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[Gold9472]

1968: Helen Keller dies

American educator Helen Keller dies at the age of 87. In infancy, scarlet fever left her blind, deaf, and mute. Her parents appealed to the inventor Alexander Graham Bell for help, and he referred them to a semi-blind teacher, Anne Sullivan, who taught Helen to communicate by touch. She later learned how to read by the Braille system and, in one month in 1890, how to speak. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College and gained international recognition as a writer, teacher, and lecturer. Her lecture tours took her several times around the world, and she did much to remove the stigmas and ignorance surrounding sight and hearing disorders, which historically resulted in the committal of the blind and deaf in asylums.

1997
British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologises to the people of Ireland for British actions during the Potato Famine 150 years earlier.

1994
British jockey Willie Carson wins his fourth Derby at Epsom riding 7-2 favourite Erhaab.

1972
Urban terrorist group leader Andreas Baader is captured after a gun battle with police and troops.

1968
Britain and Iceland sign a formal end to the 'Cod War' over fishing rights in the North Sea.

1967
British group The Beatles release their Sergeant Pepper Album.

1958
Britain introduces the Clean Air Act, affects industry as well as domestic uses of energy.

1957
In Britain, the computer ERNIE draws the first Premium Bond prizes - first prize £1,000

1948
In London, the first ever Mr Universe contest.

1946
Britain introduces television licences. The cost: £2 each.

1939
99 sailors are lost with the sinking of British submarine HMS Thetis.

1938
First appearance of Superman in an American comic.

1935
Britain introduces the compulsory wearing of 'L' plates for learner drivers.

1929
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in south eastern Italy, overlooking the Bay of Naples. Lava from the earliest recorded eruption, 79AD, buried several Roman cities including Pompeii.

1915
World War I: the first German Zeppelin airship bombing raid on London.

1911
Britain's first electric trolley buses begin operating in the Yorkshire cities of Leeds and Bradford

1796
Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the America Union.

1792
Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States of America.

[Gold9472]

First appearance of Superman in an American comic.

Cool.

[beltman713]

Have you read about Bush's admiration of Margret Thatcher and Winston Churchill? About how he wanted to be a war president even before he was president.

[Gold9472]

I remember something like that.

[beltman713]

Bush has to go down in history, in his own mind, just like those leaders did. A war president, and Iran is going to be his D-Day, 6/6/06.

[Gold9472]

Bush has to go down in history, in his own mind, just like those leaders did. A war president, and Iran is going to be his D-Day, 6/6/06.

Nah... 6/1/06.

[beltman713]

What the original date for D-Day? I remember they had to postpone it because of the weather.

[Gold9472]

What the original date for D-Day? I remember they had to postpone it because of the weather.

I thought the original one was supposed to be postponed, but they went ahead with it anyway?

[beltman713]

From what I found on Google, it was may 31st, 1944.

[Partridge]

Dudes, dudes, you have it all wrong. You're using US type dating, when we all know that the European dating system is superior (else we Europeans wouldn't use it, right?).

So using Euro-dating, we find out that 6/1/06 is in fact the 6th of January 2006 - and the WORLD HAS IN FACT ALREADY ENDED!

Everything else is illusion.