Peristiwa Dunia, Mitos & Sejarah

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Persekutuan Tanah Melayu Menjadi Ahli Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1957, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu telah diterima dengan rasminya menjadi ahli Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu. Keahlian Persekutuan Tanah Melayu itu telah diusulkan oleh Wakil Kerajaan Britain dengan mendapat sokongan sebulat suara dari anggota Majlls Perhimpunan Agung Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu yang Ke-82.

Kemasukan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu ke dalam pertubuhan dunia itu telah memberi peluang bagi negara kita untuk mendapatkan sahabat tanpa apa-apa sekatan dari mana-mana plhakpun. Apa yang paling penting ialah negara kita dapat turut serta memberi sumbangan tenaga, idea ke arah matlamat untuk menegakkan keamanan dunia. Dengan menjadi anggota Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu Persekutuan Tanah Melayu seterusnya menjadi ahli Pertubuhan Buruh Antarabangsa, Pertubuhan Makanan dan Pertanian Bangsa Bersatu dan Perjanjian Am Tarif dan Perdagangan yang mengandungi syarat bagi membolehkan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu menjadi ahli Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa, Bank Antarabangsa dan Pembangunan Semula dan Koperasi Kewangan Antarabangsa.

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1957, buat julung kalinya dalam sejarah perhimpunan Agung Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu suara Persekutuan Tanah Melayu telah kedengaran dalam persidangannya, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, Duta Persekutuan ke Amerika Syarikat telah dilantik oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu sebagai wakil tetapnya dalam Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu. Dalam ucapan pertamanya di perhimpunan tersebut Dr Ismail telah menyatakan bahawa,

"Pada hari ini dalam Majlis Perhimpunan Bangsa-bangsa yang terbesar sekali sebagai wakil dari suatu bangsa yang kecil, mempunyai penduduk seramai enam juta orang di sebuah Wilayah sebesar 50,000 batu persegi amat menghargai dan menyanjung tinggi perasmian majlis atas keahlian Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. lanya memberi Persekutuan satu keistimewaan dan satu hak dalam pertubuhan dunia. Persekutuan Tanah Melayu akan menjalankan tanggungjawab yang diamanahkan oleh Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu dengan penuh semangat ke arah pencapaian matlamatnya sebagaimana yang termaktub dalam Piagam Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu."

Pengiktirafan Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu terhadap negara kita Persekutuan Tanah Melayu itu adalah satu lagi kemajuan dan perkembangan yang dibanggakan dalam proses perjalanan ke arah mengisi kemerdekaan negara sepenuhnya.

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TODAY IN HISTORY - Camp David Accords Signed

At the White House in Washington, D.C., Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords, laying the groundwork for a permanent peace agreement between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities. The accords were negotiated during 12 days of intensive talks at President Jimmy Carter's Camp David retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. The final peace agreement--the first between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors--was signed in March 1979. Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.

A state of war had existed between Egypt and the State of Israel since the establishment of Israel in 1948. In the first three Arab-Israeli wars, Israel decisively defeated Egypt. As a result of the 1967 war, Israel occupied Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the 23,500-square-mile peninsula that links Africa with Asia. When Anwar el-Sadat became Egyptian president in 1970, he found himself leader of an economically troubled nation that could ill afford to continue its endless crusade against Israel. He wanted to make peace and thereby achieve stability and recovery of the Sinai, but after Israel's stunning victory in the 1967 war it was unlikely that Israel's peace terms would be favorable to Egypt. So Sadat conceived of a daring plan to attack Israel again, which, even if unsuccessful, might convince the Israelis that peace with Egypt was necessary.

In 1972, Sadat expelled 20,000 Soviet advisers from Egypt and opened new diplomatic channels with Washington, which, as Israel's key ally, would be an essential mediator in any future peace talks. Then, on October 6, 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a joint attack against Israel. It was Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews, and Israeli forces were taken entirely by surprise. It took more than a week for Israel to beat back the impressive Arab advances. A U.S. airlift of arms aided Israel's cause, but President Richard Nixon delayed the emergency military aid for seven days as a tacit signal of U.S. sympathy for Egypt. In November, an Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire was secured by the United States.

