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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48837)8/9/2005 10:50:52 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
August 9:

Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (60,000 feet) into the air on the morning of August 9th, 1945

* 48 BC - Julius Caesar defeated Pompey and the Senatorial forces in the Battle of Pharsalus.
* 1173 - The construction of a campanile which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa began.
* 1945 - USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named Fat Man, devastating Nagasaki, Japan.
* 1974 - The Watergate scandal: Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to resign from office.
* 1988 - Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history.
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