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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49256)	10/14/2005 3:42:14 AM
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This Day in History 1066: Battle of Hastings At the Battle of Hastings, fought this day in 1066, King Harold II of England was defeated by the invading army of William, duke of Normandy, in the Norman Conquest, establishing Normans as rulers of England. More events on this day 1994: Naguib Mahfouz, the 82-year-old novelist and 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was stabbed by Islamic militants in Cairo. 1973: Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn was forced to leave Thailand following huge public demonstrations. 1944: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox,” ended his life by drinking poison following the discovery of his connection to a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. 1936: The first group of 500 trainees for the International Brigades arrived in Albacete, Spain. 1806: French troops under Napoleon smashed the outdated Prussian army led by Charles William Ferdinand at the Battle of Jena. 1644: English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom William Penn, who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was born.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49256)	10/15/2005 9:21:52 AM
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This Day in History 1959: Final conference on Antarctic Treaty On this day in 1959 a final conference on the Antarctic Treaty convened in Washington D.C., and, after six weeks of negotiations, the treaty was signed by 12 countries, preserving the continent for free scientific study. More events on this day 1987: A military coup in Burkina Faso overthrew head of state Thomas Sankara, killing him and eight others. 1969: President Cabdirashiid Cali Sherma'arke (Abdirashid Ali Shermarke) of Somalia was assassinated. 1934: Chinese communists began the Long March, the 6,000-mile (10,000-km) trek that resulted in the relocation of the communist revolutionary base from southeast China to northwest China and the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communist Party. 1844: Classical scholar and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia. 1839: Encouraged by her uncle Leopold, Queen Victoria of England proposed to her cousin, Prince Albert. 879: Boso convoked the bishops of Provence and had them proclaim him their king. 70: Virgil, the Roman poet best known for his national epic, the Aeneid, was born near Mantua.