Peristiwa Dunia, Mitos & Sejarah

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Oct 2, 1879:
Wallace Stevens is born

On this day in 1879, poet Wallace Stevens is born in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Stevens followed the footsteps of his father, a Reading lawyer and teacher who wrote poetry on the side. Stevens attended Harvard but left after three years. He knew he wanted to devote his life to literature but early on decided not to "make a petty struggle for existence." He worked briefly in journalism, then went to law school in 1904 and practiced law in New York for several years while writing poetry.

In 1914, Poetry magazine published his poetry for the first time. Stevens became friends with other New York poets, including William Carlos Williams (a doctor) and Marianne Moore. In 1916, he joined the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and moved with his wife to Hartford, where he lived for the rest of his life. He worked hard during the day and wrote at night and during vacations. In 1923, he published his first book of poetry, Harmonium. The book was a critical success, though fewer than 100 copies were sold. It contained poems that are still anthologized today, including "Sunday Morning" and "The Emperor of Ice Cream." He didn't publish another book for six years. In the meantime, he prospered at work and became a vice president of the insurance company in 1934.

The following year, he published Ideas of Order, and during the next two decades he published nine more collections. Only in his later years was this quiet man recognized as a major poet. His Collected Poems (1954) won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. His work explored the meeting of the real world and the imagination in poetry and art. His writing was elegant, restrained, and funny. Although his poems are calm and disciplined, they celebrate the beauty and intensity of life. Stevens died in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... ace-stevens-is-born

            

anniez08

PELANCARAN KD HANG TUAH

Pada hari ini 2.10.1964, Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Malaysia ke Great Britain, Y.M. Tengku Yaacob Ibni Almarhum Sultan Hamid telah melancarkan sebuah kapal perang baru untuk angkatan Tentera Laut di Raja Malaysia yang diberi nama K.D. Hang Tuah. Majlis pelancaran telah diadakan di Portmouth England dan telah dihadiri oleh 'Vice Admiral' F.H.E. Hopkins serta isteri. Turut hadir ialah isteri kepada Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Malaysia, Y.M. Tengku Maimunah. Kapal ini dahulunya dikenali dengan H.M.S. Lord Anns dan dibeli oleh Kerajaan Malaysia bagi tujuan memperbesarkan lagi angkatan Tentera Laut di Raja Malaysia. Langkah ini adalah untuk memperhebatkan lagi kawalan ke atas kawasan perairan Malaysia berikutan dengan ancaman lanun ke atas nelayan-nelayan kita. Di samping itu juga, usaha ini merupakan rancangan Kementerian Pertahanan yang sedang menambah beberapa buah kapal perang, kapal penyapu periuk api dan melatih rekrut-rekrut baru di dalam angkatan Tentera Laut Di Raja Malaysia sejak tahun 1961. Kapal ini dijangka akan bertolak pulang ke Malaysia pada pertengahan bulan November setelah menjalani percubaan pelayaran di Lautan England. Pelancaran K.D. Hang Tuah pada hari ini tahun 1964 akan menambahkan lagi kekuatan pasukan tentera laut kita dalam usaha mengawal keselamatan negara.

credit to: arkib negara

fliip_183

Oct 3, 1990:
East and West Germany reunite after 45 years



Less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together on what is known as "Unity Day." Since 1945, when Soviet forces occupied eastern Germany, and the United States and other Allied forces occupied the western half of the nation at the close of World War II, divided Germany had come to serve as one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War. Some of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War took place there. The Berlin Blockade (June 1948--May 1949), during which the Soviet Union blocked all ground travel into West Berlin, and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 were perhaps the most famous. With the gradual waning of Soviet power in the late 1980s, the Communist Party in East Germany began to lose its grip on power. Tens of thousands of East Germans began to flee the nation, and by late 1989 the Berlin Wall started to come down. Shortly thereafter, talks between East and West German officials, joined by officials from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR, began to explore the possibility of reunification. Two months following reunification, all-German elections took place and Helmut Kohl became the first chancellor of the reunified Germany. Although this action came more than a year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, for many observers the reunification of Germany effectively marked the end of the Cold War.

