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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47480)	12/9/2004 2:39:27 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Today in history-December 9: 1851 - First YMCA in North America established in Montreal, Quebec 1888 - Herman Hollerith installed his computing device at the United States War Department 1960 - Coronation Street is first screened on ITV in the United Kingdom. 1987 - First Intifada began in the Gaza Strip and West Bank 1990 - Lech Walesa became the first directly elected president of Poland.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47480)	12/10/2004 2:57:45 AM
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Today in history-December 10: 1868 - The first traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London, England. 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes were awarded, on the anniversary of the 1896 death of their creator, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel. 1936 - Edward VIII, the only British monarch to have voluntarily relinquished the throne, signed his instrument of abdication. 1965 - The Grateful Dead played its first concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco.