Case against John Mark Karr dropped

Todays events:

• 13 hour bank robbery ends with no injuries in Setúbal, Portugal
  
• Child pornography case against John Mark Karr dropped
  
• Halloween faces pumpkin shortage
  
• Possible eruption at Ruapehu Volcano in New Zealand
  
• First plane arrival for more than 10 years to renewed airport in Grozny, Russia
  
• Rocket launcher found near Pakistani parliament
  
• US government 'can continue' eavesdropping
  
• Haze in South East Asia worsens

Today is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. 279th in Leap years.
Did you know that in year 1582, Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Gregorian Calendar?
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The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull Inter gravissimas. Its years are numbered based on the traditional birth year of Jesus Christ, which is labeled the "anno Domini" era [1].

The Gregorian Calendar was devised both because the mean year in the Julian Calendar was slightly too long, causing the vernal equinox to slowly drift backwards in the calendar year, and because the lunar calendar used to compute the date of Easter had grown conspicuously in error as well.

The Gregorian calendar system dealt with these problems by dropping a certain number of days to bring the calendar back into synchronization with the seasons, and then slightly shortening the average number of days in a calendar year, by omitting three Julian leap-days every 400 years.
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According to history:

• 2001 :Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• 1991 :An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
• 1947 :The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
• 1944 :Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
• 1930 :British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
• 1921 :Baseball: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
• 1915 :Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
• 1910 :Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.