04-07-2006, 05:23 AM
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April 7th
1614 ~ Death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist.
1770 ~ Birthday of William Wordsworth, English poet.
1795 ~ France adopted the meter as the unit of length.
1891 ~ Death of P. T. Barnum, Circus Impresario.
1947 ~ Death of Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and industrialist.
1953 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld was elected United Nations Secretary General.
1964 ~ IBM announced the System/360.
1968 ~ Death of Jim Clark, racing driver.
1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of the first Request for Comment (RFC).
2003 ~ U.S. troops captured Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's regime fell two days later.
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