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Boroughitis was a political phenomenon in The International Monetary
the American state of New Jersey in the Fund approves adding China's
1890s, particularly in Bergen County. renminbi to its basket of
Attempts by the New Jersey Legislature to reserve currencies.
reform local government and the school In tennis, the Davis Cup
The NJ State House, concludes with Great Britain
where the 1894 acts systems led to the formation of dozens of
(captain Leon Smith pictured)
were passed lowpopulation boroughs. In the late 19th
defeating Belgium in the final.
century, much of New Jersey was divided Leon Smith
In Canadian football, the
into large townships, in which there might be several small Edmonton Eskimos defeat the
communities, each with a local school that formed its own district. Ottawa Redblacks to win the Grey Cup.
Political disputes arose between the growing number of commuters, A bomb attack on a bus kills 14 presidential
who wanted more government services, and farmers, who feared security guards in Tunis, Tunisia.
higher taxes. In 1894, the legislature passed an act allowing A Russian Su24 warplane is shot down by a
boroughs that were formed from parts of two or more townships to Turkish Air Force F16 near the border between
elect a representative to the county Board of Chosen Freeholders. Turkey and Syria.
This law, in combination with a second one the same year that American Pfizer and Irish Allergan agree to a
consolidated the school districts into one per township, made it easy merger that will create the world's largest
and attractive for dissatisfied communities to break away and pharmaceutical company.
become boroughs. Forty new boroughs were formed in 1894 and
1895, with the bulk in Bergen County, where townships were broken Ongoing events: European migrant crisis
up or greatly reduced in size; few townships remain in the county Recent deaths
today. (Full article...)
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1805 – War of the Third
... that the Simtokha Dzong (pictured), Coalition: French forces
built in 1629 by Zhabdrung Ngawang led by Napoleon
Namgyal, functions as a monastic and decisively defeated a
administrative centre and is the oldest RussoAustrian army
Napoléon at the Battle of
dzong to survive in its original form? commanded by Tsar
Austerlitz
... that Fallout Shelter became the most Simtokha Dzong Alexander I in the
popular free iOS application in the US Battle of Austerlitz (pictured).
and UK within a day of its release? 1823 – US President James Monroe issued the
... that Padma Shri recipient Sharad Moreshwar Hardikar Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition
organized medical camps to provide free orthopedic surgery to to European colonialism in the New World.
over 1,500 children? 1852 – On the oneyear anniversary of his
... that the main proponent of the Hamilton Canal, Gavin dissolution of the Second French Republic,
Hamilton, was found to have embezzled £19,675 from the LouisNapoléon Bonaparte declared himself
Colonial Government, following his death in 1803? Emperor of the French and took the name
... that in the past three years, Odyssey Opera has performed Napoleon III.
the Boston premieres of Korngold's Die tote Stadt and 1942 – The Manhattan Project: Scientists led by
Massenet's Le Cid? Enrico Fermi initiated the first selfsustaining
... that Tebello Nyokong is helping to pioneer a safer method nuclear chain reaction in the experimental nuclear
of cancer detection and therapy that does not have the harmful reactor Chicago Pile1.
side effects of chemotherapy? 1980 – American missionaries Maura Clarke,
... that police searches during Operation Puttur yielded two Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel
bombs and a pistol used by the suspects? were murdered by a military death squad in El
... that Hodgson's giant flying squirrel can glide for 100 m Salvador.
(300 ft) from the tree canopy to the bushes below?
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Today's featured picture
Gebang is an 8thcentury Hindu temple located on the outskirts of
Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Built by the Medang Kingdom, the temple
was buried by lahar from Mount Merapi until it was rediscovered
and reconstructed in the 1930s. Gebang measures 5.25 by 5.25
metres (17.2 ft × 17.2 ft) at the base, and has a height of 7.75
metres (25.4 ft).
Photograph: Chris Woodrich
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