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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:06 am
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:07 am
1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:09 am
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:09 am
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:09 am
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:09 am
1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:09 am
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:09 am
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:10 am
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:10 am
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:11 am
1974 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:11 am
1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:11 am
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:11 am
1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:12 am
1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:12 am
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:12 am
1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:12 am
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:12 am
2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 1:12 am
2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 3:35 am
1629 - The Puritans of Salem, Mass. appointed Francis Higginson as their teacher and
Samuel Skelton as their pastor. The church covenant, composed afterward by these two men,allowed into communion only those who could prove a sound doctrinal knowledge and anexperience of grace in their lives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 3:35 am
1718 - Death of William Penn, 74, English Quaker and founder of American colony ofPennsylvania. Penn permitted in his colony all forms of public worship compatible withmonotheism and religious liberty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 3:35 am
1822 - Pioneer church founder James Varick, 72, was consecrated the first bishop of theAfrican Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 3:35 am
1956 - By an act of Congress, signed by President Eisenhower, 'In God We Trust' becamethe official U.S. motto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/11 at 3:35 am
1976 - Death of Rudolf Bultmann, 92, German Bible scholar and one of the three majorpioneers of modern form 'criticism' (i.e., 'analysis') of the New Testament Gospels.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:47 am
30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:47 am
781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:47 am
904 – Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:47 am
1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:48 am
1201 – John Komnenos the Fat briefly seized the throne of the Byzantine Empire from Alexios III Angelos, but he was soon caught and executed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:49 am
1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:49 am
1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:49 am
1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:50 am
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:50 am
1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:50 am
1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:50 am
1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:50 am
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:51 am
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:51 am
1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:52 am
1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:53 am
1790 – The very first U.S. patent is issued: to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:53 am
1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:53 am
1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:53 am
1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:54 am
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium, with the Allied Powers aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:55 am
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:55 am
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:55 am
1931 – New York City experimental television station W2XAO (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:55 am
1932 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:55 am
1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:56 am
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:56 am
1940 – A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:56 am
1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring ordered SS General Reinhard Heydrich to settle "the final solution of the Jewish question".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:58 am
1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:59 am
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:59 am
1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:59 am
1956 – Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:01 am
1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:01 am
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:01 am
1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:01 am
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:02 am
1972 – Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:02 am
1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:03 am
1987 – A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:03 am
1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:03 am
1991 – The Soviet Union and the United States signed the bilateral START I treaty, the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, which eventually removed 80% of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:04 am
1991 – The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:05 am
1992 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:05 am
1992 – Georgia joins the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:05 am
1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:06 am
2002 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:06 am
2006 – Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl (pictured).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:06 am
2006 – Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl (pictured).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Presidente_de_Cuba%2C_Ra%C3%BAl_Castro%2C_visita_Salvador.jpg/65px-Presidente_de_Cuba%2C_Ra%C3%BAl_Castro%2C_visita_Salvador.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 5:07 am
2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 1:29 am
1291 – Three Swiss cantons signed the Federal Charter to create the Old Swiss Confederacy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 1:29 am
1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 1:29 am
1944 – World War II: The Polish Home Army began the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw against the Nazi occupation of Poland, a rebellion that lasted 63 days until it was quelled by the Germans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 1:30 am
1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 1:30 am
2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (damage pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 1:38 am
2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (damage pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/I35W_Collapse_-_Day_4_-_Operations_%26_Scene_%2895%29.jpg/100px-I35W_Collapse_-_Day_4_-_Operations_%26_Scene_%2895%29.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/01/11 at 7:22 am
August 1st 1981 30 years ago today MTV launched on television.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8787ce3970b-800wi
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:52 am
30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:52 am
69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:53 am
527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:53 am
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:53 am
902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:53 am
1203 – Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:55 am
1492 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile drive the Jews out of Spain pursuant to the Alhambra Decree.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:56 am
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:56 am
1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:56 am
1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:56 am
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:56 am
1800 – The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:57 am
1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:57 am
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:58 am
1838 – Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:58 am
1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:59 am
1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:59 am
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 11:59 am
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:00 pm
1907 – The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:00 pm
1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:00 pm
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:00 pm
1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:01 pm
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:01 pm
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:01 pm
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:01 pm
1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:02 pm
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:02 pm
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:02 pm
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:02 pm
1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:03 pm
1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:03 pm
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country's first democratically elected female head of state
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:04 pm
1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:05 pm
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/11 at 12:05 pm
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/11 at 1:43 am
1610 – English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/11 at 1:43 am
1897 – Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's North West Frontier Province.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/11 at 1:43 am
1923 – Calvin Coolidge (pictured) became the 30th President of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/11 at 1:44 am
1923 – Calvin Coolidge (pictured) became the 30th President of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Calvin_Coolidge-Garo.jpg/70px-Calvin_Coolidge-Garo.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/11 at 1:44 am
1932 – At the California Institute of Technology, Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter when he discovered the positron.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/11 at 1:44 am
1989 – The Indian Peace Keeping Force began killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians over a two-day period in Valvettiturai, Sri Lanka.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 1:25 am
1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic "World Teacher", shocked the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 1:25 am
1936 – African American athlete Jesse Owens (pictured) won the first of his four gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 1:26 am
1936 – African American athlete Jesse Owens (pictured) won the first of his four gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Jesse_Owens1.jpg/73px-Jesse_Owens1.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 1:26 am
1940 – World War II: Italy began their invasion of British Somaliland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 1:26 am
2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he was attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 1:26 am
2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga was captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:19 pm
8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
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435 – Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:19 pm
881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
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1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonised as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:20 pm
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
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1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
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1601 – Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Guruslău.
