04-17-2005, 05:30 AM
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April 17th
1521 ~ Martin Luther spoke at the Diet of Worms, and refused to recant his teachings.
1790 ~ Death of Benjamin Franklin, Politician, Inventor, Diplomat, & Printer.
1837 ~ Birthday of J.P. Morgan, Financier, Art Collector, & Philanthropist
1861 ~ American Civil War: Virginia seceded from the Union.
1894 ~ Birthday of Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician & Premier 1958-1964.
1903 ~ Birthday of Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist.
1924 ~ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios was formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
1961 ~ Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of American financed and trained Cuban refugees landed at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1984 ~ Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed by automatic gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London. She had been policing a small demonstration outside the embassy.
2003 ~ Death of Dr. Robert Atkins, noted for the Atkin's Diet.
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