04-30-2006, 06:20 AM
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April 30th
1777 ~ Birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician, Astronomer & Physicist.
1803 ~ The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
1877 ~ Birthday of Alice B. Toklas, Muse and Brownie Chef.
1883 ~ Death of Édouard Manet, Impressionist Painter.
1916 ~ Birthday of Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory”
1938 ~ Birthday of Larry Niven, Science Fiction author.
1945 ~ Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide after being married for one day.
1948 ~ The Land Rover was introduced.
1975 ~ The South Vietnamese government in Saigon announced its unconditional surrender to the Vietcong.
1993 ~ CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to everyone.
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