Friday, October 19, 2007, #200 (1467)

Today in history

1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil
1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain
1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University
1960 - The United States government decides to place an embargo on Communist Cuba
2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity

Birthdays

1862 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1931 - John le Carre, English novelist
1940 - Michael Gambon, Irish actor
1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer

Georgian words of the day

bus - avtobusi
taxi  - taksi
ride - gaseirneba, mgzavroba
ticket - bileti

Where is this bus going?
sad midis es avtobusi?



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