- "17 November" is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising.
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2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
November 2007 is the eleventh month of that year. ...
67 die and about 300,000 people are affected by floods in Ethiopias Somali Region of Ogaden after the Shabelle River bursts its banks. ...
Ongoing events ⢠Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal ⢠Al Jazeera bombing memo ⢠Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak ⢠Black sites scandal ⢠Conservative leadership race (UK) ⢠Fuel prices ⢠Irans nuclear program ⢠Jilin chemical plant explosions ⢠Kashmir earthquake ⢠Malawi food crisis ⢠Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal ⢠New Delhi bombings investigation ⢠Niger food crisis ⢠North Indian cyclone...
November 17, 2004 Conflict in Iraq: U.S. officers in Falluja say marines are cleaning up remaining insurgents, as artillery and airstrikes continue. ...
November 17, 2003 Lord Black of Crossharbour is pushed to resign as chief executive of his media empire, which may be sold. ...
2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for November, 2002. ...
November 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December November - The Doha Declaration slightly relaxes the grip of international intellectual property. ...
2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December This is a timeline for events in November, 2000. ...
A reproduction of 17 November logo that appeared on their proclamations November 17 (Greek: ÎÏαναÏÏαÏική ÎÏγάνÏÏη 17 ÎοÎμβÏη, Epanastatiki Organosi dekaefta Noemvri), (also known as 17N or N17) is a Marxist terrorist organization formed in 1973 and believed by many to be have been disbanded in 2002 after the arrest and trial of...
Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ...
An AMX 30 tank standing in front of the Athens Polytechnic. ...
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Events - 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
- 473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
- 1183 - Battle of Mizushima.
- 1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
- 1511 - Spain and England ally against France.
- 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
- 1659 - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
- 1777 - Articles of Confederation was submitted to the states for ratification.
- 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
- 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
- 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
- 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
- 1827 - The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
- 1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
- 1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- 1856 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
- 1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
- 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
- 1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
- 1878 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- 1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
- 1903 - Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
- 1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
- 1911 - The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
- 1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
- 1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
- 1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.
- 1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps.
- 1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
- 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt.
- 1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
- 1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
- 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
- 1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
- 1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
- 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
- 1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
- 1973 - The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
- 1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
- 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.
- 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
- 1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
- 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
- 2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
- 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California.
- 2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
- 2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
- 2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
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Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (c. ...
Events Glycerius is named Western Roman Emperor. ...
Imperator Caesar Flavius Zeno Augustus or Tarasicodissa or Trascalissaeus (c. ...
Flavius Valerius Leo (401â18 January 474), known in English as Leo the Thracian or Leo I, was a Byzantine Emperor who ruled from 457 to 474. ...
Events Three-year old Emperor Go-Toba ascends to the throne of Japan after the forced abdication of his brother Antoku during the Genpei War William of Tyre excommunicated by the newly appointed Heraclius of Jerusalem, firmly ending their struggle for power Andronicus I Comnenus becomes the Byzantine emperor Births...
One of the most important bases of the Taira was Yashima, a small island off the coast of Shikoku. ...
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The Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). ...
John Balliol, the son of Devorguilla Balliol and John, 5th Baron de Balliol, was the king of Scotland from November 17, 1292-1296. ...
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Year 1511 (MDXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ...
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January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of the Kingdom of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. ...
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Mary I (18 February 1516 â 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July 1553 (de facto) or 19 July 1553 (de jure) until her death on 17 November 1558. ...
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Year 1603 (MDCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...
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// Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ...
The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed in 1659 to end the war between France and Spain that had begun in 1635 during the Thirty Years War. ...
Year 1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly known as the Articles of Confederation, was the first governing document, or constitution, of the United States of America. ...
Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Combatants Austria[a] Portugal Prussia[a] Russia[b] Sicily[c] Sardinia Spain[d] Sweden[e] United Kingdom French Empire Holland[f] Italy Etruria[g] Naples[h] Duchy of Warsaw[i] Confederation of the Rhine[j] Bavaria Saxony Westphalia Württemberg Denmark-Norway[k] Commanders Archduke Charles Prince Schwarzenberg Karl Mack...
Napoleon Bonaparte leading his troops over the bridge of Arcole, by Horace Vernet. ...
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The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the location for the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. ...
Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...
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For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting...
Combatants First French Empire Russian Empire Commanders Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov Strength 42,000 regulars, 39,000 stragglers 60,000-80,000 Casualties 6,000-13,000 killed, 20,000-26,000 captured ~ (almost all stragglers) 5,000 The Battle of Krasnoi (Krasny) (November 15 to 18, 1812...
