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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Today is Thursday, September 20, the 262nd day of 2007. There are 103 days left in the year. 622 _ Mohammad's Hegira 1519 _ Magellan starts the first successful circumnavigation of the world 1792 _ French defeat Prussians at Valmy 1797 _ U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston 1854 _ British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea 1877 _ Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) 1945 _ German rocket engineers begin work in the U.S. 1951 _ The first North Pole jet crossing 1954 _ The first National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution 1966 _ U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept. 23 1976 _ Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women 1984 _ Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut 1985 _ Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest 1990 _ Both Germanys ratify reunification 1990 _ Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message

Sep 19, 2007

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Today is Wednesday, September 19, the 261st day of 2007. There are 104 days left in the year. 1356 _ English defeat French at the Battle of Poitiers 1873 _ Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic 1928 _ Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater in New York City) 1940 _ Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes 1957 _ The first underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas, Nevada) 1959 _ Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland 1973 _ Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May, N.J.) goes on the air 1981 _ Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket 1981 _ Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert 1985 _ 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9) 1986 _ Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients 1988 _ Israel launches the first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

Sep 18, 2007

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Today is Tuesday, September 18, the 260th day of 2007. There are 105 days left in the year. 1739 _ The Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks 1759 _ Britain captures Quebec during the French and Indian War 1810 _ Chile declares independence from Spain 1851 _ The New York Times starts publishing 1927 _ The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) goes on the air (16 radio stations) 1957 _ ``Wagon Train" premiers 1977 _ U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together 1979 _ Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect 1980 _ Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station 1982 _ Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon 1984 _ Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1990 _ Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics 1991 _ Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands

Sep 17, 2007

Monday, September 17, 2007

Today is Monday, September 17, the 259th day of 2007. There are 106 days left in the year. 1394 _ Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI 1787 _ The U.S. Constitution adopted by the Philadelphia convention 1922 _ Radio Moscow begins transmitting 1939 _ The Soviet Union invades Poland during WWII 1953 _ The first successful separation of Siamese twins 1959 _ A typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea 1968 _ Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon 1978 _ Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord 1980 _ Solidarity labor union in Poland forms 1984 _ Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner 1990 _ The Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties 1991 _ South and North Korea join the United Nations

Sep 16, 2007

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Today is Saturday, September 15, the 257th day of 2007. There are 108 days left in the year. 608 _ St. Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1620 _ Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims 1821 _ Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua gain independence 1894 _ Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang 1917 _ Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky 1950 _ During the Korean War, U.N. forces land at Inchoen 1959 _ Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in the U.S. to begin a 13-day visit 1973 _ ``Star Trek-Animated" premiers on TV 1976 _ Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into Earth orbit for eight days 1990 _ France announce it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf

Sep 14, 2007

Friday, September 14, 2007

Today is Friday, September 14, the 256th day of 2007. There are 109 days left in the year. 891 _ Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic pope 1812 _ Napoleon occupies Moscow 1917 _ The provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed 1930 _ Nazis gain 107 seats in German election 1957 _ A U.N. resolution deplores and condemns the USSR invasion of Hungary 1973 _ Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s 1973 _ President Richard Nixon signs into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout 1983 _ The U.S. House of Representatives votes 416 to 0 in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

Sep 13, 2007

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Today is Thursday, September 13, the 255th day of 2007. There are 110 days left in the year. 604 _ Sabinian begins his reign as Catholic pope 1788 _ New York City becomes capital of the United States 1882 _ Britain invades Egypt 1906 _ The first airplane flight in Europe 1942 _ German forces attack Stalingrad 1943 _ Chiang Kai-shek became president of China 1965 _ Beatles release ``Yesterday" 1970 _ IBM announces System 370 computer 1983 _ The U.S. mint strikes the first gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) 1990 _ Iraqi troops storm the residence of French ambassador in Kuwait

Sep 12, 2007

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Today is Wednesday, September 12, the 254th day of 2007. There are 111 days left in the year. 490 B.C. _ Athenians defeat the second Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon 1609 _ Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River 1901 _ Arabs attack Gedara Palestine 1918 _ During WWI, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel 1928 _ Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in ``Night Hostess" 1934 _ The Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia 1938 _ Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech 1953 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first secretary of the USSR Communist Party 1959 _ ``Bonanza" premiers 1964 _ Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage 1974 _ Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia 1980 Military coup in Turkey 1983 _ The USSR vetoes a U.N. resolution deploring its shooting-down of a Korean plane 1990 _ The U.S., England, France, the USSR, East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing the two Germanys to merge

Sep 11, 2007

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Today is Tuesday, September 11, the 253rd day of 2007. There are 112 days left in the year. 1609 _ Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island 1919 _ U.S. marines invade Honduras 1922 _ British mandate of Palestine begins 1927 _ Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers 1936 _ Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam 1950 _ The first typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited 1952 _ West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews 1954 _ The first Miss America TV broadcast 1973 _ Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup 1986 _ The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered the biggest 1-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, 2007

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Today is Monday, September 10, the 252nd day of 2007. There are 113 days left in the year. 422 _ St. Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic pope 1349 _ Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 1608 _ John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va. 1776 _ George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1798 _ British Hondurus beats Spain in the battle of St. George 1823 _ Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 1846 _ Elias Howe patents the sewing machine 1869 _ A Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 1910 _ The Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber 1939 _ Canada declares war on Germany 1960 _ Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon 1973 _ Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton 1974 _ Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal 1989 _ Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the U.S. Open championship 1989 _ East Germans begin their flight to the West (via Hungary and Czech) 1990 _ George Bush and Mikhail Gorbach

Sep 9, 2007

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