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The Mercury, Australia
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
July 15 2005
On this day
15jul05
1964 - Anastas Mikoyan succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as President of the
Soviet Union;
1983 - Six people died and 48 are injured when Armenian terrorists
bomb a Turkish Airlines desk at Orly airport, Paris.
1099 - Three years after the First Crusade set out, the Christian
army storms Jerusalem and puts its Muslim inhabitants to the sword.
1601 - Austria's Archduke Albert, with Spanish force, begins a
three-year siege of Ostend, the last Dutch stronghold in Belgium,
ultimately taking it.
1685 - Duke of Monmouth is beheaded in England for his part in
rebellion. It takes the inexperienced executioner eight blows of the
axe to sever his head.
1789 - France's King Louis XVI is awakened and told that his
authority has collapsed with the fall of the Bastille.
1795 - La Marseillaise is officially adopted as the French national
anthem.
1815 - Napoleon surrenders to Captain Maitland of the Bellerophon at
Rochefort.
1822 - Turkish invasion of Greece begins, and Turks overrun peninsula
north of Gulf of Corinth.
1857 - British women and children, taken by Indians at Cawnpore in
India, are murdered.
1869 - Margarine is patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
1883 - Death of Charles Stratton, renowned US midget showman better
known as General Tom Thumb.
1893 - Matabeles stage uprising against rule of British South Africa
Company.
1904 - Death of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, author of Three
Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.
1909 - Mohammed Ali, Shah of Persia, is deposed in favour of Sultan
Ahmad Shah, age 12.
1912 - The Commonwealth Bank of Australia opens its doors for the
first time as a savings bank.
1916 - Boeing Co, originally known as Pacific Aero Products, is
founded in Seattle, Washington, by William Boeing.
1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne begins during World War I.
1929 - Death of Hugo von Hofmannstahl, Austrian author and librettist
best known for his collaboration with composer Richard Strauss.
1945 - Italy declares war on Japan, its former Axis partner in World
War II.
1948 - UN Security Council orders truce in Palestine.
1953 - John Christie, infamous murderer of at least six women at Ten
Rillington Place, London, is hanged.
1958 - United States dispatches troops to Lebanon at request of
President Chamoun; South Africa resumes full membership in United
Nations.
1964 - Anastas Mikoyan succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as President of the
Soviet Union; The Australian newspaper begins publication in
Canberra.
1965 - US Mariner IV spacecraft sends to earth first close-up
photographs of planet Mars; US Congress passes legislation requiring
health warning labels on cigarette packets.
1974 - Officers in Cyprus favouring unification with Greece oust
Archbishop Makarios from presidency and the coup leads to Turkish
military intervention.
1975 - America's Apollo and Soviet Union's Soyuz spacecraft blast
into orbit for rendezvous in space.
1977 - Anti-drug campaigner Donald McKay disappears and is presumed
murdered in the southern NSW town Griffith.
1983 - Six people died and 48 are injured when Armenian terrorists
bomb a Turkish Airlines desk at Orly airport, Paris.
1985 - A gaunt-looking Rock Hudson appears at a news conference with
actress Doris Day to promote her cable television program. It's later
revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS.
1987 - Taiwan ends 38 years of martial law to pave the way for
multiparty elections.
1988 - Afghan rebels blast capital city Kabul with rockets, killing
20 people and wounding 24 others.
1990 - Tens of thousands of people march to Kremlin walls to protest
Communist Party control of Soviet government, army and KGB; Death of
British film actress Margaret Lockwood.
1991 - Western troops complete their pullout from Kurdish refugee
havens in Northern Iraq.
1993 - In a big purge of the federal Yugoslav army command, about a
third of its generals face replacement by officers who support
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
1994 - Former West Australian premier Brian Burke begins a two-year
jail term after being convicted of fraud; Tens of thousands of Hutus
continue to flee the Tutsi-led rebel advance in Rwanda, flooding
across the border into Zaire in one of the greatest human flights in
history; European Union leaders pick Luxembourg Prime Minister
Jacques Santer to head the European Commission, replacing Jacques
Delors.
1995 - The Sri Lanka military ends its biggest offensive in eight
years against Tamil Tiger rebels, fighting that left at least 300
people dead.
1996 - A cargo plane carrying members of a Dutch military band
crashes at Eindhoven air force base, killing 32 people.
1997 - Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead outside his Miami
Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
1998 - Nigeria's military government orders the immediate release of
at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler General
Sani Abacha.
1999 - China reinforces a longstanding threat to invade if Taiwan
declares independence and it also announces it has developed the
technology to make neutron bombs.
2000 - In a rare display of force, UN troops launch a rescue mission
that frees all 222 peacekeepers and 11 military observers trapped by
rebels inside a UN base in eastern Sierra Leone.
2000 - Zimbabwe launches the resettlement of black peasants on farms
seized from whites in all its eight provinces.
2001 - Bangladeshi Prime minister Sheikh Hasina leaves office after
five years, longer than any other Bangladeshi leader.
2002 - A Pakistan judge convicts four defendants in the kidnapping
and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
2003 - The White House Office projects a $US455 billion ($632.52
billion) federal Budget deficit for the 2003 fiscal year, the largest
ever in dollar terms.
