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Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Advertiser Adelaide, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Feb 24 2005
On this day
25feb05
1988 - Thousands demonstrate in Soviet Armenia despite directive to
local authorities to restore order.
1308 - Edward II is enthroned as King of England.
1545 - Scots defeat English forces at Ancrum Moor.
1570 - England's Queen Elizabeth I is excommunicated by Pope Pius V.
1601 - England's Earl of Essex is executed for treason.
1713 - Sweden's King Charles XII is taken prisoner by Sultan of
Turkey.
1723 - Death of Sir Christopher Wren, English architect and designer.
1836 - American inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver.
1841 - Explorer Edward John Eyre leaves Fowlers Bay in South
Australia on an overland trip around the Great Australian Bight.
1899 - Death in France of Paul Julius Reuter, German founder of the
international news agency that bears his name.
1914 - Death of Sir John Tenniel, English artist and illustrator of
Alice in Wonderland.
1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser usurps power as president of Egypt;
Syria's President Chickekli flees following army revolt.
1956 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev goes before Communist Party
congress in Moscow and denounces late dictator Joseph Stalin.
1961 - Sydney's last tram runs, to La Perouse in the eastern suburbs.
1964 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight boxing
champion for the first time by knocking out Sonny Liston in Miami.
1969 - NSW Legislative Council expels Country Party member AE
Armstrong for "unworthy business conduct" for his part in helping
secure divorce evidence for another member.
1972 - Soviet Union's Luna 20 spacecraft returns to earth with
samples of the Moon's surface; President Kenneth Kaunda announces his
cabinet's decision to impose a one-party state in Zambia.
1976 - United States vetoes UN resolution deploring Israel's
annexation of Jerusalem.
1982 - Australian Government announces decision to purchase HMS
Invincible from England.
1983 - Death of Tennessee Williams, US playwright.
1986 - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos resigns, brought down
by a "people's power" uprising, military revolt, and US pressure.
1987 - Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslims bury 23 militants killed by
Syrian soldiers in Lebanon, and claim they were massacred with axes
and bayonets.
1988 - Thousands demonstrate in Soviet Armenia despite directive to
local authorities to restore order.
1990 - At least 60 people are killed in India as violence mars
elections in eight states.
1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein orders his forces, under attack
by allied ground troops, to withdraw from Kuwait. An Iraqi Scud
missile hits a US marine barracks near the Saudi city of Dhahran,
killing 28 soldiers and wounding several others.
1992 - Imelda Marcos accepts Philippine government conditions for
returning her husband's body.
1993 - US Marines and Nigerian soldiers blast at snipers in central
Mogadishu, Somalia, in a five-hour battle that kills one Somali; Kim
Young-sam is sworn in as South Korea's first civilian president for
32 years.
1994 - Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein, armed with an automatic rifle
and hand grenades, kills 40 Muslims at a mosque in Hebron, before
being beaten to death.
1995 - Two bombs blow apart a train car reserved for the military in
north-eastern India, killing at least 26 soldiers and wounding more
than 30.
1996 - Haing Ngor, a Cambodian refugee whose Academy Award-winning
performance in the film The Killing Fields mirrored his own ordeal at
the hands of the Khmer Rouge, is murdered in the US.
1997 - President Jiang Zemin delivers a final eulogy for leader Deng
Xiaoping, vowing that China's opening to the outside world will
continue; Two days after a gunman goes on a fatal rampage at the
Empire State Building in New York, the observatory reopens with metal
detectors.
1998 - Death aged 90 of Italian abstract artist Luigi Veronesi, who
designed sets at Milan's prestigious La Scala theatre; Death aged 82
of BA (Bob) Santamaria, Australian anti-communist crusader, political
commentator and Catholic intellectual.
1999 - China vetoes an extension of the UN peacekeeping mission in
Macedonia, which borders war-torn Kosovo province. Macedonia had
established diplomatic relations with Taiwan a month earlier.
2000 - Four white New York City police officers who killed unarmed
African immigrant Amadou Diallo in a barrage of 41 bullets are
acquitted of all charges.
2001 - The commander of the US submarine that struck and sank a
Japanese trawler off Hawaii expresses his "most sincere regret" - but
Commander Scott Waddle stops short of an apology.
2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, the greatest batsman in Test cricket
history and Australia's most revered sporting figure, dies. He was
92.
2002 - The driver of a cash transport truck overpowers his partner
and drives off with a record $US8.7 million ($14.68 million) in euro
bills in Germany's financial capital of Frankfurt. The robbery comes
in the wake of two similar ones in five months.
2003 - Two bomb blasts damage the Colombian consulate and Spanish
Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela; five people are wounded. The
explosions come two days after President Hugo Chavez Frias accuses
Spain and Colombia of meddling in Venezuela's internal affairs.
2004 - The Czech parliament decides to send more than 100 soldiers to
Afghanistan in the first combat role for the Czech armed forces since
World War Two.
