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1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

1571 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. He was executed for treason in 1572 and is buried within the walls of the Tower of London.

1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end to all English trading in India.

1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).

1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.

1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

1940 - Germany began regular bombing of London, commonly known as The Blitz. The bombing continued nightly until 2nd November.

1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1978 - Keith Moon, drummer with 'The Who', died of a drugs overdose.

1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.

1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, is launched.

1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

1996 – American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match. He died six days later.

1504 - Michelangelo's 13-foot marble statue of David was unveiled in Florence, Italy.

1888 - Annie Chapman was found disembowelled in an East London street, the second victim of 'Jack the Ripper'.

1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.

1941 - Nazi Germany began its Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 900 days. When the siege finally ended in January of 1944, Leningrad's population had been reduced to 600,000 people from 2,500,000 million.

1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.

1951 – Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.

1966 – The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.

1966 - Television program Star Trek premiered on NBC.

2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

1998: Real IRA announce ceasefire
The dissident republican group behind Northern Ireland's worst atrocity has declared its violence at an end.
The Real IRA - which planted a car bomb that killed 29 people in Omagh less than a month ago - announced their "complete cessation" of violence at 0200 BST.

It followed a conference of the breakaway group's council on Monday night in County Louth. Police were instructed to allow the seven members to meet without fear of arrest.

The ceasefire was given a cautious welcome by the Irish and British Governments.

But UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the killers behind the Omagh bombing would still be brought to justice and would receive no amnesty.

In the County Tyrone town - where the damage caused by the bomb on 15 August is still very much in evidence - there were mixed feelings about the announcement.

"I hope they're honest and being truthful with what they're saying," said one man.

Another resident told the BBC: "I think they're a bit late - it doesn't mean a lot to the people here, anyway."

The self-styled Real IRA had announced a "suspension" of military activities three days after the bombing.


The threat or use of violence will simply not be tolerated again

Deputy First Speaker Seaumus Mallon

Since then they have been under intense pressure from the Irish Government and the Provisional IRA to announce a full ceasefire.

Northern Ireland's Deputy First Speaker Seaumus Mallon said the splinter group had finally realised that bloodshed was unacceptable.

"They have got the message from the community and from the two governments - the threat of violence or use of violence will simply not be tolerated again on this island", he said.


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The Omagh bomb killed 29 people






In Context
Despite the ceasefire the Real IRA continued to train and organise.
In February 2000 they were linked to a failed bomb attack explosion at Shackleton Barracks at Ballykelly, County Londonderry.

They are also suspected of carrying out several attacks in London in 2000 and 2001 - including the bombing of BBC Television Centre in west London.

The only person to have been charged in connection with the Omagh bomb is father-of-four Colm Murphy, 49.

In January 2002 he was sentenced to 14 years for conspiring to cause the explosion.


Stories From 8 Sep
1943: Italy's surrender announced
1950: Miners trapped underground by landslide
1998: Real IRA announce ceasefire
2000: French fuel protests spread to UK
1986: Pinochet survives rebel ambush


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1087 - William the Conqueror died in Maine (France) from injuries he sustained after a fall from his horse.

1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.

1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1791 – Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.

1839 - John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.

1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.

1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.

1924 – Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.

1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

2004 – Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

2009 – At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.

(09-09-2012 13:03 )skully Wrote: [ -> ]1839 - John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.

Three generations of the Herschel family made their mark on scientific discovery. John Herschel's father, William Herschel, had discovered the planet Uranus and his son, also named William, went on to pioneer the use of fingerprints for identification.

Herschel's work on photography was more to do with the chemistry involved than the photographic process itself. He coined the word "negative" and worked with the better known photographic pioneers Talbot and Daguerre with his discovery that "hyposulphite of soda" ("hypo") could be used as a photographic fixer, to "fix" pictures and make them permanent, after experimentally applying it thus in early 1839.

The oak leaf is a photo by Herschel taken in 1839; then one of the first ever negatives of an unknown woman also by Herschel from 1839, and a portrait of scientist Michael Faraday from c 1842 by Daguerre:

1224 - The Franciscans, founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi, first arrived in England. They were originally called Grey Friars because of their grey 'habits'.