Sources: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... nite-after-45-years

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TODAY IN HISTORY - East and West Germany Reunite After 45 Years

Less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together on what is known as "Unity Day." Since 1945, when Soviet forces occupied eastern Germany, and the United States and other Allied forces occupied the western half of the nation at the close of World War II, divided Germany had come to serve as one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War. Some of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War took place there. The Berlin Blockade (June 1948--May 1949), during which the Soviet Union blocked all ground travel into West Berlin, and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 were perhaps the most famous. With the gradual waning of Soviet power in the late 1980s, the Communist Party in East Germany began to lose its grip on power. Tens of thousands of East Germans began to flee the nation, and by late 1989 the Berlin Wall started to come down. Shortly thereafter, talks between East and West German officials, joined by officials from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR, began to explore the possibility of reunification. Two months following reunification, all-German elections took place and Helmut Kohl became the first chancellor of the reunified Germany. Although this action came more than a year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, for many observers the reunification of Germany effectively marked the end of the Cold War.

Source : History Channel

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Dua Penerjun Cipta Sejarah Negara

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1999, Kapten (B) Abdul Rahman Omar dan Lefternan (B) A. Aziz Ahmad mencatat sejarah negara apabila menjadi kumpulan pertama melakukan terjunan Base dari ketinggian 300 meter di Menara Kuala Lumpur. Acara ini diadakan sempena dengan ulang tahun ketiga Menara Kuala Lumpur. Terjunan dilakukan pada jam 9.30 pagi bersama-sama perunding terjunan Base berpengalaman Martin Dumas. Kedua-dua penerjun pernah mencatat sejarah dengan melakukan terjunan di Kutub Utara pada tahun 1998. Terjunan di menara ini dibuat pada ketinggian 300 meter hampir satu pertiga daripada paras minimum. Terjunan Base lebih sukar daripada terjunan biasa kerana ketinggian lazim bagi sesuatu terjunan adalah 800 meter untuk membolehkan penerjun membuka paying terjun dengan selamat. Kejayaan kedua-dua penerjuan ini telah dicatatkan dalam Malaysia Books of Records sebagai penerjun terjunan Base yang pertama dilakukan di Malaysia.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

punkerzoe

Oct 4, 1990:
Beverly Hills 90210 debuts

                On this day in 1990, Beverly Hills, 90210, a TV drama about a group of teenagers living in upscale Beverly Hills, California, debuts on Fox; it will eventually become one of the top-rated shows on the new “fourth network,” which launched in 1986. Created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling, the show turned its relatively unknown cast of actors, including Luke Perry, Jason Priestley and Tori Spelling (Aaron’s daughter), into household names. It also tackled a number of topical issues ranging from domestic abuse to teen pregnancy to AIDS and paved the way for other popular teen dramas, including Dawson’s Creek and The O.C.


Beverly Hills, 90210 originally centered around Brenda (Shannen Dougherty) and Brandon Walsh (Priestley), middle-class high-school-age twins from Minnesota who relocate to ritzy Beverly Hills with their parents. The Walshes attend the fictional West Beverly Hills High School, along with bad boy Dylan (Perry), popular blonde Kelly (Jennie Garth), rich kid Steve (Ian Ziering), virginal Donna (Spelling) and nerdy David (Brian Austin Green). Over the course of the show’s 10 seasons, the characters became entangled in numerous love triangles, graduated from high school and moved on to college and careers.


The show was the first big hit for the screenwriter and producer Darren Star, who went on to create the 90210 spinoff Melrose Place, which originally aired from 1992 to 1999, and the popular HBO TV series Sex and the City, which originally aired from 1998 to 2004. Aaron Spelling, who died in 2006 at the age of 83, was one of the most prolific producers in the history of television. Spelling’s credits include The Mod Squad, Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty, Starsky and Hutch, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and 7th Heaven.