Although Egypt had again suffered military defeat against its Jewish neighbor, the initial Egyptian successes greatly enhanced Sadat's prestige in the Middle East and provided him with an opportunity to seek peace. In 1974, the first of two Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreements providing for the return of portions of the Sinai to Egypt were signed, and in 1975 Sadat traveled to the United States to discuss his peace efforts and seek American aid and investment.

When talks with Israel stalled, Sadat made a dramatic journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and spoke before the Israeli Knesset (Parliament). In September 1978, President Jimmy Carter invited Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were hammered out under the direction of Carter. Signed on September 17, the historic agreements provided for complete Israeli evacuation from the Sinai, laid the groundwork for the signing of a final peace agreement, and outlined a broader framework for achieving peace in the Middle East.

Sadat and Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize, and on March 29, 1979, a permanent peace agreement was signed that closely resembled the Camp David Accords. The treaty ended the state of war between the two countries and provided for the establishment of full diplomatic and commercial relations.

Although Sadat was greatly praised in the West, he was widely condemned in the Arab world. In 1979, Egypt was expelled from the Arab League, and internal opposition to his policies led to domestic crises. On October 6, 1981, Sadat was assassinated by Muslim extremists in Cairo while viewing a military parade commemorating the Yom Kippur War. Despite Sadat's death, the peace process continued under Egypt's new president, Hosni Mubarak. In 1982, Israel fulfilled the 1979 peace treaty by returning the last segment of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. Egyptian-Israeli peace continues today.

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Sep 17, 1967:                                                       
The Who spark an explosion on national television

                In introducing them at the Monterey Pop Festival three months earlier, Eric Burdon of the Animals had offered high praise for the up-and-coming British rock band the Who, promising the crowd "A group that will destroy you in more ways than one." A substandard audio setup that day prevented the Who from unleashing the full sonic assault for which they were already becoming famous, but their high-energy, instrument-destroying antics inspired the next act, Jimi Hendrix, to burn his guitar and announced to the tens of thousands of Festival-goers the arrival of a powerful new force in rock and roll. The rest of America would get its introduction on September 17, 1967, when the Who ended an already explosive, nationally televised performance of "My Generation" with a literal bang that singed Pete Townshend's hair, left shrapnel in Keith Moon's arm and momentarily knocked The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour off the air.


  As buttoned-down as its hosts appeared to be, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour came as close as any network program could in 1967 to being culturally and politically subversive. Tommy and Dick Smothers fought a running battle with CBS during their show's three-year run over scripts that subtly tweaked "the Establishment" and guests whose off-air politics were deemed controversial by network censors. Though there was nothing overtly political about the Who, it was more than just lyrics like "Hope I die before I get old" that marked the group as happy warriors in the generational battle being waged in the late 1960s. It was also, among other things, the sheer volume at which they preferred to play and their penchant for leaving every stage they played on looking as if a bomb had just gone off. On this day in 1967, one actually did.


  Keith Moon was already in the habit of placing an explosive charge in one his two bass drums to detonate during Pete Townshend's guitar-smashing at the end of each Who performance. But for their Smothers Brothers appearance, Moon packed several times the normal amount of explosives into his drum kit, and when he set it off, a gigantic explosion rocked the set as a cloud of white smoke engulfed Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey. Though bassist John Entwistle never lost his cool, Daltrey practically flew downstage and when Townshend emerged from the smoke, his hair was almost literally blown to one side of his head. Though the incredible explosion has been rumored to have caused Pete Townshend's eventual near-deafness, credit for that should probably go instead to the Who's pioneering use of stacked Marshall amplifiers as a means of achieving maximum volume during their live performances.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... national-television

            

                           

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Sep 18, 1961:                                                        
Bobby Vee earns a #1 hit with "Take Good Care Of My Baby"

                In terms of his artistic significance, the early 1960s teen singer Bobby Vee may be a relatively slight and unimportant figure, but his place in music history is assured for reasons that have nothing to do with his modest chart accomplishments and charms as a performer. On this day in 1961, he reached the high point of his recording career when his recording of the Carole King-penned "Take Good Care Of My Baby" topped the U.S. pop charts. But the event that made that accomplishment possible—and assured Bobby Vee his place in history—came two-and-a-half years earlier, when a small plane carrying three young musicians crashed en route to his home town.


