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 World
Farm Animals Day
"WORLD
FARM ANIMALS DAY was
launched in 1983 to expose, mourn, memorialize, and mitigate the suffering
of billions of innocent, sentient animals in the world's factory farms
and slaughterhouses. The date of October 2 honors the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, foremost
champion of humane farming. It marks the one day a year when every person
of conscience is honor-bound to help relieve the agony of farmed animals.
Additional details about the observance are provided
elsewhere." Source
Ludi Augustales, Ancient Rome
First day of the Ludi Augustales to celebrate the recovery by
emperor Augustus
Caesar of Roman standards from the Parthians.
Roman
festivals and notable days in the Book of Days
Old Man's Day,
Braughing, Herts, England
A 16th-Century man's lucky escape from premature interment is still celebrated in the village of
Braughing.
Feast day of St
Gerinus
Feast day of St John Beyzym
Feast day of St LeodegariusShop Saints
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Oktoberfest (Sep 20 - Oct 5)
Ram
Mating Ceremony, Anatolia, Turkey (Oct 1 - 20)
National
Days, People's
Republic of China (Oct 1 - 2)Independence
Day (from France, 1958),
Guinea
Gandhi
Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma
Gandhi, 1869),
India
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1452 King Richard III of
England (d. 1485)
1737 Francis Hopkinson (d. 1791),
American author and signer of the Declaration
of Independence 1798 Charles Albert
of Savoy (d. 1849) 1800
Nat Turner (d. 1831), African American
slave rebellion leader, who led the only effective, sustained slave revolt (August 1831) in US history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation by whites, prohibiting the education, movement and assembly of slaves.
1809 (Louis-)
Charles Delescluze
(d. May, 1871), French journalist
and revolutionary figure involved in the uprisings of 1830 and 1848, and an important leader in the
Paris Commune
(1871). At the Siege of Paris he
fought with reckless courage, and met his death on the last of the
barricades.
1832 Edward Burnett
Tylor (d. 1917), anthropologist1847 Paul von
Hindenburg (d. 1934), German officer and
politician 1851 Ferdinand
Foch (d. 1929), French
soldier 1852 William
Ramsay
(d. 1916), Scottish chemist
September 7-8, 2007, APEC protest,
photo © Pip Wilson,
2007
 1869 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi; 'Mahatma' is Sanskrit:
'great soul'; assassinated January 30, 1948),
Indian
leader and proponent of civil
disobedience and pacifism
as a means of revolution.
Gandhi
was born of a Bania (Vaishya or a trading caste) family at Porbander,
Kathiawar, India, the youngest of three sons of Karamchand alias
Kaba Gandhi and his fourth wife Putli. Gandhi's
principle of satyagraha
– using nonviolent
methods when working for social change – not only helped deliver
independence to India, but has also inspired countless activists,
such as Dr
Martin Luther King. During a trip to India in 1959, King met
some of Gandhi's followers and decided the Gandhian method was the
one to use in the US civil rights movement, though King had been
influenced by Gandhi (and Henry David
Thoreau, one of Gandhi's
influences) as early as
1950.
"Known as Mahatma, or 'the great soul', during his lifetime, Gandhi gave up Western ways to lead a life of abstinence and spirituality and began an effective campaign of civil disobedience against Britain's oppressive rule of India. Always nonviolent, he asserted the unity of all people under one God and preached Christian and Muslim ethics along with his Hindu teachings. The British authorities jailed him several times, but his following was so great that his threats to fast until death usually forced his release."
Source
Gandhi's Shoe
"While boarding a moving train one day, one of
Mohandas Gandhi's shoes slipped off and fell upon the track. As
he was unable to retrieve it, Gandhi – to the astonishment of
his fellow travelers – calmly removed his other shoe and threw
it down the track to where the first had landed. 'The poor man
who finds the shoe lying on the track,' Gandhi explained, 'will
now have a pair he can use.'" Source
Gandhi
Institute for Nonviolence
The GandhiServe
Foundation
What were Gandhi's
'Seven Blunders of the World'?
