04-18-2005, 06:04 AM
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April 18th
1480 ~ Birthday of Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
1772 ~ Birthday of David Ricardo, Economist.
1775 ~ Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons.
1819 ~ Birthday of Franz von Suppé, Croatian - Austrian composer.
1946 ~ The League of Nations dissolved itself.
1955 ~ Death of Albert Einstein, Scientist.
1958 ~ A federal court ruled that poet Ezra Pound should be released from an insane asylum.
1978 ~ The U.S. Senate narrowly backed President Carter's controversial Panama Canal treaty.
1983 ~ A suicide bomber destroyed the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
2005 ~ Papal conclave begins in the Sistine Chapel.
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