The final episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 aired on May 17, 2000. A new version of the show, titled 90210, premiered on September 2, 2008. The show follows a Kansas family who moves to Beverly Hills. Of the original Beverly Hills, 90210, cast, Jennie Garth reprises her role as Kelly, now a guidance counselor at West Beverly Hills High, while Shannon Doherty has guest starred as Brenda, who has become an actress.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... -hills-90210-debuts

            

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Oct 4, 1957:
Sputnik launched





The Soviet Union inaugurates the "Space Age" with its launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for "satellite," was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic. Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Traveling at 18,000 miles an hour, its elliptical orbit had an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 584 miles and a perigee (nearest point) of 143 miles. Visible with binoculars before sunrise or after sunset, Sputnik transmitted radio signals back to Earth strong enough to be picked up by amateur radio operators. Those in the United States with access to such equipment tuned in and listened in awe as the beeping Soviet spacecraft passed over America several times a day. In January 1958, Sputnik's orbit deteriorated, as expected, and the spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere.

Officially, Sputnik was launched to correspond with the International Geophysical Year, a solar period that the International Council of Scientific Unions declared would be ideal for the launching of artificial satellites to study Earth and the solar system. However, many Americans feared more sinister uses of the Soviets' new rocket and satellite technology, which was apparently strides ahead of the U.S. space effort. Sputnik was some 10 times the size of the first planned U.S. satellite, which was not scheduled to be launched until the next year. The U.S. government, military, and scientific community were caught off guard by the Soviet technological achievement, and their united efforts to catch up with the Soviets heralded the beginning of the "space race."

The first U.S. satellite, Explorer, was launched on January 31, 1958. By then, the Soviets had already achieved another ideological victory when they launched a dog into orbit aboard Sputnik 2. The Soviet space program went on to achieve a series of other space firsts in the late 1950s and early 1960s: first man in space, first woman, first three men, first space walk, first spacecraft to impact the moon, first to orbit the moon, first to impact Venus, and first craft to soft-land on the moon. However, the United States took a giant leap ahead in the space race in the late '60s with the Apollo lunar-landing program, which successfully landed two Apollo 11 astronauts on the surface of the moon in July 1969.

Sources: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sputnik-launched

anniez08

               

Oct 5, 1947: First presidential speech on TV

Harry Truman

On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans. At the time of Truman's food-conservation speech, Europe was still recovering from World War II and suffering from famine. Truman, the 33rd commander in chief, worried that if the U.S. didn't provide food aid, his administration's Marshall Plan for European economic recovery would fall apart. He asked farmers and distillers to reduce grain use and requested that the public voluntarily forgo meat on Tuesdays, eggs and poultry on Thursdays and save a slice of bread each day. The food program was short-lived, as ultimately the Marshall Plan succeeded in helping to spur economic revitalization and growth in Europe. In 1947, television was still in its infancy and the number of TV sets in U.S. homes only numbered in the thousands (by the early 1950s, millions of Americans owned TVs); most people listened to the radio for news and entertainment. However, although the majority of Americans missed Truman's TV debut, his speech signaled the start of a powerful and complex relationship between the White House and a medium that would have an enormous impact on the American presidency, from how candidates campaigned for the office to how presidents communicated with their constituents. Each of Truman's subsequent White House speeches, including his 1949 inauguration address, was televised. In 1948, Truman was the first presidential candidate to broadcast a paid political ad. Truman pioneered the White House telecast, but it was President Franklin Roosevelt who was the first president to appear on TV--from the World's Fair in New York City on April 30, 1939. FDR's speech had an extremely limited TV audience, though, airing only on receivers at the fairgrounds and at Radio City in Manhattan.

credit to: www.history.com

                           

anniez08

PESAWAT PERTAMA BUATAN MALAYSIA EAGLE X-TS DIPERKENALKAN-Tarikh Peristiwa pada 05-10-1993

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1993, pesawat pertama buatan Malaysia, Eagle X-TS telah diperkenalkan. Ia telah dikeluarkan daripada tempat simpanan kapal terbang Henderson dekat Perth, Australia Barat. Pada mulanya, Projek Eagle X-TS dijalankan oleh sebuah Syarikat Australia tetapi telah mengalami beberapa masalah. Selepas itu, sebuah syarikat Malaysia milik penuh Perbadanan Menteri Kewangan iaitu Composite Technology Research (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. Telah menyelamatkan projek tersebut apabila ia membeli 50 peratus saham Syarikat Australia itu pada Disember 1990.
Pembabitan Malaysia dalam projek tersebut bukan sahaja dalam bentuk pertambahan modal malah membabitkan pengurusan, kawalan mutu dan pengeluaran. Sepasukan jurutera, juruteknik dan pengurus Malaysia telah dihantar untuk membina pesawat tersebut dengan bantuan pihak Australia. Pembinaan pesawat Eagle X-TS memakan masa dua setengah tahun. Sesungguhnya, penciptaan pesawat Eagle X-TS buatan Malaysia diharap akan dapat meningkatkan lagi pembabitan Malaysia dalam perindustrian kapal terbang. Kejayaan ini telah mengharumkan nama Malaysia di mata dunia.

