Today in History

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9th April 2003 : Iraqis turn on symbols of former leader, pulling down a statue of Saddam Hussein and tearing it to pieces as US tanks roll into the centre of Baghdad.

9th April 1940 : Nazi Germany invades neutral Norway and Denmark, surprising the Norwegian, Danish and British defenders of the countries and capturing several strategic points along the coast.

9th April 1947 : A severe Tornado hit Woodward, Oklahoma where 200 residential blocks were completely leveled and nearly 1,000 homes were razed. 107 people were killed in Woodward and many more were injured.

9th April 1959 : NASA the National Aeronautics and Space Administration introduces America's first astronauts to the world, Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton to take part in Project Mercury, America's first manned space program.

9th April 1984 : Violence at picket lines during the Miners Strikes in the coal industry leads to 100's of picketers arrested during violent clashes with police outside two working coal pits in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

9th April 1986 : The French government ruled against the privatization of leading French car maker Renault but did agree to shares in the car maker to the public

9th April 1992 : Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami of drug and racketeering charges.

9th April 1999 : The president of Niger, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, has been assassinated in an apparent coup attempt

9th April 2001 : Trans World Airlines established in 1930 filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 as part of the deal for American Airlines to acquire Trans World Airlines amking American Airlines the No. 1 carrier in the United States

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so its already 10th april
so lets c wht happened on 10th april

10th April 1912 : Titanic sets sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York the Titanic has been described as April 10, 1912: the worlds most luxurious floating hotel, and was only 5 days out when she hit an Iceberg and Sank in the Atlantic with the loss of many lives.

10th April 1919 : Emiliano Zapata the leader of the peasants during the Mexican Revolution, is ambushed and shot to death in Morelos by government forces

10th April 1932 : Adolf Hitler is beaten by Paul von Hindenburg for the German presidency

10th April 1956 : UN steps up peace pressure in Middle East conflict between Israel and its Arab Neighbors in an attempt to bring about a lasting peace

10th April 1959 : Japan’s Crown Prince Akihito the current emperor of Japan, becomes the first Crown Prince to bring a commoner into the imperial family when he marries Miss Michiko Shōda

10th April 1968 : A ferry the “TEV Wahine” capsizes in Wellington Harbor, New Zealand after running aground during one of the worst storms ever to ever hit New Zealand. The final death toll is expected to exceed 50 with most due to drowning

10th April 1972 : An Earthquake centered on the town of Ghir, in southern Iraq kills up to an estimated 4,000 people in the massive earthquake an aircraft which flew over the area reports that there was not a single dwelling left standing above the ground . Soldiers, police and villagers dig survivors from the rubble for almost four days after the disaster and the final death toll is closer to 5,300 than the original estimates

10th April 1972 : Seventy nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare

10th April 1979 : Thirteen tornadoes ripped through Texas and Oklahoma today in a deadly outbreak that meteorologists later referred to as “Terrible Tuesday.” The twisters destroyed thousands of homes.

10th April 2002 : Restrictions were loosened further for mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness. This follows earlier legislation in 1993 when the Netherlands decriminalized doctor-assisted suicide.

10th April 2007 : The military has started to build a three-mile concrete wall in the center of Baghdad. This is to run along the most murderous streets that separate the city’s Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. The wall has been planned because of the hardening sectarian divide in Baghdad, and is a central part of George Bush’s final push to pacify the capital. Work began under cover of darkness and is due for completion by the end of the month.

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adam dastiyabi :rotfl:

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Titanic :hinna:

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^
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Didn’t you like Rose Dawson? :emmy:

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tht was fictional chahracter muqawee i mentioned about original titanic

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Yes Devi ji.. But the character was heavily inspired from a real life story. By the way, Titanic was not the first ship that sank. HMS Birkenhead was foundered in 1852. This incident provided the international practice followed in such circumstances 'Women and Children First'.

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Who is Rose D. ?

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Koi nahin.. Moin Akhtar ka ek character tha :D ab ye mat poochna ke Moin Akhtar kon :ASA:

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lets c wht happened on 11th april

11th April 1981 : The arrest of a black man in Brixton, South London leads to mass rioting with youths taking to the streets throwing petrol bombs, bottles and bricks at police, looting local shops and setting fire to cars. A local school and two pubs have also been torched by the rioters and firefighters are unable to reach fires due to the threat of attacks. The Police armed with riot shields and batons charge the rioters and more than 50 police are injured and at least 20 have been arrested

11th April 1929 : US Federal Troops take 100 Mexican prisoners captive on raid on General J Gonzalo Insurgent Encampment on the Border of Escabar near Naco Senora

11th April 1938 : Japanese Fleet Spotted off the Philippines near Davan , US mistakenly said they believed they were Fishing Trawlers

11th April 1947 : Jackie Robinson took to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in an exhibition match between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees becoming the first Negro to play in Major league baseball

11th April 1953 : 1000 Inmates from Stillwater Prison start fires, smash windows and shout profanities at the guards during a prolonged prison riot.

11th April 1957 : The British government allows the island colony of Singapore to govern itself under a new constitution agreed in London. Great Britain will continue to control external affairs and defense.