Advertiser Adelaide, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Feb 24 2005
On this day
25feb05
1988 - Thousands demonstrate in Soviet Armenia despite directive to
local authorities to restore order.
1308 - Edward II is enthroned as King of England.
1545 - Scots defeat English forces at Ancrum Moor.
1570 - England's Queen Elizabeth I is excommunicated by Pope Pius V.
1601 - England's Earl of Essex is executed for treason.
1713 - Sweden's King Charles XII is taken prisoner by Sultan of
Turkey.
1723 - Death of Sir Christopher Wren, English architect and designer.
1836 - American inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver.
1841 - Explorer Edward John Eyre leaves Fowlers Bay in South
Australia on an overland trip around the Great Australian Bight.
1899 - Death in France of Paul Julius Reuter, German founder of the
international news agency that bears his name.
1914 - Death of Sir John Tenniel, English artist and illustrator of
Alice in Wonderland.
1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser usurps power as president of Egypt;
Syria's President Chickekli flees following army revolt.
1956 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev goes before Communist Party
congress in Moscow and denounces late dictator Joseph Stalin.
1961 - Sydney's last tram runs, to La Perouse in the eastern suburbs.
1964 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight boxing
champion for the first time by knocking out Sonny Liston in Miami.
1969 - NSW Legislative Council expels Country Party member AE
Armstrong for "unworthy business conduct" for his part in helping
secure divorce evidence for another member.
1972 - Soviet Union's Luna 20 spacecraft returns to earth with
samples of the Moon's surface; President Kenneth Kaunda announces his
cabinet's decision to impose a one-party state in Zambia.
1976 - United States vetoes UN resolution deploring Israel's
annexation of Jerusalem.
1982 - Australian Government announces decision to purchase HMS
Invincible from England.
1983 - Death of Tennessee Williams, US playwright.
1986 - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos resigns, brought down
by a "people's power" uprising, military revolt, and US pressure.
1987 - Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslims bury 23 militants killed by
Syrian soldiers in Lebanon, and claim they were massacred with axes
and bayonets.
1988 - Thousands demonstrate in Soviet Armenia despite directive to
local authorities to restore order.
1990 - At least 60 people are killed in India as violence mars
elections in eight states.
1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein orders his forces, under attack
by allied ground troops, to withdraw from Kuwait. An Iraqi Scud
missile hits a US marine barracks near the Saudi city of Dhahran,
killing 28 soldiers and wounding several others.
1992 - Imelda Marcos accepts Philippine government conditions for
returning her husband's body.
1993 - US Marines and Nigerian soldiers blast at snipers in central
Mogadishu, Somalia, in a five-hour battle that kills one Somali; Kim
Young-sam is sworn in as South Korea's first civilian president for
32 years.
1994 - Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein, armed with an automatic rifle
and hand grenades, kills 40 Muslims at a mosque in Hebron, before
being beaten to death.
1995 - Two bombs blow apart a train car reserved for the military in
north-eastern India, killing at least 26 soldiers and wounding more
than 30.
1996 - Haing Ngor, a Cambodian refugee whose Academy Award-winning
performance in the film The Killing Fields mirrored his own ordeal at
the hands of the Khmer Rouge, is murdered in the US.
1997 - President Jiang Zemin delivers a final eulogy for leader Deng
Xiaoping, vowing that China's opening to the outside world will
continue; Two days after a gunman goes on a fatal rampage at the
Empire State Building in New York, the observatory reopens with metal
detectors.
1998 - Death aged 90 of Italian abstract artist Luigi Veronesi, who
designed sets at Milan's prestigious La Scala theatre; Death aged 82
of BA (Bob) Santamaria, Australian anti-communist crusader, political
commentator and Catholic intellectual.
1999 - China vetoes an extension of the UN peacekeeping mission in
Macedonia, which borders war-torn Kosovo province. Macedonia had
established diplomatic relations with Taiwan a month earlier.
2000 - Four white New York City police officers who killed unarmed
African immigrant Amadou Diallo in a barrage of 41 bullets are
acquitted of all charges.
2001 - The commander of the US submarine that struck and sank a
Japanese trawler off Hawaii expresses his "most sincere regret" - but
Commander Scott Waddle stops short of an apology.
2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, the greatest batsman in Test cricket
history and Australia's most revered sporting figure, dies. He was
92.
2002 - The driver of a cash transport truck overpowers his partner
and drives off with a record $US8.7 million ($14.68 million) in euro
bills in Germany's financial capital of Frankfurt. The robbery comes
in the wake of two similar ones in five months.
2003 - Two bomb blasts damage the Colombian consulate and Spanish
Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela; five people are wounded. The
explosions come two days after President Hugo Chavez Frias accuses
Spain and Colombia of meddling in Venezuela's internal affairs.
2004 - The Czech parliament decides to send more than 100 soldiers to
Afghanistan in the first combat role for the Czech armed forces since
World War Two.