1827 - Battle of Navarino - a combined Turkish and British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
1883 - Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
1944 - Liquid natural gas leaks from storange tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
I was poking fun at the ageless project and old bloggers when you were still sucking your mother's teat!
Granted, one man's trash is another's treasure and all that, but I learned over five years ago that listing personal narrative sites by arbitrary things like geography or age or gender is about as useful as a tatoo on the ball of your foot.
I'm going to be between this person, born November 16, 1964 (political stuff), and this person, born December 25, 1964 (life stuff).
On October 10, the United Nations warned that the earthquake left 2.5 million people homeless and they are in need of shelter.
On October 10, Monday, survivors were still being found and rescued from the wreckage including a 2-year-old girl in Islamabad.
On October 14 the Pakistan government agreed that unaccompanied children from the disaster should be taken to the SOS Children emergency shelter in Islamabad for family tracing in a central database and help and created a credit programme for affected families.
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