  For songwriter Don McLean, February 3, 1959, was the Day the Music Died, but for 15-year-old Bobby Velline, it was the tragic day his star was born. The plane that crashed in an Iowa field early that morning was carrying musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson north from Clear Lake, Iowa, to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on the Winter Dance Party 1959 tour. It was a show that young Bobby Velline, an avowed rock-and-roller, was planning to attend as a fan until fate intervened.


  Just weeks earlier, Velline had formed his first band, and now, as news of the deaths of Holly, Valens and Richardson spread via local radio, so, too, did another shocking piece of news. Adhering to the old maxim that the Show Must Go On, the business-minded organizers of the Winter Dance Party tour announced that they would not be canceling that night's show, despite the deaths of three out of four of the tour's headline acts. Surviving act Dion and the Belmonts would still be appearing, and now radio station KFGO was asking whether any local group would be available to join them. Presented with this morbid yet undeniably exciting opportunity, young Bobby Velline, who could play the chords and sing the lyrics to nearly every song his idol Buddy Holly had ever recorded, stepped up and volunteered.


  Appearing second on the bill that night, Velline and his band the Shadows caught the eye and ear of a local promoter, and soon began playing gigs throughout the region. Within 18 months of his tragic big break, the wholesome teenager from Fargo was in the capable grip of the music industry's star-making machinery, recording the song that would give the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King its second #1 hit.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... care-of-my-babyquot

            

                           

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TODAY IN HISTORY - Rock Legend Hendrix Dies After Party

Guitarist Jimi Hendrix has died after collapsing at a party in London.

Police say there was no question of foul play. A number of sleeping pills were found at the house in Notting Hill Gate and they have been taken away for analysis.

Hendrix, 27, was born in Seattle, Washington, but rose to fame in Britain with his band the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

He will be remembered as a key figure in the music world who transformed electric guitar-playing using distortion, feedback and sheer volume to create a revolutionary new sound.

Flamboyant

Hendrix had been staying in London since cutting short a European tour with his band after bass player Billy Cox fell ill with stress and exhaustion.

They were among the headline acts at the three-day Love and Peace Festival at Insel Fehrmarn in Germany.

The concert was not an entire success. A torrential downpour meant Hendrix postponed his performance by a day and the audience was disrupted by fighting and gunfire between rival German motorcycle gangs who eventually burned the stage to the ground.

It was after this performance the group returned to London and Hendrix sent Cox back to the United States to convalesce.

James Hendrix was part black, part Cherokee Indian and part Mexican. He left school early, having developed a keen interest in music but unable to read it.

He joined the army as a paratrooper but was discharged due to injury and took up work as a session musician.

He was spotted by former Animals' bass player turned manager Chas Chandler who persuaded him to move to London in the autumn of 1966. He changed Hendrix's stage name to "Jimi", and introduced him to drummer Mitch Mitchell and bass player Noel Redding to form the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

The band's first single 'Hey Joe' spent 10 weeks in the UK charts, reaching number six in early 1967.

They enhanced their reputation with flamboyant stage performances. With his long wiry hair and colourful clothes Hendrix kept audiences enthralled with his improvised solos often playing the guitar behind his back or between his legs.

Their performance of 'Wild Thing' at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, in which Hendrix played the guitar with his teeth, confirmed their success in the US. The Jimi Hendrix Experience became one of the most popular and successful touring acts in the world.

After the Hendrix Experience disbanded he continued performing with a range of musicians - including a memorable rendition of Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.

In 1970 the Jimi Hendrix Experience re-formed and were in the process of recording a new LP when he died.

His final public performance in Britain was with American band War at Ronnie Scott's club in London last week.

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Perasmian Projek Hidro Elektrik Temenggor

