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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49767)3/12/2006 2:49:52 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF   of 50167
 
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Truman Doctrine pronounced


1947: On this day in 1947, U.S. President Harry S. Truman articulated what became known as the Truman Doctrine when he asked Congress to appropriate aid for Greece and Turkey, both of which were facing communist threats.




1940: Finland agreed to Soviet peace terms, including the cession of western Karelia and the construction of a Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula, to end the Russo-Finnish War.

1849: The Sikh army surrendered to the British at the end of the Second Sikh War, conceding to the annexation of the Punjab in northwestern India.

1831: American manufacturer Clement Studebaker, founder of the Studebaker automobile company, was born in Pinetown, Pennsylvania.

1804: Samuel Chase became the first (and, so far, only) U.S. Supreme Court justice to be impeached.









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