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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2007

Today is Monday, December 3, the 337th day of 2007. There are 28 days left in the year. 741 _ St. Zachary begins his reign as Catholic pope succeeding Gregory III 1621 _ Galileo perfects the telescope 1818 _ Illinois admitted as the 21st U.S. state 1828 _ Andrew Jackson elected the seventh president of the U.S. 1912 _ Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign a weapons pact 1943 _ The battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins 1946 _ The U.S. government asks the U.N. to order dictator Franco out of Spain 1953 _ Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party 1953 _ Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th String Quartet 1958 _ Indonesian parliament accepts nationalization of Dutch businesses 1967 _ Ex-President Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia 1969 _ John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar 1984 _ 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1989 _ George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta

Dec 2, 2007

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2007

Today is Saturday, December 1, the 335th day of 2007. There are 30 days left in the year. 772 _ Pope Adrian I elected 1640 _ Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule 1742 _ Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia 1804 _ Emperor Napoleon marries Josephine of Martinique 1822 _ Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil 1835 _ Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales 1887 _ A Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao 1909 _ The first Israeli kibbutz founded in Deganya Alef 1918 _ Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence 1937 _ Japan recognizes the Franco government 1941 _ Japanese emperor Hirohito signs a declaration of war 1964 _ Martin Luther King speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign 1965 _ Airlift of refugees from Cuba to the U.S. began 1969 _ The U.S. government holds its first draft lottery since WWII 1973 _ Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea 1973 _ Jack Nicklaus becomes the first golfer to e

Nov 30, 2007

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Today is Friday, November 30, the 334th day of 2007. There are 31 days left in the year. 306 _ St. Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic pope 1782 _ Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence 1803 _ Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France 1804 _ Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins 1924 _ The first photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio 1939 _ The USSR invades Finland over a border dispute 1947 _ Day after a U.N. decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked 1948 _ Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin 1949 _ Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1962 _ U Thant of Myanmar (Burma) elected the third secretary-general of the U.N. unanimously 1979 _ Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC) 1988 _ Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 years 1990 _ Bush proposes a U.S.-Iraq meeting to avoid war

Nov 29, 2007

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Today is Thursday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2007. There are 32 days left in the year. 1812 _ Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia 1825 _ The first Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in the U.S. (NYC) 1864 _ Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians 1877 _ Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph 1887 _ The U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii 1916 _ The U.S. declares martial law in Dominican Republic 1944 _ Albania liberated from Nazi control 1944 _ John Hopkins hospital performs the first open heart surgery 1945 _ Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims its republic 1951 _ The first underground atomic explosion in Frenchman Flat, Nevada 1952 _ President-elect Eisenhower visits South Korea to assess the war 1968 _ John and Yoko release their first album ``Two Virgins" in U.K. 1969 _ Beatles' ``Come Together" single goes No. 1 1978 _ The U.N. observes ``international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by the U.S. and abou

Nov 28, 2007

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Today is Wednesday, November 28, the 332nd day of 2007. There are 33 days left in the year. 741 _ St. Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic pope 1520 _ Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean 1853 _ Olympia established as the capital of Washington Territory 1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in the Federal District Court in South Carolina 1919 _ U.S.-born Lady Astor elected the first female member of the British Parliament 1942 _ Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston 1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy 1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community 1958 _ Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community 1960 _ Mauritania gains independence from France 1986 _ The Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for the first time 1987 _ South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die 1988 _ Picasso's ``Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million

Nov 27, 2007

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Today is Tuesday, November 27, the 331st day of 2007. There are 34 days left in the year. 399 _ St. Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic pope 1095 _ Pope Urban II preaches first Crusade 1815 _ Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic 1895 _ Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize 1912 _ Spanish protectorate in Morocco established 1941 _ The USSR begins a counteroffensive, causing Germany to retreat 1965 _ The first French satellite launched, France becomes the third nation in space 1971 _ Soviet Mars 2 becomes the first spacecraft to crash land on Mars 1983 _ Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid, killing 185 1985 _ The Republic of Ireland gains a consultative role in Northern Ireland 1990 _ Britain's conservatives choose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher

Nov 26, 2007

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Today is Monday, November 26, the 330th day of 2007. There are 35 days left in the year. 579 _ Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic pope 1778 _ Capt. Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands) 1789 _ The first national Thanksgiving 1865 _ ``Alice in Wonderland'' published 1868 _ The first baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco 1924 _ Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed 1940 _ Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in a walled ghetto 1941 _ Lebanon gains independence from France 1949 _ India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic 1950 _ China enters the Korean conflict, sends troops across the Yalu River 1982 _ Yasuhiro Nakasone elected prime minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki 1990 _ Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion 1990 _ Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait

Nov 25, 2007

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Today is Saturday, November 24, the 328th day of 2007. There are 37 days left in the year. 166 B.C. _ The origin of Era of Maccabees 496 _ Anastasius II begins his reign as Catholic pope 1832 _ South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification 1859 _ Charles Darwin publishes ``On the Origin of Species" 1863 _ Civil War battle for Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee 1871 _ The National Rifle Association organized (NYC) 1944 _ U.S. bombers based on Saipan first attack Tokyo 1947 _ John Steinbeck's novel ``The Pearl" published 1954 _ The first U.S. presidential airplane christened 1969 _ Apollo 12 returns to Earth 1983 _ PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese 1989 _ The Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia 1992 _ Chinese air crash kills 141

Nov 23, 2007

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Today is Friday, November 23, the 327th day of 2007. There are 38 days left in the year. 1765 _ People of Frederick County in Maryland refuse to pay England's stamp tax 1832 _ French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium 1863 _ The Battle of Chattanooga begins 1876 _ Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form the Intercollegiate Football Association 1903 _ Enrico Caruso makes a U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NYC) in ``Rigoletto" 1943 _ U.S. forces seize control of Tarawa and Makin from Japanese 1963 _ JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House 1971 _ The People's Republic of China seated in the U.N. Security Council 1977 _ European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral 1985 _ 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta 1985 _ Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin arrested of spying for China 1991 _ Evander Hollyfield retains HW boxing title, KOs Bert Cooper in 7

Nov 22, 2007

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Today is Thursday, November 22, the 326th day of 2007. There are 39 days left in the year. 365 _ Felix II ends his reign as Catholic pope 1809 _ Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen 1842 _ Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts 1924 _ England orders Egyptians out of Sudan 1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan 1956 _ The 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne 1975 _ Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain 1977 _ Regular Concorde passenger service between New York City and Europe begins 1990 _ George Bush visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving 1990 _ Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British prime minister

Nov 21, 2007

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