shippingnet.eu OCT,07.2013 ۩ Saint Justine, patron saint of Padua, Feast Day 1477: Uppsala University was inaugurated 1542: Explorer Cabrillo discovered Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast 1826: The Granite Railway begun operations as the first chartered railway in the US 1828: The city of Patras, Greece, was liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnesus under General Maison 1840: Willem II became King of the Netherlands 1879: Germany & Austria-Hungary signed the "Twofold Covenant" creating the Dual Alliance 1912: The Helsinki Stock Exchange seed its first transaction 1919: KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, was founded 1919: Alfred Deakin, 2nd prime minister of Australia, died 1929: Photios II became Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1933: Air France was inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines 1949: The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed 1951: Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips, died 1959: USSR probe Luna 3 transmitted the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon 1985: The "Achille Lauro" was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization 1992: Tevfik Esenç, Turkish last speaker of Ubykh language, died 2001: The US invasion of Afghanistan begun 2010: Milka Planinc, 7th prime minister of Yugoslavia, died 2011: Ramiz Alia, 1st president of Albania, died
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