credit to: amateurians.blogspot.com

cikatilia

Germany 2006 Germany Mass Graves Found 5th October, 2006 : Fifty-one skeletons, twenty-nine adults and twenty-two children, were found in a mass grave in a cemetery at a Catholic church in Menden-Barge, Germany. The remains are believed to be from victims of the Nazi-era euthanasia program, “Action T4”, and one witness stated that during World War II, he saw bodies being brought to the site by a horse-drawn cart.




The skeletons of 20 children and five adults believed to be victims of the Nazi euthanasia program have been found in a mass grave in western Germany, officials said Thursday.Two men working on the excavation site in Menden
25 victims of the Nazi euthanasia program are believed to have been buried in Menden
The bones of 20 children were discovered this week during excavation work at a cemetery in the German town of Menden, close to where a World War II hospital run by Hitler's personal physician Karl Brandt was located.
The children, aged from one to seven years, were found alongside the bodies of five adults, Hans-Bernd Besa-von Werden, a spokesman for the district administration said.
Investigations of two of the children's skulls indicated the victims might have been handicapped.
Euthanasia victims
Two men bent over the burial site in Menden The skeletons discovered in Menden were not buried in caskets
The prosecutor's office in the nearby city of Dortmund said there were indications the deaths might be related to euthanasia, which was secretly practiced by the Nazis from 1939 to 1941.
Some 70,000 people with physical or intellectual disabilities perished in the euthanasia program, which the Nazis believed was necessary to cleanse the German people of racially unsound elements.
Those who were deemed "unworthy to live" by showing symptoms of mental retardation or physical handicap were sent to the so-called killing facilities, where they were murdered by lethal injections or exposure to carbon monoxide gas.
An open secret
The Nazi euthanasia program, which became an open secret in the Third Reich, was officially terminated in 1941 in the wake of protests from members of the German clergy.
The practice, however, clandestinely continued until the end of World War II with an ever wider range of victims, which included geriatric patients, bombing victims and forced laborers.
Karl Brandt, who was in charge of the program, was executed for war crimes in 1948.

Karl Brandt

novelloverzz

cikatilia posted on 5-10-2013 03:13 PM
Germany 2006 Germany Mass Graves Found 5th October, 2006 : Fifty-one skeletons, twenty-nine adults a ...

kejam giler..

utk apa euthanasia program ni?

cikatilia

novelloverzz posted on 5-10-2013 03:35 PM
kejam giler..

utk apa euthanasia program ni?

The term "euthanasia" (literally, "good death") usually refers to the inducement of a painless death for a chronically or terminally ill individual who would otherwise suffer. In the Nazi context, however, "euthanasia" represented a euphemistic term for a clandestine murder program which targeted for systematic killing mentally and physically disabled patients living in institutional settings in Germany and German-annexed territories.

huhuhu
membunuh org2 yang cacat and also kurang upaya gitu..
cara?
Various methods of deception were used to gain consent – particularly in Catholic areas, where parents were generally uncooperative. Parents were told that their children were being sent to "Special Sections" for children, where they would receive improved treatment.[41] The children sent to these centres were kept for "assessment" for a few weeks and then killed by injection of toxic chemicals, typically phenol; their deaths were recorded as "pneumonia". Autopsies were usually performed, and brain samples were taken to be used for "medical research." This apparently helped to ease the consciences of many of those involved, since it gave them the feeling that the children had not died in vain, and that the whole programme had a genuine medical purpose.[42]

novelloverzz

cikatilia posted on 5-10-2013 03:49 PM
The term "euthanasia" (literally, "good death") usually refers to the inducement of a painless dea ...

