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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49663)	1/31/2006 7:55:47 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

This day in history.. 1606: On this day in 1606, British provocateur Guy Fawkes—one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, who sought to blow up Parliament and to assassinate King James I for his repression of Roman Catholics—was executed in London. 1977: The Pompidou Centre, a French national cultural centre named for former president Georges Pompidou, opened in Paris. 1966: The Soviets launched Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon. 1958: Explorer 1 was the first artificial space satellite orbited by the United States, marking the country's entry into the space race. 1943: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to the Soviet Red Army at Stalingrad (now Volgograd), his troops surrendering two days later.