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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47792)2/14/2005 2:43:06 AM
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Today in history-February 14:

1876 - Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell each filed a patent for the telephone.

1879 - Chilean forces occupied the Bolivian port of Antofagasta, starting the War of the Pacific.

1945 - The RAF Bomber Command began the strategic bombing of Dresden in Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm which killed tens of thousands of civilians.

1989 - A fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel considered "blasphemous against Islam".

1989 - The first satellite in the satellite constellation of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit.
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