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Today in history
2010/03/11 08:51:03 |
Taipei, March 11 (CNA) Today is Thursday, March 11, or the 26th day of the first month of the Year of the Tiger according to the lunar calendar. Following is a list of important events that have occurred on this date in the past:
1702: The Daily Courant, the first English daily newspaper, is published in London.
1819: Marius Petipa, French choreographer who created "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty," is born.
1820: Benjamin West, the first American painter to study art in Italy and who went on to become president of the British Royal Academy, dies at the age of 82. His "Death of General Wolfe" is among the American history and portrait painter's most important works.
1864: A reservoir near Sheffield in the north of England bursts its banks, killing 250 people.
1912: A provisional constitution for the Republic of China is promulgated.
1913: At the invitation of Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Dr. Sun Yat-sen delivers a speech on Asian affairs at the Youth Association in Osaka, in which he advocates Sino-Japanese cooperation.
1916: Harold Wilson, British Labour prime minister 1964-70 and 1974-76, is born.
1931: Rupert Murdoch, Australian media magnate, is born.
1941: The U.S. Congress approves the Lend-Lease Act, which allows China, Britain, the Soviet Union and other friendly powers to receive tanks, ships, ammunition and other weapons on preferential credit terms.
1945: U.S. Marines land on Mindanao Island in the Philippines, while the vast Krupps factory in Germany is destroyed when 1,000 Allied bombers make the biggest-ever daylight bombing raid of World War II.
1954: The United States admits that its H-bomb test explosion on the Marshall Islands exposed 264 local residents and 28 Americans to radiation.
1954: The second session of the first National Assembly of the ROC approves indefinite extension of the Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion.
1955: Sir Alexander Fleming, the British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928 and shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for the achievement, dies at the age of 74.
1982: Chen Wan-fu, speaker of the Taipei County Assembly, is arrested for alleged involvement in vote-buying during the 1981 elections.
1985: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, 54, takes office in Moscow following the death of Konstantin Chernenko, becoming the youngest leader in the history of the Soviet Union.
1990: Lithuanian Parliament declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1990: Chile turns the page on 17 violent and bitter years of repression under Gen. Augusto Pinochet, welcoming in the democratic era of Patricio Aylwin.
1991: Ma Hsin-yeh, national policy advisor to the ROC president, president of the Chinese Institute of Mass Communications and former chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central News Agency, dies in Taipei at the age of 82.
1996: The trials begin in Seoul of Roh Tae Woo and Chun Doo Hwan, former South Korean presidents charged with carrying out a 1979 coup and killing pro-democracy protesters.
1998: South Korea says it will compensate women who were enslaved in Japanese army brothels in World War II.
1998: President Suharto of Indonesia is inaugurated for a seventh five-year term.
1999: Chi Mei Corp., one of Taiwan's giant plastics producers, obtains a loan of more than NT$7 billion (US$212.12 million) to build a second TFT-LCD factory.
1999: Visiting Macedonian Assembly President Dr. Savo Klimovski signs a joint declaration on parliamentary cooperation with his ROC counterpart Wang Jin-pyng.
2001: A memorial service is held in Taipei to mark the 10th anniversary of the passing away of the late Central News Agency Chairman Ma Hsin-yeh and his wife.
Confucius' lesson of the day: "When going out into the world, behave always as if you were at an audience before the Emperor; in dealing with the people, act as if you were at worship before God. Whatever things you do not wish that others should do unto you, do not do unto them. In your public life in the State as well as in your private life in your family, give no one just cause for complaint against you." ENDITEM
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