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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49640)	1/22/2006 7:55:45 AM
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This Day in History Roe v. Wade ruling 1973: On this day in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most momentous decisions, ruling in Roe v. Wade that a Texas statute criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy. 1943: All Japanese resistance in Papua, on the island of New Guinea, site of an important Allied base at Port Moresby in World War II, ceased. 1905: On what was later known as Bloody Sunday, Russian workers marching on St. Petersburg were fired on by Russian troops. 1904: Influential ballet choreographer George Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg. 1821: Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered Peter I Island, the first sighting of land within the Antarctic Circle.