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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48930)	8/23/2005 3:47:41 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

August 23: 1305 - After a show trial, William Wallace, leader of the Scottish resistance against England, was executed in Smithfield Market, London. 1866 - Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War, and dissolved the German Confederation. 1939 - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and the German Third Reich, was signed in Moscow. 1944 - King Michael dismissed the pro-Nazi government of General Ion Antonescu, putting Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of World War II. 1948 - The World Council of Churches was established.