mana ada painless death... siannya yg terlibat dalam program tu..

jarikuku

HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Misbun Pemain Badminton Bertaraf Profesional Yang Pertama Dari Asia Tenggara

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1983, Mohamed Misbun bin Sidek mencatat sejarah menjadi pemain badminton bertaraf professional yang pertama dari Asia Tenggara apabila memeterai kontrak selama tiga tahun dengan ‘International Manangement Group’ (IMG) di Kuala Lumpur. Misbun merupakan pemain badminton negara pertama mencapai taraf antarabangsa ketika berusia 24 tahun dan pemilihan adalah berdasarkan kebolehan beliau dan keiginan untuk menjadi pemain badminton utama di dunia. Perjanjian dibuat dengan Pengurus IMG, Roddy Carr, disaksikan oleh Presiden Persatuan Badminton Malaysia Encik Mohd Khir Johari. Mula menyinar apabila muncul sebagai johan perseorangan badminton daerah Banting pada tahun 1976. Pada tahun 1976 sehingga 1979, Misbun menjuarai perseorangan Lelaki Bawah Umur 18 tahun Kebangsaan dan dipilih menyertai skuad Piala Thomas serta menyertai Kejohanan All England. Pada tahun 1981 beliau berjaya menjuarai Perseorangan Terbuka Jerman, Juara perseorangan Kebangsaan Malaysia, memperolehi Pingat Emas Perseorangan Sukan SEA dan di pilih Olahragawan Kebangsaan. Pada tahun-tahun berikutnya, diantara kejayaan beliau ialah menjuarai Perseorangan Terbuka Sweden, Kanada, juara perseorangan Kebangsaan, Naib Juara perseorangan Piala Dunia, menjuarai perseorangan Piala Konica dan Terbuka Chinese Taipei. Pada tahun 1990, beliau dilantik menjadi jurulatih negara dan berjaya mendidik pemain-pemain pelapis sehingga menjadi pemain yang digeruni lawan.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

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TODAY IN HISTORY - 2001: US Launches Air Strikes Against Taliban

The United States has begun its military campaign, Operation Enduring Freedom, against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan.

Cruise missiles and bombers have targeted the airports of Kandahar and Kabul and terrorist training camps near Jalalabad.

The attacks which began around 1630 GMT were quickly followed by a public broadcast from President Bush who promised a "sustained and relentless" campaign.

The Taleban has condemned the strikes and says it shot down a plane, a claim denied by the Americans.

Up to 50 cruise missiles are reported to have been launched from submarines in the Arabian Sea.

The US also flew in B52 bombers stationed on the island of Diego Garcia, and B2 Stealth bombers direct from the US itself.

Tony Blair confirmed the initial strikes involved a British contribution by HMS Illustrious and a small number of submarines.

They form part of a US-British naval coalition gathered in the region within striking distance of Afghanistan, including two US aircraft carriers.

Speaking at a news conference, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, said key targets would be terrorist training camps and Taleban communications, fighter planes and air defence installations.

But the Pentagon says it will be mounting operations from the air and the ground, and defence experts say special forces are likely to be used soon into the campaign.

'No neutral ground'

In his broadcast, George Bush underlined America's commitment to pursue terrorism in light of the events of 11 September.

He warned there was "no neutral ground" and that any government sponsoring terrorism would be taking a "lonely path at their own peril."

The US administration has repeatedly rejected Taleban offers to bargain over the fate of its guest, Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden.

The al-Qaeda leader, who is accused of plotting the 11 September attacks, also released a speech to time with the strikes.

In a message delivered to Al-Jazeera television, an Arabic news channel, he sought to portray the bombing as part of a wider war of two sides, the "side of faith, and the side of infidelity".

Tony Blair pledged Britain's commitment to the campaign and stressed it would be fought on three fronts - military, diplomatic and humanitarian.

