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Old 02-03-2007   #9
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Adding To Rannouch earlier post, i add the following to February 3rd

General Interest
1959 : The day the music died
1924 : Woodrow Wilson dies
1953 : Cousteau publishes The Silent World
American Revolution
1781 : Greene crosses the Yadkin with Kosciusko’s boats
Automotive
1881 : Model T maker is born
1929 : Golden Arrow sets recrod
1948 : First Caddy with tailfins produced
Crime
1780 : Early American mass murder changes common perceptions of crime Entertainment
1922 : Fatty Arbuckle trial ends in hung jury
1938 : Abbott and Costello break into radio
1959 : Plane crash kills popular musicians
Literary
1820 : Keats falls deathly ill
Old West
1889 : Belle Starr murdered in Oklahoma
Vietnam War
1955 : Diem institutes limited agrarian reforms
1970 : Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings
Wall Street
1690 : Paper currency comes to America
World War I
1917 : U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Germany
World War II
1944 : U.S. troops capture the Marshall Islands

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