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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Today is Friday, November 9, the 313th day of 2007. There are 52 days left in the year. 694 _ Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery 1282 _ Pope Martinus IV excommunicates King Pedro III of Aragonorth 1494 _ The Medici family becomes rulers of Florence 1729 _ Spain, France and England signs the Treaty of Seville 1799 _ Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France 1927_ Giant Panda discovered in China 1937 _ Japans army conquers Shanghai 1940 _ Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WWII 1944 _ The Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize 1963 _ 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash in Japan 1976 _ The U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1980 _ Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares a holy war against Iran 1989 _ East Berlin opens its borders 1994 _ Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen the female president of Sri Lanka

Nov 8, 2007

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Today is Thursday, November 8, the 312th day of 2007. There are 53 days left in the year. 618 _ St. Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic pope 1793 _ Louvre in Paris opens 1864 _ Abraham Lincoln elected to his second term as president 1889 _ Montana admitted as the 41st U.S. state 1904 _ President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) 1944 _ 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to the Nazis for forced labor 1950 _ First jet-plane battle of Korean War 1956 _ The U.N. demands the USSR leave Hungary 1960 _ JFK (MA-D) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President 1966 _ Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California 1979 _ ABC broadcasts ``Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds 1987 _ 11 die as a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at Ulster Remembrance Day Service 1988 _ 900 die as earthquake hits China 1988 _ George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for Presidency 1990 _ 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to the Persian Gulf 1990 _ Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to

Nov 7, 2007

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Today is Wednesday, November 7, the 311th day of 2007. There are 54 days left in the year. 680 _ The third Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens 1865 _ London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is founded 1916 _ Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected U.S. president 1917 _ British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks 1917 _ October Revolution in Russia, Lenin seizes power 1942 _ First U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language ― FDR in French 1955 _ The Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas 1972 _ President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) 1976 _ ``Gone With the Wind" televised 1988 _ Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde 1991 _ Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Lakers

Nov 6, 2007

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Today is Tuesday, November 6, the 310th day of 2007. There are 55 days left in the year. 1572 _ Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia 1813 _ Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain 1844 _ Spain grants Dominican Republic independence 1860 _ Abraham Lincoln elected 16th U.S. president 1884 _ British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea 1917 _ The Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace 1918 _ The Republic of Poland proclaimed 1956 _ President Eisenhower re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson 1957 _ Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France 1973 _ Abe Beame elected first Jewish mayor on NYC 1978 _ The shah of Iran places Iran under military rule 1985 _ General Jaruzelski elected Poland's head of state 1986 _ Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill 1990 _ Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages

Nov 5, 2007

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Today is Monday, November 5, the 309th day of 2007. There are 56 days left in the year. 1414 _ Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens 1492 _ Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba 1838 _ Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation 1911 _ Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica 1913 _ Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria 1914 _ Britain annexes Cyprus 1935 _ Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly 1940 _ President FDR (D)wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R) 1956 _ Britain and France land forces in Egypt 1987 _ Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic 1987 _ U.S. Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana

Nov 4, 2007

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Today is Saturday, November 3, the 307th day of 2007. There are 58 days left in the year. 1394 _ Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI 1620 _ Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony 1762 _ Spain acquires Louisiana 1839 _ The first opium war; 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1903 _ Colombia grants Panama independence 1918 _ Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WWI 1928 _ Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet 1956 _ ``Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV) 1957 _ The USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), first animal in orbit 1970 _ Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile 1978 _ U.K. grants Dominica independence 1979 _ 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran 1984 _ 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India 1984 _ The body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated 1988 _ The Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1992 _ Bill Clinton elected U.S. president

Nov 2, 2007

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Today is Friday, November 2, the 306th day of 2007. There are 59 days left in the year. 676 _ Donus begins his reign as Catholic pope 1648 _ 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia 1841 _ Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan 1889 _ North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state of the U.S. 1917 _ Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1936 _ The first high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London 1938 _ Babe Ruth applies for the job of St Louis Browns' manager 1956 _ Hungary appeals for U.N. assistance against Soviet invasion 1956 _ Israel captures Gaza and Sheham 1962 _ JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled 1988 _ Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and six universities 1988 _ Shamir Likud wins election in Israel

Nov 1, 2007

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Today is Thursday, November 1, the 305th day of 2007. There are 62 days left in the year. 79 _ Pompei buried by Mt. Vesuvius 1210 _ King John of England begins imprisoning Jews 1604 _ William Shakespeare's tragedy ``Othello" first presented 1755 _ Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 1784 _ Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants 1922 _ The Ottoman Empire abolished 1936 _ Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an ``axis" 1946 _ The West German state of Niedersachsen formed 1954 _ Algeria begins rebellion against French rule 1956 _ The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed 1960 _ The Benelux treaty goes into effect 1962 _ Greece enters the European Common Market 1971 _ The Eisenhower dollar put into circulation 1989 _ Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights 1990 _ Last of Margaret Thatcher's original cabinet resigns, Deputy PM Sir Geoffrey Howe 1990 _ Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler 1993 _ European Union comes into existence

Oct 31, 2007

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007

Today is Wednesday, October 31, the 304th day of 2007. There are 61 days left in the year. 1517 _ Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation 1864 _ Nevada admitted as 36th U.S. state 1908 _ Fourth Olympic games end in London 1922 _ Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy 1940 _ Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto 1952 _ The first thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands 1954 _ Algerian Revolution against French begins 1956 _ Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal 1956 _ Brooklyn, N.Y., ends streetcar service 1967 _ Nguyen Van Thieu takes oath of office as first president of South Vietnam 1968 _ President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam 1969 _ A race riot in Jacksonville Florida 1982 _ Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Spain 1988 _ Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia

Oct 30, 2007

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007

Today is Tuesday, October 30, the 303rd day of 2007. There are 62 days left in the year. 701 _ John VI begins his reign as Catholic pope 1270 _ The eighth and last crusade is launched 1918 _ Slovakia asks for creation of a Czechoslovakian state 1930 _ Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship 1939 _ The USSR and Germany agree on partitioning Poland 1944 _ Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen 1961 _ The Soviet Union tests a 58-megaton hydrogen bomb 1974 _ Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa 1975 _ Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain 1991 _ A Middle East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain

Oct 29, 2007

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