AP Worldstream
06-19-2006
Today is Monday, June 26, the 177th day of 2006. There are 188 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, is slain in Lima by rival conquistadors.
1549 - The 17 provinces of the Netherlands are declared independent of the Holy Roman Empire.
1714 - Spain and Holland sign Peace of Utrecht.
1848 - Artillery blasts apart the barricades put up by rebelling workers in Paris, ending the "June Days" civil war with the loss of 1,500 lives.
1858 - Treaty of Tientsin ends war between Britain and China, whereby China opens additional ports to British commerce and legalizes opium trade.
1941 - Finns side with Germans in attack against Soviet Union leading to three-year Finnish-Soviet war.
1945 - Charter establishing United Nations is signed in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.
1948 - The Berlin airlift begins after the Soviets blockade West Berlin. The lift feeds two million Berliners for eleven months.
1960 - Madagascar proclaims its independence as the Malagasy Republic; British Somaliland becomes independent.
1962 - United States declares it will not support any attempt by Chinese nationalists on Formosa to land forces on the Chinese mainland.
1964 - The Roman Catholic Church and Spain's government say they have reached basic agreement on proposed legislation to grant legal recognition and certain rights to Spain's Protestants.
1989 - Hungary's new Communist Party chief says his country is "breaking away from Stalinism."
1990 - Nelson Mandela speaks before U.S. Congress, thanking it for imposing sanctions against South Africa and asking that sanctions be maintained until "irreversible" reforms are enacted.
1991 - Martial law is lifted in Kuwait and death sentences for 29 people convicted of collaborating with the Iraqis during their invasion of Kuwait are commuted to life imprisonment.
1992 - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali gives Serbs 48 hours to halt their offensive against Sarajevo.
1993 - Despite peace talks in Brussels, seven people, including a 4-year-old boy, are killed in shelling attacks on Sarajevo between Croats and Muslims.
1994 - Northern forces shell residential areas in the southern Yemen city of Aden, hitting a school and wounding 15 women and children.
1995 - Six gunmen open fire on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's motorcade shortly after he arrives in Ethiopia, but Mubarak escapes hurt.
1996 - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd offers a $2.7 million reward for those responsible for a truck bomb that killed at least 19 Americans and wounded hundreds.
1997 - Attackers fire grenade at police in Northern Ireland in an apparent rebuff to a British offer of peace talks participation in exchange for a new IRA cease-fire.
1998 - In a ceremony heavy in symbolism, U.S. President Bill Clinton opens a state visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years earlier.
1999 - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta returns to his native Indonesia for the first time in 24 years. He had accused Indonesian troops of atrocities and genocide after the U.S. and several western nation-backed invasion of East Timor, in 1975.
2000 - Scientists announce that the human genetic code has essentially been deciphered, a monumental achievement that opens a dramatic new frontier in medicine.
2001- Seven North Koreans take refuge in a U.N. office in Beijing and request asylum; highlighting the plight of North Korean famine victims whom China refuses to regard as refugees.
2002 - Pakistani troops raid a group of members of the Al Qaida terrorist network who had taken refuge in a tribal region near the country's western border with Afghanistan. Ten soldiers are killed.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 6-3, that a Texas law banning sodomy between consenting same-sex adults is unconstitutional.
2004 - The United States and the European Union agree in a joint statement to back Iraq's request for NATO military and support the training of Iraqi security forces, and to reduce Iraq's international debt.
2005 - Gunmen on motorcycles in Sao Paulo, Brazil kill six people after opening fire at patrons of an outdoor bar.
Today's Birthdays:
George Morland, English artist (1763-1804); Bartolome Mitre, Argentine president (1821-1906); Baron William Homson Kelvin, English physicist (1824-1907); Pearl Buck, U.S. author (1892-1973); Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (1904-1964); Chris Isaak, U.S. singer (1956--); Chris O'Donnell, actor (1970--).
Thought For Today:
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat _ Anonymous.
