Today in History Highlights Major World Events
On November 8 1923 Adolf Hitler led a failed coup in Munich known as the Beer Hall Putsch. In 1837 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opened in South Hadley Massachusetts. In 1889 Montana became a state. In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration to spur jobs for millions. In 1942 Operation Torch began with Allied landings in North Africa. In 1966 Edward Brooke became the first Black senator elected by popular vote. In 1997 engineers diverted the Yangtze for the Three Gorges Dam project in China.
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Adolf Hitler
Munich
Germany
Mount Holyoke
Aist
Franklin Roosevelt
Civil Works Administration
U.S
French North Africa
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
U.S. Senate
Yangtze River
Three Gorges
China
Indian girl with extra limbs to learn to walk after surgery
Lakshmi a two year old girl born with four arms and four legs underwent a 27 hour operation by 36 doctors at Sparsh Hospital Bangalore. If recovery continues as expected rehabilitation will begin in a few weeks enabling her to walk. The parasitic twin had absorbed limbs and organs.
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Sparsh
Bangalore
Lakshmi
Sharana Patil
Illegal immigrant border deaths fall further in year
The number of migrant deaths at the U S southern border declined for the second straight year with 400 fatalities in the year ending September 30 down 12 percent from 453 the prior year. Border Patrol cited tighter enforcement and 2500 new agents as key factors.
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U.S
Mexico
U.S. Border Patrol
Lloyd Easterling
Border Patrol
Arizona
Jokela High School Rampage in Finland Claims Seven Lives
In Jokela High School Tuusula Finland an 18 year old gunman killed seven students and the principal before shooting himself The assailant Pekka-Eric Auvinen reportedly posted plans for the attack on YouTube and appeared to revel in the act Witnesses described a chaotic scene as teachers locked doors students fled and authorities investigated a possible motive backed by internet postings and a video showing a handgun and a message of apocalypse The Finnish prime minister declared national mourning with flags at half staff
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Baghlan
Kabul
Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai
Tuusula
Finland
Jokela High School
Helsinki
Pekka-Eric Auvinen
Jokela
Matti Tohkanen
Tohkanen
Auvinen
Tuomas Halkkonen
MTV3
Sturmgeist89
Storm Spirit
Matti Vanhanen
Journal-World contact list and newsroom numbers
A contact directory for the Journal-World lists newsroom, editorial, sports, arts, obituaries, and advertising contacts with phone numbers and emails. It covers local Lawrence offices and outside Lawrence lines plus staff names such as Dennis Anderson, Tom Keegan, Mindle Paget, Jon Niccum, Mark Fagan, and others. It includes subscription help and redelivery guarantees.
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Ljworld.com
Kansas University
Lawrence
Dennis Anderson
Danderson
Jworld
Caroline Trowbridge
Drowbridge
Ann Gardner
Agardner
Ljworld
Tom Keegan
Tkeegan
Mindle Paget
Should KU beef up Friday classes to cut Thursday drinking
Readers weigh in on KU measures to curb campus drinking with a Friday class plan as the federal ruling on the SLT through wetlands prompts debate. voters invited to visit the site to cast responses and see results.
Bhutto Calls For Rally And Long March Against Musharraf
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto urged supporters to join a Friday rally in Rawalpindi and then begin a 250 mile march to Islamabad to oppose Musharraf emergency rule. Police clashed with Bhutto backers as protests surged amid nationwide tension over the crisis.
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Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
Pervez Musharraf
Bhutto
Musharraf
Rawalpindi
Lahore
Karachi
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My Name
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News Partners
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Mediaphormedia LLC
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Convergence
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