Opinion - The Korea Times

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010

Today is Thursday, January 28, the 28th day of 2010. There are 337 days left in the year. 1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV 1613 _ Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune 1878 _ First telephone exchange (New Haven, Conn.) 1915 _ U.S. President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates 1918 _ Trotsky becomes leader of Reds 1932 _ Japan occupies Shanghai 1935 _ Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion 1956 _ Elvis Presley's first TV appearance (Dorsey Brothers Stage Show) 1996 _ ``Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater in New York City after 118 performances 1998 _ Michelangelo's ``Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million

Jan 27, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010

Today is Wednesday, January 27, the 27th day of 2010. There are 338 days left in the year. 1302 _ Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1593 _ Vatican opens seven- year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1880 _ Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1918 _ ``Tarzan of the Apes," first Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater 1924 _ Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square 1941 _ Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor 1944 _ Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 1951 _ U.S. begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site 1973 _ U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft 1996 _ Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 26, 2010

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2010

Today is Tuesday, January 26, the 26th day of 20109. There are 339 days left in the year. 1531 _ Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die 1841 _ Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain 1875 _ Electric dental drill is patented by George F. Green 1905 _ Han Yong-woon, Manhae, (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea 1915 _ Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, established 1926 _ Television first demonstrated (John L. Baird, London) 1945 _ Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1950 _ India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion 1961 _ ``Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to No. 1 1980 _ Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations

Jan 25, 2010

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2010

Today is Monday, January 25, the 25th day of 2010. There are 340 days left in the year. 1533 _ England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date) 1799 _ First U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont 1802 _ Napoleon elected president of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1858 _ Mendelssohn's ``Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia 1918 _ Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1919 _ Founding of League of Nations, first meeting one year later 1924 _ First Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France 1951 _ U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea 1964 _ Beatles first U.S. No. 1, ``I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox) 1993 _ 20th American Music Award; Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win

Jan 24, 2010

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2010

Today is Saturday, January 23, the 23rd day of 2010. There are 342 days left in the year. 638 _ Start of Islamic calendar 1265 _ First English Parliament formally convened (some authorities) 1556 _ Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China 1719 _ Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire 1723 _ Georg Friedrich Handel's opera ``Ottone" premieres in London 1950 _ Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel 1973 _ U.S. President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War 1983 _ Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean 1987 _ Japan first exceeds military spending cap of 1 percent of GNP ($23 billion) 1998 _ Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba

Jan 22, 2010

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010

Today is Friday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2009. There are 343 days left in the year. 1517 _ Turks conquer Cairo 1859 _ Brahms' first piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover 1939 _ Uranium atom first split, Columbia University 1951 _ Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter 1953 _ Arthur Miller's ``Crucible" premieres in New York City 1959 _ USAF concludes less than 1 percent of UFOs are unknown objects 1964 _ World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin 1970 _ First commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in six hours 1973 _ George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in second round for heavyweight boxing title 1973 _ Roe vs. Wade _ U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

Jan 21, 2010

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010

Today is Thursday, January 21, the 21st day of 2010. There are 344 days left in the year. 1077 _ German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness 1189 _ Philip II, Henry II and Richard Lion-Hearted initiate third Crusade 1793 _ Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided) 1799 _ Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced 1903 _ ``Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City 1903 _ Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam 1977 _ President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders 1977 _ Italy legalizes abortion 1978 _ Bee Gees' ``Saturday Night Fever" album goes No. 1 for 24 weeks 1990 _ John McEnroe becomes the first ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum and swearing at an official

Jan 20, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010

1265 _ First English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester 1783 _ Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War 1807 _ Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris 1841 _ China cedes Hong Kong to the British 1892 _ First basketball game played (Massachusetts) 1921 _ Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire 1925 _ USSR and Japan sign treaty of Peking 1939 _ Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews 1945 _ FDR sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term as President 1980 _ President Jimmy Carter announces U_S_ boycott of Olympics in Moscow

Jan 19, 2010

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010

1829 _ Johann von Goethe's ``Faust, Part 1" premieres 1840 _ Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim) 1853 _ Verdi's opera ``Il Trovatore" premieres, in Rome 1903 _ New bicycle race ``Tour de France" announced 1915 _ First German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, four die 1920 _ U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations 1937 _ Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajoie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1960 _ President Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign U.S.-Japanese Security pact 1981 _ U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1993 _ Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal choisj@koreatimes.co.kr

Jan 18, 2010

MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2010

Today is Monday, January 18, the 18th day of 2010. There are 347 days left in the year. 1535 _ Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru 1644 _ Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's first UFO sighting 1778 _ Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) 1871 _ Second German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck 1943 _ Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis 1944 _ First Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts 1962 _ U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas 1980 _ Pink Floyd's ``The Wall" hits No. 1 1991 _ U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career 1993 _ Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for first time

Jan 17, 2010

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