News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomAl-Jaafari to Lead IraqHussein Plans Hunger StrikeInsurgents Fire Mortar Into Green ZoneBombs, Shootings Kill at Least 3 in IraqLawyer: Saddam Not Planning Hunger StrikeBlair Vows Probe of Alleged Abuse in IraqSaddam faces showdown with court over boycottHomeland Security / War on TerrorMusharraf: Al-Zawahiri's Kin Killed in U.S. AttackHamas RisingIsrael Cautions Against Legitimizing HamasOlmert softens tone on Russia-Hamas talksCartooning MuhammadMuhammad cartoon protests aren't unique to IslamIran: U.S. Should Pay 'Heavy Price' for Cartoon Crisis (That's right - it's all our fault. It has nothing to do with the fact that Iran and Syria are inciting riots over cartoons first published - with no reactions - in September, and certainly isn't related to the fact that Iran is about to be referred to, and Syria is being looked at by, a Security Council that a Dane is poised to take over....oh, no.....not at all....)Iranian Doublepeak
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1111 - German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
1130 - Pope Innocent II elected
1502 - Granada Muslims forced to convert to Catholicism
1528 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
1577 - Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
1624 - English parliament comes together
1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
1762 - English fleet occupies Martinique
1763 - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
1772 - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1818 - Chile gains independence from Spain
1821 - Mercantile Library of the City of New York opens
1825 - Creek Indian treaty signed; Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1832 - Ecuador annexes Galápagos Islands
1839 - Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
1840 - Housatonic Railroad opens
1850 - Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
1861 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK
1865 - Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Representatives
1870 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
1873 - Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
1874 - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is 1st king to visit US
1876 - Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
1877 - 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, MA; US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1878 - Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
1879 - 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, NYC); News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
1882 - Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
1886 - 2nd British government of Salisbury forms
1908 - New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1909 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded; Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
1912 - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates
1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
1921 - Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours); Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
1924 - President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
1925 - 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress; Estonia forbids Communist Party
1927 - British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
1932 - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1933 - German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
1934 - France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
1935 - Great airship,
USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
1938 - Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1938 - German troops entered Austria
1941 - Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen; Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
1942 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
1943 - General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
1944 - Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
1945 - San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference
1947 - Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
1948 - 1st Lieutenant Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
1949 - Panic in Quito, Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio; Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
1950 - Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees; Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1953 - USSR breaks relations with Israel
1955 -
President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam; Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
1957 - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
1958 - General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
1960 - Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1963 - Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron
1973 -
1st US POWs in North Vietnam released - 116 of 456 flown to Philippines1979 - Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1981 - Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA; Cape Verde amends its constitution
1984 - Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics receiving all perfect scores for quality & the gold medal
1989 - 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
1991 - Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
1994 - 17th Olympics Winter games open in Lillehammer, Norway
1995 - PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
1997 - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
1998 - 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt; Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740; US district judge T. Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
Birthdays1211 - Henry VII Roman, Catholic German king (1220-35)
1438 - Adolf van Egmond, Duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1474 - Lorenzo Campeggi(o), Archbishop of Bologna/diplomat
1588 - John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Massachusetts
1768 - Francis II Florence, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806)
1775 - Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
1809 - Charles Darwin, discovered evolution (Origin of species); Abraham Lincoln, (R) 16th President (1861-65)
1828 - Robert Ransom, Jr., Confederate Major General (Confederate Army)
1831 - John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
1838 - Charles Carroll Walcott, Union Brevet Major General
1841 - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister
1868 - Johan H.A. Schaper, Dutch MP/founder (SDAP)
1869 - Hendrik P. Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD)
1893 - Omar Bradley, General of the Army WWII, "The GI General"
1911 - Sylvstre A. Guzman Fernandez, President (Dominican Republic)
1914 - Nello Celi,o Swiss President
1915 - Andrew J. Goodpaster , US General/Supreme Commander (NATO-Europe)
1923 - James Abdnor (Senator-SD, 1981-87)
1930 - Arlen Specter (Senator-R-PA, 1981- )
1931 - Constance A. Morella (Representative-MD)
1933 - Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut
1936 - Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident
1940 - Hank Brown (Representative-CO, 1981-88)
1941 - Naomi Uemura, mountain climber (1st Japanese to scale Everest)
1956 - Paula Zahn Omaha NB, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning); Ad P. Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs
Passings1128 - Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus
1242 - Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
1554 - Lord Guildford Dudley Jane Grey's husband, beheaded
1771 - Adolf Frederik, King of Sweden (1751-70), dies at 60
1942 - Grant Wood, US painter (American Gothic), dies at 49
1945 - Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah); Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39
1958 - Marcel Cachin 1st communist French senator, dies at 88
1971 - James Cash Penney, founder (J C Penney), dies at 95
1984 - Anna Anderson Manahan (claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia) dies in VA
1993 - James Bulge,r English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 year old boys
Reported Missing in Action1967Sullivan, Martin J.,
USN (MA); F4B crashed in water, Killed, body not recovered
Weissmueller, Courtney E.,
USAF (FL); F100D shot down
1968 The following US Army personnel lost when their UH1H was shot down:Brown, Harry Willis (SC); medic
Groth, Wade L. (MI); crewchief
Gunn, Alan W. (TX); pilot
Roe, Jerry L. (TX); aircraft commander
1969The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their RU1A was shot down:Fisher, John B. (FL); released by Sihanouk March, 1969
Osburn, Laird P. (WV); released by Sihanouk March, 1969 - alive and well as of 1998
Pryor, Robert J. (TN); released by Sihanouk March, 1969
1970Bradshaw, Robert S. III,
USMC (TX); F4B shot down (w/Breeding), KIA, body not recovered
Breeding, Michael Hugh,
USMC (KS); F4B shot down (w/Bradshaw), KIA, body not recovered
1971Mc Leod, Arthur E.,
US Army (NY); AH1G shot down (w/Wilkinson), remains ID'd August, 1999
Wilkinson, Clyde D.,
US Army (TX); AH1G shot down (w/McLeod), remains ID'd August, 1999
The Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Niagara Falls pulls alongside the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to conduct a connected replenishment in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. The Reagan is currently underway on its maiden deployment in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Aaron Burden
U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan standby to conduct a replenishment at sea with the Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Niagara Falls in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. The Reagan is currently underway on its maiden deployment in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Kathleen Gorby
The Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Niagara Falls prepares to conduct a underway replenishment with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. The Reagan is currently underway on its maiden deployment in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations.U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Aaron Burden
An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter assigned to the "Island Knights" of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 25 delivers supplies during a vertical replenishment at sea between the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Rainer and the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. The Reagan is currently underway on its maiden deployment in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Christine Singh
An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter assigned to the "Island Knights" of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 25 picks up cargo pendants from the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan during a vertical replenishment with the Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Niagara Falls in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Kathleen Gorby
U.S. Navy sailors stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan move boxes during a replenishment at sea with the Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Niagara Falls in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. The Reagan is currently under way on its maiden deployment in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Daisy Abonza
U.S. Navy sailors wait for stores to be delivered to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan from the Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Niagara Falls during a vertical replenishment in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. The Reagan and embarked Carrier Air Wing 14 are currently underway in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher D. Blachly
U.S. Navy sailors wait for stores to be delivered to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan from the Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Niagara Falls during a vertical replenishment in the South China Sea, Feb. 5, 2006. The Reagan and embarked Carrier Air Wing 14 are currently underway in support of the global war on terrorism and maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher D. Blachly
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