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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:14 am
1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:15 am
1644 – The combined forces of the Scottish Covenanters and the English Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, near York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:15 am
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:16 am
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:16 am
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:16 am
1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:16 am
1823 – Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:16 am
1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:16 am
1853 – The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:16 am
1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:17 am
1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:17 am
1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:18 am
1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:18 am
1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:18 am
1917 – The East St. Louis Riots end.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:18 am
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:18 am
1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:18 am
1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:19 am
1950 – A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji (restoration pictured), destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:20 am
1950 – A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji (restoration pictured), destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Kinkaku3402CBcropped.jpg/800px-Kinkaku3402CBcropped.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:20 am
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:21 am
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:21 am
1966 – The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:21 am
1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:21 am
1993 – 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:22 am
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:22 am
2000 – The Øresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark and the longest road and rail bridge in Europe, opens for traffic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:22 am
2001 – The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:22 am
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:23 am
2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 6:12 am
311 - Miltiades was elected 32nd pope of the Catholic Church. During his pontificate,Christianity was finally tolerated by Rome, following the Emperor Constantine's conversionto the Christian faith.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 6:12 am
1489 - Birth of Thomas Cranmer, first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and primaryauthor of the 'Book of Common Prayer' and 'Thirty-Nine Articles' of the Anglican Church.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 6:12 am
1752 - The first Bible in America printed in English was published in Boston.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 6:12 am
1918 - Death of Washington Gladden, 82, a popular Congregational theologian of the SocialGospel. He also authored the hymn, 'O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 6:12 am
1930 - Pioneer linguistic educator Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: ' If I do not speak to you in words at times, it is because the reality all about youis greater than the imperfect symbols of things which you have in words.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 6:16 am
1990 - Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:42 am
324 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great defeated colleague Licinius in the Battle of Adrianople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:42 am
987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:42 am
1608 – French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City (flag pictured), considered to be the first European-built city in non-Spanish North America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:42 am
1608 – French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City (flag pictured), considered to be the first European-built city in non-Spanish North America.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Flag_of_Quebec_City.svg/100px-Flag_of_Quebec_City.svg.png
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:43 am
1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:43 am
1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:43 am
1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:43 am
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:43 am
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:44 am
1819 – The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:44 am
1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:45 am
1844 – The last known pair of Great Auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey, off the coast of Iceland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:46 am
1844 – The last known pair of Great Auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey, off the coast of Iceland.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Riesenalk.JPG/220px-Riesenalk.JPG
Specimen in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:46 am
1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:46 am
1849 – The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:46 am
1852 – Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:47 am
1863 – American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:47 am
1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:47 am
1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:47 am
1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:48 am
1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:48 am
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:48 am
1898 – Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:48 am
1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:48 am
1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:49 am
1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Number_4468_Mallard_in_York.jpg/300px-Number_4468_Mallard_in_York.jpg
"Mallard" at the National Railway Museum at York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:49 am
1938 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:50 am
1940 – World War II: The British Navy attacked the French fleet, fearing that the ships would fall into German hands after the armistice between those two nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:50 am
1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:50 am
1952 – The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:50 am
1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:50 am
1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:51 am
1969 – The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:51 am
1970 – The Troubles: The British Army imposed the Falls Curfew on Belfast, Northern Ireland, which only resulted in greater Irish republican resistance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:51 am
1970 – A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:51 am
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:51 am
1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:52 am
1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:52 am
1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Most_Su%C5%82tana_Mehmeta_Zdobywcy_Istambu%C5%82_RB1.jpg/250px-Most_Su%C5%82tana_Mehmeta_Zdobywcy_Istambu%C5%82_RB1.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:53 am
1994 – The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty-six people are killed in crashes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:53 am
1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:53 am
2001 – A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:53 am
2005 – Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:53 am
2006 – Valencia metro accident leaves 43 dead in Valencia, Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:55 am
1756 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'One who lives anddies in error, or in dissent from our Church, may yet be saved; but one who lives and diesin sin must perish.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:55 am
1894 - Birth of Don R. Falkenberg, founder in 1923 of the Mid-West Businessmen's Councilof the Pocket Testament League. In 1967 the name of this evangelical agency was changed toBible Literature International.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:56 am
1907 - Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical 'Lamentabili,' formally condemned the'modernist' intellectual movement, as it exhibited itself in the Catholic Church.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:56 am
1959 - Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical 'Ad Petri Cathedram,' expressed the hope thatnon-Catholic Christians would see in the upcoming Vatical II Ecumenical Council 'a warminvitation to seek and find unity.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/11 at 3:56 am
1979 - Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government votedto continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of limitations on murder.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:41 pm
1834 – In New York City, evangelical Protestants began four nights of rioting against abolitionists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:41 pm
1911 – The United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:42 pm
1963 – The police of Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest during the Buddhist crisis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:42 pm
1983 – After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:42 pm
1994 – Troops from the former North Yemen captured Aden, ending the Yemeni civil war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:42 pm
2005 – Suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of four explosions on London's public transport system
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 07/07/11 at 1:44 pm
1994 – Troops from the former North Yemen captured Aden, ending the Yemeni civil war.