2004 - Former Rwandan finance minister Emmanuel Ndindabahizi is
convicted and jailed for life for his role in the country's 1994
genocide
The Mercury, Australia
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
July 15 2005
On this day
15jul05
1964 - Anastas Mikoyan succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as President of the
Soviet Union;
1983 - Six people died and 48 are injured when Armenian terrorists
bomb a Turkish Airlines desk at Orly airport, Paris.
1099 - Three years after the First Crusade set out, the Christian
army storms Jerusalem and puts its Muslim inhabitants to the sword.
1601 - Austria's Archduke Albert, with Spanish force, begins a
three-year siege of Ostend, the last Dutch stronghold in Belgium,
ultimately taking it.
1685 - Duke of Monmouth is beheaded in England for his part in
rebellion. It takes the inexperienced executioner eight blows of the
axe to sever his head.
1789 - France's King Louis XVI is awakened and told that his
authority has collapsed with the fall of the Bastille.
1795 - La Marseillaise is officially adopted as the French national
anthem.
1815 - Napoleon surrenders to Captain Maitland of the Bellerophon at
Rochefort.
1822 - Turkish invasion of Greece begins, and Turks overrun peninsula
north of Gulf of Corinth.
1857 - British women and children, taken by Indians at Cawnpore in
India, are murdered.
1869 - Margarine is patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
1883 - Death of Charles Stratton, renowned US midget showman better
known as General Tom Thumb.
1893 - Matabeles stage uprising against rule of British South Africa
Company.
1904 - Death of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, author of Three
Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.
1909 - Mohammed Ali, Shah of Persia, is deposed in favour of Sultan
Ahmad Shah, age 12.
1912 - The Commonwealth Bank of Australia opens its doors for the
first time as a savings bank.
1916 - Boeing Co, originally known as Pacific Aero Products, is
founded in Seattle, Washington, by William Boeing.
1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne begins during World War I.
1929 - Death of Hugo von Hofmannstahl, Austrian author and librettist
best known for his collaboration with composer Richard Strauss.
1945 - Italy declares war on Japan, its former Axis partner in World
War II.
1948 - UN Security Council orders truce in Palestine.
1953 - John Christie, infamous murderer of at least six women at Ten
Rillington Place, London, is hanged.
1958 - United States dispatches troops to Lebanon at request of
President Chamoun; South Africa resumes full membership in United
Nations.
1964 - Anastas Mikoyan succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as President of the
Soviet Union; The Australian newspaper begins publication in
Canberra.
1965 - US Mariner IV spacecraft sends to earth first close-up
photographs of planet Mars; US Congress passes legislation requiring
health warning labels on cigarette packets.
1974 - Officers in Cyprus favouring unification with Greece oust
Archbishop Makarios from presidency and the coup leads to Turkish
military intervention.
1975 - America's Apollo and Soviet Union's Soyuz spacecraft blast
into orbit for rendezvous in space.
1977 - Anti-drug campaigner Donald McKay disappears and is presumed
murdered in the southern NSW town Griffith.
1983 - Six people died and 48 are injured when Armenian terrorists
bomb a Turkish Airlines desk at Orly airport, Paris.
1985 - A gaunt-looking Rock Hudson appears at a news conference with
actress Doris Day to promote her cable television program. It's later
revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS.
1987 - Taiwan ends 38 years of martial law to pave the way for
multiparty elections.
1988 - Afghan rebels blast capital city Kabul with rockets, killing
20 people and wounding 24 others.
1990 - Tens of thousands of people march to Kremlin walls to protest
Communist Party control of Soviet government, army and KGB; Death of
British film actress Margaret Lockwood.
1991 - Western troops complete their pullout from Kurdish refugee
havens in Northern Iraq.
1993 - In a big purge of the federal Yugoslav army command, about a
third of its generals face replacement by officers who support
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
1994 - Former West Australian premier Brian Burke begins a two-year
jail term after being convicted of fraud; Tens of thousands of Hutus
continue to flee the Tutsi-led rebel advance in Rwanda, flooding
across the border into Zaire in one of the greatest human flights in
history; European Union leaders pick Luxembourg Prime Minister
Jacques Santer to head the European Commission, replacing Jacques
Delors.
1995 - The Sri Lanka military ends its biggest offensive in eight
years against Tamil Tiger rebels, fighting that left at least 300
people dead.
1996 - A cargo plane carrying members of a Dutch military band
crashes at Eindhoven air force base, killing 32 people.
1997 - Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead outside his Miami
Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
1998 - Nigeria's military government orders the immediate release of
at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler General
Sani Abacha.
1999 - China reinforces a longstanding threat to invade if Taiwan
declares independence and it also announces it has developed the
technology to make neutron bombs.
2000 - In a rare display of force, UN troops launch a rescue mission
that frees all 222 peacekeepers and 11 military observers trapped by
rebels inside a UN base in eastern Sierra Leone.
2000 - Zimbabwe launches the resettlement of black peasants on farms
seized from whites in all its eight provinces.
2001 - Bangladeshi Prime minister Sheikh Hasina leaves office after
five years, longer than any other Bangladeshi leader.
2002 - A Pakistan judge convicts four defendants in the kidnapping
and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
2003 - The White House Office projects a $US455 billion ($632.52
billion) federal Budget deficit for the 2003 fiscal year, the largest
ever in dollar terms.
2004 - Former Rwandan finance minister Emmanuel Ndindabahizi is
convicted and jailed for life for his role in the country's 1994
genocide