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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48319)	4/20/2005 1:34:40 AM
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April 19- 1993: After a 51-day standoff with federal agents, more than 70 members of the Branch Davidian religious group perished in a fire at their compound near Waco, Texas. 1975: Aryabhata, the first unmanned Earth satellite built by India, was launched from the Soviet Union by a Russian-made rocket. 1956: American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco, becoming Princess Grace. 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an act of resistance by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation, began this day and was quelled four weeks later, on May 16. 1891: American writer Herman Melville completed Billy Budd. 1882: English naturalist Charles Darwin died at Downe, Kent, England. 1850: The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was signed, with the goal of harmonizing contending British and U.S. interests in Central America. American Revolution begun 1775: The American Revolution was the insurrection through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The American colonists resented trade regulations imposed on them and their lack of representation in the British Parliament, which spurred a growing desire for independence. On this day in 1775, open fighting broke out between the British and Americans in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and the next year the American colonies declared their independence from Britain. David Ricardo English economist David Ricardo, born this day in 1772, gave systematized and classical form to the rising social science of economics in the 19th century. His laissez-faire doctrines were typified in his Iron Law of Wages, which stated that all attempts to improve the real income of workers were futile and that wages perforce remained near the subsistence level. "One set of necessaries and conveniences admits of no comparison with another set; value in use cannot be measured by any known standard; it is differently estimated by different persons." David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 1817