This day in history

Sunday, 30 November 2014

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డిసెంబరు 1:

ఎయిడ్స్ వ్యాధికి చిహ్నం

ప్రపంచ ఎయిడ్స్ దినం.
1905 : ప్రఖ్యాత పాత్రికేయుడు, కవి, సంపాదకుడు నార్ల వేంకటేశ్వరరావు జననం (మ.1985).
1963 : నాగాలాండ్ భారతదేశంలో 16వ రాష్ట్రంగా అవతరించింది.
1965 :భారతదేశంలో సరిహద్దు భద్రతా దళంప్రారంభింపబడినది.
1980: భారత క్రికెట్ క్రీడాకారుడు ముహమ్మద్ కైఫ్ జననం.

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that Max Carey (pictured) dropped out of seminary to play baseball?
... that illiterate Operation Hardnose spies used modified survival radiosto count and report traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
... that 16th-century Spanish friar Domingo de Vico was sacrificed after scolding an Acala Ch'ol ruler over how many wives he had?
... that the Varagavank monastery was the site of Armenian resistance to Turkish government forces during the Armenian Genocide?
... that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
... that the Loon Church, built between 1855 and 1864, was reduced to rubble when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol in 2013?
... that the Chinese land slug Rathouisia leonina is carnivorous?

December 1: World AIDS Day; Great Union Day in Romania (1918)

1828 – Juan Lavalle (pictured), returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War,deposed the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
1913 – Ford Motor Company began operating the world's first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles.
1941 – The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded.
1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the firstarms control agreement established during the Cold War, banningmilitary activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channelseabed.

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From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that London's Philharmonic Hall building (pictured) once had one of 30 car showrooms all in the same street?
... that during rainfall, the desert lizard Phrynocephalus versicolor adopts a bottom-up, head-down stance in order to trickle water towards its mouth?
... that Vincent Hanna, the lead character in both L.A. Takedown and its 1995 remake Heat, was inspired by real-life police officer Chuck Adamson?
... that Royal Lao Army troops fled 150 km (93 mi) after their defeat at the Battle of Luang Namtha?
... that baseball player Jacob Hannemann is a cousin of Mufi Hannemann, the former Mayor of Honolulu?
... that in the book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, pediatrician Paul Offit criticizes the use of vitamin C to treat the common cold?
... that Charles D'Almaine was the first person to make a record using the Stroh violin?

November 30:

Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados(1966)

1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous unsuccessful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee.
1872 – The first international football matchtook place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland andEngland.
1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman became the first to officially exceed 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
1939 – The Winter War broke out as the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland (Finnish troops pictured) and quickly advanced to theMannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations.
1962 – Burmese diplomat U Thant became United Nations Secretary-General, following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld inSeptember 1961.

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