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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49241)	10/11/2005 7:26:57 AM
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Biography of the day.. Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt, born this day in 1884, was a United Nations diplomat, a humanitarian, the wife (and distant cousin) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and, in her time, one of the world's most widely admired women. "The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now." Eleanor Roosevelt

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49241)	10/12/2005 4:22:48 AM
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This Day in History 1492: New World sighted The New World was “discovered” this day in 1492 when land (most likely San Salvador) was sighted in the Caribbean from the Pinta, one of the three ships that participated in Christopher Columbus's historic first voyage. More events on this day 2001: The centennial Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, and to the United Nations. 1898: A landmark in labour union history, a coal-mine riot took place in Virden, Illinois, when strikebreakers were brought in. 1896: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975, was born in Genoa. 1866: Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour Party prime minister of the United Kingdom—in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929–31 and in the national coalition government of 1931–35—was born. 1810: The first Oktoberfest was celebrated in Munich, Germany, in the form of a horse race held in honour of the marriage of the crown prince of Bavaria (who later became King Louis I) to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49241)	10/13/2005 8:39:17 AM
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This day in history.. Cornerstone laid for the White House North portico of the White House, Washington, D.C. 1792: The cornerstone for the White House, the official office and home of every U.S. president and first lady since 1800 (when John and Abigail Adams moved in near the end of his term), was laid this day in 1792. 1988: The archbishop of Turin, Italy, announced that carbon-14 dating indicated that the Shroud of Turin dates only to the Middle Ages, though the origins of the shroud remain controversial. 1977: Palestinians hijacked a Lufthansa airliner to Somalia and demanded the release of imprisoned Red Army Faction members. 1843: B'nai B'rith, the oldest and largest Jewish service organization in the world, was founded in New York City. 1775: The Second Continental Congress established the Continental Navy to aid the Continental Army during the American Revolution.