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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47146)10/25/2004 9:45:57 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history: October 25

Labour Day in New Zealand (2004)

1415 - Battle of Agincourt: Despite being greatly outnumbered, Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeated the heavily armoured French cavalry in a muddy battlefield.

1971 - The People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China as China's representative in the United Nations.

1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and Caribbean allies invaded Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a violent coup d'état.

2001 - Windows XP, the latest desktop version of the Windows operating system from Microsoft, was released.