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Saturday, October 14, 2006


10/14/06
Well, our football team lost in double overtime, 31-24. We blew a 17-3 lead. We lost against our rival. We suck. Yesterday was so long since I really had nothing to do.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that funding for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was originally provided by giving it a monopoly on the sale of calendars?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1066 - Battle of Hastings: The Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeated the English army and killed Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.
1773 - The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, was formed in Poland.
1947 - Flying a Bell X-1, test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1953 - Qibya massacre: Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces were ordered to "inflict heavy damage on the inhabitants" of a village on the West Bank.
1981 - Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Photograph of a Martian sunset taken by the Spirit rover at Gusev crater, May 19, 2005. Spirit is the first of the two Mars Exploration Rover missions. She successfully landed on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004 and has operated successfully for over one full Martian year or two Earth years. Her twin Opportunity landed successfully on Mars on January 24, 2004.

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