Khilafah5 said:
			
		
	
	
Ahem... Because on that day....
2010 	Large wildfires devastate Russia as pollution hits record levels
2010 	Saudi Arabia agrees to address security fears with Blackberry; the country determines it will not ban Blackberry instant messaging
2003 	An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002
1998 	U.S. embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania killing at least 200
1997 	STS-85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit
1997 	Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
1994 	"Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 33 performances
1994 	1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan
1994 	Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
1994 	Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
1993 	"Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 56 performances
1993 	Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
1992 	Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
1992 	Tampa Bay group purchases San Francisco Giants
1991 	Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 "
1991 	Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents
1991 	Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league home run
1991 	Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
1991 	U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
1990 	Desert Shield begins - U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
1990 	New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th home run in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
1988 	Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
1988 	Writers guild end their 6 months strike
1987 	5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
1987 	Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
1987 	Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea
1986 	"Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 4 performances
1986 	Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
1985 	Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
1985 	Baseball players end a 2 day strike
1984 	David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in New York City
1984 	Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball
1984 	Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
1983 	"Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 199 performances
1983 	1st World Track and Field Championships
1983 	65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA
1983 	Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
1983 	Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
1983 	Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1983 	Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
1980 	Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
1978 	Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
1978 	Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
1977 	"Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 1,050 performances
1976 	Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
1976 	U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
1976 	Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
1974 	Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
1974 	Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
1972 	Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn
1971 	Apollo 15 returns to Earth
1970 	1st computer chess tournament
1970 	Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac
1970 	WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 	4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
1966 	Race riot in Lansing, Michigan
1964 	31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
1964 	Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots
1964 	U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1963 	Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland
1962 	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 	Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
1961 	Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S.
1960 	Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France
1960 	Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1960 	Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1959 	Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
1957 	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 	Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
1956 	British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
1956 	Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
1955 	Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
1955 	KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
1954 	"Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 125 performances
1954 	Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate
1953 	Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1951 	Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1951 	U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record
1949 	"All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 121 performances
1948 	1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
1948 	Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
1947 	Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
1944 	Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
1944 	Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation
1944 	German counter attack at Avranches fails
1944 	July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
1944 	U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
1943 	Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
1942 	1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
1942 	Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
1942 	Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1941 	551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1940 	Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile
1940 	Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana)
1938 	2 die in a New York City subway accident
1938 	Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
1938 	Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university
1935 	60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
1934 	U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
1930 	Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
1929 	Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
1929 	Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 	Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated
1927 	U.S. rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
1925 	League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
1921 	Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
1915 	Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die
1915 	St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores
1914 	British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
1914 	French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
1914 	French troops under General Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
1914 	German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
1914 	Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK
1912 	Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for president
1909 	U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny
1907 	Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
1904 	Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96
1900 	Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
1893 	53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
1888 	Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door
1885 	5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
1884 	Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
1882 	Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die
1867 	Battle of Moorefield, WV
1820 	1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1819 	Battle of Boyaca; Bolivar defeats Spanish in Colombia
1814 	Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
1802 	Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti)
1789 	Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service
1782 	George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
1760 	Ft. Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
1750 	Slave uprising on Curacao
1710 	Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
1620 	Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1620 	Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
1588 	English assault on Spanish Armada
1575 	Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
1573 	Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
1498 	Columbus arrives in Caribbean
1485 	Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
1479 	Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
1409 	Council of Pisa closes
936 	Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
768 	Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
626 	Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated 
Hence proved, this august 7th, Alpha will get PPR... heyy dont look at me like that, see the chain of events...