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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48363)	4/24/2005 5:46:22 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

April 24: 1792 - La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, was composed. 1913 - The opening ceremony of the Woolworth Building was held in New York City. 1916 - Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood started a rebellion in Ireland. 1967 - The Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed in Siberia, killing cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off with the Hubble Space Telescope aboard.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48363)	4/25/2005 2:09:34 PM
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April 25: Hubble Space Telescope sent into orbit 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was placed into orbit about 600 km (370 miles) above Earth on this day by the crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery. A sophisticated optical observatory, it was built under the supervision of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was named after Edwin Hubble, the foremost American astronomer of the 20th century. 1926: Giacomo Puccini's uncompleted opera Turandot was performed posthumously at La Scala, under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. 1915: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in eastern Turkey during the Dardanelles Campaign of World War I. 1809: The Treaty of Amritsar was concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab; it settled Indo-Sikh relations for a generation. 1792: The first guillotine was erected, on the Place de Grève in Paris, to execute a highwayman. 1781: Petersburg, Virginia, was captured by British troops under William Phillips and Benedict Arnold during the American Revolution. Liberation Day in Italy (1945); Freedom Day in Portugal (1974); Flag Day in the Faroe Islands • 1719 - Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was first published. • 1898 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress retroactively declared war on Spain. • 1915 - ANZAC Day: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove during the amphibious invasion of Gallipoli, Turkey in World War I. • 1953 - A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by James Watson and Francis Crick was published in Nature. Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist born this day in 1874, invented a successful system of radio telegraphy (1896). In 1909 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics. He later worked on the development of shortwave wireless communication, which constitutes the basis of nearly all modern long-distance radio. April 25 -"Let it be so." Guglielmo Marconi, first Morse message, sent across the Bristol Channel, 1897