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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Today In Military History
On this day…
1617 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1701 France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
1831: Creation of French Foreign Legion. The Foreign Legion, whose unofficial motto is “Legio patria nostra” (“The legion is […]
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Today In Anchorage
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Today In History
On this day…
1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III Roman Catholic-German emperor
1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation
1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1839 Birth of Phoebe Palmer Knapp, American Methodist hymnwriter. She published more than 500 hymn tunes during her […]
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Today In Military History
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1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 Cumberland’s troops occupy Aberdeen
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre: Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry’s 2nd trip to Japan
1861 St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends […]
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Today In Anchorage
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Today In History
March 8
On this day in 1698, British missionary Thomas Bray and four laymen founded the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) “to advance the honor of God and the good of mankind by promoting Christian knowledge both at home and in the other parts of the world by the best methods that should offer.”
March 8 […]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Today In Military History
On this day…
1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
1573 Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 John Pieterszoon Coen’s troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1865 Battles round […]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Today In Anchorage
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy
In this June 30, 2006 file photo shows U.S. Air Force Reservist Maj. Margaret Witt after a hearing of a case challenging her dismissal from the Air Force for being a lesbian in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wash. A pressing legal reality for the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ standard for gays serving in the […]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Today In History
On this day…
1698 The first meeting convened of the British group which later formed the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
1711 In this date’s edition of “The Spectator,” English essayist Joseph Addison wrote: ‘To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.’
1740 […]