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ALMANAC ALMANAC October 12, 2002 On Oct. 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas. In 1868 Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter opened a department store in Chicago at State and Washington Streets. In 1870 Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee died at 63 in Lexington, Va. In 1915 English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad in Brussels after admitting she had helped 200 British, French and Belgian patriots flee occupied Belgium in World War I. In 1928 the first respirator, called the iron lung, was used at a hospital in Boston. In 1933 bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, which killed the sheriff. In 1947 the American flag was lowered on Corregidor as the fortress rock that was the site of heroic American resistance to the Japanese in World War II was transferred to the Philippines. In 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev shattered the decorum at the UN General Assembly by pounding his desk with his shoe during a dispute. In 1964, in the first manned space mission involving a crew of more than one person, the Soviet Union launched a space capsule carrying three men. In 1976 Chinese Prime Minister Hua Guofeng was appointed chairman of the Communist Party, succeeding the late Mao Tse-tung. In 1984 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped injury in the bombing of a hotel in Brighton Beach, England. Four people were killed, and the Irish Republican Army was blamed. In 1987 Vice President George Bush launched his successful quest for the Republican presidential nomination. In 1992 several hundred people died when an earthquake struck Cairo. In 1993 the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the White Sox 6-3 at Comiskey Park to win the American League pennant. In 1997 President Clinton arrived in Venezuela to begin his first visit to South America. In 1999, in a military coup, Pakistani troops overthrew the nation's democratically elected government after the prime minister sought to dismiss the army's powerful chief of staff. Also in 1999 former basketball star Wilt Chamberlain died at 63 in his Los Angeles home. In 2000 a suicide bomber on a small vessel killed 17 American sailors and wounded 38 aboard the USS Cole as the destroyer was docked in Yemen. (Islamic terrorists would be blamed.) Copyright © 2002, Chicago Tribune Improved archives! Searching Chicagotribune.com archives back to 1985 is cheaper and easier than ever. New prices for multiple articles can bring your cost as low as 30 cents an article: http://chicagotribune.com/archives <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/ctrl@;listserv.aol.com/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/ctrl@;listserv.aol.com/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
