 Today in History
 03.10.2009 6:33  20 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Russia, These, Berlin, November
Today is Saturday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2009. There are 89 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 3, 1789, President declared Nov. 26, 1789, a day of to express gratitude for the creation of . (On this date in 1863, proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.) On this date: In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228. In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again." In 1942, President established the...
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| Germans celebrate Unity Day to mark storming of trains and fall of Berlin Wall
02.10.2009 23:52 17 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: German, October, East, Germany, Berlin, Thousands, Union
Vladimir Lenin famously joked that if German revolutionaries were to storm a railway station they would first queue up for a platform ticket. Thousands of desperate East Germans proved the old Bolshevik wrong when, on October 3, 1989, they stampeded into Dresden station in an attempt to jump on to trains taking their fellow countrymen to the West. Now, October 3, also the day in 1990 that the East German state was finally dissolved, ranks as German Unity Day, a sedate holiday in which flowers are laid and speeches are made. Then, though, it was a very unGerman chaos that presaged the collapse of the Berlin Wall,...
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| The Failed Promise of Eastern Europe
02.10.2009 16:02 25 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: World, Come, European, Wake, News, Central, Europe, Eastern, Berlin
NEWSWEEK , World - Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolutions of 1989, when the nations of Central Europe overthrew communism. At that time, Václav Havel—the playwright and dissident turned president of Czechoslovakia—promised the world that his region would become a benevolent force in European politics. But 20 years later, Central Europe's record is decidedly mixed. Though it has managed to erase the continent's Cold War divide, its nations have also diluted the European Union's progressive consensus and reintroduced a chauvinistic populism into Europe's mainstream.
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| Dead babies found in Berlin flat
02.10.2009 13:07 29 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Deal, Berlin
The remains of four babies are found in a Berlin flat, more than two months after their mother apparently jumped to her death. Czytaj więcej »
| Thousands evacuated ahead of Philippine storm
(AP)
02.10.2009 9:50 20 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: League, Europe, Philippine, Berlin, Thousands
 AP - Thousands of villagers fled the likely path of a powerful typhoon bearing down Friday on the Philippines, as the government braced for the possibility of a second storm disaster just days after one that killed hundreds.
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