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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48951)	8/26/2005 6:29:39 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) of 50167

August 26: * 1071 – Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV in the Battle of Manzikert. * 1346 – Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights was established in the Battle of Crécy. * 1789 – French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly at Versailles. * 1839 – The slave-held Amistad landed off Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. * 1883 – The volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia generated disastrous tsunamis, destroying many settlements on Java and Sumatra and killing 36,000 people.

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