Wednesday, October 24, 2007, #203 (1470)

Today in history

1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia
1857 - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England
1929 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange
1973 - Yom Kippur War end
1980 - Government of Poland legalises Solidarity trade union
2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being

Birthdays

1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian magnate
1981 - Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer

Georgian words of the day

gay - homoseksuali
sexual - seksualuri
orientation - orientatsia
reveal - aghiareba       

J.K. Rowling revealed last week that Albus Dumbledore of the Harry Potter series is gay.
jei kei roulingma tsina kviras aghiara rom albus dumbldori hari poteris seriidan homoseksualia.



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