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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49162)	9/29/2005 7:21:51 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

This day in history.. British mandate in Palestine 1923: Set in motion by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British mandate for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was finally approved by the Council of the League of Nations and came into force this day in 1923. 1938: The American harness racehorse Greyhound established a trotting record for 1 mile in 1:551/4. 1938: Poland demanded the cession of Teschen, a rich region that had been contested and then divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia following World War I. 1918: German Chancellor Georg von Hertling tendered his resignation on the day of the Bulgarian armistice and the British attack of the Western Front during World War I. 1906: The United States occupied Cuba after the rebellion surrounding the reelection of Tomás Estrada Palma. 1833: King Ferdinand VII of Spain died, and his two-year-old daughter, Isabella II, was proclaimed queen. 642: Arab General 'Amr ibn al-'As marched into Alexandria, and the Arab conquest of Egypt, which had begun with an invasion three years earlier, ended in peaceful capitulation.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49162)	9/30/2005 7:38:39 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Munich Agreement signed 1938: The notorious Munich Agreement, in which Britain's Neville Chamberlain encouraged Britain and France to appease Adolf Hitler's demands in the hope of preventing World War II, was reached on this day in 1938. 1965: In Indonesia a group of army conspirators kidnapped and murdered six army generals, and the following morning the 30th September Movement announced that it had seized power to forestall a coup against the president by a council of generals. 1955: American motion-picture actor James Dean died in an automobile crash in Paso Robles, California. 1895: French troops occupied Antananarivo, Madagascar, after the refusal of Rainilaiarivony, the prime minister, to submit to French suzerainty. 1791: The opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premiered in Vienna. 1773: The Polish Sejm (legislature) ratified the treaty that led to the First Partition of Poland by Russia, Prussia, and Austria.