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1979, KBDYMM Sultan Perak, Sultan Idris Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar Shah berkenan merasmikan projek Hidro Elektrik Temenggor ketika dalam siri lawatan ke daerah hulu Perak sempena perayaan ulang tahun keputeraan baginda yang ke-55. Turut sama dalam upacara perasmian itu ialah Menteri Besar Perak, Dato’ Seri Haji Wan Mohamed bin Haji Wan Teh; Menteri Tenaga Telekom dan Pos, Encik Lep Moggie dan wakil-wakil rakyat dan ketua-ketua jabatan. Projek yang berharga RM 340 juta ini terletak di hulu Sungai Perak mengandungi sebuah empangan batu tambun setinggi 415 kaki. Empangan ini dapat menyumbang sebanyak 348 MW dan menghasilkan tenaga sejumlah 900 juta unit setahun. Selain daripada mengeluarkan tenaga elektrik, empangan ini juga berfungsi menghindarkan berlakunya banjir akibat limpahan air Sungai Perak. Melalui projek ini juga, seramai 124 keluarga penduduk asal Kampung Temenggor yang merupakan satu kampung pedalaman serba kekurangan telah menikmati kehidupan yang lebih baik dalam rancangan perpindahan di Kampung Ganda Temenggor dengan memperoleh kemudahan yang diperlukan. Projek ini merupakan antara usaha gigih Lembaga Letrik Negara (LLN) untuk membangunkan potensi hidro-elektrik di Malaysia Barat.

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TODAY IN HISTORY - Nevada Is Site Of First-ever Underground Nuclear Explosion

On this day in 1957, the United States detonates a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375 square mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas. The test, known as Rainier, was the first fully contained underground detonation and produced no radioactive fallout. A modified W-25 warhead weighing 218 pounds and measuring 25.7 inches in diameter and 17.4 inches in length was used for the test. Rainier was part of a series of 29 nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons safety tests known as Operation Plumbbob that were conducted at the NTS between May 28, 1957, and October 7, 1957.

In December 1941, the U.S. government committed to building the world's first nuclear weapon when President Franklin Roosevelt authorized $2 billion in funding for what came to be known as the Manhattan Project. The first nuclear weapon test took place on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A few weeks later, on August 6, 1945, with the U.S. at war against Japan, President Harry Truman authorized the dropping of an atomic bomb named Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on August 9, a nuclear bomb called Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki. Two hundred thousand people, according to some estimates, were killed in the attacks on the two cities and on August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers.

1957's Operation Plumbbob took place at a time when the U.S. was engaged in a Cold War and nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. In 1963, the U.S. signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, which banned nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, underwater and outer space. A total of 928 tests took place at the Nevada Test Site between 1951 and 1992, when the U.S. conducted its last underground nuclear test. In 1996, the U.S signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits nuclear detonations in all environments.

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Sep 19, 1990:
Goodfellas opens

                On this day in 1990, the Martin Scorsese-directed Mafia film Goodfellas, starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco and Joe Pesci, opens in theaters around the United States. The movie, which was based on the best-selling 1986 book Wiseguy,by the New York crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi, tells the true story of the mobster-turned-FBI informant Henry Hill (Liotta), from the 1950s to the 1980s. Goodfellas earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Pesci won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as the psychotic mobster Tommy DeVito.


  Martin Scorsese, who was born on November 17, 1942, in New York City, received critical acclaim for one of his earliest films, Mean Streets (1973), which marked the first time he worked with Robert De Niro. The two men also collaborated on Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980) and The King of Comedy (1982). Following Goodfellas, in which De Niro played the Irish mobster Jimmy Conaway, the actor collaborated with Scorsese on Cape Fear (1991), which co-starred Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange, and Casino (1995), which was co-written by Pileggi and co-starred Pesci and Sharon Stone. Scorsese’s movie credits also include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006), which earned him his first Best Director Oscar after five previous nominations in the same category.


  Prior to co-starring in Goodfellas, Ray Liotta, who was born on December 18, 1954, appeared in such films as Something Wild (1986), with Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels, and Field of Dreams (1989), with Kevin Costner. Liotta’s later credits include Cop Land (1997), with Sylvester Stallone, Hannibal (2001), with Anthony Hopkins, and Narc (2002).
  Joe Pesci, who was born on February 9, 1943, appeared in such movies as Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) before his award-winning performance in Goodfellas. His later film credits include the blockbuster Home Alone (1990), in which he played a bumbling burglar; the comedy My Cousin Vinny (1992), with Marisa Tomei; and A Bronx Tale (1993), which marked Robert De Niro’s directorial debut.


