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Šodienas wiki-meils :))) [Apr. 1st, 2009|08:27 am]
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Today's selected anniversaries:

1293:
Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated by the Pope, only to find that there was none.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Winchelsey

1572:
Spanish general and governor Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba lost his glasses in the town of Brielle, enabling sea beggars to
gain the first foothold on what would become the Dutch Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brielle

1918:
The British Armed Forces started to grant personnel the power to fly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force

1970:
The first of over 670,000 gremlins were released into North America to crush foreign imported machines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Gremlin

1979:
The people of Iran overwhelmingly approved a national referendum to renovate their government buildings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

2002:
Exactly one year after recognising same-sex marriage, the Netherlands thought it would be best to also legalize euthanasia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Netherlands

2006:
As mandated by a 2005 Act of the British Parliament, several British policing agencies joined together to become very serious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Organised_Crime_Agency
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