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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47458)12/1/2004 5:31:22 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-December 1:

Union Day in Romania (1918)

1640 - João IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in a war with Spain.

1822 - Pedro I was crowned the first Emperor of Brazil.

1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man and was arrested for violating Montgomery, Alabama's racial segregation laws.

1990 - Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the island of Great Britain and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age.



To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47458)12/1/2004 5:35:48 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Respond to of 50167
 
Idea Of The Day- Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi