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This Day in History

This Day in History, November 14th

Friday 14, 2003: Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered. (hopefully it won't hit us "When I'm Sixty-Four).

Thursday 14, 2002: The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

Wednesday 14, 2001: Attack on Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.

Tuesday 14, 2000: Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.

Saturday 14, 1998: Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra are married in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tuesday 14, 1995: A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums.

Sunday 14, 1993: Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers.

Thursday 14, 1991: A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five, before committing suicide. [thus, 'going postal' was born]

Wednesday 14, 1990: Germany modifies its Basic Law to recognise the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

Thursday 14, 1985: Tragedy in Colombia: eruption of volcano Nevado del Ruiz killed 23,000 people in city of Armero (was buried).

Sunday 14, 1982: Lech Wallensa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

Wednesday 14, 1979: Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

Tuesday 14, 1972: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.

Saturday 14, 1970: Southern Airways DC-9 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75.

Friday 14, 1969: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

Sunday 14, 1965: the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. Lyndon Johnson sends 90,000 troops to South Vietnam, the "police action," is greatly escalated.

And, I was born.

Look up your birthday in a Google search of "this day and history." I certainly hope your list isn't as spectacularly depressing as mine.

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  1. Jamie RFriday, November 14, 2008 7:21:00 AM

    Happy Birthday Steve! I hope your birthday this year is much better than past birthday. At least Obama will be in office for the next 4 birthdays. Well try not to have a heart attack blowing out all your candles :)

    Love you man, even though we have our disagreements.

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