Opinion - The Korea Times

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

Today is Saturday, September 20, the 264th day of 2008. There are 102 days left in the year. 622 _ Mohammad's Hegira 1519 _ Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world 1664 _ Maryland enacts first anti-amalgamation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and black men 1830 _ First National Black convention meets (Philadelphia) 1854 _ British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea 1859 _ Patent granted on the electric range 1942 _ Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m 1954 _ First FORTRAN computer program run 1973 _ Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match 1990 _ Both Germanys ratify reunification

Sep 19, 2008

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Today is Friday, September 19, the 263rd day of 2008. There are 103 days left in the year. 1796 _ George Washington's farewell address as president 1846 _ Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elopes 1848 _ Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn 1849 _ First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California 1873 _ Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic 1928 _ Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC) 1940 _ Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes 1956 _ First international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne) 1957 _ First underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas, Nevada) 1973 _ Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) goes on the air

Sep 18, 2008

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Today is Thursday, September 18, the 262nd day of 2008. There are 104 days left in the year. 1793 _ Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 1810 _ Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1830 _ A horse beats the first U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore) 1851 _ N.Y. Times starts publishing 1945 _ 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Ind., schools to protest integration 1962 _ Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the U.N. 1974 _ Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die 1977 _ U.S. Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth and Moon together 1982 _ Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon 1983 _ George Meegen completes walk across Western Hemisphere

Sep 17, 2008

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Today is Wednesday, September 17, the 261st day of 2008. There are 105 days left in the year. 1787 _ U.S. constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention 1934 _ First 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th) 1939 _ Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 1953 _ First successful separation of Siamese twins 1954 _ Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 1959 _ Typhoon kills 2,000 in Korea and Japan 1972 _ ``M*A*S*H," premiers on TV 1978 _ Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord 1990 _ Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties 1991 _ South and North Korea join the U.N.

Sep 16, 2008

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Today is Tuesday, September 16, the 260th day of 2008. There are 106 days left in the year. 1630 Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston 1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, first known astronomical observation 1795 British capture Capetown 1810 Hidalgo begins Mexican revolt against Spain (National Day) 1857 Typesetting machine patent 1908 General Motors founded by William C. Durant 1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at N.Y.'s Lincoln Center 1974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters 1982 Massacre of 1000-odd Palestinian refugees at Chatila and Sabra begins 1991 U.S. trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins

Sep 15, 2008

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Today is Saturday, September 13, the 257th day of 2008. There are 109 days left in the year. 1663 _ First serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) 1788 _ New York City becomes capital of the United States 1849 _ First U.S. prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy) 1882 _ Britain invades Egypt 1942 _ German forces attack Stalingrad 1943 _ Chiang Kai-shek became president of China 1949 _ Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC 1965 _ Beatles release ``Yesterday" 1977 _ First TV viewer discretion warning-Soap 1987 _ Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours

Sep 12, 2008

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Today is Friday, September 12, the 256th day of 2008. There are 110 days left in the year. 490 B.C. _ Athenians defeat second Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon 1857 _ 423 die when ``Central America" sinks off Cape Romain, S.C. 1885 _ Highest score (35) recorded in any first-class soccer match is set 1923 _ Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co. 1938 _ Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech 1953 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Secretary of USSR Communist Party 1956 _ Black students enter and are barred from Clay, Ky., elementary school 1980 _ Military coup in Turkey 1983 _ USSR vetoes U.N. resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane 1990 _ U.S., England, France, USSR, East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing the two Germanys to merge

Sep 11, 2008

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Today is Thursday, September 11, the 255th day of 2008. There are 111 days left in the year. 1773 _ Benjamin Franklin writes ``There never was a good war or bad peace." 1853 _ First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt. Lobos 1875 _ First newspaper cartoon strip 1936 _ FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam 1951 _ Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes 1952 _ West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews 1962 _ Beatles cut ``Love Me Do" & ``PS I Love You" 1973 _ Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 1986 _ Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded 2001 _ The worst terrorist attack on American soil - 2819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania

Sep 10, 2008

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Today is Wednesday, September 10, the 254th day of 2008. There are 112 days left in the year. 1823 _ Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 1846 _ Elias Howe patents the sewing machine 1869 _ Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 1882 _ First international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) 1939 _ Canada declares war on Germany 1955 _ ``Gunsmoke" premiers on CBS TV 1960 _ Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon 1989 _ East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary and Czech) 1990 _ Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada 1990 _ First time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept in a season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0

Sep 9, 2008

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Today is Tuesday, September 9, the 253rd day of 2008. There are 113 days left in the year. 1776 _ Continental Congress renames ``United Colonies," ``United States" 1867 _ Luxembourg gains independence 1943 _ Italy surrenders to the Allies 1945 _ Japanese in S. Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies 1948 _ People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed 1956 _ Elvis Presley appears on national TV for first time (Ed Sullivan) 1965 _ Tibet is made an autonomous region of China 1968 _ First U.S. Open, held as an ``open" (Arthur Ashe wins) 1971 _ John Lennon releases the ``Imagine" album 1990 _ Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait

Sep 8, 2008

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