Post by Salem6 on Dec 10, 2003 14:04:57 GMT
Wednesday, Dec. 10
10/12/2003 07:38 - (SA)
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2003. There are 21 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1520 - Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.
1719 - The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis takes place in New England.
1810 - Napoleon Bonaparte annexes northern Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, Lauenburg and Lubeck, Germany.
1877 - Plevna, Bulgaria, falls to Russian army.
1893 - Italians defeat Mahdists attacking Eritrea.
1898 - The Treaty of Paris between United States and Spain ends the Spanish-American War with Spain ceding Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the United States for $20 million.
1899 - British forces are defeated by the Boers at Stromberg.
1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1931 - Jane Addams becomes a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honoured.
1936 - King Edward VIII of Britain abdicates with the intention of marrying American divorcee Wallis Simpson. His brother, the Duke of York becomes King George VI.
1948 - UN General Assembly in Paris unanimously adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Six members of the Soviet bloc, Saudi Arabia and South Africa abstain.
1950 - Ralph J Bunche is presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.
1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight takes place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flies 111 passengers from New York City to Miami.
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within the Commonwealth.
1964 - Dr Martin Luther King Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
1967 - World's first commercial thermonuclear blast take place in the US state of New Mexico, to give access to natural gas from underground deposits.
1973 - Austria closes its transit centre for Jews leaving the Soviet Union.
1976 - In Lebanon, a truce accord ends fighting between Moslems and Christians in the south, clashes among Palestinian factions, heightened tensions among rival Christian parties and a Syrian crackdown against the Lebanese press.
1980 - Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda's president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the presidency. He was ousted by the army for the second time in 1985.
1983 - Democracy returns after seven years of dictatorship in Argentina, as Raul Alfonsin is sworn in as president.
1986 - Palestinian guerrillas, after 17 days of fighting, make a token withdrawal from five front-line positions in south Lebanon town of Maghdousheh.
1988 - Chinese troops shoot into crowds of Tibetans demonstrating in Lhasa for human rights.
1990 - Iraq says it won't relinquish any Kuwaiti territory.
1991 - Yugoslav federal army pulls out of Zagreb, and Croatia and Serbia exchange hundreds of prisoners, but fighting continues elsewhere in Croatia.
1992 - Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first bloodshed of the US-led military mission in Somalia.
1993 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela says he and President FW de Klerk are bound by the Nobel Peace Prize they accepted to spend the rest of their lives building a democratic, nonracial South Africa.
1993 - The United Nations lifts the oil embargo against South Africa.
1994 - Leaders of the Western Hemisphere's 34 democracies pledge to negotiate the world's largest duty-free trade zone by 2005.
1996 - President Nelson Mandela signs South Africa's Constitution into law in Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, and after the signing he dances in unison with a jubilant crowd.
1997 - Palestinians begin their first census in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and are attacked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for violating Israeli sovereignty in East Jerusalem.
1998 - The PLO revokes clauses in its constitution calling for the destruction of Israel. Six astronauts show off the new international space station, becoming the first guests aboard the 402-kilometre-high outpost.
1999 -Taiwanese-American scientist Wen Ho Lee is arrested after being indicted for removing nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos weapons lab where he worked. He is released after pleading guilty to downloading nuclear secrets in a case that elicited allegations he was singled out because of his race.
2000 - Widows, parents and children of sailors killed aboard the Kursk nuclear submarine receive medals from the Russian Navy after President Vladimir Putin signs a decree awarding the posthumous Medal of Courage to the Kursk's 118 crew members.
2001 - Eleven people die in the last outbreak of the ebola virus in Gabon; US authorities charge a California bus company with illegally transporting tens of thousands of undocumented aliens smuggled across the US Mexico border.
2002 - The Bush administration publishes its strategy for combating the threat of weapons of mass destruction. In it, the administration states that it reserves the right to act preemptively with military and covert force in the face of a threat of attack.
Today's Birthdays:
Ada King Lovelace, English mathematician and world's first computer programmer (1815-1852); Cesar Franck, Belgian composer (1822-1890); Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830-1886); Melvil Dewey, US librarian/inventor of the Dewey Decimal System (1851-1931); Mary Norton, English children's author (1903-1992); Susan Dey, US actress (1952--); Kenneth Branagh, British actor (1960--).
