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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47844)	2/19/2005 4:17:42 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Today in history-February 19: ) 1674 - The Third Anglo-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster. 1942 - Air raids on Darwin: The capital of Northern Territory, Australia was devastated by 242 bombers and fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1942 - U.S. Executive Order 9066 was signed, authorising the relocation and confinement of over 112,000 Japanese Americans. 1985 - BBC1 first screens EastEnders in the United Kingdom. 1986 - The Soviet Union launched the space station Mir, the first long-term research station in space.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47844)	2/20/2005 9:41:23 AM
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Today in history-February 20: 1472 - James III of Scotland annexed the Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark-Norway. 1810 - Andreas Hofer, a Tyrolean patriot and the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces, was executed. 1913 - King O'Malley drove in the first survey peg to mark the commencement of work on the construction of Canberra, Australia. 1959 - The Avro Arrow supersonic jet fighters programme in Canada was cancelled by the Diefenbaker government. 1965 - The Ranger 8 spacecraft successfully transmitted 7,137 photographs of the moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing in Mare Tranquillitatis.