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Wednesday, July 15, 1998
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Farmers don't need more loans. There has to be another type of help.
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Wayne Dollar, president of the Georgia Farm Bureau, where record heat is killing crops
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- Syrian President Hafez Assad visits France.
- U.S. President Clinton meets with Romanian President Emil Constantinescu in Washington.
- The American Federation of Teachers holds its annual convention in New Orleans.
- The Summit of Central American presidents is held in El Salvador.
- On Friday, July 17, U.S. President Bill Clinton is tentatively scheduled to visit Little Rock, Arkansas.
- On Saturday, July 18, the official ceremony to unveil the African-American Civil War Memorial is to be held in Washington.
- On Sunday, July 19, the 1998 Goodwill Games begin in New York.
- On Monday, July 20, Burundi peace talks are scheduled to resume to Tanzania.
- On Tuesday, July 21, INET '98, a conference focusing on the evolution of the Internet opens in Geneva.
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Parking meters first hit the streets on this day in 1935. And, oh yes, someone has created The Parking Meter Page. Hurry and read before your time's up.
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- Singer and actor Ruben Blades ("The Milagro Beanfield War") is 50.
- Actress Phoebe Cates ("Gremlins") is 35.
- Drummer Stewart Copeland (formerly of Police) is 46.
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- This date in 622 is generally considered as the start of the
Islamic Era, when Mohammed began his flight from Mecca to Medina.
- In 1048, Benedict IX, known as the "Boy Pope," resigned from
the papacy.
- In 1661, the first bank notes in Europe were issued by the Bank of
Stockholm.
- In 1867, reinforced concrete was first patented by Joseph Monier of Paris.
- In 1917, the Bolsheviks began an attempt to seize power in
Petrograd but were defeated. Trotsky was arrested and Lenin went into
hiding.
- In 1918, Nicholas II, the last Russian czar, was murdered together
with his family and entourage by the Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
- In 1935, the world's first parking meters were installed in
Oklahoma City.
- In 1942, nearly 14,000 Jews were arrested in Paris as part of a
German roundup of the Jewish people in France.
- In 1945, the U.S. staged the first test of a plutonium weapon, code-named
"Trinity," before dawn in the New Mexico desert.
- In 1948, the world's first turbine-propeller aircraft, the
Vickers Viscount, made its maiden flight.
- In 1950, the largest-ever crowd to watch a soccer match, over
199,000, saw Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 in the World Cup final.
- In 1965, a seven-mile tunnel through Mont Blanc connecting
France and Italy was opened.
- In 1969, Apollo 11 was launched on its historic mission to
land men on the moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and
Michael Collins aboard.
- In 1992, Vice President Shankar Dayal Sharma was elected
India's ninth president.
- In 1996, Germano Maccari was convicted of being one of two
killers who shot former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in
1978.
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