Aug 16 Events in History

1691 - Yorktown Virginia founded (Sky Today)

  Events from history that occurred … on this day! 2011 Concerns about the European economy are heightened as Germany reports second quarter growth of only 0.1% 2011 In England, two men who created a Facebook site to incite violence during the riots are sentenced to four years imprisonment 2010 U.S. military forces use an air [...]

Banks Hit the Gas on Car Loans (VIDEO)

Banks Hit the Gas on Car Loans

  Banks and investors, still wary about lending to Americans for mortgages and almost everything else, are eagerly lending them money to buy cars, nourishing one of the few sectors of the consumer economy that is doing well. Neil Shah has details on The News Hub. By  WSJDigitalNetwork    Source:  Youtube

Flight 001 offers unique travel products (VIDEO)

Flight 001 offers unique travel products

  Check out this funky fuselage-shaped store which offers everything you can think of when it comes to travel products. By  CNN Source: Youtube

Aug 15 Events in History

1519 - Panama City founded

  Events from history that occurred … on this day! 2011 Snow on New Zealand’s North and South Islands disrupts power supplies, causes road closures and closure of the Wellington International Airport 2011 The trial of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarek and sons, Alaa and Gamall is adjourned and merged with that of former Interior Minister Habib [...]

Canary Islands Hit By Wildfires: Foreign Office Urges Brits To Stay In Touch (PICTURES)

Smoke billows across houses as a wildfire burns near Chipude Village, La Gomera

  Britons are being urged to stay in touch with the Foreign Office as wildfires rage in the Canary Islands, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. Fires on the Canary islands of La Gomera and Tenerife, a favourite of UK holidaymakers, have led to the evacuation of up to 5,000 residents and the cutting [...]

Aug 14 Events in History

1848 - Oregon Territory created

  Events from history that occurred … on this day! 2011 2012 Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty withdraws from his campaign to win the Republican Party nomination 2011 U.S golfer Keegan Bradley defeats Jason Dufner in a playoff, winning the United States 2011 PGA Championship 2010 Abd-al-Rahman Awad, the suspected leader of Fatah al-Islam, the radical Sunni [...]

Helen Gurley Brown Dead: Legendary Cosmopolitan Editor Dies At 90

Helen Gurley Brown

  NEW YORK (AP) — Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who invited millions of women to join the sexual revolution, has died. She was 90. Brown died Monday at a hospital in New York after a brief hospitalization, Hearst CEO Frank A. Bennack, Jr. said in a statement. “Sex and the [...]

Dam Collapse in Zhejiang Kills 11 After Typhoon Haikui (VIDEO)

Dam Collapse in Zhejiang Kills 11 After Typhoon Haikui

  Eleven people died after a dam collapsed in the early morning hours of Friday (August 10), wiping out a village in the eastern province of Zhejiang, China’s state media reported. By  NTDTV Source: Youtube


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