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<p>Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1514 - Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, begins marching his army to Persia.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1521 - Spanish rebels are defeated at Villalar, Sp...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;br&gt;HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1514 - Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, begins marching his army to Persia.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1521 - Spanish rebels are defeated at Villalar, Spain, and leaders of anti-Hapsburg movement are executed.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1558 - Mary Queen of Scots, aged 16, marries the Dauphin of France, the future Francois II.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1792 - France's national anthem, La Marseillaise, is composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1850 - Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the news agency that bears his name, uses 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices between Brussels and Aachen.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1877 - American Federal troops are ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1898 - Spain declares war on the US after receiving US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1915 - The Ottoman Turkish Empire begins the brutal mass deportation of Armenians during World War I.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1916 - Some 1600 Irish nationalists launch the Easter uprising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. The rising is put down by British forces several days later.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1945 - US forces liberate Dachau concentration camp.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1953 - British statesman Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1967 - Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when parachute straps of his spacecraft get entangled and he plunges to earth.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1969 - Lebanon's Premier Rashid Karami resigns amid dispute over government's restrictions on Palestinian guerillas.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1970 - China launches its first satellite.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1971 - Soviet cosmonauts link up with unmanned satellite prior to attempt to build world's first orbiting space laboratory.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1975 - Terrorists from the German Red Army faction occupy the West German Embassy in Stockholm, taking 12 people hostage and killing two of them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thousands of Vietnamese refugees are flown to the US island of Guam as communists take over South Vietnam.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1980 - The US launches an abortive attempt to free American hostages in Iran, a mission that results in the deaths of eight its servicemen.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1986 - The Duchess of Windsor, for whom Edward VIII gave up the British throne, dies in Paris, aged 89&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1990 - The US space shuttle Discovery takes the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1991 - South African government announces it will uphold agreement with African National Congress to free all political prisoners by April 30.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1993 - Commandos break into a cockpit of a commandeered Indian Airlines plane in Amritsar, India, shoot dead the lone hijacker and free all 141 people aboard.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1995 - The British government upgrades its talks with Sinn Fein, the political ally of the IRA, by assigning a minister to negotiate.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1996 - The Palestinian parliament declares in Gaza City that it no longer seeks Israel's destruction and has abandoned armed struggle.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1997 - Islamist militants armed with sabres and axes strike two villages in Algeria, butchering 47 people in a pre-election terror wave that leaves an estimated 420 dead in a few weeks.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1998 - In front of a cheering crowd, 22 Rwandans convicted of genocide are executed by firing squad in Kigali.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;1999 - A car bomb explodes in one of London's biggest Bangladeshi communities, injuring seven people.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A racist group claims responsibility.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2000 - Iranian hardliners close down 14 pro-democracy publications in a strike against a major pillar of the reform movement.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2001 - A jury is chosen in the murder trial of a former Ku Klux Klansman charged 38 years after the church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham, Alabama.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2002 - Sweden's National Food Administration reports that potentially harmful amounts of a chemical suspected of causing cancer are produced when starchy foods are baked or fried at high temperatures.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2003 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, is convicted of fraud and theft by a regional court in South Africa and sentenced to five years in prison.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2006 - Three bombings hit an Egyptian beach resort popular with foreigners, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 60.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2009 - Mexico shuts down schools, museums, libraries and state-run theatres across its over-crowded capital in hopes of containing a swine flu outbreak that authorities say has killed at least 20 people.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2010 - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas calls on President Barack Obama to impose a Mideast peace deal, reflecting growing frustration with what Palestinians see as Washington's failure to wrangle concessions out of Israel's hardline government.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2011 - A civil rights group says at least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria's presidential election.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2013 - The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory complex in a suburb of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka kills 1129 people and injured thousands.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The 11th-century minaret of a famous mosque in Aleppo's old quarter collapses as rebels and government troops battle in surrounding streets.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2014 - Russia announces new military exercises involving ground and [https://soulofcricketer.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-wife-anjali-tendulkar soulofcricketer.bookmark.com] air forces near its border with Ukraine, swiftly responding to a Ukrainian operation to drive pro-Russia insurgents out of occupied buildings in the country's tumultuous east.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2015 - Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders gather under tight security at Anzac Cove, overlooking the Dardanelles, in preparation for the centenary commemoration of the Gallipoli landing.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2016 - Nine Network reporter Michael Usher admits &quot;we made mistakes&quot; in a 60 Minutes report about his colleagues' detainment in Lebanon over a botched kidnapping attempt.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2017 - Maoist rebels kill 11 Indian paramilitary soldiers and injure seven others in an attack in central India.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2018 - A van mounts a footpath in the Canadian city of Toronto and runs down pedestrians, leaving 10 dead and 15 injured.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2019 - Former registrar at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee, is suspended for six weeks after calling for women to be raped.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;St Vincent de Paul, French priest and founder of charity orders (1576-1600); Edmund Cartwright, English inventor of first power loom (1743-1823); Anthony Trollope, English novelist (1815-1882); William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), British fascist and Nazi broadcaster (1906-1946); Shirley MacLaine, US actor (1934-); Jill Ireland, US actor (1936-1990); John Williams, Australian classical guitarist (1941-); Barbra Streisand, US actor and singer (1942-); Jean Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer (1952-); Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer (1973-); Kelly Clarkson, US singer (1982-); Snuppy, world's first cloned dog (2005-).&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THOUGHT FOR TODAY&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;We are what we think.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All that we are, arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - Buddha.&lt;br&gt;</div>

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