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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49132)9/23/2005 7:44:50 AM
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This Day in History

NASA 1846: Neptune observed
This day in 1846, astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person ever to observe the planet Neptune, the existence of which had been mathematically predicted by Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier and John Couch Adams.

More events on this day
1939: Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, died in London.
1868: A small group of Puerto Rican radicals committed to independence attempted an uprising, El Grito de Lares; the revolt was crushed by the Spanish.
1862: Otto von Bismarck was appointed prime minister of Prussia by William I.
1806: Lewis and Clark arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, at the end of their daring expedition to the Pacific Northwest.
1779: During the American Revolution, in the midst of a naval engagement between the warships Bonhomme Richard and Serapis off the east coast of England, American commander John Paul Jones answered a call to surrender from his English counterpart with the famous quotation, “I have not yet begun to fight!”
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