Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2003 with 217 to follow. On this day, May 28, in history:
In 1798, Congress empowered President John Adams to recruit an American army of 10,000 volunteers. In 1892, the Sierra Club was founded by famed naturalist John Muir. In 1926, the start of Salazar's rule in Portugal. In 1934, the Dionne sisters, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile, Maria and Annette, first documented set of quintuplets to survive in history, were born near Callander, Ontario, and soon became world famous. Emilie died in 1954, Maria in 1970 and Yvonne in 2001. In 1961, Amnesty International was founded in London by lawyer Peter Berenson. In 1987, West German Mathias Rust, 19, flew a single-engine plane from Finland through Soviet radar and landed beside the Kremlin in Moscow. Three days later, the Soviet defense minister and his deputy were fired. Also in 1987, Pope John Paul II, by his letter, to the bishops of India, determined that the bishops of each of the three Rites have the right to establish their own Episcopal bodies according to their own ecclesiastical legislation. The three ritual Episcopal bodies are: Conference of Catholic Bishops' in India (CCBI) for the Latin Rite, Syro-Malabar Bishops' Synod and Syro-Malankara Bishops' Conference. In 1988, Syrian troops moved into southern Beirut to end 22 days of fighting between rival Shiite Moslem militias. In 1991, NATO agreed to reorganize its forces in Europe, with a 50-percent cut in U.S. troops in Europe. In 1992, Anthony "Big Tuna" Accardo, a former Al Capone gunman who later was labeled America's No. 1 mobster, died of natural causes at age 86. In 1993, President Clinton renewed China's most-favored-nation trade status for one year. Also in 1993, former Miami police officer William Lorenzo was acquitted in the 1989 deaths of a black motorcyclist and his passenger. The killings had sparked rioting, but the verdict caused only sporadic violence. In 1995, Bosnia's foreign minister and five other people were killed when Serb forces downed their helicopter. In 1996, Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and two former business associates of President Clinton were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges in connection with Whitewater loans. Tucker resigned. In 1998, Pakistan conducted five underground nuclear tests, prompting President Clinton to impose economic sanctions against the Asian nation. Also in 1998, in a first, digitized pictures taken by the Hubbell Space Telescope seemed to show an image of a planet outside the solar system. The planet circled two stars in the constellation Taurus. In 1999, Of the total 15,819 candidates who appeared at the SSC examination held at 23 centres in Goa in March this year, only 9,298 passed (i.e. 58 per cent). In 2000, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori easily won the runoff election but nationwide demonstrations against him continued, and he would resign in September. In 2001, Querozito de Souza and Wilson D'Souza put up a fine contemporary show of paintings in the "Body-Mirror-Body" exhibition, which took off at the Kala Academy's art gallery, Goa. ======================================================= Let's compile a chronicle of Goan History. If you have an authentic date and event in Goan History, please e-mail the details to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================= ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ########################################################################## _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet
