shippingnet.eu OCT, 09.2012 ۩ World Post Day; Independence Day of Uganda, Guayaquil; National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania); Independence Day of Guayaquil; Hangul Alphabet Day (South Korea); Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland, Norway) ● 768: Carloman I & Charlemagne were crowned Kings of The Franks ● 1558: Mérida the capital of the municipality of Libertador, was founded in Venezuela ● 1771: The Dutch merchant ship "Vrouw Maria" sank near the coast of Finland ● 1799: Sinking of HMS "Lutine", with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1.2m ● 1804: Hobart, capital of Tasmania, was founded ● 1806: Prussia declared war on France ● 1831: Ioannis Kapodistrias, first head of state of independent Greece was assassinated ● 1834: Opening of the Dublin-Kingstown Railway, the first public one in Ireland ● 1855: Isaac Singer patented sewing machine motor ● 1870: Rome was incorporated into Italy by royal decree ● 1876: First 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires ● 1897: Jan Heemskerk, prime minister of the Netherlands, died ● 1907: Las Cruces, the City of the Crosses, New Mexico, was incorporated ● 1912: Liberation of the island of Lemnos by the Greeks against Turks ● 1913: Steamship SS "Volturno" cached fire in the mid-Atlantic ● 1934: Alexander I of Yugoslavia & Louis Barthou, 78th prime minister of France, died ● 1942: Statute of Westminster 1931 formalized Australian autonomy ● 1944: Nazis bombed Athens, 3 days before leave the town ● 1959: 1st phone call between auto and plane ● 1967: Che Guevara was executed for attempting to organize a revolution in Bolivia ● 1985: Emílio Garrastazu Médici, 28th president of Brazil, died ● 1995: Alec Douglas-Home, prime minister of the United Kingdom, died
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