11th April 1961 : Adolf Eichmann , went on trial in an Israeli courthouse today. accused of mass murder and the helping in the death of millions of Jews in German Concentration Camps during World War II.

11th April 1965 : The Palm Sunday Tornadoes of 1965 strike Indiana and the surrounding states. In Indiana alone, 1200 people were injured and over 135 were killed

11th April 1970 : NASA launched Apollo 13 , America's third manned moon-landing mission, from Cape Kennedy, Florida today, Two days after launch, an oxygen tank on the spacecraft exploded, forcing the astronauts to abandon their mission. Although they had only a small supply of oxygen, water and power, the Apollo 13 crew managed to safely return to Earth in the spaceship's lunar module.

11th April 2001 : China agrees to free crew members of an American spy plane that had collided with a Chinese fighter plane, killing its pilot.

11th April 2006 : Following Ariel Sharon's stroke on January 4, 2006 where he fell into a coma the acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been performing his duties and on 11th April Israel's Cabinet declared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon permanently incapacitated, officially ending his five-year tenure.

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**History of Pakistan - 10th April
**1973: Constitution of Pakistan enacted by the National Assembly.
1975: Noted scholar and VC of Karachi University, Dr. Mehmood Hussain passes away.
1986: Benezir Bhutto returns to homeland.
1988: Army ammunition blown up in Ojheri camp, Rawalpindi; more than 100 people die.

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And her reading Habib Jalib’s Main Baghi hoon main Baghi hoon :hbk:

Whats the story behind this Ojheri camp incident?

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11th April 2006 : Following Ariel Sharon's stroke on January 4, 2006 where he fell into a coma the acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been performing his duties and on 11th April Israel's Cabinet declared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon permanently incapacitated, officially ending his five-year tenure.
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What were the reasons that Sharon remained controversial and hated in Muslim world?

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u should post this in pakistan history :smack2:

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Pakistan History ki thead kidhar hy :konfused:

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Idhar hi post karen.. Pakistan is part of this World :@:

BTW Devi ji ne kal hi 11th April ki history post kardi thi :hehe:

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On 10th April 1988 the military ammunition depot at Ojhri Camp, Rawlapindi, blew up and unleashed an inferno that sent all sorts of rockets all over Rawalpindi and into neighboring Islamabad. It also let to a sequence of events that led to the ouster of the then Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo and, depending on which conspiracy experts believe, to the death of the then President Gen Zia ul Haq. US officials had blamed sabotage for the explosion.

Others said that the explosion was done by Pakistan army agents to cover up a pilferage of the weapons stocks, including Stinger missiles. The true cause of the explosion still remains a mystery.

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15th April 1945 : British troops liberate the German Bergen / Belsen Concentration camp finding thousands of dead and rotting corpses and many more thousands of sick and starving prisoners kept in severely overcrowded and dirty compounds. The prisoners were suffering from acute typhus, typhoid and tuberculosis due to no running water in the camp . Over 30,000 had died in the previous months many from typhus but even more from starvation.

15th April 1946 : Nearly 30 million people are close to dying of starvation and the countries of the world are trying to send food to help those starving including the US the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation department is co-ordinating efforts

15th April 1947 : Jackie Robinson, becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers

15th April 1967 : 180,000 Protesters were in New York and San Francisco to protest against the Vietnam War with a number of protesters burning draft cards

15th April 1977 : Roman Polanski the director of China Town and Rosemary's baby pleads innocence to charge of drug rape of 13 yr old girl

15th April 1986 : The US launches air strikes on Libya in retaliation for Libyan backed terrorism including the bombing of La Belle discotheque in West Berlin 10 days earlier. USA planes bombed targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region. Colonel Muamar Gaddafi residential compound took a direct hit that killed Hanna Gaddafi, the adopted baby daughter of the Libyan leader

15th April 1989 : The FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, turned to tragedy when at least 200 people were injured and 96 crushed to death, many of them teenagers and children. The problems were caused by too many Liverpool fans being allowed in to the back of an already full stand at the Leppings Lane end of the ground, as more fans were allowed in those already there were pushed forward and crushed against the high, wired-topped safety fences

15th April 1992 : Leona Helmsley, starts a four-year prison term in Lexington, Kentucky for failing to pay her taxes, she served a total of only 18 months in jail. Her famous quote "Only the little people pay taxes." turned the press and the public against her who never forgave her for the infamous saying

15th April 2010 : Barack Obama has said that it is likely that astronauts will be sent to orbit Mars by the mid-2030's. The President made the claim in a major speech to staff and guests at the Kennedy Space Center, where he outlined the details of his new policies on space exploration. Obama said that he has given NASA some challenging goals, and the funding to achieve them. This will include an extra $6 billion over the next five years.

15th April, 2011 : A replica of the Graceland Estate owned by Elvis Presley was opened in Randers, Denmark. The building is twice the size of the original in order to fit a museum, restaurant, and shop, and, despite the size difference, it is nearly identical. The building was created by Elvis fan Henrick Knudsen who had the blessing of Elvis's widow Priscilla.

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Welcome back Devi ji and thanks for reviving this thread. Wasn’t Titanic sunk on 15th April, 1912?

It’s been 84 years (now 100 years), and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was. :crying: