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    ON THIS DAY - SEPT 22

    News24, South Africa
    Sept 22 2005

    Today is Thursday, September 22, the 265th day of 2005. There are
    100 days left in the year.

    Highlights in history on this date:

    1992 - Azerbaijani-armed forces mount an offensive against the disputed
    enclave Nagorno-Karabakh.

    2001 - Pope John Paul II visits Kazakhstan and Armenia and cautions
    against allowing September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States
    to create divisions between Muslims and Christians.

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    1499 - Turks ravage Vicenza in Italy.

    1550 - Holy Roman Empire fleet captures vessel Port of Africa at
    Mehedia in Tunis, naval headquarters of Turkish corsair Dragut.

    1609 - The king of Spain orders the deportation of the baptised former
    Muslims known as Moriscos.

    1711 - Rio de Janeiro is captured by the French.

    1792 - French Republic is proclaimed and revolutionary calendar goes
    into effect.

    1828 - Tshaka, King of the Zulus, is assassinated by his half-brothers,
    Dingane and Mhlangana, who stab him to death. Dingane assumes the
    throne.

    1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation
    Proclamation, declaring all slaves in the Confederate States free as
    of January 1, 1863.

    1914 - A German submarine sinks three British cruisers in one hour
    off the Dutch coast; The German cruiser Emden shells Madras in India.

    1927 - Slavery is abolished in Sierra Leone in Africa.

    1940 - The Vichy French governor-general concludes an agreement
    that makes Indochina the largest Japanese military staging ground in
    southeast Asia.

    1943 - The German battleship Tirpitz is disabled by British midget
    submarines in a Norwegian fjord.

    1949 - The Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.

    1955 - Hurricane Janet, the most violent Caribbean hurricane of the
    season, causes almost 600 deaths around the islands.

    1960 - A US Marine Corps DC-6 plane en route from Japan to the
    Philippines crashes in the ocean 290km south of Okinawa. All 29
    passengers are killed.

    1965 - A cease-fire is declared in the war between India and Pakistan,
    but both sides subsequently violate it.

    1970 - Arab chiefs of state send envoys to meet with King Hussein and
    Yasser Arafat to persuade them to find a way to contain the fighting
    between the Jordanian Army and Palestinian guerrillas.

    1974 - Official death toll in hurricane that swept Honduras is put
    at 5 000.

    1975 - Sara Jane Moore fails in an attempt to shoot US President
    Gerald Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.

    1980 - Iraqi tanks enter Iran, marking the beginning of the Iran-Iraq
    War as a full-scale conflict.

    1986 - Two hijackers seize Soviet airliner at Ural Mountains airport
    and kill two passengers before security agents recapture plane and
    shoot the hijackers.

    1987 - The first United States businessman to be convicted under
    the Anti-Apartheid Act is sentenced to four months' imprisonment for
    trying to sell military aircraft manuals to the SA Defence Force.

    1988 - The government of Canada apologises for the World War 2
    internment of Japanese-Canadians and promises compensation.

    1989 - FW De Klerk takes over as president of South Africa.

    1990 - Jordan's King Hussein appeals to United States in televised
    message to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia to avert "death,
    destruction and misery."

    1991 - Armed opponents of Georgia's president seize the republic's
    broadcasting studios and try to forge an anti-government coalition.

    1992 - Azerbaijani-armed forces mount an offensive against the disputed
    enclave Nagorno-Karabakh.

    1993 - Abkhazian rebels in Georgia shoot down second passenger plane
    in two days, killing 80.

    1994 - Nato aircraft strike at Serbian targets near Sarajevo after
    UN troops patrolling the city came under machine-gun and rocket fire.

    1995 - America's Time Warner Inc and Turner Broadcasting System Inc
    announce a merger with Time Warner purchasing TBS in a deal valued
    at $7.5 billion, creating the world's largest media company.

    1996 - Typhoon Violet veers into the North Pacific after killing seven
    and setting off landslides that paralysed transportation in Japan.

    1997 - US President Bill Clinton, speaking at the United Nations,
    announces he will submit to the Senate a treaty banning all nuclear
    explosions.

    1998 - Troops from South Africa and Botswana cross into Lesotho and
    storm the royal palace, touching off a gunbattle with protesters.

    2000 - The Court of Appeals in London rules to separate conjoined
    twin girls against the wishes of their Roman Catholic parents. The
    operation is certain to cause the death of one of the girls, and is
    therefore forbidden by their religion.

    2001 - Pope John Paul II visits Kazakhstan and Armenia and cautions
    against allowing September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States
    to create divisions between Muslims and Christians.

    2002 - An appeals court in the Hubei province of China overturns
    death sentences imposed on five members of a banned Christian sect
    in December 2001, and orders a retrial.

    2003 - The UN and UNAIDS, its Aids programme, issues a progress report
    on how member nations were adhering to commitments made during a
    June 2001 UN special session on HIV/Aids. It finds that the goals
    set by the UN will not be met in many countries unless there is a
    significant increase in global commitment.

    2004 - The US military drops an espionage charge against a Muslim
    interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at the
    US military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It is the third Guantanamo
    spy case of the year to fall apart.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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