1547 - The Duke of Somerset led the English to victory over the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, Musselburgh. It was the last full scale military 'pitched battle' confrontation between England and Scotland and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles.

1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

1891 - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay, the most popular song in Victorian England in the 1890s was written by former Canadian bandsman Henry J Sayers. Sayers later admitted to copying an Austrian song after hearing the tune being played in a brothel.

1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.

1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.

1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

1929 - Golfing Legend & 7 time Major winner Arnold (Arnie) Palmer was born.

1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.

1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.

1777 - American troops led by George Washington were defeated by the British at the Battle of Brandywine Creek, in the American War of Independence.

1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.

1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.

1961 – The first office of the World Wildlife Fund was opened.

1962 - The Beatles recorded their first single Love Me Do at the Abbey Road Studios in north London.

1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.

2001 – Three hijacked aircraft are deliberately crashed into the twin World Trade Center towers (which collapse) in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, in a co-ordinated attack which became known as 9/11.

2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

2003: Johnny Cash dies
One of the great legends of country music, Johnny Cash, has died aged 71.
His manager, Lou Robin, said he was taken ill and rushed to hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, with respiratory failure, but doctors could not save him.

Mr Robin added, "I hope that friends and fans of Johnny will pray for the Cash family to find comfort during this very difficult time."

Cash, an icon of American country music since the 1950s, had been dogged by illness in recent years, and suffered from a nervous condition similar to Parkinson's disease.


He had such a wealth of experience in his voice, heaven and hell and no-one could touch him.

Nick Cave, Australian singer

Tributes have been pouring in from around the world.

Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger said, "His influence spread over many generations of different people.

"I loved him as singer and a writer."

Australian singer Nick Cave, who appeared on Cash's last studio album, American IV, said, "He had such a wealth of experience in his voice, heaven and hell and no-one could touch him."

In a career spanning six decades, Johnny Cash became famous for his image as an outlaw figure, as well as for hits such as I Walk The Line and Ring Of Fire.

Early on, he created the image which would eventually define him. At his debut in 1957 at Nashville's famous country music venue, the Grand Ole Opry, he wore nothing but black when everyone around him was in bright colours and rhinestones.

He eventually became known as "The Man in Black".

His career took off in the 1960s, with hits such as A Boy Named Sue. But a gruelling schedule led to amphetamine and alcohol abuse which cost him his first marriage and almost ruined his career.

Then in 1968 he met his second wife, June Carter Cash, from country music's famous Carter family. Cash credited her with pulling him back from addiction.

She died earlier this year, aged 73, following complications from heart surgery.

Renewed popularity

Cash finished touring in 1997, but continued recording albums.

Most recently, his series of American Recordings albums covering modern artists brought him popularity with a new generation of younger fans.

In 2003, the video for his cover of Hurt by hard rock band Nine Inch Nails received critical acclaim and several nominations, including video of the year, at the MTV Video Music Awards.



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Johnny Cash became famous for his sparse, uncompromising image



In Context
Johnny Cash was buried alongside June Carter Cash in the Hendersonville Memory Gardens hear his home in Tennessee.
More than 1000 people attended his funeral service.

The video for his cover of Hurt, by hard rock band Nine Inch Nails, won the award for best short form video at the 2004 Grammy Awards. June Carter Cash also won a posthumous award at the same ceremony.

A boxed set of his recordings, entitled Unearthed, was issued posthumously. It included four CDs of unreleased material.


Stories From 12 Sep
2001: US declares war on terror
1977: Steve Biko dies in custody
2005: England win the Ashes
1970: Hijacked jets destroyed by guerrillas
1959: Soviets launch rocket at the Moon
1997: Scots say 'Yes' to home rule
2003: Johnny Cash dies

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1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed the ship Halve Maen (Half Moon) into the river that now bears his name.

1878 - Cleopatra's Needle, the obelisk of Thothmes II, was erected on London's Embankment.

1940 - Lascaux Cave's 17,000-year-old paintings were discovered by teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork when trying to find their dog. The paintings are the finest examples of art from the Paleolithic Period.

1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.

1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission.

2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.