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06-24-2006, 07:09 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1314: In the Battle of Bannockburn, the decisive victory for Scottish independence, forces led by Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, defeat the troops of English king Edward II.
1497: An English expedition led by John Cabot makes the first recorded sighting of North America by a European, landing at what may have been Cape Breton Island.
1901: Painter Pablo Picasso has his first exhibit in Paris, at the age of 19.
1922: German nationalists assassinate foreign minister Walther Rathenau, a German Jew, in response to his policy of paying reparations for Germany's role in World War I.
1947: An American pilot reports seeing objects he describes as "saucers" flying near Mount Rainier in Washington, leading to the popular term "flying saucers."
1964: The Federal Trade Commission requires that a message be placed on all cigarette packages that warns consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health.
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2005: Injuredinmelee's boss announces he's leaving
Born on This Day
Claude Chabrol, French motion-picture director and screenwriter (1930)
Harry Partch, composer and instrument maker (1901)
Ambrose Bierce, satirist and journalist (1842)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, soldier and imperialist (1850)
Anita Desai, novelist (1937)
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours, industrialist (1771)
This Day in History
1314: In the Battle of Bannockburn, the decisive victory for Scottish independence, forces led by Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, defeat the troops of English king Edward II.
1497: An English expedition led by John Cabot makes the first recorded sighting of North America by a European, landing at what may have been Cape Breton Island.
1901: Painter Pablo Picasso has his first exhibit in Paris, at the age of 19.
1922: German nationalists assassinate foreign minister Walther Rathenau, a German Jew, in response to his policy of paying reparations for Germany's role in World War I.
1947: An American pilot reports seeing objects he describes as "saucers" flying near Mount Rainier in Washington, leading to the popular term "flying saucers."
1964: The Federal Trade Commission requires that a message be placed on all cigarette packages that warns consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health.
Learn more about Smoking.
2005: Injuredinmelee's boss announces he's leaving
Born on This Day
Claude Chabrol, French motion-picture director and screenwriter (1930)
Harry Partch, composer and instrument maker (1901)
Ambrose Bierce, satirist and journalist (1842)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, soldier and imperialist (1850)
Anita Desai, novelist (1937)
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours, industrialist (1771)