D A I L Y ----- D O Z E =============== [TODAY in History for November 9] 694 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims/sentenced to slavery 1541 - Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of London 1580 - Spanish troops land in Ireland 1729 - Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville 1794 - Russian troops occupy Warsaw 1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France 1857 - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published 1861 - 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto) 1872 - The Great Boston (USA) Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed 1904 - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama) 1918 - Republic Germany proclaimed 1935 - Japan invades Shanghai, China 1955 - UN disapproves of South Africas apartheid politics 1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965 1980 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran 1985 - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion 1990 - New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal 1994 - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka 1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered 1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences 2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan 2009 - Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Pokers main event 2012 - 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space [DICTIONARY: Word of the Day] en bloc (ahn BLAWK; English . en BLOK) ~ adverb; French . as a whole.
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