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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49166)10/1/2005 4:34:01 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
This day in history

People's Republic of China established


1949: In Beijing, with most of the Chinese mainland held by the communist People's Liberation Army, its dynamic leader, Mao Zedong, proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China on this day in 1949.




1982: Congress established the U.S. Claims Court (now the U.S. Court of Federal Claims) to handle cases in which the United States is a defendant.

1960: Nigeria gained its independence from Britain but remained a member of the Commonwealth.

1946: The verdict was handed down on 22 of the original 24 defendants in the Nürnberg trials, a series of trials held after World War II in which the International Military Tribunal indicted and tried former Nazi leaders as war criminals.

1936: Francisco Franco became head of the new Nationalist regime of Spain at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

331 : Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Gaugamela, spelling the end of the Persian empire.

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