1859 (MDCCCLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar]]). Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1859 - Events. 1859 - January. January 2 - Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette. January 24 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania ...

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1859 - January. January 2 - Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette. January 24 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time). 1859 - February. February 14 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. February 27 - US congressman Dan Sickles shoots Philip Barton Key for having ...

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1800 - Ongoing events. French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign ...

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1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1952 - Events. January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. 1952 - February. February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southe ...

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1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1947 - Events. January 1 - British mines nationalized January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time January 10 - United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste January 15 - Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is ...

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The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug). "Nyingma" literally means "ancient," and is often referred to as the "school of the ancient translations" or the "old school" because it founded on the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan, in the eighth century. In modern times the Nyingma linea ...

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• Nyingma - Various Traditions and Important Historical Figures
• Nyingma - Longchenpa 1308-1363
• Nyingma - Jigme Lingpa 1730-1798 and the Longchen Nyingthig
• Nyingma - The Rinchen Terdzod
• Nyingma - Mipham Jamyang Gyatso 1846–1912
• Nyingma - Six Mother Monasteries
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• Nyingma - Contemporary Nyingma Teachers
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1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 1954 - Events. January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demands war reparations from East Germany January 12 - Large-scale avalanches in Austria - over 20 dead January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in KenyaIncluding:

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1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1906 - Events. January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20. January 31 - Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale). February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos. February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party. March 10 - Explosion in coalmine in Courrières, Fra ...

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1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) 1916 - Events. January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'. January 5 - Heavy rain - allegedly caused by rainmaker Charles Hatfield - begins; it will cause flooding around San Diego, California January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli January 13/14 - ...

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1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1923 - Events. January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments 1923 - February. February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the ...

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1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) 1920 - Events. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...

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1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1887 - Events. January 6 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II early in the morning; prepared for the assault, the Negus orders a counter-attack which routs the enemy, resulting with the capture of Harar a few days later. ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1800 - Events. March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope as Pius VII. March 21 - Pius VII is ordained. April 24 - U.S. Library of Congress founded. May 5 - Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January ...

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1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar) 1914 - Events. January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador. January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. January 10 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of ChihuahuaIncluding:

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1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1933 - Events. January 3 - Japanese troops occupy Shanghai January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. January 15 - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain January 17 - US Congress votes favorable for Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover January 30 - Edouard Daladier forms a government i ...

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1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). 1925 - Events. January 3 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. January 5 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States. January 27–February 1 - The 1925 serum run to Nome, or the "Great Race of Mercy", relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an ...

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1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1938 - Events. January 3 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 5 - H.R.H. Prince Juan Carlos of Spain is born. January 11 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 - Wedding of King Farouk I of Egypt and Queen Farida Zulficar in Cairo January 28 - The first ski tow in America be ...

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1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1940 - Births. See also Category:1940 births January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate January 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate January 6 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989) January 14 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist January 20 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater < ...

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1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1936 - Events. January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee. January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. January 16 ...

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1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. 1930 - Events. January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City). February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto February 18 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane. 1930 - March. ...

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