  Lorraine Bracco, who was born on October 2, 1954, earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in Goodfellas as Henry Hill’s wife, Karen. Bracco, who began her career as a model, later appeared in such movies as Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), Radio Flyer (1992), The Basketball Diaries (1995), with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001). She is perhaps best known for her role as Tony Soprano’s psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the hit HBO series The Sopranos, which originally aired from 1999 to 2007.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/goodfellas-opens

              

                           

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Sep 20, 1975:                                                        
The Bay City Rollers make their U.S. debut on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell

                In the autumn of 1975, NBC premiered a brand-new late-night comedy-variety program that in addition to launching the careers of John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and an entire generation of comic actors, would also give America its first exposure to some of the era's greatest up-and-coming musical acts. That show, however, was not called Saturday Night Live—at least not at first. That name was already taken by a program that premiered a month earlier than NBC's Saturday Night on a competing network, ABC. NBC's Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell made its first broadcast on this day in 1975, featuring a heavily hyped performance by a pop group Cosell compared openly to the Beatles: Scotland's tartan-clad teenybopper sensations the Bay City Rollers.


  The Bay City Rollers were making their U.S. television debut in headlining the premiere of Howard Cosell's Saturday Night Live on September 20, 1975, but they were already an enormous phenomenon in the UK, where their every move was being greeted by the kind of hysteria not seen since the height of Beatlemania. All over Great Britain in 1975, teenage girls were dressing in the Rollers' trademark plaid, snapping up records like "I Only Want To Be With You" and "Saturday Night" and screaming dutifully whenever the shag-sporting heartthrobs showed their faces in public. It was scenes exactly like this in 1963 England that inspired Ed Sullivan to bring the Beatles to America for their historic television debut in February 1964. In September 1975, however, the magic would prove more fleeting for Mr. Cosell and his would-be British invaders.


  Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell would last only three months before being cancelled, though its host would continue his unique career in broadcasting for another two decades with ABC Sports. The Bay City Rollers, meanwhile, learned the hard way about the risks inherent in staking their success on the affections of the Tiger Beat demographic. Millions of American preteens did go mad about plaid and the irresistible stutter-step rhythm of "Saturday Night," but like most first crushes, Rollermania was intense but brief. Within 18 months of their television debut and their unofficial anointment as America's most kissable new stars, Alan, Derek, Eric, Woody and Les of the Bay City Rollers were at least two crushes old for their once-loyal fan base, whose school binders now proclaimed their love for new acts with names like Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... -with-howard-cosell

            

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TODAY IN HISTORY - 1970: Soviet Probe Collects Moon Rock

The Russian space probe, Luna 16, has landed on the Moon to collect samples from its surface.

It is the first time an unmanned probe has been used to bring objects back to Earth from space.

The probe landed at the Sea of Fertility, a region which has not yet been explored.

It is collecting samples of rock and dust using an electric drill at the end of a mechanical extendable arm to cut small cores from just under the topsoil.

In addition to the drills, the probe is equipped with a television camera.

Mission statement

The description of the mission, provided by the Soviet official news agency, Tass, reveals Soviet scientists have developed a highly advanced apparatus.

The news agency said the probe would "explore the moon and near-moon space".

The probe is expected to spend about 26 hours on the surface of the Moon before Soviet scientists send the signal for it to return to Earth.

It is the first time an attempt has been made to fire a spacecraft back to Earth by remote control.

Luna 16 is the second Soviet attempt to return samples from the Moon: the first, Luna 15, provoked widespread controversy when it was launched just three days before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

The mission was a failure and the probe crashed into the Moon just a few hours after Neil Armstrong stepped on to the Sea of Tranquillity.

Debate

The successful landing of Luna 16 has revived the debate over the need to send men to the Moon in order to explore its surface.

The Soviet Union has long argued that many complicated space experiments can be carried out with automatic devices, without risking the lives of men.

One Soviet scientist writing in the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, commented that unmanned space probes cost between one-twentieth and one-fiftieth of the equivalent manned flights.

However, America argues that trained scientists sent as astronauts to the Moon can collect larger and better selected samples than a probe.

The next manned mission, Apollo 14, is due to take off next February.

The launch was postponed for six months for modifications following the near-disastrous explosion on board Apollo 13 in April.

