Archive for January, 2010
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Today in Anchorage
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
1986: Explosion of the space shuttle Challenger
On this day in 1986, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after its liftoff from Florida, killing all seven aboard, including a schoolteacher who was the first private citizen to fly on a shuttle.
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Today in Military History
1099 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria 1858 John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry 1860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua 1864 Battle of New Bern, NC 1865 President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners 1871 Paris surrenders to Prussians 1881 Battle at Laing’s Neck Natal Boers beat superior powered […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV 1099 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria 1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France 1561 By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended 1581 James VI signs the 2nd Confession of Faith in […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Today in Anchorage
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Today In Military History
1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly’s Ford VA 1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee 1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union 1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti 1943 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) 1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
However, The Air War in Cambodia and Laos Did Not; I Was There
1973: Vietnam War ended The Paris accord ending the Vietnam War, America’s longest war, was signed this day in 1973, providing for an exchange of prisoners and for the unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam.
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Today in History
On this day… 0672 St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope 0847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1343 Clement VI’s bull “Unigenitus” officially ratified the belief that Indulgences owed their potency to the Pope’s dispensation of the accumulated merit of the Church. (In 1518 […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Today in Anchorage
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Panel: US not Ready for Bioterrorism
Panel: US not Ready for Bioterrorism January 26, 2010 10meters.com WASHINGTON - The United States isn’t prepared for a biological terrorist attack, a congressionally mandated panel said in a report released Tuesday. The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation gave the Obama administration a failing grade for its efforts to prepare […]