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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Today is Thursday, September 3, the 246th day of 2009. There are 119 days left in the year. 1189 _ England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster 1783 _ Treaty of Paris signed (ending the U.S. Revolutionary War) 1833 _ NY Sun begins publishing (first daily newspaper) 1891 _ Cotton-pickers organize union and stage strike in Texas 1916 _ Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun 1939 _ Britain declares war on Germany. France follows six hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada 1935 _ First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) 1935 _ Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games 1940 _ First showing of high definition color TV 1971 _ Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office

Sep 2, 2009

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Today is Wednesday, September 2, the 245th day of 2009. There are 120 days left in the year. 31B.C. _ Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony, becomes Emperor Augustus 490 B.C. _ Phidippides runs first marathon, seeking aid from Sparta vs. Persia 1666 _ Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church 1930 _ First nonstop airplane flight from Europe to U.S. (37 hours) 1944 _ Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank) is sent to Auschwitz 1945 _ Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) 1945 _ V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends) 1978 _ Graham Salmon set the world's record for 100 meters by a blind man 1987 _ Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan 1988 _ Amnesty International's ``Human Rights Now!" tour begins in Wembley

Sep 1, 2009

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Today is Tuesday, September 1, the 244th day of 2009. There are 121 days left in the year. 69 _ Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem 312 B.C. _ Origin of Greek Era-Start of Induction of Constantinople 1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery 1923 _ Earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama, kills 106,000 1939 _ WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1945 _ Japan surrenders ending WW II (U.S. date, 9/2 in Japan) 1948 _ U.N.'s World Health Organization forms 1951 _ U.S., Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty 1962 _ U.N. announces Earth population has hit 3 billion 1983 _ Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet

Aug 31, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2009

Today is Monday, August 31, the 243rd day of 2009. There are 122 days left in the year. 1535 _ Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII 1887 _ Thomas A. Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures) 1907 _ England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente 1919 _ Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago 1955 _ First sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill. 1957 _ Malaya (Malaysia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1968 _ Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover 1980 _ Poland's Solidarity labor union founded 1983 _ Edwin Moses of USA sets the 400-meter hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz 1988 _ Five-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins

Aug 30, 2009

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2009

Today is Saturday, August 29, the 241st day of 2009. There are 124 days left in the year. 1758 _ First Indian reservation established 1854 _ Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay) 1864 _ William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey 1896 _ Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador 1929 _ German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight 1944 _ 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees 1949 _ USSR explodes its first atomic bomb 1953 _ USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb 1957 _ Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) ends 24-hour filibuster against civil rights 1966 _ Beatles' last public concert, (Candlestick Park, S.F.)

Aug 28, 2009

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009

Today is Friday, August 28, the 240th day of 2009. There are 125 days left in the year. 1789 _ Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus 1850 _ The opera ``Lohengrin" is produced (Weimar) 1884 _ First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, S.D. 1916 _ Italy declares war against Germany during WW I 1957 _ Sen. Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill 1963 _ Martin Luther King Jr.'s ``I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial 1981 _ John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan 1981 _ Sebastian Coe of U.K. sets 1-mile record of 3:47.33 (since broken) 1986 _ U.S. Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying 1990 _ Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province

Aug 27, 2009

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2009

Today is Thursday, August 27, the 239th day of 2009. There are 126 days left in the year. 26 B.C. _ Origin of Egyptian Era 1783 _ First hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900-meter altitude 1789 _ French National Assembly issues ``Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" 1859 _ First successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn. 1883 _ Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons 1896 _ Zanzibar loses to England in a 38-minute war (9:02 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.) 1939 _ Erich Warsitz makes first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178) 1945 _ U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender 1962 _ Mariner 2 launched; first probe to fly by Venus 1966 _ Francis Chichester begins the first solo sail around the world

Aug 26, 2009

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2009

Today is Wednesday, August 26, the 238th day of 2009. There are 127 days left in the year. 55 B.C. _ Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain 1791 _ John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat 1907 _ Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds 1914 _ Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg 1920 _ 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!) 1942 _ 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France 1957 _ USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile 1961 _ Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto 1972 _ Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany 1974 _ Soyuz 15 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3

Aug 25, 2009

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2009

Today is Tuesday, August 25, the 237th day of 2009. There are 128 days left in the year. 1609 _ Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers 1814 _ British capture Washington, D.C. 1825 _ Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day) 1830 _ Belgium revolts against Netherlands 1921 _ U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany 1940 _ First parachute wedding 1944 _ Paris liberated from Nazi occupation 1950 _ President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike 1981 _ Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years 1990 _ U.N. Security Council authorizes military action against Iraq

Aug 24, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2009

Toda is Monday, August 24, the 236th day of 2009. There are 129 days left in the year. 79 _ Mt. Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum 410 _ Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolizes fall of Western Roman Empire 1814 _ British sack Washington, D.C., White House burned 1853 _ First potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) 1891 _ Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1949 _ North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established 1968 _ France became world's fifth thermonuclear power 1989 _ Voyager 2 flies past Neptune 1991 _ Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party 1991 _ Ukraine declares independence from the USSR

Aug 23, 2009

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