2005 – Suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of four explosions on London's public transport system
The last two times that this date fell on a Thursday!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:45 pm
The last two times that this date fell on a Thursday!
...and today is Thursday too.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 07/07/11 at 1:46 pm
...and today is Thursday too.
That's true!
I remember what I was doing in my life on this date in those years...but nothing truly eventful.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:49 pm
That's true!
I remember what I was doing in my life on this date in those years...but nothing truly eventful.
I know where I was on that day in 2005, I do not wish to talkk about.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 07/07/11 at 1:50 pm
I know where I was on that day in 2005, I do not wish to talkk about.
That's right, it was in your area. I remember hearing about it on the news. :\'(
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/11 at 1:54 pm
That's right, it was in your area. I remember hearing about it on the news. :\'(
I did shake me
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:02 pm
1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:02 pm
1283 – War of the Sicilian Vespers: the naval Battle of Malta between the Aragonese and the Neapolitan fleets is fought.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:03 pm
1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:03 pm
1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:04 pm
1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:04 pm
1709 – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:05 pm
1716 – Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:05 pm
1758 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:05 pm
1760 – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:05 pm
1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:05 pm
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:05 pm
1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:06 pm
1859 – King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:06 pm
1864 – Ikedaya Jiken: the Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:06 pm
1874 – The Mounties begin their March West.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:06 pm
1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:07 pm
1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:07 pm
1889 – The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:07 pm
1892 – St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:07 pm
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:07 pm
1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith (who is shot) releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:08 pm
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:08 pm
1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:08 pm
1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:08 pm
1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:09 pm
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:09 pm
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
What happened next?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:09 pm
1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:09 pm
1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:09 pm
1962 – Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:09 pm
1966 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:09 pm
1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:10 pm
1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
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1988 – The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:10 pm
1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/11 at 1:10 pm
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:15 am
455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:15 am
869 – A magnitude 8.6Ms earthquake and subsequent tsunami strikes the the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu, Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:16 am
1357 – Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:16 am
1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:16 am
1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:16 am
1572 – Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:16 am
1701 – War of the Spanish Succession: Austrians defeat France in the Battle of Carpi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:16 am
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:17 am
1755 – French and Indian War: The defeat in the Battle of the Monongahela brought an end to Britain's attempt to capture the strategically important Ohio Country.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:17 am
1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:17 am
1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:17 am
1793 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:18 am
1807 – The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:18 am
1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:18 am
1811 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, US), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:18 am
1815 – Talleyrand assumed his role as the first Prime Minister of France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:20 am
1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:20 am
1821 – 470 prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:20 am
1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:20 am
1850 – The Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:20 am
1863 – American Civil War: the Siege of Port Hudson ends.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:21 am
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:21 am
1875 – Outbreak of the Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:21 am
1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:21 am
1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:22 am
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:22 am
1918 – Great train wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:22 am
1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:22 am
1932 – The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:23 am
1943 – World War II: The Allies began their invasion of Sicily, a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:23 am
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:23 am
1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan – American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:23 am
1944 – World War II: Battle of Tali-Ihantala – Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:24 am
1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:24 am
1958 – Lituya Bay is hit by a mega-tsunami. The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, the largest in recorded history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:24 am
1961 – Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:25 am
1962 – The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States of America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:25 am
1962 – Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:26 am
1962 – Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/Campbells_Soup_Cans_MOMA.jpg/300px-Campbells_Soup_Cans_MOMA.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:26 am
1972 – The Troubles: In Belfast, British Army snipers shoot five civilians dead in the Springhill Massacre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:26 am
1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:27 am
1982 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:27 am
1986 – The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:27 am
1995 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lankan Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:28 am
