Opinion - The Korea Times

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007

Today is Friday, July 27, the 207th day of 2007. There are 158 days left in the year. 432 . St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1586 . Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia 1661 . Parliament confirms the Navigation Act 1789 . Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept) 1866 . Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) 1909 . Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m 1919 . Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured) 1924 . 8th Olympic games closes in Paris 1941 . Japanese forces land in Indo-China 1944 . U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese 1953 . Armistice signed ending Korean War 1954 . Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries 1955 . Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation 1968 .Race Riot in Gary Indiana

Jul 26, 2007

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2007

Today is Thursday, July 26, the 206th day of 2007. There are 159 days left in the year. 1775 . Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General 1788 . New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution 1847 . Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society 1908 . Federal Bureau of Investigation established 1926 . National Bar Association incorporates 1945 . Churchill resigns as Britain’s PM 1947 . Department of Defense established 1953 . Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban revolution 1956 . Egypt seizes Suez Canal 1957 . USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile 1971 . Apollo 15 launched to the Moon 1990 . General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode

Jul 25, 2007

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2007

Today is Wednesday, July 25, the 205th day of 2007. There are 160 days left in the year. 1360 . Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia 1729 . North Carolina becomes royal colony 1799 . French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir 1868 . Territory of Wyoming created 1898 . 1st U.S. troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay 1946 . 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show 1946 . U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini 1963 . U.S., Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty

Jul 24, 2007

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2007

Today is Tuesday, July 24, the 204th day of 2007. There are 161 days left in the year. 1683 . 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard the Concord 1701 . French make 1st landing at site of Detroit 1704 . Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain 1847 . Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah 1870 . 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins 1948 . Soviets blockades Berlin from the west 1963 . 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea

Jul 23, 2007

Monday, July 23, 2007

Today is Monday, July 23, the 203rd day of 2007. There are 162 days left in the year. 636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire 685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III 1298 - Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany 1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt 1803 - Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin 1877 - 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations 1900 - Pan-African Congress meets in London 1920 - Kenya becomes a British crown colony 1948 - Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President

Jul 22, 2007

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007

Today is Saturday, July 21, the 201st day of 2007. There are 164 days left in the year. 230 _ St. Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1588 _ English fleet defeats Spanish armada 1831 _ Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king 1898 _ Spain cedes Guam to the U.S. 1900 _ Pope Leo XIII encyclical to the Greek-Melkite rite 1930 _ The U.S. Veterans Administration established 1940 _ Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1944 _ U.S. forces free Guam of Japanese invaders 1954 _ At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam 1960 _ The country of Katanga forms in Africa 1965 _ Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact 1973 _ Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 homers 1983 _ The Polish government ends 19 months of martial law 1990 _ Goodwill Games opens in Seattle 1990 _ Pink Floyds' ``The Wall’’ is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood

Jul 20, 2007

FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2007

Today is Friday, July 20, the 200th day of 2007. There are 165 days left in the year. 1810 _ Colombia declared independence from Spain 1868 _ 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes 1871 _ British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province 1878 _ 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii 1922 _ Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations 1938 _ Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws 1944 _ President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention 1944 _ U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II 1949 _ Israel's 19 month war of independence ends 1956 _ France recognizes Tunisia's independence 1960 _ USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space 1969 _ 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 1974 _ Turkey invades Cyprus 1976 _ U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing 1996 _ 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia

Jul 19, 2007

THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007

Today is Thursday, July 19, the 199th day of 2007. There are 166 days left in the year. 514 _ St. Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1848 _ First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.) 1860 _ First railroad reaches Kansas 1870 _ France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins 1877 _ First Wimbledon tennis championships held 1941 _ British PM Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory’’ campaign 1949 _ Laos becomes associated state within French Union 1952 _ 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki 1957 _ First rocket with nuclear warhead fired in Yucca Flat, Nevada 1969 _ Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit 1979 _ Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza 1986 _ Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass. 1991 _ Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

Jul 18, 2007

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2007

Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 198th day of 2007. There are 167 days left in the year. 64 _ The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) 1536 _ Pope’s authority declared void in England 1872 _ Britain introduces secret ballot voting 1918 _ U.S. and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WWI 1931 _ The first air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched 1936 _ Spanish Civil War begins, Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising 1947 _ The U.S. receives U.N. trusteeship over Pacific Islands 1951 _ Uruguay accepts its constitution 1955 _ The first electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 1959 _ The first black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright) 1967 _ Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY 1969 _ Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen. Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge 1974 _ The world's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 1979 _ Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London 1980 _ Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts 1986 _ Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remai

Jul 17, 2007

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2007

Today is Tuesday, July 17, the 197th day of 2007. There are 168 days left in the year. 561 _ John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 855 _ St. Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1549 _ Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium 1898 _ Spanish American War-Spaniads surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba 1948 _ Proclamation of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea 1959 _ Tibet abolishes serfdom 1968 _ Beatle's animated film ``Yellow Submarine’’ premiers in London 1968 _ Revolt in Iraq 1984 _ Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7 1989 _ Paul McCartney releases ``This One’’ 1990 _ Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

Jul 16, 2007

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