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November 11th.

Remembrance/Armistice Day and end of WWI.

The Pope died while I was celebrating my 18th.

april 26th

1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
1945 - Battle of Bautzen (World War II) - last successful German tank-offensive
1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 - in Libya Amendments to the constitution, transforming Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya), and allowing for female participation in elections.
1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
1999 - Last release of the Nemesis OS.
2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.
2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.

mostly bad stuff

July 24th

# 1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile
# 1915 - Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
# 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of                    the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
# 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
# 1990 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border.
# 2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.

Other then that, a bunch of boring stuff..

March 15th, alot happened but here are the highlights:
44 BC, Julius Caesar stabbed to death
1493 AD, Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first trip to America
1906 AD, Royals Royce Ltd. is registered
1917AD, Tzar Nicholas abdicates the throne
1944AD, Battle of Monte Casino
1990AD, Mikhail Gorbachev elected as first executive president of the Soviet Union
1991AD, Germany formally gains complete independence from the allied powers

Ender2309 wrote:

too many to list: (may 27th)
man...my birthday is a dark fucking day for humanity....

Batman's pretty awesome.

March 6th, This year: I called my gf on the phone like I do everyday...  Then I went to bed.  She didn't remember to get me anything.

Historically: nothing on the Wikipedia list seems interesting.

Saint Pa46 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
624 - A key victory by Muhammad over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.
1103 - Birth of noted Song Dynasty general Yue Fei.
1577 - The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.
1673 - Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet begin their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river.
1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city.
1805 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1845 - The rubber band is invented
1861 - The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1886 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
1891 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
1901 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1906 - The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
1910 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).
1917 - Delta Phi Epsilon was founded at New York University Law School.
1921 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
1931 - First St. Patrick's Day parade held in the Irish Free State, reviewed by Desmond Fitzgerald
1939 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese break out.
1941 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 - Holocaust: 1,500 Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) arrived at Belzec death camp (eastern Poland). Until 30 March 15,000 Jews from Lviv (Ukraine) were deported to face death in Belzec by German Gestapo.
1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India.
1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 - Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
1969 - The Longhope lifeboat in Scotland is lost, the entire crew of eight die
1970 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1973 - The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, as a former prisoner of war comes home to the United States to reunite with his family.
1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1988 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1992 - A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003 - British Cabinet Minister, Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.
2004 - Massive Unrest in Kosovo. Over 22 killed, 200 wounded, 35 destroyed Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
trick’s Day Oh and......

Last edited by =*RSA*=SiKFuK_187 (2006-12-11 12:08:10)

My 2 favorites

1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".

1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

Events

    * 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
    * 1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.
    * 1531 - Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
    * 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
    * 1565 - Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
    * 1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
    * 1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
    * 1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
    * 1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
    * 1785 - Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
    * 1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sail into Sydney Harbour to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Celebrated as Australia Day.
    * 1802 - The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.
    * 1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
    * 1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
    * 1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
    * 1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had ceded.
    * 1861 - American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
    * 1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
    * 1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
    * 1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
    * 1885 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
    * 1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
    * 1905 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
    * 1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
    * 1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
    * 1920 - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches The Lincoln Motor Co., which he'd later sell to his former employer.
    * 1930 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 th January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence)
    * 1934 - The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
    * 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to fascist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
    * 1942 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
    * 1946 - Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.
    * 1950 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.
    * 1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
    * 1962 - Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
    * 1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.
    * 1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
    * 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
    * 1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
    * 1986 - The Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl.
    * 1986 - Halley's Comet is visible in the night sky as it passes in its 76-year orbit around the sun.
    * 1988 - The musical 'Phanton of the Opera' opens for the first time on broadway.
    * 1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government
    * 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
    * 1993 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic.
    * 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
    * 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
    * 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
    * 2003 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers win Super Bowl XXXVII
    * 2004 - President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.
    * 2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
    * 2005 - Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
    * 2005 - A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
    * 2006 - A large fire breaks out on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.
    * 2006 - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.

