On This Day

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A 176-year-old tortoise, believed by some to have been owned by Charles Darwin, has died in an Australian zoo.

The giant tortoise, known as Harriet, was long reputed to have been one of three tortoises taken from the Galapagos Islands by Darwin on his historic 1835 voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.

[O.B.I.T.]

COOL DOT

TURTLE TELERMERS

AT THE END OF THE DNA STRAND HUMAN DNA THE "TELEMER" BUFFER ARE 40 DEEP SO WITH EVERY SIX MONTHS A CELL DEVIDES WITH NO LOSS OF AMIENO ACID STRING DEGRATION TILL THE AGE OF 20 AND AT THAT TIME WITH EVERY 6 MONTH CELLULAR REPLICATION WE LOOSE A BIT OF THE DNA STRAN

THAT IS OLD AGE IN A NUT CHELL

SO I WONDER HOW MANY TELEMERS A TORTUS HAS?

LUV LONG AND PERSPIRE

TRACE

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On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.

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On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).

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On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

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On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.

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On June 29, 1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

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On June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years.

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On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.

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On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.

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On July 3, 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.

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On July 4, 1976, the United States celebrated its Bicentential. In 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

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On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors.

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On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

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On July 7, 1981, President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.

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On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.

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On July 9, 1896, William Jennings Bryan caused a sensation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with his "cross of gold" speech denouncing supporters of the gold standard. Bryan went on to win the party's nomination.

[lor]

Standards? :rolleyes:
What can you measure currency against? Plutonium?

seems kind of scary to leave it in the "hands of the beholder". :dangel:

[Kestra]

gold-pressed latinum :D

On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.

[Dot]

today, Virginia Gov..gave an informal pardon & apology to Mistress Sherwood
for her drowing death as a witch in 1702.

Saying *water test* was not a very good menas of determining witchcraft

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On July 11, 1979, the abandoned United States space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

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On July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named New York Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro his running mate, making her the first woman to run on a major party ticket.

[Dot]

on this day in 1952, East Germany announces formation of its people's army.

The first accident at a nuclear reactor occurs at Chalk River in Canada

&

Paul Anka's "Lonely Boy" was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100

July 13-19, 1953
Chinese offensive against ROKA units in Kumsong Salient. A major attack breaks through ROKA lines and inflicts heavy losses, but the Chinese do not attempt to exploit the breach even though they also have suffered heavy casualties. The purpose of the attack is to punish the South Koreans for unilaterally releasing 27,000 POWs who had refused repatriation and to distract world attention from the concessions made at the armistice negotiations.

July 13 2006
Energy Department Releases Long-Term Strategy
For Management of its Nuclear Materials

[Dot]

on this day in 1952, East Germany announces formation of its people's army.

The first accident at a nuclear reactor occurs at Chalk River in Canada

July 13-19, 1953
Chinese offensive against ROKA units in Kumsong Salient. A major attack breaks through ROKA lines and inflicts heavy losses, The purpose of the attack is to punish the South Koreans for unilaterally releasing 27,000 POWs who had refused repatriation and to distract world attention from the concessions made at the armistice negotiations.

July 13 2006
Energy Department Releases Long-Term Strategy
For Management of its Nuclear Materials
"Currently, more than half of the department's nuclear materials management facilities is over 40 years old. (the same age as the buried IraQI MATERIALS)
The nuclear materials inventoried in this plan are:

* Approximately 100 metric tons (MT) of Pu-239.
* Excess highly enriched uranium (HEU) in the amount of 174 MT was withdrawn from national security programs, half of which is in the form of metal and the other half in a variety of forms (oxide, reactor fuel, compounds, irradiated fuel and targets, and others).
* Over 4,700 MT of surplus low enriched uranium (LEU) at 28 sites.
* Over 760,000 MT of depleted uranium (DU) at 34 sites.
* Over 1,900 kilograms of U-233 at five sites.
* About 2,500 MT of department-owned spent nuclear fuel stored at four sites.
* An "other materials" group that includes over 50,000 items with over 100 million curies of radioactivity. This includes a wide variety of isotopes with varying chemical and physical forms that are legacies of various national security, nuclear energy, and research and development activities.

[Kestra]

On July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.

[Dot]

right that's what they *claimed*
:aship:

[Kestra]

:LOL:@Dot.

On July 14, 1965, the American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.

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On July 15, 1918, the Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.

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On July 16, 1918, Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks.

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On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.

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On July 18, 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in North Africa.

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On July 19, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.

