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D A I L Y ----- D O Z E =============== [TODAY in History for October 18] 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim 1081 - Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine 1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg 1648 - 1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers) 1672 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz 1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty 1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 1890 - John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds 1891 - 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins 1898 - American flag raised in Puerto Rico 1908 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State 1912 - Beginning of 1st Balkan War - Balkan League vs. Ottoman Empire 1912 - Italo-Turkish war ends 1913 - Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave 1914 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany 1918 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire 1934 - Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March 1948 - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army 1955 - University of California discovers anti-proton 1967 - Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus 1989 - Hungary revises constitution 1998 - Samsung World Championship of Womens Golf 2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia 2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan 2012 - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price [DICTIONARY: Word of the Day] aureole (AWR-ee-ohl) ~ noun; a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:26:43 +0000

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