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D A I L Y ----- D O Z E =============== [TODAY in History for November 1] 996 - First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the Ostarrîchi Document 1210 - King John of England begins imprisoning Jews 1671 - French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty 1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties 1800 - John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House 1848 - 1st US womans medical school opens (Boston) 1914 - German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile 1922 - Ottoman Empire abolished 1928 - 1st celebration of Authors Day 1939 - 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed 1939 - 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry 1942 - John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest 1954 - General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 - India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements 1956 - Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact 1957 - World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits, Michigan, USA) 1962 - Greece enters European Common Market 1974 - UN affirms independence of Cyprus 1976 - Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule 1979 - Bolivia military coup under Generla Busch, President Guevara flees 1981 - Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1982 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there 2009 - The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit 2012 - Googles Gmail becomes the worlds most popular email service 2012 - Scientists detect evidence of light from the universes first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang [DICTIONARY: Word of the Day] animalcule (an-uh-MAL-kyool) ~noun; a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
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