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Days of the year

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This article was nominated for deletion on 12 November 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

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March 16: Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires

Cap badge of the Royal Welch Fusiliers

934 – Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period: Chinese general Meng Zhixiang proclaimed himself emperor and established Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
1689 – The Royal Welch Fusiliers (cap badge pictured), one of the oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.
1819 – The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in New York City, was incorporated.
1984 – William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
1988 – Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.

Alaric Alexander Watts (b. 1797)
Don Blasingame (b. 1932)
Virginia Randolph (d. 1958)
Jean Bellette (d. 1991)

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General Motors - Pontiac observation

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1994 - General Motors should end the production of the Pontiac brand.

Please provide any support for this statement here, rather than on the main page.

Nigosh 01:27, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AAA day is on december 9th according to this page, any further info?

70.181.8.74 14:17:16, 16 March 2007 (EST)

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