Gandhi
Timeline
'Mahatma': A 5
hours, 10 minutes documentary on Gandhi's life, free online
Nonviolent
Defence: Prof. Gene Sharp in the Book of Days
1871 Cordell
Hull
(d. 1955), United States Secretary of State1879 Wallace Stevens,
poet (d. 1955).
Not until late in his life was he read widely or recognized as a major poet.
 1890 Groucho
Marx (d. 1977), American comedian
and actor.
Brother of Harpo
Marx, Gummo
Marx, Chico
Marx, and Zeppo
Marx.
He had a correspondence with poet TS Eliot, was good friends with rock star
Alice Cooper and
a close friend of The Exorcist author William Peter Blatty.
Groucho died on August
19, 1977, just three days after
Elvis Presley,
which was such a big event in the USA that the media paid little attention to the passing of this comic genius.
Shortly after his death, his children found a gag letter written by
Groucho that stated that he wanted to be buried on top of Marilyn Monroe.
In 1989, the Republic of
Abkhazia (in the former Soviet
Georgia) proclaimed independence. To show the world they were rejecting their Communist past, they issued two postage stamps of Groucho Marx and
John Lennon (as opposed to
communist theoreticians Karl Marx and VI Lenin).
"The bushy-browed, cigar-smoking, wisecraker with the painted on mustache and stooped walk was the leader of the Marx Brothers. With one-liners that were many times full of sexual innuendo, Groucho never used profanity in any of his performances, and said he never wanted to be known as a dirty comic. With a great love of music and singing, (the Marx Brothers started as a singing group), one of the things Groucho was best known for was his rendition of the song
'Lydia the Tattooed Lady'."
Source
1895 Bud
Abbott (d. 1974), comedian, actor 1901 Alice
Prin (d. 1953), singer/artist known as 'Kiki' 1904 Graham Greene
(d. 1991),
British novelist 1911 Jack
Finney (d. 1995), author 1914 Jack
Parsons (d. 1952), American rocket scientist
Rosaleen Norton painting
 1917 Rosaleen Norton (d.
December 5,
1979), New Zealand-born Australian artist known as
'the Witch of Kings Cross'
in Sydney, a city that was scandalised by her art, beliefs and
activities.
The
one-time model for artist Norman Lindsay
had an unusual birth:
"Rosaleen Norton, "Roie" to
her friends, made a suitably dramatic entry to this world during a
thunderstorm on the night of 2 October 1917, in Dunedin, New
Zealand. She was born with a sinewy strip of flesh extending from
her armpit to her waist, and later took this, along with physical
peculiarities such as pointed ears and two dark spots on her knee,
as signs that she was destined to be a witch ...
"Rosaleen Norton died on 5 December 1979, surrounded by nuns, but needless to say, a pagan to the last."
Source
"Controversial artist, her interest in black magic, the occult and self-hypnosis were well publicised. Discovered by Smiths Weekly at the tender age of 15 when she won a short story competition, she was described as exhibiting a vivid imagination quite beyond the ordinary. Her drawings are a phantasmagoria of devil-like creatures; her inspiration that of some dark, diabolical recess of the mind. For her, the creation of art was a visionary process. She would put herself into a trance-like state, to shut off normal consciousness and induce automatic drawing.
"Here was a woman who lived beyond respectable society, apparently flouting all moral and social conventions. Her published book of illustrations was banned in 1952, declared obscene and blasphemous by the censors of the day. Popularly known as the Kings Cross Witch, she was hounded by the media who seized on her alleged satanic rituals, sex orgies and drug-taking. When asked whether she ever considered leading an ordinary life, she exclaimed: "Oh God no, I couldn't stand it! I'd go mad or sane. I don't
know which.'"
