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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49509)12/23/2005 7:11:40 AM
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This Day in History

Aleksander Kwasniewski inaugurated as Polish president


1995: Aleksander Kwasniewski, formerly an apparatchik of Poland's ruling communist party, was sworn in as the country's president this day in 1995, having narrowly defeated Lech Walesa, Poland's first postcommunist president.




1968: Eighty-two crewmen of the USS Pueblo were released after being held in captivity for 11 months by North Korea, which claimed the U.S. Navy intelligence ship had crossed into its waters.

1941: Early in World War II, invading Japanese forces defeated U.S. troops at the Battle of Wake Island.

1876: The first comprehensive constitution of the Ottoman Empire went into effect, giving the sultan full executive power.

1783: Before the Continental Congress, George Washington resigned as commander in chief of the Continental Army.
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