Wednesday, June 25, 2008

greed


where's my cave..
i don't want to go to any party..
where's my cave,
so i can hide.

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also on this day!!!

1976
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, appoints himself President for life.
1975
Mozambique declares its independence from Portugal.
1973
Former White House lawyer John Dean III accuses President Richard Nixon of involvement in the cover up of the Watergate break-in.
1959
Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson stops American Floyd Patterson in the third round of their title bout in Madison Square Garden, New York, to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
1954
The highest-scoring match in the final stages of football's World Cup occurs in the quarter-finals of the competition in Lausanne when host nation Switzerland are beaten 7-5 by Austria. .
1950
Start of the Korean War when North Korean troops invade the South.
1945
Official founding of the United Nations organisation.
1917
World War I: The first American troops, commanded by Field Marshal Pershing, disembark on the French coast.
1891
The first episode of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel involving fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is printed in the Strand Magazine in London.
1876
Custer's Last Stand. George Armstrong Custer, commander of the 7th US Cavalry and 260 troopers are killed by Sioux Indians, led by Crazy Horse, at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.
1797
English Admiral Horatio Nelson is shot and wounded in the right arm and has it amputated later in the day.
1788
Virginia becomes the 10th state within the American Union.
1646
The English Civil War: the Royalist city of Oxford surrenders to the Parliamentary forces - effectively bringing the war to an end.
1963
British rock singer George Michael.
1945
American singer Carly Simon.
1924
Film director Sidney Lumet born in Philadelphia, USA.
1903
English writer George Orwell - pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair. Becomes a colonial policeman in Burma and later joins the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. Works include The Road To Wigan Pier (1937); Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Dies in 1950.
1900
Louis (Earl) Mountbatten of Burma. Great -grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II directs commando raids in Europe and commands Allied operations in Burma. As the last Viceroy of India, completes the hand over of independence for India and Pakistan from British rule. Is killed by an IRA bomb in 1979.
1997
French underwater explorer and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau aged 87.
1968
British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in a hotel bedroom in Sydney, Australia aged 43.
1956
American zoologist and sexologist Alfred Kinsey aged 62.
1876
George Armstrong Custer, commander of the 7th US Cavalry dies at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana aged 36.
1483
Murder of Edward V, King of England (April 9th-June 25th, 1483).
1212
English soldier and politician Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.

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