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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49206)	10/7/2005 3:09:30 AM
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This Day in History The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. On this day in 1949, a constitution went into effect in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany that formed the country of East Germany, which existed alongside West Germany until 1990, when the two Germanys reunited. More events on this day 1985: Members of the Palestine Liberation Front, a small faction headed by Abu Abbas within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), hijacked an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro. 1944: The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, in which the United States, China, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom formulated proposals for a world organization that became the basis for the United Nations, concluded in Washington, D.C. 1934: Playwright, poet, novelist, and essayist Amiri Baraka, who wrote of the experiences and anger of African Americans, was born. 1849: American short-story writer, poet, and critic Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland. 1826: The Granite Railway, the first chartered railroad in the United States, began service. 1780: American forces defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolution. 1765: The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York City to frame resolutions of “rights and grievances” of the American colonies. 1571: Allied Christian forces defeated the Ottoman Turks during a naval engagement at the Battle of Lepanto.