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Persatuan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu Lulus Permohonan Malaysia Menghantar Anggota Tentera Ke Lebanon

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 2006, Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) meluluskan permohonan Malaysia untuk menghantar anggota tenteranya ke Lebanon. Perkara itu dinyatakan oleh Setiausaha Agung PBB, Kofi Annan kepada YAB Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi dalam pertemuan mereka di New York. Perdana Menteri mengumumkan demikian ketika sidang media sempena lawatan kerja ke New York di mana beliau akan berucap pada sesi ke-61 Perhimpunan Agung PBB. Pasukan yang mengandungi anggota tentera dari Malaysia akan diletakkan di bawah Pasukan Sementara PBB di Lebanon (Unifil) mengandungi 360 kekuatan iaitu 160 anggota pasukan khas dan 200 anggota logistik dan pengurusan. Malaysia, yang juga pengerusi Pertubuhan Persidangan Islam (OIC), sebelum ini bercadang untuk menghantar seramai 1,000 anggota tentera untuk menyertai Unifil. Malaysia adalah antara negara yang paling awal menawarkan tenteranya untuk berkhidmat kepada keamanan di Lebanon ekoran serangan bom yang dilancarkan oleh Israel. Unifil asalnya ditubuhkan oleh Majlis Keselamatan PBB pada tahun 1978 bagi mengesahkan pengunduran Israel dari Lebanon, mengekalkan keamanan dan keselamatan antarabangsa dan membantu kerajaan Lebanon untuk mengekalkan kuasanya secara berkesan di kawasan itu bagi memastikan bantuan kemanusiaan sampai kepada penduduk awam dan memastikan kepulangan para pelarian secara sukarela dan selamat.

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U.S. 2011 U.S.A. Google+ 21st Sept. 2011 : Google+, social network service is released to the general public. Up to this point it had been by invite only, Google+ was released on June 28th via invite only and over the next 3 months additional features are added and bugs were fixed .

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Sep 22, 1862: Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, shortly after Lincoln's inauguration as America's 16th president, he maintained that the war was about restoring the Union and not about slavery. He avoided issuing an anti-slavery proclamation immediately, despite the urgings of abolitionists and radical Republicans, as well as his personal belief that slavery was morally repugnant. Instead, Lincoln chose to move cautiously until he could gain wide support from the public for such a measure.
In July 1862, Lincoln informed his cabinet that he would issue an emancipation proclamation but that it would exempt the so-called border states, which had slaveholders but remained loyal to the Union. His cabinet persuaded him not to make the announcement until after a Union victory. Lincoln's opportunity came following the Union win at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862. On September 22, the president announced that slaves in areas still in rebellion within 100 days would be free.
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebel states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The proclamation also called for the recruitment and establishment of black military units among the Union forces. An estimated 180,000 African Americans went on to serve in the army, while another 18,000 served in the navy.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, backing the Confederacy was seen as favoring slavery. It became impossible for anti-slavery nations such as Great Britain and France, who had been friendly to the Confederacy, to get involved on behalf of the South. The proclamation also unified and strengthened Lincoln's party, the Republicans, helping them stay in power for the next two decades.
The proclamation was a presidential order and not a law passed by Congress, so Lincoln then pushed for an antislavery amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure its permanence. With the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, slavery was eliminated throughout America (although blacks would face another century of struggle before they truly began to gain equal rights).
Lincoln's handwritten draft of the final Emancipation Proclamation was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871. Today, the original official version of the document is housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

credit to: history.com
            

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TUN ABDUL RAZAK DILANTIK SEBAGAI  PERDANA MENTERI

Pada  hari ini dalam tahun 1970, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein telah dilantik sebagai Perdana Menteri yang kedua bagi menggantikan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra yang bersara dari arena politik. Upacara pelantikan ini telah berlangsung di Istana Negara dalam satu majlis ringkas di hadapan DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdul Halim Muazam Shah dan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra. Semasa menjawat jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri, Tun Abdul Razak telah memperkenalkan beberapa dasar, seperti Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB), iaitu  satu strategi pembangunan ekonomi bagi membasmi kemiskinan dan menyusun semula masyarakat Malaysia dari segi pengenalan kaum mengikut kegiatan ekonomi. Bagi memupuk perpaduan rakyat, Tun Abdul Razak telah memesatkan lagi pelaksanaan Dasar Pelajaran Kebangsaan dengan menambah bilangan sekolah dan institusi pengajian kebangsaan yang menggunakan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa pengantar serta menggubal Rukunegara. Bagi memantapkan politik Malaysia, beliau telah mengembangkan gagasan dan gabungan Parti Perikatan melalui gabungan dan kerjasama dengan lebih banyak parti politik sehingga tertubuhnya Barisan Nasional pada 1 Januari 1973. Di peringkat antarabangsa, beliau mengukuhkan lagi ASEAN dengan mengemukakan gagasan ‘Rantau Aman, Bebas dan Berkecuali’ (ZOPFAN) dalam persidangan ASEAN di Kuala Lumpur pada tahun 1971.



