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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49377)	11/3/2005 7:22:45 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

This day in history. Another section of Great Wall of China discovered 1998: Announced on this day in 1998 was the discovery in the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia of a previously unknown 15.5-mile (25-km) segment of the Great Wall of China, which runs in toto about 4,500 miles (7,300 km). 1978: Dominica achieved full independence, with Patrick Roland John as its first prime minister. 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, which carried the dog Laika, the first living creature to be shot into space and orbit the Earth. 1916: Playwright Eugene O'Neill made his New York City debut with the one-act play Bound East for Cardiff. 1295: Mahmud Ghazan, the most prominent of the Il-Khans (a Mongol dynasty) to rule Iran, was formally enthroned.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49377)	11/4/2005 7:21:53 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

This Day in history Yitzhak Rabin assassinated 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, corecipient with Shimon Peres and Yasir 'Arafat of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994, was assassinated this day in 1995 by a Jewish extremist while attending a peace rally. 1980: Conservative Republican Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States. 1979: The hostage crisis in Iran began as the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by Iranian militants in a move sanctioned by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen. 1791: In what became known as St. Clair's Defeat, U.S. General Arthur St. Clair was beaten by the British-supported Northwest Indian Confederation.