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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49431)	11/14/2005 1:45:24 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

This Day in History 2002: Chosen to succeed Richard Gephardt as leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to be named leader of either party in either house of Congress. 1969: Apollo 12 was launched, carrying a crew of Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Alan L. Bean, and five days later the mission made the second landing on the Moon. 1915: Educator, reformer, and first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) Booker T. Washington, the most influential spokesman for African Americans in the late 19th and the early 20th century, died. 1885: The Serbo-Bulgarian War began when Serbian King Milan Obrenovic IV declared war on Bulgaria. 1851: Harper & Brothers published Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick. 1305: Clement V was crowned pope, becoming the first of the Avignon popes.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49431)	11/15/2005 3:16:24 PM
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This Day in History Yasir 'Arafat. 1988: Palestinian statehood proclaimed by Yasir 'Arafat Meeting at Algiers, the Palestine National Council, at the urging of PLO chairman Yasir 'Arafat, issued a declaration of independence for a state of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on this day in 1988. More events on this day 1938: A farewell parade was held in Barcelona, Spain, for the volunteers of the International Brigades who fought for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. 1891: W. Averell Harriman, a statesman and leading U.S. diplomat in relations with the Soviet Union during World War II and the Cold War, was born. 1889: Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was forced to abdicate by a group of military officers led by Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca. 1885: St. Joseph Mukasa, one of the Martyrs of Uganda, was beheaded by order of Mwanga, kabaka (ruler) of Buganda. 1884: The Berlin West Africa Conference opened, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin of Central Africa. 1848: Pellegrino Rossi, a former member of the Carbonaria, was assassinated in Rome during the Revolutions of 1848. 1818: The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the first of four congresses held by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and France following the Napoleonic Wars, concluded. 1630: Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion, died in Regensburg. 1315: The Swiss Confederation achieved its first great military success against the Austrian Habsburgs at the Battle of Morgarten.