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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48340)	4/21/2005 6:31:25 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

April 21- Mughal dynasty established 1526: On this day Babur, the ruler of Kabul, led Mughal forces against Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat, 80 km (50 miles) north of Delhi. Because of Babur's skilled tactics and effective use of artillery, his army, estimated at no more than 12,000 men, defeated Ibrahim's force, which was said to number 100,000. 1918: Manfred, Freiherr (baron) von Richthofen, Germany's top flying ace in World War I, was shot down and killed during a battle near Amiens, France. 1914: A U.S. military force seized the Mexican port of Veracruz during the civil wars of the Mexican Revolution. 1836: General Sam Houston led 800 Texans to victory over a Mexican army of 1,500 under General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto, assuring the Texans their independence from Mexico. 1830: James Starley, an inventor and the father of the bicycle industry, was born in Albourne, Sussex, England. 1800: French forces under General Jean-Baptiste Kléber recaptured Cairo and initiated the brief French occupation of Egypt. 1782: Friedrich Froebel, German educational reformer and the founder of kindergarten, was born in Oberweissbach, Thuringia. Elizabeth II Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was born this day in 1926, the eldest daughter of Albert, duke of York, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. As the child of a younger son of King George V, the young Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne until her uncle, Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor), abdicated in her father's favour on December 11, 1936, at which time her father became King George VI and she became heir presumptive. She became queen on February 6, 1952. "My Government will seek to restore confidence in the integrity of the nation's political system by upholding the highest standards of honesty and propriety in public life." Elizabeth II, on the opening of Parliament, May 14, 1997