Thought For Today:
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing - Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, dramatist, author (1856-1900). - Sapa-AP
10/12/2003 07:38 - (SA)
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2003. There are 21 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1520 - Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.
1719 - The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis takes place in New England.
1810 - Napoleon Bonaparte annexes northern Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, Lauenburg and Lubeck, Germany.
1877 - Plevna, Bulgaria, falls to Russian army.
1893 - Italians defeat Mahdists attacking Eritrea.
1898 - The Treaty of Paris between United States and Spain ends the Spanish-American War with Spain ceding Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the United States for $20 million.
1899 - British forces are defeated by the Boers at Stromberg.
1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1931 - Jane Addams becomes a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honoured.
1936 - King Edward VIII of Britain abdicates with the intention of marrying American divorcee Wallis Simpson. His brother, the Duke of York becomes King George VI.
1948 - UN General Assembly in Paris unanimously adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Six members of the Soviet bloc, Saudi Arabia and South Africa abstain.
1950 - Ralph J Bunche is presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.
1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight takes place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flies 111 passengers from New York City to Miami.
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within the Commonwealth.
1964 - Dr Martin Luther King Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
1967 - World's first commercial thermonuclear blast take place in the US state of New Mexico, to give access to natural gas from underground deposits.
1973 - Austria closes its transit centre for Jews leaving the Soviet Union.
1976 - In Lebanon, a truce accord ends fighting between Moslems and Christians in the south, clashes among Palestinian factions, heightened tensions among rival Christian parties and a Syrian crackdown against the Lebanese press.
1980 - Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda's president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the presidency. He was ousted by the army for the second time in 1985.
1983 - Democracy returns after seven years of dictatorship in Argentina, as Raul Alfonsin is sworn in as president.
1986 - Palestinian guerrillas, after 17 days of fighting, make a token withdrawal from five front-line positions in south Lebanon town of Maghdousheh.
1988 - Chinese troops shoot into crowds of Tibetans demonstrating in Lhasa for human rights.
1990 - Iraq says it won't relinquish any Kuwaiti territory.
1991 - Yugoslav federal army pulls out of Zagreb, and Croatia and Serbia exchange hundreds of prisoners, but fighting continues elsewhere in Croatia.
1992 - Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first bloodshed of the US-led military mission in Somalia.
1993 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela says he and President FW de Klerk are bound by the Nobel Peace Prize they accepted to spend the rest of their lives building a democratic, nonracial South Africa.
1993 - The United Nations lifts the oil embargo against South Africa.
1994 - Leaders of the Western Hemisphere's 34 democracies pledge to negotiate the world's largest duty-free trade zone by 2005.
1996 - President Nelson Mandela signs South Africa's Constitution into law in Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, and after the signing he dances in unison with a jubilant crowd.
1997 - Palestinians begin their first census in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and are attacked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for violating Israeli sovereignty in East Jerusalem.
1998 - The PLO revokes clauses in its constitution calling for the destruction of Israel. Six astronauts show off the new international space station, becoming the first guests aboard the 402-kilometre-high outpost.
1999 -Taiwanese-American scientist Wen Ho Lee is arrested after being indicted for removing nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos weapons lab where he worked. He is released after pleading guilty to downloading nuclear secrets in a case that elicited allegations he was singled out because of his race.
2000 - Widows, parents and children of sailors killed aboard the Kursk nuclear submarine receive medals from the Russian Navy after President Vladimir Putin signs a decree awarding the posthumous Medal of Courage to the Kursk's 118 crew members.
2001 - Eleven people die in the last outbreak of the ebola virus in Gabon; US authorities charge a California bus company with illegally transporting tens of thousands of undocumented aliens smuggled across the US Mexico border.
2002 - The Bush administration publishes its strategy for combating the threat of weapons of mass destruction. In it, the administration states that it reserves the right to act preemptively with military and covert force in the face of a threat of attack.
Today's Birthdays:
Ada King Lovelace, English mathematician and world's first computer programmer (1815-1852); Cesar Franck, Belgian composer (1822-1890); Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830-1886); Melvil Dewey, US librarian/inventor of the Dewey Decimal System (1851-1931); Mary Norton, English children's author (1903-1992); Susan Dey, US actress (1952--); Kenneth Branagh, British actor (1960--).
Thought For Today:
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing - Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, dramatist, author (1856-1900). - Sapa-AP