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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48739)	7/20/2005 4:49:05 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Sir Edmund Hillary Born this day in 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand, mountain climber and Antarctic explorer Sir Edmund Hillary was, along with Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (8,850 metres [29,035 feet]), the highest mountain in the world, as part of an expedition in 1953. After a pair of climbers had failed to reach the top on May 27, Hillary and Tenzing set out for it early on May 29; by late morning they were standing on the summit. "We didn't know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren't at all sure whether we wouldn't drop dead or something of that nature." Sir Edmund Hillary

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48739)	7/21/2005 4:31:01 AM
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July 21: 1298 – Edward I of England defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk. 1831 – In Brussels, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first King of the Belgians. 1861 – The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle in the American Civil War, began. 1970 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed after 11 years of construction. 1995 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army began firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan, starting the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.