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07-11-2006, 09:46 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1766: Olaudah Equiano, author of one of the first autobiographical slave narratives, buys his freedom from slavery in the West Indies.
1804: Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr shoots his political rival Alexander Hamilton, the former treasury secretary, in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton dies the next day.
1905: W. E. B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter, and other prominent African Americans meet in Niagara Falls to found the Niagara Movement to demand full citizenship rights for African Americans.
1979: Skylab, the first American space station, reenters the Earth's atmosphere after over six years in space, disintegrating over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1987: The world population reaches 5 billion, double the number of people on the planet in 1950.
1996: The UN War Crimes Tribunal issues international arrest warrants for Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. The tribunal indicted the two on charges of war crimes and genocide in 1995.
Born on This Day
E. B. White, writer (1899)
John Quincy Adams, U.S. president (1767)
Robert Bruce, Scottish liberator and king (1274)
John Wanamaker, merchant (1838)
Yul Brynner, actor (1915)
Aleksandr Prokhorov, physicist (1916)
This Day in History
1766: Olaudah Equiano, author of one of the first autobiographical slave narratives, buys his freedom from slavery in the West Indies.
1804: Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr shoots his political rival Alexander Hamilton, the former treasury secretary, in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton dies the next day.
1905: W. E. B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter, and other prominent African Americans meet in Niagara Falls to found the Niagara Movement to demand full citizenship rights for African Americans.
1979: Skylab, the first American space station, reenters the Earth's atmosphere after over six years in space, disintegrating over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1987: The world population reaches 5 billion, double the number of people on the planet in 1950.
1996: The UN War Crimes Tribunal issues international arrest warrants for Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. The tribunal indicted the two on charges of war crimes and genocide in 1995.
Born on This Day
E. B. White, writer (1899)
John Quincy Adams, U.S. president (1767)
Robert Bruce, Scottish liberator and king (1274)
John Wanamaker, merchant (1838)
Yul Brynner, actor (1915)
Aleksandr Prokhorov, physicist (1916)