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On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.

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On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)

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On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago.

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On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.

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During a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon got into a discussion at a U.S. exhibition with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was dubbed the ''kitchen debate.''

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On July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.

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On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

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On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. World War I began as declarations of war by other European nations quickly followed.

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Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

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On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.

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On July 31, 1964, the American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon's surface.

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On August 1, 1936, 100,000 saluted Adolf Hitler on his entrance at the opening of the Berlin Olympics.

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On Aug. 2, 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States.

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On Aug. 3, 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.

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On Aug. 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality.

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On August 5, 1963, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.

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On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.

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On Aug. 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on United States forces.

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On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.

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On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki, Japan, instantly killing an estimated 39,000 people. The explosion came three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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On Aug. 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.

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On Aug. 11, 1965, deadly rioting and looting broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles.

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On Aug. 12, 1898, the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.

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On Aug. 13, 1961, Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees.

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On Aug. 14, 1945, President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

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On Aug. 15, 1947, India and Pakistan became independent after some 200 years of British rule.

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On Aug. 16, 1977, singer Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.

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On Aug. 17, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y.

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On Aug. 18, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.

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On Aug. 19, 1921, Gene Wesley Roddenberry was born in El Paso Texas.

On Aug. 19, 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer. :hmm:

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On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the ''Prague Spring'' liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.

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On Aug. 21, 1959, President Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.

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On Aug. 22, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

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On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

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On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm.

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On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.

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On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect.

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On Aug. 27, 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.

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In 1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

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On Aug. 29, 1991, the Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution.

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On Aug. 30, 1963, the hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.

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On Aug. 31, 1997, Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at age 36.

what a great loss we all suffered from that tragedy.

[Kestra]

On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

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On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II.

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On Sept. 3, 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.

[Dot]

and the first of the mars landers that went :abduct:

[Kestra]

made just the perfect addition to their collection. :wgrin:

On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

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On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.

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On Sept. 6, 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.

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On Sept. 7, 1940, the German air force began its blitz on London during World War II.

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On Sept. 8, 1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon.

where's my whip!? :dwhip:

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On Sept. 9, 1976, Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at age 82.

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On Sept. 10, 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I.

[Kai]

9/11

[lor]

Yes Kai... :(

.. but at the risk of sounding unpatriotic and cold hearted, can we limit it in the future, to the day of September 11.. instead of a pre-week media/political made for TV movie event? Shouldn't a day of remembrance be a solemn outward expression of deeply held feelings of respect and gratitude for those who suffered and earned their place as heroes that day?

[Dot]

YES!! prolly why KAI didn't post any links or anything else..

*politicans suck*

[Kestra]

i agree lor, when i saw Kai's post, i decided that's all that needed to be said.

On Sept. 12, 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.

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On Sept. 13, 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

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On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.

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On Sept. 16, 1974, President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders.

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On Sept. 17, 1862, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War battle of Antietam. With 23,100 killed, wounded or captured, it remains the bloodiest day in U.S. military history.

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On Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match.

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On Sept. 21, 1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.

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On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

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On Sept. 23, 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the ``Checkers'' speech as he denied allegations of improper campaign financing.

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On Sept. 24, 1996, the United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. :hmm:

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On Sept. 25, 1957, with 300 United States Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, days after unruly white crowds had forced them to withdraw.

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On Sept. 26, 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago as Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off.

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On Sept. 27, 1996, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.

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On Sept. 28, 1924, two United States Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.

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On Sept. 29, 1957, the New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1. The Giants moved to San Francisco for the next season.

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On Sept. 30, 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.

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On October 1, 1961, Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927.

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On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first black to serve on the high court.

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On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.

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On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit.

pass the wadka. :D

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On October 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.

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On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade.

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On Oct. 7, 2001, the United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.

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On Oct. 8, 1982, all labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.

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On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.

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On Oct. 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned his office.

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On Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

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On Oct. 12, 1870, Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va., at age 63.

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On Oct. 13, 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.

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On Oct. 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

this is not an On This Day nonetheless i find it interesting:

"The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press -- in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of Liberal excess during the past years."

-- Adolph Hitler; Taken from The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939,Vol. 1, Michael Hakeem, Ph.D. (London, Oxford University Press, 1942),pp. 871-872.

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On Oct. 15, 1964, it was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.

*Kes bangs her shoe on the table*

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On Oct. 16, 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb.

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On Oct. 17, 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.

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On Oct. 18, 1968, the United States Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.

