The Messenger #139 (1406)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007, #139 (1406)

Today in history

1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI
1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank
1911 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas"
1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War
1929 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers)
1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR
1959 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate”
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor
1974 - After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored
2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France

Birthdays

1783 - Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1874 - Oswald Chambers, Christian writer (d. 1917)
1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
1940 - Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1952 - Gus Van Sant, American film director
1963 - Karl Malone, American basketball player
1968 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1998 - Bindi Irwin, activist and daughter of Steve Irwin

Georgian words of the day

bank - banki
rating - reitingi
agency - saagento
upgrade - gaumjobeseba

TBC Bank’s rating has been upgraded by Fitch Ratings