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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49408)	11/10/2005 2:35:42 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

This Day in History 1775: Battle of Bunker Hill In the Battle of Bunker Hill this day, American colonial revolutionaries clashed with British regulars during the Siege of Boston. Building a fortification atop Breed's Hill (now commonly called Bunker Hill), Colonel William Prescott and his colonial troops initially held but ultimately lost their position under a British attack ordered by General Thomas Gage and led by Major General William Howe. High casualties among the British prevented them from pursuing the Americans, which served to encourage the revolutionary cause. More events on this day 1994: Former American football star O.J. Simpson was arrested in connection with the murder of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman; after a sensational trial, he was acquitted of the charges the following year. (In a separate civil trial in 1997, he was found liable for the battery of Nicole and the death of Goldman, whose family was awarded $8.5 million.) 1972: The Watergate, an office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C., and the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, was broken into by five men who were later arrested, prompting the Watergate Scandal that upended the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. 1944: Gaining independence from Denmark, Iceland declared itself a republic. 1940: The Soviet Red Army invaded Latvia, leading to the incorporation of the country into the U.S.S.R. 1930: The United States imposed the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff, raising the average tariff by some 20 percent and making worse an already beleaguered world economy. 1882: Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was born near St. Petersburg.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49408)	11/11/2005 8:12:31 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

This day in history.. First Armistice Day celebrated 1921: On this day in 1921, the anniversary of the end of World War I, the first Armistice Day was commemorated with the burial of the bodies of unknown soldiers in tombs in Paris, in London, and outside Washington, D.C. 1975: Angola declared independence after the Portuguese withdrew. 1966: Gemini 12, the last spacecraft in the Gemini series and the first to make an automatically controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere, was launched. 1889: Washington was admitted to the union as the 42nd U.S. state. 1813: British troops under Colonel J.W. Morrison defeated U.S. forces led by General John Boyd at the Battle of Crysler's Farm during the War of 1812. 1778: During the American Revolution, Iroquois Indians, in direct retaliation for colonial assaults on two Indian villages, attacked a New York frontier settlement in the Cherry Valley Raid. 1493: Christopher Columbus discovered the island of St. Martin. 1417: Martin V was unanimously elected pope, bringing an end to the Great Schism.