[Mriana]

Hey, black is handsome (or beautiful if your a black woman). Black pride was also big in the 60's. Wasn't it around this time, MLK Jr encouraged Nichelle Nichols stay on TOS too (1967 or '68)?

Also in 1968, MLK Jr was assassinated. :(

Sorry, the 60s are my thing and I'm a vast knowledge of 60s trivia.

[Kestra]

no problemo.

On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value - its second biggest percentage drop.

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On Oct. 20, 1973, in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus.

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On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.

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On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

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On Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations charter took effect.

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On Oct. 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

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On Oct. 27, 1904, the first rapid transit subway, the IRT, opened in New York City.

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On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

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On Oct. 29, 1929, stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling. Thousands of investors were wiped out.

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On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain his world heavyweight title.

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On Oct. 31, 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards.

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On Nov. 1, 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.

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On Nov. 2, 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.

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On Nov. 3, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M. ''Alf'' Landon.

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On Nov. 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

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On Nov. 5, 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.

[Mriana]

Nixon must of learned something from his debates with Kennedy. :LOL: Of course, this would be after his people analyzed why he didn't come across very well on B & W TV. Few people in '68 had colour TV, so he had to have learned something from his opponent (JFK) in '62. Just goes to show a Republican can learn something from an Democrat and use it to his advantage. To bad the current Elephants are more donkey than the Donkeys.

[Kestra]

:D

On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the U.S. presidency.

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On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

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On November 8, 1960, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.

[Mriana]

All because Kennedy knew how to manipulate B&W TV and was also charismatic. :D

[Kestra]

oh he was a cutie patootee wasn't he.

On Nov. 9, 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.

[Mriana]

And many pregnant women afterwards. :LOL: What else is there to do in the dark?

And yes, JFK was cute. ;) But married to the beautiful Jacklyn.

[Kestra]

i was going to mention the 'baby boom' 9 months after the blackout. :bgirl:

Jacki O was one class act.

On Nov. 10, 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.

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On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.

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On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. The Americans eventually won a major victory over the Japanese.

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On Nov. 14, 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.

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On Nov. 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.

[Mriana]

Make love, not war!

Let 'em burn! (the draft cards that is)

This is the dawning of the age of aquarius...

Didn't the movie Hair come out in 1969 too?

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Note: Don't burn 'em now. You could get into serious trouble and running to Canada won't help you anymore.

[Kestra]

i think it did.

On Nov. 16, 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations would ``forever remain normal and friendly.''

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On Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that ``people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.''

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On Nov. 18, 1976, Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship

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On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

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On Nov. 20, 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

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On Nov. 21, 1964 New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.

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On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States.

i remember that day.

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On Nov. 23, 1943, during World War II, United States forces seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.

On November 23, 1861, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Trent Affair, a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Britain during the American Civil War.

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On Nov. 25, 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.

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On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December 1.

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On Nov. 28, 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II.

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On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.

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On Nov. 30, 1995, President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.

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On Dec. 1, 1959, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States, signed a treaty in Washington setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity

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On Dec. 2, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." Read full Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1202.html#article)

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On Dec. 3, 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India. Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1203.html#article)

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On Dec. 4, 1945, the Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations. to Read Article, click here. (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1204.html#article)

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On Dec. 5, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment. Read Article here (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1205.html#article)

[Mriana]

Drinks on the house! Oh, ok, maybe not. Drinks on me?

[Kestra]

i'll drink to that. :D

On Dec. 6, 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress. Read This article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1206.html#article)

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On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed. Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1207.html#article)

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On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. To Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1208.html#article)

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On Dec. 9, 1992, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation. To Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1209.html#article)

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On Dec. 10, 1948, the U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights. To Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1210.html#article)

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On Dec. 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind. Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1211.html#article)

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On Dec. 12, 1963, Kenya gained its independence from Britain. Click To Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1212.html#article)

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On Dec. 13, 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. Martial law formally ended in 1983. Click To Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1213.html#article)

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On Dec. 14, 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967. Click To Read Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1214.html#article)

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On Dec. 15, 1916, the French defeated the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1215.html#article )

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On Dec. 16, 1950, President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism." (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1216.html#article) this is a very interesting article.