Source
"But this plan paled into insignificance compared to another find: a series of letters describing pagan rites and sex magic, which had been appropriated by a senior crime reporter for the tabloid and handed to the Vice Squad. These were to prove more newsworthy than the photographs, having been written by Sir Eugene Goossens, the renowned composer and conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As the correspondence revealed, Goossens had been a participant in rituals at Rosaleen's flat, and had been having a sexual relationship with her, largely based on practices akin to the magical system developed by Gerald Gardener."
Source: Rosaleen Norton and the Australian media
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1926
Jan Morris, CBE (originally
James Morris), transgendered Welsh-born historian and author (Conundrum).
She accompanied the British expedition which was first to scale Mount
Everest.
1928 George McFarland
(Spanky MacFarland),
American
actor (d. June 30, 1993) (film series:
Spanky and Our Gang,
aka Little Rascals)
Local TV show hosted by
Spanky as an adult
1937 Johnnie L
Cochran Jr, American attorney. During closing arguments in the OJ Simpson trial,
he uttered the now famous enthymeme, "If the
glove doesn't fit, you must acquit".
1938
Rex Reed, American movie
critic, actor (Myra
Breckinridge;
Superman)
 1941
John
Sinclair, American poet, one time manager of the MC5,
Chairman of the White
Panther Party from
November, 1968
to July,
1969.
In 1969 he was sentenced to prison for
9½ to 10 years for selling two joints of marijuana to undercover narcotics officers. While in prison, he wrote the books
Guitar Army and Music & Politics with co-writer Robert Levin. Through his writing he became a national symbol of the fight to decriminalize marijuana. His case received international attention when, on
December 10, 1971,
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono headlined the
benefit concert, 'Free John Now Rally', in front of 15,000 people at
Crisler Arena in
Ann Arbor,
Michigan. John and Yoko sang the song 'John Sinclair', some of the lyrics
of which are at the head of today's page.
Parts of the Free John Now Rally are shown in the
movie,
The U.
S. Vs. John Lennon, which is available for free viewing at
Google Video. Sinclair was instrumental in the formation of the
anarchist underground
newspaper, Fifth
Estate, in Detroit as well as the Artist's Workshop Press which
published five issues of Work magazine. JohnSinclair.us
The Official John Sinclair Website JohnSinclairRadio.com
Current/ Archived Poems & Radio Shows
The
John and Leni Sinclair Papers, 1957-1999
Wilson's
Almanac Book of Days hip list
1943 Franklin Rosemont,
co-founder of the Surrealist
Movement in the United States
1945 Don
McLean, American songwriter
1948 Avery
Brooks, actor (Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine)
1948 Donna Karan, fashion
designer
1948 Chris LeDoux
(d.
2005),
American country music and rodeo star 1949 Richard
Hell, musician
1950 Persis Khambatta
(d. 1998),
actress 1951 Sting, British
singer, actor
"Born Gordon Matthew Sumner in Wallsend, Northumberland. His mother was Audrey, and his father was Eric. He received his name Sting from his striped sweater in which Gordon Solomon said that he looked like a bee.
"Primarily a musician, he worked in the band 'The Police' until 1984 after which he went solo. Before his music career he was a ditch digger, a school-teacher who taught English and was also a soccer coach. He received an honorary Doctorate of Music degree from Northumbria University in October 1992, and from Berklee College of Music in May, 1994. He plays on guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica, saxophone and pan-flute, and he gave a name to his bass (Brian). Along with his wife Trudie and a Brazilian Indian he started the Rainforest Foundation in 1989 to help save the rainforests."
Source
Sting is the godfather of Madonna's child, Rocco.
1954
Lani O'Grady American
actress (Eight
is Enough).
