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On THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1770 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.
1773 The Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.
1809 Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.
1899 Playwright Noel Coward was born in London.
1916 Gregory Rasputin, the monk who had wielded powerful influence over the Russian court, was murdered by a group of noblemen.
1944 The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began as German forces launched a surprise counterattack against Allied forces in Belgium.
On Dec. 16, 1950, President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
1960 A United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City, killing 134 people.
1985 Reputed organized-crime chief Paul Castellano was shot to death outside a New York City restaurant.
1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country's first democratic elections.
1991 The U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a 111-25 vote.
1998 President Bill Clinton ordered a sustained series of airstrikes against Iraq by American and British forces in response to Saddam Hussein's continued defiance of UN weapons inspectors.
2000 President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to become the first African-American secretary of state.
2004 Britain's highest court dealt a huge blow to the government's anti-terrorism policy by ruling that it could not detain foreign suspects indefinitely without trial.
Birthdays...
TV producer Stephen Bochco (''NYPD Blue,'' ''Hill Street Blues'') turns 62 today
88 Arthur C. Clarke
Author
56 Billy Gibbons
Rock musician (ZZ Top)
Is it Friday already? Where does the week go?
As for saving files, I have this driving need, this alert that goes off in my head whenever I'm typing something, a document, an email, anyupdates to html pages etc... that tells me to save every few minutes. I save like a mental case..... but that little alarm has saved me many headaches, and from past experience I know full well just how much it sucks to lose hours of work due to a sudden crash. Ug.
Train yourselves to save!
Have a great weekend everyone :D
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