Sunday, March 31, 2013

Thursday, March 28, 2013

29 March 1461

Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret in the Battle of Towton to become King Edward IV of

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

27 March 2002

A Palestinian suicide bomber kills twenty nine people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya,

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Sunday, March 24, 2013

25 March 1996

A 81-day-long standoff begins between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana,

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

24 March 1989

The Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels of petroleum after running aground in Prince William Sound in

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Friday, March 22, 2013

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Monday, March 18, 2013

19 March 1982

Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, starting the Falklands War with the United

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

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Friday, March 15, 2013

16 March 1988

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud in the Iran-Contra

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

14 March 1900

The Gold Standard Act is ratified which places United States currency on the gold

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Sunday, March 10, 2013

11 March 2004

Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, lead to the death 191

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

10 March 1959

300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal by the Chinese

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

8 March 1978

The first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is broadcast on

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

7 March 1799

During the Siege of Jaffa, Napoleon Bonaparte troops kill more than 2,000 Albanian

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Monday, March 4, 2013

5 March 1616

The book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus's is banned by the Catholic

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Friday, March 1, 2013

2 March 1962

Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a game to set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball

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Thursday, February 28, 2013

1 March 752 BC

Romulus, the first legendary king of Rome, celebrates the first ever Roman triumph after his victory over the

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Monday, February 25, 2013

26 February 1995

Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

25 February 1956

The 'On the Personality Cult and its Consequences' Nikita Khrushchev' denounces the cult of personality surrounding Joseph

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Friday, February 22, 2013

23 February 1954

The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh,

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

22 February 1980

The "Miracle on Ice" in which the USA hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team

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Monday, February 18, 2013

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16 February 1987

The trial of Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible", accused of being a in Treblinka extermination camp, begins in

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Sunday, February 10, 2013

11 February 1979

The Islamic revolution of Iran establishes an Islamic theocracy lead by Ayatollah Ruhollah

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Friday, February 8, 2013

9 February 1950

Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

7 February 2009

Bushfires in Victoria are the worst natural disaster in Australia's history, leaving 173

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

6 February 1840

The Treaty of Waitangi is signed which established New Zealand as a British

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

3 February 1998

A United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of the Cavalese cable car in

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Friday, February 1, 2013

2 February 1972

The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in a protest the was known as Bloody

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

1 February 1960

Four black students carry out the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

30 January 1956

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus

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Monday, January 28, 2013

29 January 2002

In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush first uses the Axis of Evil

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

27 January 1974

The Brisbane River breaches its banks to cause the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in

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Friday, January 25, 2013

26 January 1788

The British First Fleet arrivez at Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement in

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

24 January 1943

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude meeting in Casablanca during Word War

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

23 January 1986

The first members are inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis

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Monday, January 21, 2013

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21 January 1968

One of the more controversial battles of the Vietnam War begins, the Battle of Khe

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Saturday, January 19, 2013

20 January 2009

Barack Obama is inaugurated as the first black President of the United States of

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Friday, January 18, 2013

19 January 1953

Nearly 3/4th of all television sets in the USA are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

10 January 1863

The underground railway between the London Paddington station and Farringdon station

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

7 January 1935

The Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian

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Saturday, January 5, 2013

6 January 1941

USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms

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Why the Toning Shoe Marketers Got Busted

Toning shoes are considered to be shoes that are deliberately made unstable with design features like a rocker bottom shoe. The purpose of this instability is to create a balance problem so that the muscles have to work harder to compensate. As a result it is claimed that this give and extra workout or ‘tone up’ when wearing the shoes. That is how the name ‘toning’ was applied to this class of exercise footwear. The sector of the market was originally made popular by the MBT (Masai

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

4 January 1989

Two of Libyan MiG-23 planes are shot down by two US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013