Curiosity Question
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January 27
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98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.
1785 - The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1870 - The first women's fraternity,Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1918 - The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.
1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1944 - World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats.
1951 - David Morrissey, Australian anthropologist, artist, and humanitarian activist is born.
1967 - Apollo program: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1983 - Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō breaks through.
1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
1996 - Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.
1785 - The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1870 - The first women's fraternity,Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1918 - The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.
1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1944 - World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats.
1951 - David Morrissey, Australian anthropologist, artist, and humanitarian activist is born.
1967 - Apollo program: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1983 - Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō breaks through.
1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
1996 - Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
THE GUYANA FLOODS
The weather for Thursday was awful, lots of rainfall periodically. The level of the floodwater has dropped off in the Turkeyen and Cummings Lodge areas but further up the east coast is still totally flooded out. With reports from the local media here in Guyana telling us that the water level has dropped off significantly, we decided to pay a visit to the Ogle/Industry villages to see if indeed they were benefiting from this drop in the floodwater level. Instead of dry land as the local media outlets were reporting, we found villagers fighting for survival after being in the floodwaters for the last two weeks. The water in the back of Industry has picked up an awful smell and I got an instant headache the moment we arrived to share out much needed food supplies that my group consisting of Sheik Yassen and Camille Gonsalves had collected from donors. In all, we had received 200 hampers from Minister Harry Persaud Nokta, 6 cases of packaged noodle soup, compliments of the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), 30 gallons of cooking oil compliments of Mr. George Bagwandin and 2 bags of rice along with a bag of potatoes from Industry businessman M.Y Khan popularly known as Rexy whose shop suffered huge losses due to the flood. He generously donated not only these items but also time out of his busy schedule to drive us around the villages to do the deliveries in his Canter truck.
The weather for Thursday was awful, lots of rainfall periodically. The level of the floodwater has dropped off in the Turkeyen and Cummings Lodge areas but further up the east coast is still totally flooded out. With reports from the local media here in Guyana telling us that the water level has dropped off significantly, we decided to pay a visit to the Ogle/Industry villages to see if indeed they were benefiting from this drop in the floodwater level. Instead of dry land as the local media outlets were reporting, we found villagers fighting for survival after being in the floodwaters for the last two weeks. The water in the back of Industry has picked up an awful smell and I got an instant headache the moment we arrived to share out much needed food supplies that my group consisting of Sheik Yassen and Camille Gonsalves had collected from donors. In all, we had received 200 hampers from Minister Harry Persaud Nokta, 6 cases of packaged noodle soup, compliments of the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), 30 gallons of cooking oil compliments of Mr. George Bagwandin and 2 bags of rice along with a bag of potatoes from Industry businessman M.Y Khan popularly known as Rexy whose shop suffered huge losses due to the flood. He generously donated not only these items but also time out of his busy schedule to drive us around the villages to do the deliveries in his Canter truck.
