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<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 15:12, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Www.youtube.com/results?search_query=army%20defeats,creativecommons </del>army defeats<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Theepochtimes.com/n3/search/?q=realised </del>realised<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); <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>Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap <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>singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Britannica.com/search?query=-%20Military </ins>- Military<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://de.Pons.com/�bersetzung?q=British%20colony&amp;l=deen&amp;in=&amp;lf=en </ins>British colony<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces <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>an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader <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>Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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<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 08:16, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://wideinfo.org/?s=names%20successor </del>names successor<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral <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>legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in <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>luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Www.youtube.com/results?search_query=army%20defeats,creativecommons </ins>army defeats<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Theepochtimes.com/n3/search/?q=</ins>realised <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">realised] </ins>that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); <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>Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap <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>singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

DanutaLqy28862 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_April_21&diff=22797&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T23:08:36Z

<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 23:08, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=Baron%20Manfred </del>Baron Manfred<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Thefreedictionary.com/Parliament%20session </del>Parliament session<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for <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>women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged&#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">53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral </del>legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark,&#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">daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in </del>luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://wideinfo.org/?s=names%20successor </ins>names successor<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral </ins> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn</ins>] legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in </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>] luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

FabianPickett65 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_April_21&diff=22706&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T18:45:04Z

<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 18:45, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as <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>an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Openclipart.org/search/?query=soldier%20Jake </del>soldier Jake<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Traveldescribe.com/?s=struggle </del>struggle<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their <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>homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=Baron%20Manfred </ins>Baron Manfred<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Thefreedictionary.com/Parliament%20session </ins>Parliament session<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for <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>women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged <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>53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, <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>daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

PatriceLaurantus http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_April_21&diff=22679&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T17:18:09Z

<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 17:18, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.martindale.com/Results.aspx?ft=2&amp;frm=freesearch&amp;lfd=Y&amp;afs=petition%20drive </del>petition drive<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.speakingtree.in/search/deadly%20Oklahoma </del>deadly Oklahoma<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>[http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org.vn</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn</del>] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle </del>to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English <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>novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as <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>an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Openclipart.org/search/?query=soldier%20Jake </ins>soldier Jake<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and </ins>[http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Traveldescribe</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">?s=struggle struggle</ins>] to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their <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>homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

FabianPickett65 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_April_21&diff=22611&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T13:11:38Z

<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 13:11, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their <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>claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Venturebeat.com/?s=Brisbane%27s%20historic </del>Brisbane's historic<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - </del>Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=International%20Monetary </del>International Monetary<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt <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 từ Hà Nội] </del>crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.martindale.com/Results.aspx?ft=2&amp;frm=freesearch&amp;lfd=Y&amp;afs=petition%20drive </ins>petition drive<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.speakingtree.in/search/deadly%20Oklahoma </ins>deadly Oklahoma<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - </ins> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English <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>novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

CoreyBloom615 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_April_21&diff=22445&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T04:15:45Z

<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 04:15, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session 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>impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party <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>headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://thesaurus.com/browse/</del>Isabella <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Isabella] </del>of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their <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>claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Venturebeat.com/?s=Brisbane%27s%20historic </ins>Brisbane's historic<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered <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>earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://Slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=International%20Monetary </ins>International Monetary<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt <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 từ Hà Nội] </ins>crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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<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 04:08, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a&#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">petition drive for a Parliament session to </del>impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby <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>League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<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>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.glamour.de/content/search/?SearchText=</del>sneaking <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sneaking] </del>back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">petition drive for a Parliament session to </ins> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn</ins>] impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party <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>headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://thesaurus.com/browse/</ins>Isabella <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Isabella] </ins>of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

SenaidaWooten http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_April_21&diff=22110&oldid=prev 2018-07-17T12:43:33Z

<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 12:43, 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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 <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>- Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.newsweek.com/search/site/France%20announces </del>France announces<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.martindale.com/Results.aspx?ft=2&amp;frm=freesearch&amp;lfd=Y&amp;afs=-%20Japan </del>- Japan<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle <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>Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a <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>petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby <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>League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&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 tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.glamour.de/content/search/?SearchText=sneaking </ins>sneaking<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

IrmaKeeler7441 http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Today_in_History_April_21&diff=22075&oldid=prev 2018-07-17T11:12:05Z

<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 11:12, 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;753 BC - <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>According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 - Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known <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>as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 <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 flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - France announces an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.purevolume.com/search?keyword=</del>population <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">population] </del>from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&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;753 BC - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded by Romulus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1809 - Napoleon's army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut in Germany.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1856 <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>- Stonemasons in Melbourne strike and march on state parliament, demanding an eight-hour day. They soon win their claim.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1861 - Australian explorers Robert Burke, William Wills and John King arrive back at Cooper Creek to find only a few provisions and tree marked &quot;Dig, 21st April, 1861&quot;. Base camp party had left seven hours before. Burke and Wills died; King was saved by Aborigines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1910 - Death of US author Mark Twain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the Red Baron, is killed in action during World War I, apparently shot down by Australian troops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1945 - Last German troops leave Bologna, Italy, in World War II; on the same day Russian troops reach suburbs of Berlin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1954 - US flies a French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1960 - Brazil's capital moves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1961 - A French army revolt led by General Maurice Challe begins in Algeria.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1967 - Military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the Greek colonels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1979 - Queensland National Party-dominated Government demolishes Brisbane's historic Belle Vue Hotel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1991 - Soviet hardliners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - FBI arrests former soldier Timothy McVeigh in connection with the deadly Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1995 - Australian Rugby League launches Federal Court damages claim against Super League for interference in the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong, in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1997 - The ashes of 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are blasted into space in the world's first space funeral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.newsweek.com/search/site/France%20announces </ins>France announces<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>an accord on the future of New Caledonia, easing more than a decade of tension between pro and anti-independence forces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes attack Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's party headquarters in Belgrade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2002 - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France and the world by coming second in the first round of a presidential election, qualifying for the run-off with the incumbent Jacques Chirac.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2004 - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is freed from prison in Israel after 18 years, saying he is proud of revealing secrets that exposed Israel as an atomic power.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2006 - Australian soldier Jake Kovco dies in Iraq after his gun accidentally discharges. The wrong body is sent back to Australia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, Gliese 581 e, but also realised that a neighbouring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2010 - Airlines tote up losses topping $2 billion and struggle to get hundreds of thousands of travellers back home after a week of crippled travel as recriminations erupt over Europe's response to the volcanic ash cloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2011 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.martindale.com/Results.aspx?ft=2&amp;frm=freesearch&amp;lfd=Y&amp;afs=-%20Japan </ins>- Japan<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>seals off a wide area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they had been forced to evacuate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle <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>Europe's prolonged debt crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2013 - Australian singer and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett dies in New York, aged 53, after battling cancer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2014 - Syria calls for a presidential election June 3 to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2015 - As the worst storms in a decade hit NSW, three people die as water surges through the Hunter Valley town of Dungog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2016 - US singer-songwriter Prince dies at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Minnesota, aged 57.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II (1926-); Russell Boyd, Australian cinematographer (1944-); Iggy Pop, US singer (1947-); Tony Danza, US actor (1951-); Andie MacDowell, US actor (1958-); Michael Franti, US rap singer (1966-); James McAvoy, Scottish actor (1979-); Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary (2007-).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humourist (1869-1944).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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