O'Grady suffered from
panic attacks. Hooked on prescribed Xanax,
Valium and Librium, other pharmaceuticals and, eventually, alcohol, she died
of drug overdose September
25, 2001. 1955 Lorraine Bracco,
actress
1961 Edmond Yu
(d. February 20, 1997), former Canadian medical student (University of
Toronto) and Hong Kong city boxing
champion whose death at the hands of Toronto police sparked debates
about the police's
use
of force, mental illness, and
the treatment of those diagnosed with a mental illness
1970 Kelly
Ripa, actress, television host 1971 Tiffany, American
singer 1973
Susana Gonzalez, Mexican
actress (Atómica;
Cuando llora el corazón) 1978 Ayumi
Hamasaki, Japanese pop singer
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Farm Animals Day
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Erikson Day
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Go, Girl" Day
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Your Brain Day
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Bee Day
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1187 Sultan Saladin recaptured
Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule. Christendom and Zionists have never
forgiven him.
1264 Death of Pope
Urban IV (b. c. 1195).
1535 Jacques
Cartier 'discovered' Montreal,
Quebec.
1535 The first complete English translation of the
Bible was printed in Zürich.
1689 A small force of thirty men, led by
Lieutenant James Weems, was occupying the fort at Pemaquid, Maine, when it was
attacked by almost 100 Abenaki Indians. The soldiers eventually surrendered, and
those who weren't killed were taken as prisoners to Canada.
Source
1700 Charles
II of Spain executed his last will and testament, by which he bequeathed his
dominions to Philip, Duke of Anjou (Philip V of Spain),
grandson of Louis XIV of
France.
1780
American Revolutionary War: British
officer John
André, who negotiated with traitor
Benedict Arnold for the surrender of West Point, was hanged by American forces
as a spy.
1792
Mohegan Samson Occom (b. 1723) died in New Stockbridge, New
York, USA. A protégé of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, Occom learned numerous foreign
languages, became an ordained minister, and was the first Native American to
preach in England. He was also the first Native American to publish in English.
Occom was a minister to many tribes, and instrumental in the establishment of
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. (Wikipedia says date of
death July 14).
Source
1803 Death of Samuel Adams (b. 1722), American revolutionary.
1835 Texas
Revolution began: In the Battle of Gonzales, Mexican soldiers
attempted to disarm the people of Gonzales,
Texas but encountered stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1836 Naturalist Charles
Darwin returned to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS Beagle,
ending a five-year surveying
expedition of the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans collecting biological data he later used to
develop his theory of evolution.
1871 Mormon leader Brigham Young was arrested for bigamy.
1872
8:45 pm:
Phileas Fogg set off on his
80-day around-the-world
trip, according to Jules Verne (Le
Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours – Around
the World in 80 Days)
on a wager of £20,000 set by
the exclusive
Reform Club on
Pall Mall
in London. Thus, Fogg was due back at the Reform Club at precisely the
same time 80 days later, on
December 21,
and he made his famous appointment.
1890 The worst fire ever in Australia
to this date burnt out the whole block of Sydney bounded by Pitt and Castlereagh
Streets between Hosking Place and Martin Place. It began in the premises of
Gibbs, Shallard and Co., Printers (Pitt St). Businesses destroyed: Southern
Club, Athenaeum Club, Lark and Sons warehouses, Richardson and Wrench, City
Bank, Jones and Lawson furniture. Pickpockets worked the crowds.
Lawson & Co:
associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
1901 The first sub commissioned by the
Royal Navy, Submarine No 1, was launched at Barrow, England.
1902
William Gocher (1856
- 1921),
Australia's father of surf-swimming, took the plunge.
Australia is known internationally as a nation of white and golden
beaches, and Australians as a water-loving people. It is a given that Australian swimmers
and surfers rank highly in world competitions, far beyond what would be expected
on a global per capita basis, given this nation's relatively small population
of about 20 million. It comes as no surprise, really, because about 90 per cent
of Australians live in close proximity to beaches.
It does comes as a surprise,
however, that ocean beach swimming was long outlawed Down Under.
In 1843,
the government of New
South Wales passed an act prohibiting bathing in the ocean between
the hours of 6am and 8pm. (In those days, the British colony of NSW accounted
for most of what we know as Australia today.) Seventy years later, in September, 1902, some
yachtsmen landed at the ocean beach of Manly (one of the city of Sydney's
northern beaches – 'Seven miles from Sydney, and a thousand miles from
care' has long been its motto), hauled their craft ashore and took a dip in
the sea. They were immediately arrested by the dutiful constabulary.
