04-14-2005, 12:36 AM
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Loungin' Around
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: West Coast
Posts: 30,587
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April 14th
Information prepared by jseal, who is visiting a college with his son.
1629 ~ Birthday of Christiaan Huygens, Mathematician.
1759 ~ Death of Georg Friedrich Handel, Composer.
1828 ~ Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.
1865 ~ Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
1904 ~ Birthday of Sir John Gielgud, Actor.
1912 ~ RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
1935 ~ Death of Amalie Emmy Noether, Mathematician.
1964 ~ Death of Rachel Carson, Writer & Ecologist.
1969 ~ At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar.
2003 ~ Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeated Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections.
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