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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 8, 2013 20:50:42 GMT
14 April 1999 – a severe hailstorm struck Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
21 November
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Post by midoro on Dec 8, 2013 21:05:15 GMT
21 November 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus restores Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
29 July
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 9, 2013 19:35:45 GMT
29 July 1948 – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympic Games to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, opened in London.
5 February
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Post by midoro on Dec 10, 2013 8:51:57 GMT
5 February 1994 - During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and about 200 wounded when a mortar shell slams into a marketplace in Sarajevo
1 January
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 10, 2013 20:53:15 GMT
1 January 1651 – Charles II was crowned King of Scotland.
8 July
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Post by midoro on Dec 11, 2013 8:41:57 GMT
8 July 1889 - First issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
14 September
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 11, 2013 16:31:12 GMT
14 September 1752 – the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
21 April
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Post by midoro on Dec 25, 2013 17:56:39 GMT
21 April 753BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional date)
22 October
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 28, 2013 15:02:08 GMT
22 October 1879 – using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
29 May
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Post by midoro on Dec 29, 2013 10:38:48 GMT
29 May 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest
15 March
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 30, 2013 15:13:26 GMT
15 March 1985 – the first Internet domain name was registered (symbolics.com)
23 October
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Post by midoro on Jan 1, 2014 20:41:11 GMT
23 October 1917 - Lenin calls for the October revolution
2 January
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 1, 2014 22:51:02 GMT
2 January 533 – Mercurius became Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
7 August
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Post by midoro on Jan 6, 2014 17:33:32 GMT
7 August 1960 - Cote d´Ivoire becomes independent from France
29 February
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 6, 2014 20:03:18 GMT
29 February 1940 – for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award.
7 September
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