A
Manly newspaper
proprietor, William Henry Gocher, challenged what he believed to be an absurd
and unjust law. He announced in his paper, the Manly and North Sydney News, that he
intended to go bathing on October 2 in daylight hours, thus breaking the
Victorian-era law. Though Gocher invited arrest by plunging into the ocean at
midday, police didn't take his bait, but finally on his third violation of the
law, they did take him off to the lockup.
Under Gocher's editorship,
the News continued a vigorous campaign for the repeal of the law, and on November 2, 1903, Manly
Council rescinded the by-law that prohibited bathing after 7am. The Council
passed another by-law allowing people to swim at all times of day, provided that
swimmers over eight years of age wore neck-to-knee costumes – a far cry from
today's topless Aussie beaches. For some time afterwards, the sexes were also
required to bathe separately.
Gocher, almost single-handedly made one of the most
radical changes in Australian culture, but today his name is almost unknown in
his native land. To your almanackist's knowledge, there is no memorial to him
anywhere in Australia, and particularly on one of the continent's thousands of
beaches, where his living memorial may
be seen in the form of the human body, once treated by this nation with great
shame. William Gocher died in
August, 1925.
See also January 15, 1915,
Isabel Letham, one of Australia's first female surfboard riders
1910 The world's first two-aircraft collision
occurred, Milan,
Italy.
1912
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi),
Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience,
gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to a diet of fresh and
dried fruit.
1919 US
President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke, leaving him
partially paralyzed.
1924 The
Geneva
Protocol was adopted as a means to strengthen the League
of Nations.
1925 London's first almost entirely-enclosed red double-decker
buses begin service.
1928
The 'Prelature
of the Holy
Cross and the Work of God', commonly known as Opus Dei, was
founded by St Josemaría Escrivá.
1935 Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia) under
General Emilio De Bono (replaced
on November 11
by Pietro Badoglio). The
League of Nations was
unable to prevent Benito
Mussolini's forces from using poison gas on cities.
1940 British child evacuees sailing to Canada on the Empress of Britain were attacked by a German submarine.
1941 World War
II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany began an
all-out offensive against Moscow.
1942 The ocean liner Queen Mary sliced the
cruiser, HMS Curacoa, in half, killing 338.
1942 First self-sustaining
nuclear chain reaction
was demonstrated, in Chicago, USA. The nuclear chain reaction continues …
1944 Nazi troops ended the Warsaw
Uprising.
1950 The comic strip
Peanuts
by Charles M Schulz was first published in seven US
newspapers.
1955 The ENIAC computer was
deactivated.
1955
USA: Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuted
(last new episode aired on June 26, 1962).
1956 The first atomic power clock was exhibited,
in New York City, USA.
1958 Guinea declared
itself independent from France.
1959 USA: Rod
Serling's The
Twilight Zone debuted.
1966
Brighton, UK: Eight protesters were arrested for heckling
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in church regarding the
Vietnam War.
1967 Thurgood
Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American
justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1967 All six members of the Grateful Dead were busted by
California narcotics agents for possession of marijuana.
Mexico's Tiananmen Square
1968 A peaceful student demonstration in
Mexico City ended in the Tlatelolco Massacre. In
October
2003, documents
released to the
National Security
Archive at George
Washington University under
the USA Freedom
of Information Act showed
that the massacre was supported by
the CIA.
At the Plaza
de las Tres Culturas (Place of Three Cultures) in Tlatelolco,
Mexico
City, thousands of students
attempted to protest against the army's occupation of the university (sources
vary between 6,000 and 15,000).
