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<p>Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1406 - King Robert III of Scotland dies and is succeeded by James I, who was being held prisoner by the English.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1581 -...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;br&gt;HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1406 - King Robert III of Scotland dies and is succeeded by James I, who was being held prisoner by the English.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1581 - Francis Drake arrives back in England after [http://www.google.com/search?q=circumnavigating&amp;btnI=lucky circumnavigating] the globe and is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I on board his ship, the Golden Hind.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1611 - Denmark's King Christian IV declares war on Sweden.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1617 - John Napier, Scottish mathematician who invented the concept of logarithms, dies.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1818 - US Congress decides the American flag will consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1844 - Germany occupies South-West Africa, Togoland and Cameroons.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1883 - State Premier Thomas McIlwraith claims British New Guinea as a Queensland possession; the claim is later disallowed by Britain.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1905 - An earthquake strikes the province of Lahore, then part of India, killing 19,000 people.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1912 - Chinese republic is proclaimed in Tibet.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1929 - Fourteen die when a dam on the Cascade River, Tasmania, bursts and floods the town of Derby.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1932 - US researcher Professor CG King of Pittsburgh isolates vitamin C for the first time.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1949 - NATO is founded when the North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1964 - The Beatles set a record by having all of the top five US singles at the same time.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1968 - US civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1975 - About 155 children die when a US Air Force transport plane carrying Vietnamese orphans crashes on take-off from Saigon.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1979 - Pakistan's former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ousted by the military in a coup 21 months earlier, is hanged.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1983 - The US space shuttle Challenger roars into orbit on its maiden flight.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1994 - Serbs launch major attack on besieged Muslim enclave Gorazde.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1996 - A military judge in Rome orders former Nazi SS Captain Erich Priebke to stand [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-sapa-tu-ha-noi-3-ngay-2-dem-2-ngay-1-dem-tour-sapa-ban-cat-cat-fansipan-thac-bac-ham-rong-tour-sapa-gia-re.html tour sapa từ hà nội] trial for his role in the massacre of 335 civilians in World War II.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1999 - NATO warplanes and missiles attack an army headquarters, oil refineries and other targets in Yugoslavia.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2001 - Sudan's defence minister and 14 other military officials are killed when their plane crashes on takeoff.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2003 - US forces seize control of Baghdad's Saddam International Airport and rename it Baghdad International.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2006 - Women make history in Kuwait by voting and running for office for the first time in a local by-election.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2007 - Restrictions on cross-media and foreign ownership rules are lifted in Australia.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2010 - Nine miners are pulled to safety after spending more than a week trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2013 - Chris Bailey, bass player for Australian band The Angels, dies aged 62 after fighting throat cancer.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2017 - The Australian Electoral Commission is asked to investigate whether Pauline Hanson's One Nation breached financial disclosure laws after it emerged donated money was used to buy a light aircraft.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2018 - The US marks 50 years since the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2019 - Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg describes the people vandalising his campaign posters with Hitler references as &quot;cowards&quot;.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Grinling Gibbons, English sculptor (1648-1721); Max Dupain, Australian photographer (1911-1992); Muddy Waters, US blues musician (1913-1983); Marguerite Duras, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-sapa-tu-ha-noi-3-ngay-2-dem-2-ngay-1-dem-tour-sapa-ban-cat-cat-fansipan-thac-bac-ham-rong-tour-sapa-gia-re.html tour sapa từ hà nội] French writer (1914-1996); Anthony Perkins, US actor (1932-1992); Christine Lahti, US actress (1950-); Hugo Weaving, Australian actor (1960-); Robert Downey Jr, US actor (1965-); Sam Moran, Australian children's entertainer (1978-); Heath Ledger, Australian actor (1979-2008); Grumpy Cat, US internet-celebrity feline (2012-2019).&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- Medgar Evers, murdered American civil rights activist (1926-1963).&lt;br&gt;</div>

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