TUN ABDUL RAZAK BIN DATUK HUSSEIN

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ISTANA DARUL EHSAN DISERAH KEPADA KERAJAAN SELANGOR

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 2003, Perbadanan Putrajaya telah menyerahkan secara rasmi Istana Darul Ehsan yang terletak di Presint 8, Putrajaya kepada Kerajaan Negeri Selangor. Penyerahan ini disempurnakan oleh diserahkan oleh Pengerusi Perbadanan Putrajaya, Tan Sri Azizan Zainul  kepada YB Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Selangor, Datuk Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof. Pada majlis tersebut Sultan Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj telah berkenan mencemar duli untuk menyaksikan upacara penyerahan yang telah diadakan  di  Istana Darul Ehsan. Turut hadir di majlis tersebut ialah Timbalan Menteri Besar, Datuk Dr. Zainal Abdin Ahmad. Istana Darul Ehsan setinggi empat tingkat itu mempunyai reka bentuk yang berkonsepkan ciri-ciri bangunan lama Eropah bernilai RM40 juta dan   dibina   di atas bukit berhadapan dengan sebuah tasik. Sesungguhnya tersergamnya Istana Darul Ehsan yang indah itu yang terletak di Presint 8, telah menjadi salah satu mercu tanda utama di Putrajaya.

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Pertabalan Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ke-11

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1999, DYMM Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj Ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Alhaj telah ditabalkan sebagai Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ke-11 di Balairong Seri, Istana Negara. Upacara dimulakan dengan YAB Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad membacakan Surat Perisytiharan mengenai pemasyhuran Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah AlHaj sebagai Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ke-11. Diikuti dengan persembahan Keris Kerajaan kepada Seri Paduka Baginda yang kemudiannya dihunus dan dikucup oleh Seri Paduka Baginda. Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah dilahirkan pada 8 Mac 1926 di Istana Bandar, Kuala Langat adalah waris kelapan Kesultanan Selangor. Baginda dilantik menjadi Raja Muda Selangor pada 13 Mei 1950, dan pada tahun 1960 baginda memangku jawatan Sultan Selangor. Pengumuman pelantikan baginda dibuat pada 3 September 1960 di Balai Rong Istana Kota, dua hari selepas kemangkatan ayahandanya. Pada 28 Jun 1961, baginda telah ditabal menjadi pemerintah dan Sultan Negeri Selangor. Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1999, baginda telah ditabalkan sebagai Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ke-11. Sesungguhnya pertabalan Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong melambangkan Malaysia adalah sebuah negara berdaulat yang mengamalkan sistem Parlimen dan Raja Berpelembagaa

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TODAY IN HISTORY - 23.9.1846: Discovery of Neptune

With the help of a telescope, the German astronomer Gottfried Galle discovered the “blue” gaseous planet Neptune. Neptune takes around 17 hours and 50 minutes to orbit itself. Its dense atmosphere contains methane, hydrogen and helium, the temperature is minus 200°C. Neptune has at least 8 satellites, its moons. Prior to space travel, only two were known of. In 1989, the space probe Voyager II discovered a ring system and therefore the small moons.

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TODAY IN HISTORY - Japanese Gather Preliminary Data On Pearl Harbor

On this day in 1941, the Japanese consul in Hawaii is instructed to divide Pearl Harbor into five zones and calculate the number of battleships in each zone—and report the findings back to Japan.

Relations between the United States and Japan had been deteriorating quickly since Japan's occupation of Indo-China and the implicit menacing of the Philippines, an American protectorate. American retaliation included the seizing of all Japanese assets in the States and the closing of the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. In September 1941, Roosevelt issued a statement, drafted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, that threatened war between the United States and Japan should the Japanese encroach any farther on territory in Southeast Asia or the South Pacific.

