Saturday, February 26, 2011

9 January IN THE HISTORY


 
 1570 
Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible killed over a thousand residents of Novgorod.

 1969 
The Concorde jetliner had its first test flight.

 1995 
Ecuador and Peru in South America were involved in a boundary dispute.

 1998 
Gary Kasparov defeated Viswanathan Anand to retain the world chess title.

 1998 
The decapitated head of the Danish statue 'The Little Mermaid' was returned.

 2007 
Apple Computer, Inc. unveiled the first iPhone and changed its name to Apple, Inc. to signify that the company had expanded into consumer electronics in addition to just computers.

V. Shrinivas (Seenu)

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