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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49504)	12/21/2005 2:56:31 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) of 50167

This Day in History Marie Curie. Radium discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie On this day in 1898, having recently discovered polonium, future Nobel Prize winners Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive chemical element radium, a silvery white metal that would be used to treat cancer. More events on this day 1988: Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, apparently because of a terrorist bombing; in 2003 the government of Libya accepted responsibility for the explosion and in 2004 agreed to compensate the families of the victims. 1968: Apollo 8 was launched from Cape Kennedy (Cape Canaveral) and eventually completed 10 lunar orbits. 1958: Charles de Gaulle was elected president of the French Fifth Republic. 1913: The New York World published the first modern crossword puzzle. 1864: General William Tecumseh Sherman captured Savannah, Georgia, during his “March to the Sea” in the American Civil War. 1845: The Battle of Firoz Shah began between British and Sikh forces during the First Sikh War. 1804: Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874–80), was born.

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