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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48709)	7/9/2005 8:12:52 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

July 9 Argentine independence declared 1816: An assembly meeting in Tucumán (now San Miguel de Tucumán) declared Argentina's independence from Spain on this day. The 32 delegates to the Congress of Tucumán appointed Juan Martín de Pueyrredón to serve as supreme dictator while they began a fruitless search for a monarch. The congress then moved to Buenos Aires and framed a constitution in 1819 that provided for a strong central government; however, confusion and disunity reigned in Argentina until the beginning of the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1829. 1960: The Thresher, the first of a class of U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines, was launched; in 1963 it sank in the worst submarine accident in history. 1942: Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam. 1850: Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States, died only 16 months after taking office. 1828: The American portrait painter Gilbert Stuart died in Boston. 1762: Catherine II overthrew Peter III and began her reign as empress of Russia. 1755: General Edward Braddock's British army was thoroughly defeated in the Battle of the Monongahela during the last French and Indian War. 1540: The marriage of King Henry VIII of England and his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, was annulled.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48709)	7/10/2005 7:48:19 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

July 10th 1985: The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by two bomb explosions while berthed in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. 1973: The Bahamas gained independence from Britain within the Commonwealth. 1962: Telstar I, the first communications satellite to transmit live television signals and telephone conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, was launched. 1925: The Scopes Trial began in Dayton, Tennessee, with William Jennings Bryan arguing for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense. 1609: The Catholic League was formed by Maximilian I, duke of Bavaria, and the Catholic powers in Germany. 1584: William I, first of the hereditary stadholders of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, was assassinated.