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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49109)	9/20/2005 7:18:32 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

This Day in History Rome incorporated into Italy Piazza Navona, Rome, with the church of Sant'Agnese, designed by Francesco Borromini, and … 1870: On this day in 1870, Italian troops occupied Rome, leading to the eventual incorporation of Rome into the Kingdom of Italy and the limiting of papal governing authority to the Vatican itself and a small district around it. 1854: British and French forces defeated the Russians at the Battle of the Alma, a victory that left the Russian naval base of Sevastopol vulnerable and endangered the entire Russian position in the Crimean War. 1792: The French Legislative Assembly was replaced by the National Convention, marking the formal beginning of the First Republic. 1761: The Portuguese Jesuit Gabriel Malagrida was burned to death for his involvement in the Conspiracy of the Távoras.