Sunday, October 20, 1996
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Today's Events
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will speak on human
rights during a visit to the University of Connecticut.
Albania is scheduled to hold local elections; all parties,
including those which withdrew from the controversial general
election, have agreed to participate in the local vote.
General elections are also scheduled in Nicaragua. The vote
is expected to mark the first time in Nicaraguan history that
one elected civilian government peacefully hands over power
to another.
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On the horizon
On Monday, October 21, the International Conference on
Ozone Protection Technologies opens in Washington, D.C.
On Tuesday, October 22, a conference on the Impact of
European Unity on the Economics of the Arab World is
scheduled to be held in Cairo in conjunction with the Arab
League.
On Wednesday, October 23, Joseph Waldholtz, the ex-
husband of Rep. Enid Greene, R-Utah, is expected to receive
his sentence for bank, election and tax fraud. Waldholtz was
Greene's 1994 campaign manager.
On Friday, October 25, the International Association for
Muslim Women and Children is scheduled to hold a prayer
session for peace in Palestine. The executive director of the
Minaret of Freedom Institute, Dr. Imad ad-Deen Ahmad, leads
the prayer.
On Friday, October 25, Mikhail Gorbachev is scheduled to
sign copies of his recently published book, "Memoirs," at
Borders Books and Music in Washington, D.C.
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On this day
In 1616, Danish physician and mathematician Thomas Bartholin
was born. In 1652, he became the first to describe fully
the human lymphatic system.
In 1632, English architect and astronomer Sir Christopher
Wren born. He designed and built more than 50 churches in
London, most notably St. Paul's Cathedral.
In 1740, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor and pretender to the
throne of Spain, died.
In 1784, Lord Palmerston, British statesman, born as Henry
John Temple. He was prime minister twice between 1855 and
1865.
In 1818, by agreement between the United States and Britain,
the U.S.-Canada border was set at the 49th parallel, with a
joint occupation of Oregon for 10 years.
In 1827, in the Greek War of Independence, the Turkish and
Egyptian fleets were destroyed by the British, French and
Russians at the Battle of Navarino.
In 1891, British physicist Sir James Chadwick was born. He
won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935 for his discovery of
the neutron.
In 1918, in the third of an exchange of notes between U.S.
President Woodrow Wilson and the Germans aimed at an
armistice, the Germans agreed to further concessions.
In 1935, Mao Tse-tung and his Communist forces ended their
"Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, northwest China, one year
after beginning their epic flight from Chiang Kai-shek's
Kuomintang armies in the southeast.
In 1944, in World War II, Russian and Yugoslav forces
captured Belgrade.
In 1960, the trial started in London of Penguin Books,
charged with contravening Britain's Obscene Publications Act
by publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's
Lover."
In 1964, Herbert Hoover, who served as 31st president of the
United States, died.
In 1971, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1973, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened
the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
In 1986, in Israel, Likud party leader Yitzhak Shamir took
over as prime minister from Labor's Shimon Peres under a 1984
power-sharing arrangement.
In 1989, Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor best remembered
for his roles in "Lawrence of Arabia," "Ice Cold in Alex" and
"The Guns of Navarone," died of cancer.
In 1994, a landmine explosion killed Tajikistan's deputy
prime minister, casting a shadow over the first day of a
cease-fire between the ex-communist government and the
Afghanistan-based opposition.
In 1995, Willy Claes resigned as NATO secretary-general,
brought down by a Belgian corruption scandal after a year in
the job.
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Newslink
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Holidays and more
Today is Revolution Day in Guatemala
It's Kenyatta Day in Kenya.
Dr. Joyce Brothers is 68.
Columnist Art Buchwald is 71.
Actor William Christopher is 64.
Musician Tom Petty is 44.
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Sources: Reuters Ltd.,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan
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