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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49444)11/17/2005 7:55:16 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
This day in history..

Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated as governor of California


2003: Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born American bodybuilder and film actor, was inaugurated on this day in 2003 as the governor of California following a recall election that ousted the sitting governor.




1989: Massive antigovernment demonstrations in Czechoslovakia were set off by police brutality at a demonstration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the suppression of a student demonstration in German-occupied Prague, and, under the leadership of Václav Havel, they continued until the communist government resigned.

1950: German athlete Roland Matthes, one of the greatest backstrokers in the history of swimming, was born in East Germany.

1887: British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was born in London.

1869: After 10 years of construction, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.

1800: The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C.

1558: At the death of Mary I this day, Elizabeth Tudor came to the English throne as Elizabeth I.

284: Diocletian was acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.




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