Source : BBC News

jarikuku

TODAY IN HISTORY - Great Chicago Fire Begins

On this day in 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million (in 1871 dollars; $3 billion in 2007 dollars) in damages. Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in the O'Leary barn and started the fire, but other theories hold that humans or even a comet may have been responsible for the event that left four square miles of the Windy City, including its business district, in ruins. Dry weather and an abundance of wooden buildings, streets and sidewalks made Chicago vulnerable to fire. The city averaged two fires per day in 1870; there were 20 fires throughout Chicago the week before the Great Fire of 1871.

Despite the fire's devastation, much of Chicago's physical infrastructure, including its water, sewage and transportation systems, remained intact. Reconstruction efforts began quickly and spurred great economic development and population growth, as architects laid the foundation for a modern city featuring the world's first skyscrapers. At the time of the fire, Chicago's population was approximately 324,000; within nine years, there were 500,000 Chicagoans. By 1893, the city was a major economic and transportation hub with an estimated population of 1.5 million. That same year, Chicago was chosen to host the World's Columbian Exposition, a major tourist attraction visited by 27.5 million people, or approximately half the U.S. population at the time.

In 1997, the Chicago City Council exonerated Mrs. O'Leary and her cow. She turned into a recluse after the fire, and died in 1895.

Source : History Channel

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - UNESCO Serah Sijil Perakuan Pengisytiharan Melaka Dan Georgetown

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 2008, Pertubuhan Pendidikan, Saintifik dan Kebudayaan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (UNESCO) menyerahkan sijil yang memperakukan pengisytiharan Melaka dan Georgetown sebagai tapak warisan dunia. Presiden Suruhanjaya Kebangsaan Malaysia untuk Unesco Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein menerima sijil itu bagi pihak Malaysia dan Menteri Perpaduan, Kebudayaan, Kesenian dan Warisan Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal daripada ketua Pengarah Unesco Koichiro Matsuura di Paris, Peranchis. Pada 7 Julai 2008, Unesco mengiktiraf Melaka dan George Town sebagai tapak warisan dunia. Tapak warisan dunia merupakan kawasan tertentu seperti hutan, gunung, tasik, padang pasir, monumen, bangunan, kompleks atau bandar yang telah dinamakan dan diiktiraf oleh Program Warisan Dunia Unesco yang dikendalikan Jawatankuasa Warisan Dunia. Kawasan utama meliputi kawasan bersejarah sekitar George Town, termasuk enklaf bersejarah Lebuh Acheh dan kawasan-kawasan seperti Masjid Melayu Lebuh Acheh, Masjid Kapitan Kling, Kuil Sri Mariamman, Khoo Kongsi, Gereja St George, Institusi St Xavier, Little India, bangunan mahkamah dan muzium, Fort Cornwallis dan Esplenade. Di Melaka, antara tempat yang diiktiraf sebagai tapak warisan dunia ialah kawasan sekitar St Paul Hill, Jonker Street, Jalan Tukang Besi, Kampung Morten dan Sungai Melaka.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

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PERASMIAN IBU PEJABAT FELDA


Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1983, majlis upacara perasmian bangunan ibu pejabat FELDA telah disempurnakan oleh Dato’ Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad di Jalan Perumahan Gurney, Kuala Lumpur.  Dalam ucapannya, Dr. Mahathir menyatakan bahawa terdirinya Ibu Pejabat FELDA yang baru ini perlu dijadikan titik permulaan kepada tekad dan kegigihan yang tinggi bukan sahaja kepada anggota organisasi FELDA tetapi juga kepada para peneroka dan masyarakat desa amnya.  Dalam majlis tersebut juga, Dr. Mahathir telah menyampaikan Pingat Semai Bakti kepada kakitangan FELDA dan Pingat Emas kepada Ketua-Ketua Peneroka.  FELDA atau Lembaga Kemajuan Tanah Persekutuan merupakan sebuah agensi pembangunan tanah utama di Malaysia.  Ia telah ditubuhkan pada 1 Julai 1956 di bawah Akta Kemajuan Tanah 1956 hasil daripada syor Jawatankuasa Kerja Kerajaan.  Sehingga kini, FELDA telah membuka dan membangunkan lebih kurang 480 buah kawasan baru berjumlah seluas 853,313 hektar yang dijadikan sebagai kawasan pertanian, perladangan dan penempatan.  Sesungguhnya, FELDA memainkan peranan penting dalam usaha untuk meningkatkan pembangunan ekonomi dan sosial serta membawa kepada kestabilan politik negara.

