04-06-2006, 05:16 AM
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Location: Maryland
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw.
1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1933 ~ HostessTwinkies were invented.
1974 ~ ABBA won the 19th Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, singing "Waterloo".
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author.
1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital.
1998 ~ Death of Tammy Wynette, Country Singer.
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