Copyright 2006, AP News All Rights Reserved
Monday, June 26The Associated Press
AP Worldstream
06-19-2006
Today is Monday, June 26, the 177th day of 2006. There are 188 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, is slain in Lima by rival conquistadors.
1549 - The 17 provinces of the Netherlands are declared independent of the Holy Roman Empire.
1714 - Spain and Holland sign Peace of Utrecht.
1848 - Artillery blasts apart the barricades put up by rebelling workers in Paris, ending the "June Days" civil war with the loss of 1,500 lives.
1858 - Treaty of Tientsin ends war between Britain and China, whereby China opens additional ports to British commerce and legalizes opium trade.
1941 - Finns side with Germans in attack against Soviet Union leading to three-year Finnish-Soviet war.
1945 - Charter establishing United Nations is signed in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.
1948 - The Berlin airlift begins after the Soviets blockade West Berlin. The lift feeds two million Berliners for eleven months.
1960 - Madagascar proclaims its independence as the Malagasy Republic; British Somaliland becomes independent.
1962 - United States declares it will not support any attempt by Chinese nationalists on Formosa to land forces on the Chinese mainland.
1964 - The Roman Catholic Church and Spain's government say they have reached basic agreement on proposed legislation to grant legal recognition and certain rights to Spain's Protestants.
1989 - Hungary's new Communist Party chief says his country is "breaking away from Stalinism."
1990 - Nelson Mandela speaks before U.S. Congress, thanking it for imposing sanctions against South Africa and asking that sanctions be maintained until "irreversible" reforms are enacted.
1991 - Martial law is lifted in Kuwait and death sentences for 29 people convicted of collaborating with the Iraqis during their invasion of Kuwait are commuted to life imprisonment.
1992 - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali gives Serbs 48 hours to halt their offensive against Sarajevo.
1993 - Despite peace talks in Brussels, seven people, including a 4-year-old boy, are killed in shelling attacks on Sarajevo between Croats and Muslims.
1994 - Northern forces shell residential areas in the southern Yemen city of Aden, hitting a school and wounding 15 women and children.
1995 - Six gunmen open fire on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's motorcade shortly after he arrives in Ethiopia, but Mubarak escapes hurt.
1996 - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd offers a $2.7 million reward for those responsible for a truck bomb that killed at least 19 Americans and wounded hundreds.
1997 - Attackers fire grenade at police in Northern Ireland in an apparent rebuff to a British offer of peace talks participation in exchange for a new IRA cease-fire.
1998 - In a ceremony heavy in symbolism, U.S. President Bill Clinton opens a state visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years earlier.
1999 - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta returns to his native Indonesia for the first time in 24 years. He had accused Indonesian troops of atrocities and genocide after the U.S. and several western nation-backed invasion of East Timor, in 1975.
2000 - Scientists announce that the human genetic code has essentially been deciphered, a monumental achievement that opens a dramatic new frontier in medicine.
2001- Seven North Koreans take refuge in a U.N. office in Beijing and request asylum; highlighting the plight of North Korean famine victims whom China refuses to regard as refugees.
2002 - Pakistani troops raid a group of members of the Al Qaida terrorist network who had taken refuge in a tribal region near the country's western border with Afghanistan. Ten soldiers are killed.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 6-3, that a Texas law banning sodomy between consenting same-sex adults is unconstitutional.
2004 - The United States and the European Union agree in a joint statement to back Iraq's request for NATO military and support the training of Iraqi security forces, and to reduce Iraq's international debt.
2005 - Gunmen on motorcycles in Sao Paulo, Brazil kill six people after opening fire at patrons of an outdoor bar.
Today's Birthdays:
George Morland, English artist (1763-1804); Bartolome Mitre, Argentine president (1821-1906); Baron William Homson Kelvin, English physicist (1824-1907); Pearl Buck, U.S. author (1892-1973); Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (1904-1964); Chris Isaak, U.S. singer (1956--); Chris O'Donnell, actor (1970--).
Thought For Today:
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat _ Anonymous.