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Perasmian Bangunan Pejabat Pos Besar Kuala Lumpur

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1984, YAB Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad merasmikan pembukaan bangunan Pejabat Pos Besar, Kuala Lumpur. Pejabat Pos Besar ini telah siap dibina dengan kos sebanyak RM 55.5 juta terletak di dalam kawasan Kompleks Dayabumi, di atas sebidang tanah seluas 8,496 meter persegi. Dalam ucapan perasmian, YAB Perdana Menteri menyatakan bahawa pemodenan di dalam perkhidmatan pos amat diperlukan dengan mengambil kira kemajuan terkini dalam teknologi pos termasuk penggunaan komputer. Beliau juga menekankan pentingnya unsur-unsur perkhidmatan layanan mesra kakitangannya terutama di bahagian kaunter sesuai dengan slogan bersih, cekap dan amanah. Sesungguhnya pembukaan rasmi Bangunan Pejabat Pos Besar Kuala Lumpur yang juga menempatkan ibu pejabat pos negara menjadi nadi perkhidmatan pos di negara ini serta menggambarkan kemajuan yang pesat dalam perkhidmatan pos.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

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TODAY IN HISTORY - 9.10.1941: Beginning of the “Manhattan Project”

He asked the advice of his long-term colleague Lise Meitner, who had left Nazi Germany a few months earlier. She solved the puzzle: the uranium nuclei were split into two parts of equal size, barium nuclei. Based on the formula, E=mc2, this must lead to the release of vast amounts of energy.

When these findings were published, one thing very quickly became clear to all physicists: This so-called nuclear fission was the key to endless energy production, but also to a terrible weapon, the atom bomb.

In Germany, one of the first physicists to notice the potential of nuclear fission was Werner Heisenberg, and Joseph Goebbels gave him the go-ahead to carry out more detailed experiments.

In other parts of the world, politicians failed to realise the danger that such a weapon could pose – especially in the hands of the Nazis. There is a famous letter of warning that Einstein wrote to the American President Franklin Roosevelt, who expressed a polite disinterest.

In the Summer of 1941, rumours spread across the USA that the Germans were carrying out intensive research on a uranium bomb. Although many scientists considered this to be science fiction, the scientific consultant of the US President, Vannevar Bush, was alarmed. In spite of all uncertainty and other views, he classed the planning and construction of a uranium bomb as vital for the war effort and, on 9 October 1941, recommended that the President use all means in his power to make the project happen.

The project was estimated to cost 133 million dollars and was given the code name "Manhattan Project" because important preparatory work had been carried out at the Columbia University in the New York borough of Manhattan.

In spite of this, the project didn’t really get underway until the bombing of Pearl Harbour and the United States’ subsequent participation in the War. Brigadier General Leslie Groves was appointed project head. A very assertive man and a genius in leading large organisations, he summed up the aim of the Manhattan project as follows:

Leslie Groves: "To build an atom bomb as quickly as possible and thus end the War".

He realised right away that the scientists’ work was vital for the success of the project, but that the project as a whole could not be a scientific one. It was an enormous industrial venture.

And the project really was large: in the end, there were several production plants for extracting uranium and plutonium; the most important were in Hanford in the State of Washington, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In addition to several hundred scientists, over the years half a million people worked on the project in one way or another. At its height in the summer of 1944, the project employed 160,000 people.

It was kept perfectly secret. Nobody realised what was behind the widely distributed production plants and up until the end of the War no one in Congress discovered that the project even existed. By clever doctoring of several budget items, the project heads succeeded in acquiring increasingly large sums of money necessary for its continuation.

By the end of 1942, 500 million dollars had already been spent, which was two thirds above the original estimate, and by the end of the War this expenditure was to rise to two billion.

Historians believe these vast amounts of money had their very own consequences: The heads were no longer able to break off the project and it was vital that it be brought to a successful conclusion. And in this case, success meant the use of the bomb. There are serious speculations that the Americans even put off the Japanese surrender to enable them to use the bombs, which would mean the Manhattan project would have extended the War rather than shortening it.

Source : Deutsche Welle