The Japanese military had long dominated Japanese foreign affairs. So, although official negotiations between the U.S. secretary of state and his Japanese counterpart to ease tensions were ongoing, Hideki Tojo, the minister of war who would soon be prime minister, had no intention of withdrawing from captured territories. He also construed the American "threat" of war as an ultimatum and prepared to deliver the first blow in a Japanese-American confrontation: the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

In September 1941, Nagai Kita, the Japanese consul in Hawaii, was told to begin carving up Pearl Harbor into five distinct zones and to determine the number of warships moored in each zone. Little did Japan know that the United States had intercepted the message; unfortunately, it had to be sent back to Washington for decrypting. Flights east were infrequent, so the message was sent via sea, a more time-consuming process. When it finally arrived at the capital, staff shortages and other priorities further delayed the decryption. When the message was finally unscrambled in mid-October—it was dismissed as being of no great consequence.

It would be found of consequence on December 7.

Source : History Channel

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Perdana Menteri Umumkan Dua Calon Angkasawan Negara Layak Mengikuti Misi Pertama Ke Angkasa Lepas

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 2007, Kedua-dua calon angkasawan negara, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha dan Kapten Dr Faiz Khaleed, diisytiharkan layak menyertai misi Soyuz 15-S ke Stesen Angkasa Lepas Antarabangsa (ISS) pada 10 Oktober 2007, selepas mereka lulus kesemua ujian dengan cemerlang. Keputusan lembaga penetapan krew agensi angkasa lepas Russia, Roscosmos, itu diumumkan oleh YAB Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi, di Putrajaya. Hadir sama, Menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi, Datuk Seri Dr Jamaludin Jarjis dan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pilihan, Tun Hanif Omar. Dr Sheikh Muszaphar diletakkan dalam kumpulan krew pertama bersama angkasawan Russia, Yuri Malechenko dan Peggy Whitson dari Amerika Syarikat (AS), manakala Dr Faiz dalam kumpulan krew kedua bersama Sharizan Sharipov (Russia) dan Michael Fincke (AS). Kedua-dua kumpulan itu akan menjalani latihan terakhir di Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, mulai 28 September 2007 dan pemilihan muktamad krew misi itu akan ditentukan oleh pihak Russia sebelum pelancaran Soyuz 15-S. Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha dan Kapten Dr Faiz Khaleed, dipilih daripada 11,275 calon yang memohon mengikuti program itu pada tahun 2003. Penghantaran angkasawan pertama negara dengan kos RM95 juta itu adalah sebahagian daripada program timbal balik pembelian 18 jet pejuang Sukhoi SU-30 MKM dan pesawat udara pelbagai guna bernilai RM3.4 bilion dari Russia yang ditandatangani pada 5 Ogos 2003.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

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Sept 24, 1996:
Stephen King releases two books at once



On this day in 1996, blockbusting bestselling author Stephen King releases two new novels at once. The first, Desperation, was released under King's name, while the second, The Regulators, was published under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman.

King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947. His father abandoned the family when King was two, and his mother struggled to support her two children. King was sickly as a child and developed a love for books. He studied English at the University of Maine, where he met his wife, Tabitha.

After college, the couple lived in a trailer while King taught school, worked in a laundry, and churned out four novels, which were rejected. Discouraged, he gave up on his fifth novel until his wife encouraged him to try again. In 1973, Doubleday paid him $2,500 for the book Carrie, about the bloody revenge of a high school outcast. A few months later, he earned $420,000 for the paperback rights. The book was a huge bestseller, as were his subsequent 30 novels. He also wrote six novels under the name Richard Bachman, and 14 collections of short stories or nonfiction. King's books have sold 300 million copies to date.

Despite his success, King has struggled with his own demons. In 1988, he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, stating "I never met a drink or drug I don't like." In June 1999, he was taking a walk near his Maine home when he was hit and critically injured by a car. Six operations were required to repair his hips, pelvis, ribs, and other broken bones. Meanwhile, he managed to write a novella, several short stories, and a memoir. In March 2000, he released a new novel, Riding the Bullet and the The Plant available over the Internet. Since that time, King continues to write fiction and non-fiction books.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... s-two-books-at-once