D A I L Y ----- D O Z E =============== [TODAY in History for October 11] 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria 1687 - Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty 1698 - France, England & Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty 1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India 1746 - Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherland armies 1852 - The University of Sydney, Australias oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney 1868 - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine 1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed 1899 - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain 1918 - Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean 1919 - 1st transcontinental air race ends 1922 - 1st woman FBI special investigator appointed (Alaska Davidson) 1923 - German mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $ 1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse Tung 1947 - Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR 1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS 1955 - Persia signs Pact of Baghdad 1960 - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (now Bangladesh 6,000 die) 1968 - Panama revolts 1971 - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam 1972 - Panama adopts constitution 1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial 1984 - 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan) 1984 - NASA launches space vehicle S-208 1986 - Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland 1994 - Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar 1998 - A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people 2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown 2012 - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature [DICTIONARY: Word of the Day] snollygoster (SNOL-ee-gos-ter) ~ noun; Slang. a clever, unscrupulous person.
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