1999 – Six days of student protests began after Iranian police attacked a University of theran dormitory following a peaceful student demonstration against the closure of the reformist newspaper Salam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:28 am
2002 – The African Union was formed as a successor to the amalgamated African Economic Community and the Organization of African Unity, with President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (pictured) as its first chairman.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:29 am
2002 – The African Union was formed as a successor to the amalgamated African Economic Community and the Organization of African Unity, with President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (pictured) as its first chairman.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/SthAfrica.ThaboMbeki.01.jpg/64px-SthAfrica.ThaboMbeki.01.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:29 am
2006 – At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:30 am
1228 - Death of Stephen Langton (b.ca.1155), Archbishop of Canterbury. It was Langtonwho formulated the original division of the Bible into chapters in the late 1100s.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:30 am
1530 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'This is a definite sign thatwe are God's children, because we are men of peace.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:30 am
1838 - Birth of Philip P. Bliss, American gospel singer and songwriter. His best-remembered hymns include 'Wonderful Words of Life,' 'It is Well with My Soul' and 'Let theLower Lights Be Burning.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:30 am
1843 - Birth of Ralph E. Hudson, sacred composer and music publisher. His most enduringhymns include 'At the Cross' and 'Blessed Be the Name.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 12:30 am
1896 - Birth of William Cameron Townsend, American missionary and linguist. In 1942 heestablished what has become the largest evangelical missionary agency in the world --Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/11 at 1:02 am
2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:47 am
48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:48 am
138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae, he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:48 am
988 – Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:48 am
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:49 am
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:49 am
1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:49 am
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:49 am
1584 – William the Silent (pictured), the Prince of Orange, was assassinated at his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:50 am
1584 – William the Silent (pictured), the Prince of Orange, was assassinated at his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/WilliamOfOrange1580.jpg/72px-WilliamOfOrange1580.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:50 am
1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:50 am
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:51 am
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:51 am
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:51 am
1806 – Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company when they broke into Vellore Fort and killed or injured 200 British troops.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:52 am
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:52 am
1832 – U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:52 am
1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:52 am
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:53 am
1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:53 am
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:54 am
1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:54 am
1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
Now that is hot!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:54 am
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:55 am
1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:55 am
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:55 am
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:55 am
1940 – The German Luftwaffe began attacks on British convoys in the English Channel to start the Battle of Britain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:56 am
1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:56 am
1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:57 am
1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:57 am
1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:58 am
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:58 am
1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:58 am
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:59 am
1966 – Martin Luther King, Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil rights campaigns in the northern United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:59 am
1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:59 am
1968 – Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:00 am
1971 – Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:01 am
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:01 am
1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:01 am
1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:01 am
1976 – An industrial accident in a chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy, resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:03 am
1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:03 am
1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:04 am
1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:04 am
1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:05 am
1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
It did not burn down, it is still standing.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:06 am
1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
It did not burn down, it is still standing.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlexandraPalace.jpg/310px-AlexandraPalace.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:06 am
1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:07 am
1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:08 am
1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:08 am
1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which support the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:08 am
1997 – Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:09 am
1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:09 am
2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:09 am
2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:09 am
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:10 am
2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:10 am
2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:10 am
2006 – Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:10 am
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:10 am
2011 – British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 174 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 4:11 am
2011 – British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 174 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Notw_last2.jpg/220px-Notw_last2.jpg
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Written By: gibbo on 07/10/11 at 4:35 am
Today Australia announced its plan to introduce a carbon tax ... that will make absolutely zero difference to the world temperatures!! However, it WILL rasie revnue that will assist the present Labor government dig itself out of the multi billion dollar deficit it created....