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February 16th 1878 : Silver dollar became U.S. legal tender. Themis

February 18th 2011 : Actor John Travolta turns 57 years old today. Themis

February 19th 1959 : An agreement was signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece granting Cyprus its independence. Themis

March 13th 1992: An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. John

This Day in History for Monday [|14th March] 2011


 * [|1489] -** The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
 * [|1558] -** Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
 * [|1559] -** Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth
 * [|1590] -** Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
 * [|1629] -** England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
 * [|1644] -** England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
 * [|1647] -** Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
 * [|1653] -** Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
 * [|1689] -** Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
 * [|1734] -** Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
 * [|1743] -** 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)


 * __// Menia //__**

__//ΕΛΕΝΗ//__
 * **March 21st 1421** || Battle of Beauge-French beat British ||
 * **March 21st 1492** || Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus ||
 * **March 21st 1610** || King James I addresses English House of Commons ||
 * **March 21st 1681** || 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London ||
 * **March 21st 1697** || Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe ||
 * **March 21st 1702** || Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament ||
 * **March 21st 1788** || Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana ||
 * **March 21st 1788** || Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 21st 1790** || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Thomas Jefferson reports to Pres Washington in NY as Sec of State ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 21st 1791** || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 21st 1804** || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">French civil Code of Napoleon adopted ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 21st 1824** || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 21st 1826** || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 21st 1835** || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass ||  ||


 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 22nd 1996** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 22nd 1996** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 22nd 1997** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">"Sunset Boulevard," closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 22nd 1997** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU) ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 22nd 1997** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA) ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 22nd 1998** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">18th Golden Raspberry Awards ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 22nd 1998** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">wins Standard Register PING Golf ||


 * Ελένη **

__//** ΕΛΕΝΗ **//__
 * 1999 - In Kenya, at least 31 people were killed when a passenger train derailed. Hundreds were injured. **
 * 1999 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo. **
 * 1999 - The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France was an inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught on fire. At least 30 people were killed. **
 * 2001 - Apple Computer Inc's operating system MAC OS X went on sale. **
 * 2002 - Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart. **
 * 2005 - The government of Kyrgyzstan collapsed after opposition protesters took over President Askar Akayev's presidential compound and government offices. **
 * 2005 - Sandra Bullock received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. **
 * 2006 - In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire. **


 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1513** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1599** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1625** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1668** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1708** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1709** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded) ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1713** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1721** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1758** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine ||
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">**March 27th 1790** ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial;">The shoelace invented ||

//**__FAY__**//

__//** MARCH 30th **//__ <span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">1987 //**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> - Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" was bought for $39.85 million. __**// <span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">1993 //**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> - In Sarajevo, two Serb militiamen were sentenced to death for war crimes committed in Bosnia. __**// <span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">1993 //**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> - In the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown hit his first home run. __**// <span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">1994 //**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> - Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia while Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to fight each other. __**// <span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">1998 //**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> - Rolls-Royce was purchased by BMW in a $570 million deal. __**// <span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">2002 //**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> - An unmanned U.S. spy plan crashed at sea in the Southern Philippines. __**// <span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">2002 //**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> - Suspected Islamic militants set off several grenades at a temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Four civilians, four policemen and two attackers were killed and 20 people were injured. __**//

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__//** APRIL 14th : **//__

__//**1990**//____-__ Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles began a streak of 95 errorless games and 431 total chances by a shortstop. **//__1994__//** - Two American F-15 warplanes inadvertently shot down two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq. 26 people were killed including 15 Americans. //**__1998__**// - The state of Virginia ignored the requests from the World Court and executed a Paraguayan for the murder of a U.S. woman. **//__1999__//** - Pakistan test-fired a ballistic missile that was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching its rival neighbor India. __//**2000**//__ - After five years of deadlock, Russia approved the START II treaty that calls for the scrapping of U.S.and Russian nuclear warheads. The Russian government warned it would abandon all arms-control pacts if Washington continued with an anti-missile system. __//**2002**//__ - U.S. President George W. Bush sent a letter of congratulations to JCPenny's associates for being in business for 100 years. James Cash (J.C.) Penney had opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902. __//**2002**//__ - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being arrested by his country's military. __//**2008**//__ - Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were combining.

__//** ΕΛΕΝΗ **//__