domingo, setembro 23, 2007

23 de Setembro

The Battle of Marathon (490 BC) was the culmination of King Darius I of Persia's first major attempt to conquer the remainder of the Greeks and add them to the Persian Empire, thereby securing the weakest portion of his Western border.

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The Battle of Blore Heath was the first major battle in the English Wars of the Roses and was fought on September 23, 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England.

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The Siege of Vienna of 1529, as distinct from the Battle of Vienna in 1683, represented the farthest Westward advance into Central Europe of the Ottoman Empire, and of all the clashes between the armies of Christianity and Islam might be signaled as the battle that finally stemmed the previously-unstoppable Turkish forces (though they continued their conquest of the Austrian-controlled parts of Hungary afterwards).

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The first gas experiments are conducted at Auschwitz (1941).

Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech" wich was a speech given by Richard Nixon on September 23, 1952, when he was the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. It was one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace.

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