its independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:16 am
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:16 am
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:16 am
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:16 am
1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:17 am
1877 – The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:17 am
1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:17 am
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:18 am
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II (pictured) of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:18 am
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II (pictured) of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Nicholas_II_of_Russia_cropped.jpg/100px-Nicholas_II_of_Russia_cropped.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:18 am
1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:19 am
1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:19 am
1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:19 am
1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:19 am
1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:19 am
1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:19 am
1943 – World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:20 am
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:20 am
1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:20 am
1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:21 am
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:21 am
1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 2:21 am
1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
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1990 – Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
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1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
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2004 – French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban.
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1729 - A Ceremony of Profession was held for Sister St. Stanislaus Hachard at the Ursuline convent in New Orleans, thereby making her the first Catholic woman to become a nun in America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:05 pm
1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'All my ideas of peace and joy are linked in with my Bible; and I would not give the hours of secret converse with it for all the other hours I spend in this world.'
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1875 - In New York City, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop John McCloskey, 65, became the first American to be named a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'The believer is a displaced person. He loses the controlling features of both environment and heredity.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:05 pm
1953 - The first Southern Baptist church in North Dakota was formed in Williston, with 12 charter members. (The North Dakota Southern Baptist Association was formed the following year with five member churches.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:09 pm
1908 - First performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
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1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:12 pm
1956 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
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1958 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:13 pm
1965 - TGIFriday's first restaurant opens in New York NY
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:13 pm
1970 - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
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1981 - "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:16 pm
1981 - Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:17 pm
1982 - Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:17 pm
1986 - Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:18 pm
1987 - "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:18 pm
1987 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/11 at 3:19 pm
1989 - "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:16 pm
597 BC – Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:16 pm
37 – Caligula became Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
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1190 – Around 150 Jews inside York Castle in York, England, committed mass suicide rather than be killed by a mob.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:17 pm
1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the Despenser Wars.
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1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
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1621 – Samoset became the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims when he strolled straight through the middle of the encampment at Plymouth Colony and greeted them in English.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:18 pm
1660 – The Long Parliament dissolved.
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1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers was founded.
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1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden was shot; he died on March 29.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:19 pm
1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers was established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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1812 – Battle of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:21 pm
1815 – Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:23 pm
1818 – Second Battle of Cancha Rayada – Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:23 pm
1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:24 pm
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
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1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:25 pm
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
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1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:26 pm
1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:26 pm
1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
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1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
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1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:26 pm
1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
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1939 – Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:27 pm
1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:27 pm
1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:28 pm
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:28 pm
1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany was destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 were killed.
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1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
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1958 – The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:29 pm
1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:29 pm
1963 – Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
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1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:30 pm
1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) were killed by American troops.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:30 pm
1968 – General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
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1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:31 pm
1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:31 pm
1978 – The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz (pictured) split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, about 3 miles (5 km) off the coast of Brittany, France, resulting in one of the largest oil spills ever.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:32 pm
1978 – The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz (pictured) split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, about 3 miles (5 km) off the coast of Brittany, France, resulting in one of the largest oil spills ever.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:32 pm
1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:33 pm
1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:33 pm
1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut. He was released on December 4, 1991.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:34 pm
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:34 pm
1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter were indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:34 pm
1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:35 pm
1995 – Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:35 pm
2005 – Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:36 pm
597 BC - According to certain archaeological calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar occurred. In the Bible, the event is recorded in 2 Kings 24:1ff. and in 2 Chronicles 36:5-8. It is also implied in the early chapters of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:36 pm
1621 - Birth of George Neumark, German educator. Twice in life he lost everything: once by robbers and once by fire. As a poet, Neumark is best remembered as author of the hymn, "If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:36 pm
1915 - Birth of Dr. Robert H. Bowman, missions pioneer. In 1945, along with John Broger and William J. Roberts, Bowman helped found the Far East Broadcasting Company. Today FEBC reaches thousands of Pacific island clusters with the Gospel through Christian radio.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:36 pm
1952 - The first religious program on TV, "This Week in Religion," debuted on Dumont television. It was the only ecumenical program of TV's early religious offerings, and ran for two years, last airing in October 1954.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/11 at 1:37 pm
1970 - The complete text of the New English Bible was published, simultaneously, by the Oxford and Cambridge Presses. (The New Testament of the NEB had been first published in 1961.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:32 pm
45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:33 pm
180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
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624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
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1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:35 pm
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army garrison in Boston, Massachusetts, withdrew from the city, ending the 11-month Siege of Boston.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:36 pm
1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
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1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
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1842 – The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was formed
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1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
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1861 – The Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) is proclaimed.
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1891 – The transatlantic steamship SS Utopia (pictured) accidentally collided with the battleship HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar, sinking in less than twenty minutes and killing 562.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:38 pm
1891 – The transatlantic steamship SS Utopia (pictured) accidentally collided with the battleship HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar, sinking in less than twenty minutes and killing 562.
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1921 – The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:38 pm
1939 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:39 pm
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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1942 – The Holocaust: The first mass killings of Jews began at Bełżec extermination camp in occupied Poland, the first of the Aktion Reinhard camps to begin operation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:40 pm
1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:40 pm
1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:40 pm
1948 – Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:40 pm
1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
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1955 – Six thousand people in Montreal rioted to protest the suspension of ice hockey star Maurice Richard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:41 pm
1957 – A plane crash on the slope of Mount Manunggal killed Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:41 pm
1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:41 pm
1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:42 pm
1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:42 pm
1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:42 pm
1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:43 pm
1970 – My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:44 pm
1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:45 pm
1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:45 pm
1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:45 pm
1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:45 pm
1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:45 pm
1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:46 pm
1992 – A car bomb destroyed the Israeli embassy and nearby buildings in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people and wounding 242 others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:46 pm
1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa was passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:47 pm
2000 – More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:47 pm
2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:47 pm
2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:47 pm
2008 – Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:56 pm
1734 - Forty-two families of German Protestant refugees landed in the American colonies. Sponsored by the British Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK), the 78 religious pilgrims soon founded the town of Ebenezer, 30 miles from Savannah, Georgia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:56 pm
1789 - Birth of Charlotte Elliott, English devotional writer. An illness at age 33 left her an invalid her remaining 50 years, during which she devoted herself to religious writing. Of her 150 hymns, "Just As I Am" remains popular today.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:56 pm
1841 - Birth of James R. Murray, American sacred music editor. A veteran of the American Civil War, Murray is better remembered today as composer of the hymn tune MUELLER, to which we sing the Christmas carol, "Away in a Manger."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:57 pm
1890 - Birth of Julius R. Mantey, co-author (with H. E. Dana) of a popular intermediate biblical language grammar. Originally published in 1927, the "Dana & Mantey" New Testament Greek Grammar is still popular, and still in print!