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Topic: On this day

Posted by: Professer

Subject: On this day
Date: Jan 18 08

Heres novel idea of what happened on this day back in time.

Remember that todays 18th January tomorrow is 19th and so on.



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romeomikegolf

1789: The 'Declaration of the Rights of Man' is adopted by the revolutionary National Assembly in France.

Reply #721. Aug 26 11, 1:24 AM

tag2371

Aug 26,1920 The 19th Amendment was adopted into the US Constitution and women earned the right to vote

Reply #722. Aug 26 11, 6:06 AM

romeomikegolf

1979: Elizabeth II's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, is killed by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland.

Reply #723. Aug 27 11, 12:10 AM

tag2371

1953-Roman Holiday opens,Audrey Hepburns first starring role.

Reply #724. Aug 27 11, 8:10 AM

romeomikegolf

1864: The first Geneva Convention, governing internationally accepted rules of warfare, is signed by 26 nations.

Reply #725. Aug 28 11, 1:02 AM

tag2371

2005-Hurricane Katrina ravages the Gulf Coast

Reply #726. Aug 28 11, 7:11 AM

paulmallon Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream " speech

Reply #727. Aug 28 11, 12:13 PM

romeomikegolf

1949: The Soviet Union becomes the world's second nuclear power after a successful test in Soviet Central Asia.

Reply #728. Aug 29 11, 12:05 AM

tag2371

1982 Actress Ingrid Bergman died on her birthday and in 1958 Michael Jackson was born

Reply #729. Aug 29 11, 6:30 AM

boxjaw

1966 - The Beatles perform their last concert in front of a paying audience at Candlestick Park, San Francisco.

Reply #730. Aug 29 11, 6:44 AM

romeomikegolf

1918: Vladimir Lenin is shot and seriously wounded by female assassin Fanya Kaplan in Moscow.

Reply #731. Aug 30 11, 5:12 AM

paulmallon Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first black Supreme Court justice

Reply #732. Aug 30 11, 1:35 PM

romeomikegolf

1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a Paris underpass.

Reply #733. Aug 31 11, 12:57 AM

tag2371

1888-Jack the Ripper claims his forst victim

Reply #734. Aug 31 11, 5:34 AM

paulmallon 1959: Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers sets a new Natinal League record by striking out 18 SF Giants in a 5-2 victory. The Dodgers would defeat the Chicago White Sox to win that years' World Series

Reply #735. Aug 31 11, 9:45 AM

romeomikegolf

1985: RMS 'Titanic', the 'unsinkable' liner lost to an iceberg in 1912, is found by a French-US search team.

Reply #736. Sep 01 11, 2:25 AM

romeomikegolf

1666: The Great Fire of London begins in a bakery on Pudding Lane and will destroy much of the city.

Reply #737. Sep 02 11, 12:25 AM

tag2371

1945 Allies celebrate V-J Day as japan surrenders.

Reply #738. Sep 02 11, 9:01 AM

paulmallon 1969 First ATM "opens for business" in a branch of Chemical Bank in Rockville Center NY

Reply #739. Sep 02 11, 1:26 PM

dippo

That would be the first ATM in the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine

Reply #740. Sep 02 11, 1:37 PM

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