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1645 – Thirty Years' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:21 pm
1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:21 pm
1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
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1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:22 pm
1852 – Harvard wins the first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:23 pm
1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:23 pm
1900 – The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
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1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:24 pm
1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
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1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
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1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.
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1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:25 pm
1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:26 pm
1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:26 pm
1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:27 pm
1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:27 pm
1949 – The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:28 pm
1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:28 pm
1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:28 pm
1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:28 pm
1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:29 pm
1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKULTRA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:29 pm
1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:30 pm
1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:30 pm
2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, United Kingdom injuring seven people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:30 pm
2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:32 pm
2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/11 at 12:32 pm
2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 1:26 am
1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas led a raid into Weardale and almost killed Edward III of England.
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1903 – Italian cardinal Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elected to become Pope Pius X.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 1:27 am
1964 – A second U.S. Navy destroyer was reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking Congress to authorize the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 1:27 am
1992 – Yōhei Kōno (pictured), Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, issued a formal apology for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 1:27 am
1992 – Yōhei Kōno (pictured), Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, issued a formal apology for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 1:28 am
2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovered a suitcase containing US$800,000 as it went through an x-ray machine in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:04 pm
70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:05 pm
367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:05 pm
1265 – Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:05 pm
1532 – the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:07 pm
1578 – Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
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1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
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1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
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1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
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1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
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1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:09 pm
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:09 pm
1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
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1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces.
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1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
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1863 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:10 pm
1873 – Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:10 pm
1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:11 pm
1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
"Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:12 pm
1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
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1906 – Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:13 pm
1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:13 pm
1916 – World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:13 pm
1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
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1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:14 pm
1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:14 pm
1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:14 pm
1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
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1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:16 pm
1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:16 pm
1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:16 pm
1969 – Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:17 pm
1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:17 pm
1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:17 pm
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:18 pm
1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:18 pm
1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:18 pm
1991 – The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:19 pm
1993 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:20 pm
1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
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2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:21 pm
2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:21 pm
2006 – A massacre, is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:21 pm
2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/11 at 12:21 pm
2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 1:24 am
1772 – Russia, Prussia and Habsburg Austria began the First Partition of Poland to help restore the regional balance of power in Eastern Europe among those three countries.
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1858 – American businessman and financier Cyrus West Field (pictured) and his colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island in Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 1:25 am
1858 – American businessman and financier Cyrus West Field (pictured) and his colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island in Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 1:25 am
1925 – The Welsh political party Plaid Cymru was founded with the goals of promoting the Welsh language and the political independence of the Welsh nation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 1:25 am
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization en masse.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 1:25 am
1995 – Operation Storm: Croatian forces recovered the town of Knin from the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:19 pm
642 – Battle of Maserfield – Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:19 pm
910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:19 pm
1071 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:19 pm
1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
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1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:20 pm
1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:21 pm
1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:21 pm
1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:21 pm
1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:21 pm
1689 – 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:22 pm
1716 – The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:22 pm
1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:22 pm
1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:22 pm
1781 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:23 pm
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:23 pm
1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:23 pm
1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:24 pm
1861 – The United States Army abolishes flogging.
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1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
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1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
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1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:25 pm
1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
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1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
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1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
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1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
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1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m) The record will stand for 20 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:27 pm
1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:27 pm
1914 – World War I: the German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) of the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/11 at 12:28 pm
1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.