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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49218)	10/9/2005 6:26:14 AM
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This Day in History 2004: First Afghan presidential elections On this day in 2004, for the first time in Afghanistan's history, voters went to the polls to choose a president, selecting Hamid Karzai, who had served as the interim president after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. More events on this day 2001: The United Service Organizations (USO) appointed entertainer Wayne Newton as its official celebrity front man, replacing Bob Hope, who had served in that capacity since the early 1950s. 1997: Italian playwright Dario Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1990: David H. Souter was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. 1982: Anna Freud, psychoanalyst, author, and daughter of Sigmund Freud, died in London. 1888: Built between 1848 and 1884 and dedicated in 1885, the Washington Monument—a marble-faced granite obelisk that honours the first U.S. president, George Washington—opened to the public in Washington, D.C. 1635: Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony, and, as a result, he later founded the colony of Rhode Island. 1514: Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII of England, became the third wife of King Louis XII of France.