04-24-2005, 05:26 AM
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Location: Maryland
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April 24th
1731 ~ Death of Daniel Defoe, English Writer
1856 ~ Birthday of Henri Philippe Pétain, Soldier & Statesman
1905 ~ Birthday of Robert Penn Warren, Writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, first American Poet Laureate
1916 ~ Easter Uprising began: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalist Patrick Pearse started a rebellion in Ireland.
1967 ~ Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1.
1975 ~ The Baader-Meinhof Gang blew up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
1986 ~ Death of Wallis Simpson, Mistress and Wife of The Duke of Windsor
1990 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.
1993 ~ An IRA bomb devastated the Bishopsgate area of City of London.
2004 ~ Death of Estée Lauder, Cosmetics pioneer.
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