On this day

[fuhrel at ccmail.ccsn.nevada.edu]

     Charles Darwin was also born, on the same day as Lincoln, and the 
     Beatles played Carnegie Hall for the first (maybe the only) time.  Bob 
     Fuhrel


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Subject: On this day
Author:  	"Henry M" <gravity at nicom.com> at SMTP-CCSN
Date:    2/12/97 9:10 AM


Not much interesting has ever happened on this day in history, 
including much of the following:
     
In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, queen of England for nine days in 1553, was 
executed for high treason.  
     
In 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president (1861-65), was 
born. He was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington in 1865.  
     
In 1851, Edward Hargraves discovered gold at Summerhill Creek in New 
South Wales, triggering the Australian gold rush.  
     
In 1895, China surrendered at the Battle of Weihaiwei, ending the 
Sino-Japanese War.  
     
In 1912, the Manchu dynasty abdicated in China and a provisional 
republic was established.  
     
In 1950, the European Broadcasting Union was founded.  
     
In 1953, the Soviet Union broke off diplomatic relations with Israel 
after a bomb exploded at the Soviet Legation in Tel Aviv.  
     
In 1973, the first group of U.S. prisoners of war were freed from 
North Vietnam.  
     
In 1986, the Channel Tunnel treaty between Britain and France was 
signed.  
     
In 1992, thousands of people celebrated as Mongolia's new 
non-communist constitution took effect.  
     
In 1994, more than 100 people trekked the 31-mile (50 km) 
subterranean Channel Tunnel in a sponsored walk for charity. They 
became the first humans to walk from France to Britain since the Ice 
Age.  
     
AsB4
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