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On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful man-powered airplane flight, near Kitty Hawk, N.C. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1217.html#article)

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On Dec. 18, 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went online. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1218.html#article)

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On Dec. 19, 1984, Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1219.html#article)

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On Dec. 20, 1989, the United States launched Operation Just Cause, sending troops into Panama to topple the government of General Manuel Noriega. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1220.html#article )

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On Dec. 21, 1988, a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1221.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Dec. 22, 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln from Georgia, saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1222.html#article)

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On Dec. 23, 1986, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1223.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Dec. 24, 1992, President Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal. (Go to article.) (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1224.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Dec. 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on TV to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. Go to article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1225.html#article)

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On Dec. 26, 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1226.html#article)

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On Dec. 27, 1979, Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1227.html#article)

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On Dec. 28, 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, Va. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1228.html#article)

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On Dec. 29, 1940, during World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1229.html#article)

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On Dec. 30, 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1230.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Dec. 31, 1946, President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1231.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0101.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 2, 1905, Japanese Gen. Nogi received from Russian Gen. Stoessel at 9 o'clock P.M. a letter formally offering to surrender, ending the Russo-Japanese War. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0102.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0103.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined the goals of his ''Great Society'' in his State of the Union address. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0104.html#article)

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On Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0105.html#article)

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On Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0106.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 7, 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0107.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his 14 points for peace after World War I. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0108.html#article)

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On Jan. 9, 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0109.html#article)

[Mriana]

I was strolling on the moon one day
In the very merry month of May
Um, September.

Oh wait. This one is in January. :( Um... Wrong one. This one was unmanned. :Oops

[Kestra]

:LOL:@Mirana, you're so cute.

On Jan. 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0110.html#article)

[Mriana]

Originally posted by Kestra
:LOL:@Mirana, you're so cute.

Thank you. :D

[Kestra]

yw.

On Jan. 11, 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0111.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 12, 1915, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0112.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 13, 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0113.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 14, 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0114.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10. To Go Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0115.html#article)

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On Jan. 16, 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0116.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0117.html#article)

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On Jan. 18, 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there first. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0118.html#article) :doh:

[Kestra]

On Jan. 19, 1937, millionaire Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0119.html#article)
:hglide:

[Kestra]

On Jan. 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0120.html#article) aw yes, the infamous Iran\Contra affair. Reagan also promptly removed the solar panels from the White House, as well as dismantling the facilities for producing Alcohol as an alternative energy source for use in cars. if they had listened to Carter, we wouldn’t be in this oil dependent mess we’re in today.

[Kestra]

On Jan. 21, 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0121.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0122.html#article)

First Freedom First (http://www.firstfreedomfirst.org/resources/issues/reproductive) supports the right of all Americans to be free to make choices concerning their own health.

Individuals may look to their own faith or other ethical considerations as they make these choices, but the government must never mandate that all Americans must follow the tenets of one religious viewpoint.

First Freedom First acknowledges the differing views on abortion. You can be personally opposed to abortion yet respect the right of women to make their own life decisions free from government intrusion.
Creating laws that are grounded in religious belief conflicts with the separation of church and state, and compromises our religious liberty.

"What makes us special and different from other countries is that our right to decide whether and how to worship is a private matter protected by the Constitution."

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On Jan. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0123.html#article)

[Dot]

Princess Grace of Monaco dies of the injuries she sustained in a car crash near Monte Carlo

&

Steve Jobs wrote a letter to the President of McIntosh labs this day in 1982, requesting permission to use the name Macintosh. (For the record, the request was denied. Four years later and following a substantial cash payment, Apple secured the right to use the name “Mac.”)

and the world of PC's was changed forever

[Kestra]

and a sad day it was.

On Jan. 24, 1965, Winston Churchill died in London at age 90. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0124.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0125.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 26, 1950, India proclaimed itself a republic. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0126.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Jan. 27, 1967, Astronauts Virgil I. ''Gus'' Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0127.html#article)

[Mriana]

So much for one small step for man. :(

[Kestra]

On Jan. 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0128.html#article)

my mom and i were watching the lift-off.

[Kestra]

On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston. Go To Ariticle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0129.html#article)

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On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0130.html#article)

boy this sure doesn't seem to be a very good month for ppl.

[Kestra]

On Jan. 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0131.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0201.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 2, 1943, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered in a major victory for the Soviets in World War II. Go To Ariticle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0202.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 4, 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0204.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 5, 1937, President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0205.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0206.html#article)

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On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0207.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 8, 1996, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would "bring the future to our doorstep." Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0208.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0209.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 10, 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0210.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 11, 1945, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0211.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 12, 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0212.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0213.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 14, 1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0214.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members and escalating tensions with Spain. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0215.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 16, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0216.html#article)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 17, 1972, President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0217.html#article)

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On Feb. 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0218.html#article)