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MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007

Today is Monday, October 29 the 302nd day of 2007. There are 63 days left in the year. 539 B.C. -- Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia 1787 -- The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague) 1894 -- The first election of the Hawaiian Republic 1923 -- Turkey proclaimed a republic 1929 -- "Black Tuesday" stock market crashes triggers the "Great Depression" 1942 -- 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia 1942 -- The Alaska highway completed 1956 -- Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open the Straits of Tiran 1960 -- Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6 1964 -- The town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee 1966 --The National Organization of Women founded 1982 -- Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine" 1988 -- 2,000 U.S. anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics 1988 -- China announces a herbal male contraceptive

Oct 28, 2007

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2007

Today is Saturday, October 27 the 300th day of 2007. There are 65 days left in the year. 625 _ Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic pope 1775 _ The U.S. Navy established 1810 _ The U.S. annexes West Florida from Spain 1920 _ The League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva 1938 _ DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon" 1961 _ The first Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test 1961 _ Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become the 102nd and 103rd members of the U.N. 1971 _ The Republic of the Congo becomes the Republic of Zaire 1972 _ The Golden Gate National Recreation Area created 1978 _ Begin and Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize 1982 _ China announces its population at 1 billion people plus 1982 _ IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics 1987 _ South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution 1988 _ "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)

Oct 26, 2007

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2007

Today is Friday, October 26, the 299th day of 2007. There are 66 days left in the year. 1863 _ Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva 1905 _ The Union of Sweden and Norway ends 1941 _ U.S. savings bonds go on sale 1955 _ Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president 1956 _ U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved 1956 _ Vietnam promulgates its constitution 1957 _ Vatican Radio begins broadcasting 1967 _ The shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne 1970 _ "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers 1975 _ Anwar Sadat becomes first Egyptian president to officially visit the U.S. 1976 _ Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic 1984 _ "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days

Oct 25, 2007

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2007

Today is Thursday, October 25, the 298th day of 2007. There are 67 days left in the year. 625 _ Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic pope 1760 _ George III ascends the British throne 1900 _ England annexes Transvaal 1918 _ Canadian steamship ``Princess Sophia" hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die 1930 _ The first scheduled transcontinental air service begins 1944 _ Japanese navy defeated at the battle of Leyte Gulf 1945 _ Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek 1951 _ Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjeom 1962 _ American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1971 _ Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World 1971 _ The U.N. General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels Taiwan 1983 _ The U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population 1986 _ International Red Cross ousted from South Africa

Oct 24, 2007

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 22, 2007

3963 B.C. _ The origin of Hevelius' Mundane Era 1648 _ The Peace of Westphalia ends a 30-year war and the Holy Roman Empire 1795 _ The third partition of Poland between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1856 _ The constitution of South Australia adopted 1861 _ The first transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express 1929 _ ``Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash 1935 _ Italy invades Ethiopia 1945 _ The United Nations Charter becomes effective 1956 _ Soviet troops invade Hungary 1973 _ John Lennon sues the U.S. government to admit the FBI is tapping his phone 1980 _ The Polish government legalizes the independent labor union Solidarity 1989 _ Rev. Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud

Oct 23, 2007

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2007

Today is Tuesday, October 23, the 296th day of 2007. There are 69 days left in the year. 1790 _ Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed) 1876 _ New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office 1915 _ 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote 1927 _ The city of Netanya, Israel, founded 1941 _ Walt Disney's ``Dumbo" released 1942 _ During WWII, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt 1944 _ The Soviet army invades Hungary 1947 _ NAACP petition on racism, ``An Appeal to the World" presented to the U.N. 1954 _ Britain, England, France and the USSR agree to end occupation of Germany 1956 _ The Hungarian Revolution begins 1958 _ Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1980 _ Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness 1981 _ U.S. national debt hits $1 trillion 1983 _ Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 U.S. personnel in Beirut 1984 _ NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine 1990 _ Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages 1991 _ Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine

Oct 22, 2007

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2007

Today is Monday, October 22, the 295th day of 2007. There are 70 days left in the year. 1746 _ Princeton University received its charter 1875 _ Sons of the American Revolution organized 1936 _ First commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii 1938 _ First Xerox copy made 1953 _ Laos gains full independence from France 1954 _ West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1962 _ JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis 1968 _ Apollo 7 returns to Earth 1979 _ Deposed shah of Iran arrives in New York City for medical treatment 1980 _ New South Korean constitution comes into effect 1988 _ Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time 1991 _ General Motors announces 9-month loss of $2.2 billion

Oct 21, 2007

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007

Today is Saturday, October 20, the 293rd day of 2007. There are 72 days left in the year. 1600 _ The battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns) 1740 _ Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia 1911 _ Roald Amundsen sets out on race to the South Pole 1944 _ U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines 1963 _ South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy 1968 _ Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis 1973 _ OPEC oil embargo begins 1979 _ John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston 1983 _ IBM-PC DOS version 2.1 released 1989 _ The U.S. Senate impeaches district judge Alcee L. Hastings 1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (U.S.-Iraq)

Oct 19, 2007

Today in History

Today is Friday, October 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year. 125 B.C. -- The origin of Era of Tyre 1812 -- Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow 1944 -- U.S. forces land in the Philippines 1950 -- U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea 1960 -- Martin Luther King Jr.arrested in Atlanta sit-in 1960 -- The U.S. imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba 1977 -- Supersonic Concorde jet’s first landing in NYC 1987 -- U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf 1988 -- South African antiapartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

Oct 18, 2007

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007

Today is Thursday, October 18, the 291st day of 2007. There are 74 days left in the year. 707 _ John VII ends his reign as Catholic pope 1685 _ Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism 1867 _ The U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 1898 _ American flag raised in Puerto Rico 1908 _ Belgium annexes Congo Free State 1912 _ Beginning of the first Balkan War 1922 _ British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established 1944 _ Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WWII 1967 _ Walt Disney's ``Jungle Book" is released 1969 _ Soyuz 8 returns to Earth 1988 _ Israel's supreme court upholds ban on Kahane's Kach Party as racist 1989 _ The 62nd U.S. manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit

Oct 17, 2007
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