[edit] Births

    * 1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
    * 1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
    * 1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
    * 1716 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
    * 1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
    * 1763 - Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)
    * 1781 - Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
    * 1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876)
    * 1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
    * 1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
    * 1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
    * 1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
    * 1887 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1915)
    * 1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
    * 1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
    * 1901 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
    * 1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
    * 1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
    * 1904 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
    * 1905 - Charles Lane, American actor
    * 1905 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)
    * 1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
    * 1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)
    * 1913 - James Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
    * 1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
    * 1915 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
    * 1918 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
    * 1918 - Philip José Farmer, American writer
    * 1921 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
    * 1922 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
    * 1923 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress
    * 1924 - Rauf Denktash, Cypriot politician
    * 1924 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)
    * 1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
    * 1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress
    * 1925 - Paul Newman, American actor
    * 1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar, writer and linguist
    * 1927 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
    * 1927 - Bob Nieman, baseball player (d. 1985)
    * 1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
    * 1928 - George H. Ross, American attorney and TV reality show star (The Apprentice)
    * 1929 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
    * 1929 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator
    * 1932 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, Jamaican record producer
    * 1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
    * 1935 - Bob Uecker, baseball player, broadcaster, and actor
    * 1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
    * 1941 - Scott Glenn, American actor
    * 1941 - Henry Jaglom, English director
    * 1943 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
    * 1943 - Jean Knight, American singer
    * 1944 - Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
    * 1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
    * 1946 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)
    * 1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author
    * 1950 - Janet Lupo, American model
    * 1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
    * 1953 - Lucinda Williams, American singer
    * 1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born musician
    * 1958 - Anita Baker, American singer
    * 1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress, comedian, and talk show host
    * 1958 - Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer
    * 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player, coach, and team owner
    * 1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
    * 1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
    * 1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, English musician
    * 1964 - Paul Johansson, American actor
    * 1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
    * 1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
    * 1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor
    * 1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor
    * 1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model
    * 1976 - Maggie Lawson, Australian Musician
    * 1977 - Vince Carter, American basketball player
    * 1977 - Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player
    * 1978 - Corina Morariu, American tennis player
    * 1978 - Kelly Stables, American actress
    * 1979 - Sara Rue, American actress
    * 1986 - Matt Heafy, Japenese-born musician (Trivium)
    * 1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
    * 1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
    * 1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
    * 1995 - Kyle Chavarria, American actress

[edit] Deaths

    * 1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
    * 1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
    * 1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
    * 1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
    * 1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
    * 1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
    * 1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
    * 1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
    * 1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
    * 1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
    * 1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
    * 1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
    * 1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
    * 1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
    * 1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)
    * 1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
    * 1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)
    * 1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)
    * 1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
    * 1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
    * 1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
    * 1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
    * 1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)
    * 1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)
    * 1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, (b. 1906)
    * 1952 - Horloogiyn Choybalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
    * 1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
    * 1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)
    * 1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
    * 1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
    * 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
    * 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
    * 1984 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)
    * 1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
    * 1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
    * 1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)
    * 1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
    * 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
    * 1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)
    * 1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
    * 1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)
    * 2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
    * 2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
    * 2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
    * 2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
    * 2001 - Jessica Michalik, Australian victim of Big Day Out (b. 1985)
    * 2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
    * 2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
    * 2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
    * 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)

[edit] Holidays and observances

    * Australia - Australia Day.
    * Roman Empire - third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.
    * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
          o Timothy and Titus
          o Saint Paula
          o Polycarp
          o Saint Alberic
          o Saint Margaret of Hungary
    * India - Republic Day - One of only three state holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi.
    * Uganda - Liberation Day.
    * International Customs Day.

December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining.


Events

    * 1724 - Thorn Blood tribunal (de:Thorner Blutgericht), execution of protestant who attacked and demolished Jesuit Church by Poland in Toruń(Thorn)
    * 1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
    * 1776 - Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
    * 1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
    * 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, is executed by firing squad after having been convicted of treason for his support of Napoleon I.
    * 1917 - World War I: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    * 1941 - World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.
    * 1941 - World War II: Attack On Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
    * 1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people.
    * 1949 - Chinese Civil War : The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
    * 1962 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
    * 1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
    * 1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
    * 1970 - The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise are held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
    * 1971 - Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.
    * 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew take the photograph known as "The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.
    * 1975 - Indonesia invades East Timor.
    * 1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
    * 1983 - An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collided with an Aviaco DC-9 in intense fog when the two airliners taxied down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
    * 1987 - PSA Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
    * 1988 - Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
    * 1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
    * 1989 - In their third and final fight, Sugar Ray Leonard retains the WBC Super Middleweight Championship of the World, defeating Roberto Duran.
    * 1993 - In South Africa, the Transitional Executive Council is established.
    * 1993 - The Long Island Rail Road Massacre: Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
    * 1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
    * 1995 - 20 people are killed in the Port-au-Prince air disaster
    * 2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
    * 2004 - Hamid Karzai is inaugurated as President of Afghanistan.
    * 2004 - John Kufuor is re-elected as President of Ghana.
    * 2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
    * 2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London seriously damaging around 150 properties.

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