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http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Today_in_History_6_3 2026-05-23T22:00:27Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.31.0-rc.0 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=23163&oldid=prev 2018-07-19T19:28:56Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:28, 19 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Edition.Cnn.com/search/?text=Marines </del>Marines<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>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 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 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, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>US singer of The Supremes fame (1944-); David Gilmour, British musician (1946-); Steve Vizard, Australian businessman <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm] </del>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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>sale for the first time in the US.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1944 - US heavy bombers stage the first American raid on Berlin <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://search.huffingtonpost.com/search?q=Zealand%20opera&amp;s_it=header_form_v1 </ins>Zealand opera<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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></td></tr> </table>

DeneenBriggs784 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=22987&oldid=prev 2018-07-19T09:46:25Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:46, 19 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Buzzfeed.com/search?q=citizen </del>citizen<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1888 - 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://photobucket.com/images/recognises%20Vietnam </del>recognises Vietnam<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>currency anywhere since modern exchange rates were established in the 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 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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Edition.Cnn.com/search/?text=Marines </ins>Marines<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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 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 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, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>US singer of The Supremes fame (1944-); David Gilmour, British musician (1946-); Steve Vizard, Australian businessman <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm] </ins>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></td></tr> </table>

SteveSturgeon http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=22971&oldid=prev 2018-07-19T08:59:51Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:59, 19 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/escaped%20slave </del>escaped slave<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>Dred Scott cannot sue for his freedom because as a slave he is property, not a citizen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1888 - 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=heavy%20bombers </del>heavy bombers<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>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,&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tour bắc kinh từ hà nội</del>] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a British diplomat who became a Soviet spy, dies in Moscow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1987 - A British ferry, the </del>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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>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 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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Buzzfeed.com/search?q=citizen </ins>citizen<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1888 - 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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://photobucket.com/images/recognises%20Vietnam </ins>recognises Vietnam<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>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, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a British diplomat who became a Soviet spy, dies in Moscow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1987 - A British ferry, the </ins> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du lịch Bắc Kinh</ins>] 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>currency anywhere since modern exchange rates were established in the 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 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></td></tr> </table>

ShastaBurg51659 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=22613&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T13:26:20Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:26, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Novello, Welsh composer and </del> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.reddit.com/r/howto/search?q=</del>embassy <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">embassy] </del>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&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du lịch Bắc Kinh</del>] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- Donald Maclean, </del>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 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 apparent altitude sickness near <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/escaped%20slave </ins>escaped slave<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>Dred Scott cannot sue for his freedom because as a slave he is property, not a citizen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1888 - 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=heavy%20bombers </ins>heavy bombers<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Novello, Welsh composer and </ins>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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- Donald Maclean, </ins> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tour bắc kinh từ hà nội</ins>] 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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>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 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></td></tr> </table>

DantePaspalis7 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=22499&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T06:37:36Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:37, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by Lieutenant <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Photo.net/gallery/tag-search/search?query_string=Philip%20Gidley </del>Philip Gidley<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Bbc.Co.uk/search/?q=</del>citizen <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">citizen]</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1888 - 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 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;[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1951 - Death of Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and </del>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 - <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>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 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 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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1951 - Death of Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and&#160; </ins>[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.reddit.com/r/howto/search?q=embassy </ins>embassy<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>- 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 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 apparent altitude sickness near <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>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></td></tr> </table>

HermineFeaster http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=22436&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T03:43:04Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:43, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.techandtrends.com/?s=-%20Pre-packaged </del>- Pre-packaged<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>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 heavy bombers stage the first American raid on Berlin during World War II.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>- 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 [http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">paramuspost</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">search</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">php?query=Soviet%20Union&amp;type=all&amp;mode=search&amp;results=25 Soviet Union</del>]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1957 - </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>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 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 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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by Lieutenant <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Photo.net/gallery/tag-search/search?query_string=Philip%20Gidley </ins>Philip Gidley<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Bbc.Co.uk/search/?q=</ins>citizen <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">citizen]</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1888 - 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 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;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soviet Union.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1957 -&#160; </ins>[http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh</ins>] 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 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 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></td></tr> </table>

ChastityWpo http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=22353&oldid=prev 2018-07-17T23:30:26Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:30, 17 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 [http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Usatoday</del>.com/search<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/late</del>%<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">20Joseph/ late Joseph] Stalin as premier of </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>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 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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.techandtrends.com/?s=-%20Pre-packaged </ins>- Pre-packaged<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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 heavy bombers stage the first American raid on Berlin during World War II.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>- 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">late Joseph Stalin as premier of </ins>[http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">paramuspost</ins>.com/search<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.php?query=Soviet</ins>%<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">20Union&amp;type=all&amp;mode=search&amp;results=25 </ins>Soviet Union<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>.&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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>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 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 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></td></tr> </table>

Victoria13U http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=22190&oldid=prev 2018-07-17T15:59:10Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:59, 17 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Wordpress.org/search/British%20colonies </del>British colonies<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tensions on Korean Peninsula, prompting some other airlines to re-route flights.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - The US, </del> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du lịch Bắc Kinh</del>] 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Usatoday.com/search/late%20Joseph/ </ins>late Joseph<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>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 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&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tour bắc kinh từ hà nội</ins>] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tensions on Korean Peninsula, prompting some other airlines to re-route flights.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - The US, </ins>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 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></td></tr> </table>

MarlaGuess21 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=21959&oldid=prev 2018-07-17T05:16:24Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:16, 17 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/</del>fighting <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fighting] </del>against Communist guerrillas.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Venturebeat.com/?s=efforts%20amid </del>efforts amid<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>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 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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Wordpress.org/search/British%20colonies </ins>British colonies<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>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 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, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>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></td></tr> </table>

AlvaroMiah24241 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_6_3&diff=21305&oldid=prev 2018-07-15T22:08:02Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:08, 15 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.buzzfeed.com/search?q=</del>established <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">established] </del>in the 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">efforts amid&#160; </del>[http://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn</del>] 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 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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>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></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Highlights in history on this date:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1788 - A party led by 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 - 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 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 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/</ins>fighting <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fighting] </ins>against Communist guerrillas.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - 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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 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></td></tr> </table>

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