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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48756)	7/25/2005 6:12:17 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

July 25: Louis Blériot * 306 – Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 1261 – The Latin Empire ended when Michael VIII Palaeologus and his Nicaean forces captured Constantinople to re-establish the Byzantine Empire. * 1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot made the first crossing of the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine. * 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. * 2000 – Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crashed after takeoff in Paris, killing 113 people.