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Their main place of residence was along the banks of the Upper Coosa and Alabama rivers, [6] in what is now Talladega County, Alabama. [7] Besides the town of Abihka, the Creek had established other important towns in their territory: Abihkutchi, Tuckabutche, Talladega, Coweta, and Kan-tcati. Selocta Chinnabby was a famous member of the Abihka ...
Business and economy Austerity measures of pay cuts and pension freeze supported by the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) cause civil servants to stage a 24-hour strike in Greece. (Al Jazeera) The United States dollar reaches a 15-year low against the Japanese yen and depreciates against a range of other currencies due to concerns about further quantitative easing by the ...
Events. 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. ...
The 10th Cavalry Regiment presently comprises only one active squadron, which is a M3 Bradley-and M1 Abrams equipped armored Cavalry squadron within the 4th Infantry Division in Fort Carson, Colorado. [4] 4th Squadron, 10th U.S. Cavalry takes its history and lineage from D Troop, 10th Cavalry. In 2000, D Troop, 10th U.S. Cavalry, was ...
[7] 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy. [8] 1743 – The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War. [9] [10] 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. [11] It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history. 2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station. [10] 2004 – Three bombs explode at Taba and Nuweiba in the Sinai Peninsula ...
1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life piloting a powered heavier-than-air craft. 1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
[7] An 8th-century Tang dynasty Chinese clay figurine of a Sogdian man (an Eastern Iranian person ) wearing a distinctive cap and face veil, possibly a camel rider or even a Zoroastrian priest engaging in a ritual at a fire temple , since face veils were used to avoid contaminating the holy fire with breath or saliva; Museum of Oriental Art ...