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Subject: On this day

Posted by: Professer
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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rosifer
On September 17 1949 SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of 118 lives

Reply #1061. Sep 17 13, 10:27 AM
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Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) shot down his first plane on September 17,1916.


Reply #1062. Sep 17 13, 11:48 AM
rosifer
UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash on September 18 1961

Reply #1063. Sep 18 13, 11:03 AM
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Jimi Hendrix died September 18, 1970. He was 27 years old.

Reply #1064. Sep 18 13, 5:34 PM
rosifer
Saint Wenceslas was murdered on this day by his brother in 935

Reply #1065. Sep 28 13, 11:09 AM
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while working at St Mary's Hospital in London on September 28, 1928.


Reply #1066. Sep 28 13, 1:37 PM
rosifer
The Metropolitan Police of London were established this day in 1829

Reply #1067. Sep 29 13, 6:13 AM
rosifer
The Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store in New York on this day in 1872

Reply #1068. Oct 03 13, 11:20 AM
rosifer
Ernesto Che Guevara was executed on October 9 in 1967

Reply #1069. Oct 09 13, 2:49 PM
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October 22, 1692 was the date of the last hanging for witchcraft in the United States.


Reply #1070. Oct 22 13, 4:47 PM
kw1653
On this day (October 22), at dawn, for 20 minutes, the Sun shines directly onto the back wall of the innermost chamber of the larger temple at Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt.





Reply #1071. Oct 22 13, 6:20 PM
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On October 23, 1915 25,000-33,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City demanding the right to vote.


Reply #1072. Oct 23 13, 6:54 AM
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Rosa Parks died October 24, 2005. In Montgomery Alabama she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.



Reply #1073. Oct 24 13, 6:31 AM
Shiningstar7
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on this day in 1963.

Reply #1074. Nov 22 13, 7:17 PM
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The births of Boris Karloff in 1887 and Harpo Marx in 1888 were on 23rd November.

Reply #1075. Nov 23 13, 5:36 AM
Shiningstar7
George Harrison of The Beatles passed away of cancer in 2001.

Reply #1076. Nov 29 13, 3:22 PM
Shiningstar7
Paul Franklin Crouch, founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, (TBN) passed away today from heart failure.

Reply #1077. Nov 30 13, 10:47 PM
Shiningstar7
John Winston Lennon of The Beatles was assassinated on this day, 1980.

Reply #1078. Dec 08 13, 12:12 AM
Shiningstar7
Elvis Presley born in 1935.

Reply #1079. Jan 08 14, 11:57 PM
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1788: More ships from the First Fleet arrive in Botany Bay, Australia - and European settlement is on under way

Reply #1080. Jan 18 14, 11:20 PM


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