The massacre was preceded by months of political unrest
in the Mexican capital (see September
21), echoing student demonstrations and riots all over the world during
1968. The Mexican students wanted to exploit the attention focused on Mexico
City for the 1968
Olympic Games. President
Gustavo
Díaz Ordaz, however, was determined to stop the demonstrations and, in September,
he ordered the army to occupy the campus of the National
Autonomous University of Mexico, the largest university in Latin
America.
In what amounted to an ambush, the army responded with
firepower, killing close to 300 (some sources say thousands), wounding many more
and arresting several thousand. Some students were tortured, and others
disappeared. After nine weeks
of student strikes, Mexican military opened fire on the thousands gathered in the plaza
for a march on the National Polytech Institute to protest the army occupation of
campuses.
Linked, arm in arm, singing and
laughing, the students cried out against Diaz Ordaz and his ministers, and
against all other usurpers of the revolution of Zapata and
Pancho Villa.
In Tlatelolco plaza,
where long ago Conquistadors slaughtered and conquered the Indians, the army
blocked all exits with tanks and machine guns. The students were jammed in this
corral – a continuous wall of guns with sharp bayonets closed the trap.
The
massacre began at sunset when army and police forces — equipped with armored
cars and tanks — surrounded the square and began firing live rounds into the
crowd, hitting not only the protestors, but also other people who were present
for reasons unrelated to the demonstration. Demonstrators and passersby alike,
including children, were caught in the fire; soon, mounds of bodies lay on the
ground. The killing continued through the night, with soldiers carrying out
mopping-up operations on a house-to-house basis in the apartment buildings
adjacent to the square. Witnesses to the event claim that the bodies were later
removed in garbage trucks.
In October
1997, the Mexican congress established a committee to investigate the
Tlatelolco massacre. The committee interviewed many political players involved
in the massacre, including
Luis
Echeverría Álvarez, a former president of Mexico
who was Díaz Ordaz's minister of the interior at the time of the massacre.
Echeverría admitted that the students had been unarmed, and also suggested that
the military action was planned in advance, as a means to destroy the student
movement.
In October
2003, the role of the US
government in the massacre came to light when the National Security Archive
at George
Washington University published a series of records from the CIA,
the
Pentagon, the State
Department, the FBI
and the White
House which were released in response to Freedom
of Information Act requests.
The documents detail:
- that in response to Mexican government concerns over
the security of the Olympic Games the Pentagon sent military radios,
weapons, ammunition and riot control training material to Mexico before and
during the crisis.
- that the CIA station in Mexico City produced almost
daily reports tracking developments within the university community and the
Mexican government from July to October. Six days before the confrontation
at Tlatelolco, both Echeverría and head of Federal Security (DFS)
Fernando
Gutiérrez Barrios told the CIA that "the situation will be under
complete control very shortly".
- that the Díaz Ordaz government "arranged"
to have student leader Sócrates Campos Lemus accuse dissident PRI
politicians such as Carlos Madrazo of funding and orchestrating the student
movement.
Rojo
Amanecer (1989),
directed by Jorge Fons, is a Spanish-language
Mexican film about the event (more).
Sources:
Daily Bleed, Wikipedia
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1968 French
Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp
(b. 1887) died at
Neuilly, Paris. He
had given up art for chess.
1970 USA: The
Environmental Protection Agency
was established.
1971 A
homing pigeon averaged a world record 133
kph in a 1,100-km Australian race.
1977 After a month of numerous attempts to steal
the body of Elvis Presley from Forest Hill Cemetery, both Presley's and his
grandmother's bodies were moved to the rocker's former home,
Graceland.
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1985 American actor, Rock
Hudson (b. 1925), died of AIDS.
Shirley Boone (wife of entertainer Pat
Boone) rushed into his home, grabbed his legs and spoke in
tongues for a half hour in a futile effort to resurrect him.
1990 A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247
was hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashed into an empty Boeing 707-3J6B
and then a Boeing
757-21B on the ground, killing 132.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of
Information Act Amendments were signed by USA President Bill
Clinton.
2001 Bankruptcy of Swissair.
2004 American
Samoa joined the North American
Numbering Plan.
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