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01-27-2010, 10:13 PM
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1788 ~ The first penal colony was established at Botany Bay, Australia???
The flag was raised on the 26th January 1788. The colony itself was proclaimed on the 7th February that year.
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Ah well, I was close.
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01-28-2010, 06:34 PM
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Yes, I've lost the occasional weekend as well. No biggie.
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Lol!
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01-28-2010, 08:57 PM
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January 29th
1845 ~ Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross.
1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor.
1933 ~ Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
1936 ~ The first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist.
1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist.
1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet.
1996 ~ France ended nuclear testing.
2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term "Axis of Evil".
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January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched.
1933 ~ The first episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
1937 ~ Birthday of Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion.
1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive.
1969 ~ Last public performance by The Beatles.
1972 ~ Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday.
1991 ~ The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Al Khafji in Saudi Arabia.
2003 ~ Richard Reid, the "Shoe bomber" jailed for life.
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01-30-2010, 02:22 AM
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With the Monitor, it's interesting the trend toward calling the Merrimack the CSS Virginia.
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01-30-2010, 06:12 AM
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The loss of Mahatma Gandhi was truly one of those horribly sad events in the world's history. A great man of peace was lost making the world a poorer place.
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01-30-2010, 07:00 AM
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An unusual choice of words.
Ghandi would have been happier with the world as a poorer, simpler and nicer place in keeping with his ascetic ideals. It was never going to happen, but it was a lovely thought.
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Quote:
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With the Monitor, it's interesting the trend toward calling the Merrimack the CSS Virginia.
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With distance come perspective.
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