Copyright 2006, AP News All Rights Reserved
Monday, June 26The Associated Press
AP Worldstream
06-19-2006
Today is Monday, June 26, the 177th day of 2006. There are 188 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, is slain in Lima by rival conquistadors.
1549 - The 17 provinces of the Netherlands are declared independent of the Holy Roman Empire.
1714 - Spain and Holland sign Peace of Utrecht.
1848 - Artillery blasts apart the barricades put up by rebelling workers in Paris, ending the "June Days" civil war with the loss of 1,500 lives.
1858 - Treaty of Tientsin ends war between Britain and China, whereby China opens additional ports to British commerce and legalizes opium trade.
1941 - Finns side with Germans in attack against Soviet Union leading to three-year Finnish-Soviet war.
1945 - Charter establishing United Nations is signed in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.
1948 - The Berlin airlift begins after the Soviets blockade West Berlin. The lift feeds two million Berliners for eleven months.
1960 - Madagascar proclaims its independence as the Malagasy Republic; British Somaliland becomes independent.
1962 - United States declares it will not support any attempt by Chinese nationalists on Formosa to land forces on the Chinese mainland.
1964 - The Roman Catholic Church and Spain's government say they have reached basic agreement on proposed legislation to grant legal recognition and certain rights to Spain's Protestants.
1989 - Hungary's new Communist Party chief says his country is "breaking away from Stalinism."
1990 - Nelson Mandela speaks before U.S. Congress, thanking it for imposing sanctions against South Africa and asking that sanctions be maintained until "irreversible" reforms are enacted.
1991 - Martial law is lifted in Kuwait and death sentences for 29 people convicted of collaborating with the Iraqis during their invasion of Kuwait are commuted to life imprisonment.
1992 - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali gives Serbs 48 hours to halt their offensive against Sarajevo.
1993 - Despite peace talks in Brussels, seven people, including a 4-year-old boy, are killed in shelling attacks on Sarajevo between Croats and Muslims.
1994 - Northern forces shell residential areas in the southern Yemen city of Aden, hitting a school and wounding 15 women and children.
1995 - Six gunmen open fire on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's motorcade shortly after he arrives in Ethiopia, but Mubarak escapes hurt.
1996 - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd offers a $2.7 million reward for those responsible for a truck bomb that killed at least 19 Americans and wounded hundreds.
1997 - Attackers fire grenade at police in Northern Ireland in an apparent rebuff to a British offer of peace talks participation in exchange for a new IRA cease-fire.
1998 - In a ceremony heavy in symbolism, U.S. President Bill Clinton opens a state visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years earlier.
1999 - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta returns to his native Indonesia for the first time in 24 years. He had accused Indonesian troops of atrocities and genocide after the U.S. and several western nation-backed invasion of East Timor, in 1975.
2000 - Scientists announce that the human genetic code has essentially been deciphered, a monumental achievement that opens a dramatic new frontier in medicine.
2001- Seven North Koreans take refuge in a U.N. office in Beijing and request asylum; highlighting the plight of North Korean famine victims whom China refuses to regard as refugees.
2002 - Pakistani troops raid a group of members of the Al Qaida terrorist network who had taken refuge in a tribal region near the country's western border with Afghanistan. Ten soldiers are killed.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 6-3, that a Texas law banning sodomy between consenting same-sex adults is unconstitutional.
2004 - The United States and the European Union agree in a joint statement to back Iraq's request for NATO military and support the training of Iraqi security forces, and to reduce Iraq's international debt.
2005 - Gunmen on motorcycles in Sao Paulo, Brazil kill six people after opening fire at patrons of an outdoor bar.
Today's Birthdays:
George Morland, English artist (1763-1804); Bartolome Mitre, Argentine president (1821-1906); Baron William Homson Kelvin, English physicist (1824-1907); Pearl Buck, U.S. author (1892-1973); Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (1904-1964); Chris Isaak, U.S. singer (1956--); Chris O'Donnell, actor (1970--).
Thought For Today:
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat _ Anonymous.
Copyright 2006, AP News All Rights Reserved
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