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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48999)9/4/2005 7:26:37 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
September 4

Napoleon III deposed and Third Republic proclaimed
Napoleon III, detail of a portrait by Hippolyte Flandrin; in the Versailles Museum.


1870: Posterity's image of Napoleon III, who ruled France first as president (1850–52) and then as emperor (1852–70), has not been uniform. Some historians have seen him as a shallow opportunist whose only asset was a glorious name (he was Napoleon I's nephew); others have described him as a visionary reformer and patron of progress, a man who successfully attempted to reconcile liberty and authority, national prestige and European cooperation. On this day, following his surrender after the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-German War, he was deposed and the Third Republic was proclaimed.

1989: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Air Force launched the last Titan III rocket.
1972: American swimmer Mark Spitz won his seventh gold medal during the Munich Olympic Games, the first person ever to do so in a single Olympics.
1957: The Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel automobile.
1864: John Hunt Morgan, the Confederate guerrilla leader of “Morgan's Raiders,” was killed by Federal troops.
925: King Athelstan of West Saxony became the first king to rule all of England.
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