1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Nathaniel Brown Palmer (1799 â 1877) was a seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer. ...
Booth Island and Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. ...
Year 1827 (MDCCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Delta Phi (ÎΦ) is a fraternity was founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. ...
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Schenectady (IPA ) is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. ...
Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 â 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. ...
The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya (the Smoke that thunders) is a waterfall situated in southern Africa between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. ...
1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American Old West, circa 1887. ...
Sonoita River is a river in southern Arizona. ...
Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ...
The United States Army is the largest and oldest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ...
Fort Buchanan, Arizona was located 3 miles west of present day Sonoita, Arizona in what is now called Hog Canyon. The Fort was located on the East slope of the canyon and under constant attack by Indians. ...
The Gadsden Purchase (shown with present-day state boundaries and cities) The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla in Mexico) is a 45,535 mi² (76,770 km²) region of what is today southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States from Mexico in...
Year 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...
Battle of Fort Sanders Conflict American Civil War Date November 29, 1863 Place Knox County, Tennessee Result Union victory The Battle of Fort Sanders (precipitated by the Siege of Knoxville, which began on November 17, 1863) was an engagement of the American Civil War fought in Knoxville, Tennessee. ...
Motto Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God, Our Vindicator) Anthem (none official) God Save the South (unofficial) The Bonnie Blue Flag (unofficial) Dixie (unofficial) States that seceded under CSA control States and territories claimed by CSA without formal secession and/or control Capital Montgomery, Alabama (until May 29, 1861) Richmond, Virginia...
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 â January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War, the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his Old War Horse. ...
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A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition, often accompanied by an assault. ...
1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
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Location of the Red Sea The Red Sea is an inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. ...
Part of the ceremony of the Changing of the Guard in Whitehall, London. ...
1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
This article concerns the National Rifle Association of the USA. For the UK organisation, see National Rifle Association of the United Kingdom The National Rifle Association, or NRA, is a non-profit group for the promotion of marksmanship, firearm safety, and the protection of hunting and personal protection firearm rights...
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Year 1876 Pick up Sticks(MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Slavonic March is a musical composition written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. ...
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1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Umberto I, King of Italy or Humbert I of Italy (Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoy), (14 March 1844 â 29 July 1900) was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death. ...
Year 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, or RSDLP (Росси́йская Социа́л-Демократи́ческая Рабо́чая Па́ртия = РСДРП), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organisations into one party. ...
Bolshevik Party Meeting. ...
Leaders of the Menshevik Party at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, Sweden, May 1917. ...
Dahomey was a kingdom in Africa, situated in what is now the nation of Benin. ...
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Through the Eulsa Treaty of 17 November 1905, the Korean Empire ceded foreign diplomacy to the Japanese Empire, became a protectorate of Japan, and in effect ceded its national sovereignty to Japan. ...
This article is about the Korean civilization. ...
Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ) is a national fraternity, and was the first black national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college. ...
Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ...
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Howard University is a university located in Washington, D.C., USA. A historically black university, Howard was established in 1867 by congressional order and named for Oliver O. Howard. ...
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Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 â 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...
Armistice Day Celebrations in Toronto, Canada - 1918 Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11, 1918. ...
Wreaths of artificial poppies used as a symbol of remembrance Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (Malta and South Africa), Veterans Day (United States), and Armistice Day (France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the day internationally) is a...
Edward George Honey (1885 â 1922) was an Australian soldier and journalist who is often credited with having conceived the idea of a moment of silence on Armistice Day (now known as Remembrance Day). ...
Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Osmanli Dynasty, also the House of Osman, ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, beginning with Osman I (not counting his father, Ertuğrul), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until 1383 when Murad I declared himself sultan. ...
Mehmed VI (Arabic: Ù
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د Ø§ÙØ³Ø§Ø¯Ø³), original name Mehmed Vahdettin or Mehmed Vahideddin, (January 14, 1861 â May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918â1922. ...
Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Czechs (Czech: ÄeÅ¡i) are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. ...
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (in German: Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, in Czech: Protektorát Čechy a Morava) was a German protectorate that arose in central parts of Bohemia and Moravia on March 15, 1939 when Germany invaded the western part of former Czechoslovakia, the former Austrian provinces Bohemia and...
Jan Opletal (January 1, 1915–November 11, 1939) was a student of the Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, who was killed in an anti-Nazi demonstration during the German occupation. ...
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Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Tenzin Gyatso (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. ...
This article is about the Dalai Lama lineage. ...
This article is about historical/cultural Tibet. ...
For the comedy film of the same name, see Head of State (film). ...
Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Location map of the Blasket Islands The Blasket Islands (Na Blascaoidà in Irish - etymology uncertain: it may come from the Norse word brasker, meaning a dangerous place) are a group of islands off the west coast of Ireland, forming part of County Kerry. ...
Kerry may refer to: In American politics: Alexandra Kerry, the elder daughter of 2004 US Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry Cameron Kerry, the younger brother and political confidant of John F. Kerry John Kerry, a United States Senator from Massachusetts and the former 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate Kerry Healey, Lieutenant...
Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: - ; Masri: جÙ
ا٠عبد اÙÙØ§ØµØ± - also transliterated as Jamal Abd al-Naser, Jamal Abd an-Nasser and other variants; January 15, 1918 â September 28, 1970) was the President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. ...
The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the elected Head of State of Egypt. ...
Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas US Government Portal For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ...
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Aerial photo Washington Dulles International Airport (IATA airport code IAD, ICAO airport code KIAD) serves the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. ...
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Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...
Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peopleâs Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...
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Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Alexandros Panagoulis (Greek ÎλÎξανδÏÎ¿Ï Î Î±Î½Î±Î³Î¿ÏληÏ) (2 July 1939 â 1 May 1976) was a Greek politician and poet. ...
Georgios Papadopoulos in the standard poster issued by the dictatorship government. ...
Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ...
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Location of Helsinki in Northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Province Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Charter 1550 Capital city 1812 Government - Mayor Jussi Pajunen Area - Total 187. ...
SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. ...
Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The My Lai Massacre ( , approximately ) (Vietnamese: ) was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), mostly civilians and majority of them women and children, conducted by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968. ...
The Luna programme was a series of 24 unmanned space missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. ...
Lunokhod series Soviet Moon exploration robot vehicle A panorama shot from Lunokhod 1 A photo from Lunokhod 1 showing the Luna 17 lander The tracks of Lunokhod showing the little wheel in the center that was used for odometry. ...
Oblique view of Mare Imbrium looking south towards Copernicus crater. ...
This article is about Earths moon. ...
Luna 17 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 17. ...
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of German descent. ...
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Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ...
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Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...
Worker-Peasant Alliance (in Portuguese: Aliança Operário-Camponesa) a front of the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist) of EduÃno Gomes. ...
Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist) (in Portuguese: Partido Comunista de Portugal (Marxista-Leninista)) was a political party in Portugal led by its general secretary HeduÃno Vilar (real name EduÃno Gomes), formed after his expulsion from the main Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist) in May 1974. ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Mount Unzen (é²ä»å²³) is an active volcano near the city of Shimabara in Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. ...
Oranda-zaka (Dutch Slope) in Nagasaki Castle in Shimabara The island of Hirado boasts a fine castle Nagasaki Prefecture (é·å´ç; Nagasaki-ken) is located on Kyushu island, Japan. ...
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Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Alberto Kenya Fujimori (Spanish IPA: , Japanese IPA: ) (born in Lima, Peru on July 28, 1938), also known as Kenya Fujimori ) was President of Peru from July 28, 1990 to November 17, 2000. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German IPA: ; born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, Golden Globe-winning actor, businessman and politician currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ...
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Sears, Roebuck and Company (NYSE: S) was founded in Chicago, Illinois as a catalog merchandiser in 1886 by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck. ...
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Goffredo Mameli, author of the text of the Italian national anthem Michele Novaro, composer of the music Il Canto degli Italiani (The Song of the Italians) is the Italian national anthem. ...
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Births - 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
- 1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
- 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
- 1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
- 1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
- 1681 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
- 1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
- 1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
- 1755 - Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
- 1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
- 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
- 1793 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
- 1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
- 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
- 1827 - Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
- 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
- 1854 - Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
- 1857 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
- 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
- 1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
- 1877 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
- 1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
- 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
- 1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
- 1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
- 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
- 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
- 1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
- 1897 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
- 1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
- 1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
- 1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
- 1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992)
- 1906 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
- 1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
- 1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
- 1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
- 1923 - Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
- 1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor
- 1927 - Robert Brown, American actor
- 1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
- 1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
- 1934 - Fenella Fielding, English actress
- 1935 - Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
- 1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
- 1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
- 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
- 1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
- 1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
- 1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
- 1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
- 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
- 1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
- 1944 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
- 1945 - Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
- 1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
- 1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
- 1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
- 1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
- 1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
- 1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
- 1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner
- 1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
- 1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
- 1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
- 1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
- 1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
- 1955 - Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
- 1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
- 1959 - Terry Fenwick, English footballer
- 1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
- 1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
- 1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
- 1961 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
- 1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
- 1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
- 1964 - Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball player
- 1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
- 1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
- 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
- 1966 - Kate
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