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<p>Maggie6975: </p> <hr /> <div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] Lieutenant Philip Gidley King lands on Norfolk Island to establish a British settlement.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1836 - Alamo mission in San Antonio, Texas, falls to Mexican army after 13-day siege in which Davy Crockett and 186 other defenders die.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1857 - The US Supreme Court rules that escaped slave Dred Scott cannot sue for his freedom because as a slave he is property, not a citizen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1888 [http://Www.Dict.cc/?s=-%20Death - Death] of Louisa May Alcott, US author of Little Women, aged 56.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1899 - Felix Hoffman patents his formula for acetylsalicylic acid, which he calls aspirin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1900 - Death of Gottfried Daimler, German motor engineer who made the first motorcycle.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1930 - Pre-packaged frozen food produced by the company set up by Clarence Birdseye goes on sale for the first time in the US.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1944 - US [https://Www.Google.com/search?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;tbm=nws&amp;q=heavy%20bombers&amp;btnI=lucky heavy bombers] stage the first American raid on Berlin during World War II.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - German city Cologne falls to US First Army in World War II.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1946 - France recognises Vietnam as free state within Indochina Federation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1951 - Death of Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and playwright.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1953 - Georgy Malenkov succeeds the late Joseph Stalin as premier of Soviet Union.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1957 - Two former British colonies of Gold Coast and Togoland form independent West African nation of Ghana.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1965 - US Defence Department announces that 3500 Marines are being sent to South Vietnam, the first US ground combat troops committed to fighting against Communist guerrillas.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of former Soviet leader Josef Stalin, requests asylum at the US embassy in New Delhi.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1973 - Death of US author and 1938 Nobel Literature prize winner, Pearl Buck, who wrote The Good Earth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1983 - Donald Maclean, a British diplomat who became a Soviet spy, dies in Moscow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1987 - A British ferry, the Herald Of Free Enterprise, capsizes off the Belgian port Zeebrugge, drowning 193 people.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - George Carey becomes Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1992 - A computer virus called Michelangelo strikes thousands of personal computers around the world.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - The US dollar plummets to 92.70 yen, its lowest level against the Japanese currency anywhere since modern exchange rates were established in the [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] late 1940s.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launches the first official royal web site.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2003 - An Algerian passenger jet crashes in the Sahara Desert shortly after takeoff, killing 116 people.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - North Korea threatens South Korea passenger planes amid rising tensions on Korean Peninsula, prompting some other airlines to re-route flights.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - The US, Europe and other world powers announce that bargaining will begin again with Iran over its fiercely disputed nuclear efforts amid rising talk of war.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - Lawyers for Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan visit the convicted drug traffickers on Nusakambangan, the Indonesian prison island where they are to be executed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2017 - Nepalese authorities say Australian man Matthew Jones has died of [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] apparent altitude sickness near the Mt Everest base camp.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Today's Birthdays:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Michelangelo, Italian renaissance artist (1475-1564); Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (1806-1861); Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut and first woman in space (1937-); Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand opera singer (1944-); Mary Wilson, US singer of The Supremes fame (1944-); David Gilmour, British musician (1946-); Steve Vizard, Australian businessman and TV personality (1956-); Shaquille O'Neal, US basketball player (1972-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thought For Today:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common). - Voltaire, French author and philosopher (1694-1778).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div>

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