04-05-2005, 03:51 AM
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April 5th
1588 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
1614 ~ In Virginia, Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1792 ~ U.S. President George Washington vetoed a bill. This was the first time the presidential veto was used.
1827 ~ Birthday of Joseph Lister, Surgeon.
1908 ~ Birthday of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor.
1930 ~ In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1951 ~ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1955 ~ Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the U.K. due to failing health.
1964 ~ Death of General Douglas MacArthur, US Army.
1976 ~ Death of Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer.
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04-06-2005, 03:54 AM
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1652 ~ Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which eventually developed into Cape Town.
1804 ~ The first scientifically recorded meteor landed in Possil, in north Glasgow, Scotland.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw.
1890 ~ Birthday of Anthony Fokker, Dutch Aircraft Designer.
1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, winner 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1930 ~ Hostess Twinkies were invented.
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Author.
1994 ~ The Rwandan Genocide began when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down.
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04-07-2005, 04:59 AM
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April 7th
1614 ~ Death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist.
1770 ~ Birthday of William Wordsworth, English poet.
1795 ~ France adopted the metre as the unit of length
1891 ~ Death of P. T. Barnum, circus impresario.
1947 ~ Death of Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and industrialist.
1953 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld was elected United Nations Secretary General.
1964 ~ IBM announced the System/360.
1968 ~ Death of im Clark, racing driver.
1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
2003 ~ U.S. troops captured Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's regime fell two days later.
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04-08-2005, 05:12 AM
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April 8th
1848 ~ Death of Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer.
1889 ~ Birthday of Sir Adrien Boult, English conductor.
1899 ~ Martha Place became the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.
1913 ~ The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified requiring direct election of Senators.
1919 ~ Birthday of Ian Smith, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
1950 ~ Death of Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer.
1953 ~ Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta was convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
1973 ~ Death of Pablo Picasso, artist.
1983 ~ Death of Omar Bradley, general.
1992 ~ Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announced to the world that he had AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
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04-09-2005, 04:29 AM
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April 9th
1682 ~ Robert de LaSalle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River, claimed it for France and named it Louisiana.
1865 ~ American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
1906 ~ Birthday of Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor.
1919 ~ Birthday of J. Presper Eckert, inventor of the ENIAC computer.
1926 ~ Birthday of Hugh Hefner, Editor & Publisher.
1928 ~ Birthday of Tom Lehrer, Musician & Satirist.,
1940 ~ World War II: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.
1959 ~ Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect.
1991 ~ Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 ~ John Major won the UK general election.
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04-10-2005, 06:43 AM
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April 10th
1794 ~ Birthday of Matthew Perry, American Commodore who forced the opening of Japan to the West
1847 ~ Birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist & Publisher
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic left port in Southampton, England.
1919 ~ Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and shot dead by government forces.
1931 ~ Death of Khalil Gibran - Lebanese Poet
1941 ~ World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe established the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia.
1954 ~ Death of Auguste Lumière, Cinema Pioneer.
1966 ~ Death of Evelyn Waugh, Writer.
1970 ~ Paul McCartney announced that The Beatles have broken up.
1998 ~ The Belfast Agreement was signed.
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04-11-2005, 05:12 AM
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April 11th
1774 ~ Last execution for witchcraft in Germany.
1814 ~ Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to Elba.
1893 ~ Birthday of Dean Acheson, former United States Secretary of State.
1899 ~ Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States.
1906 ~ Death of James Anthony Bailey, co-founder with Phineas Taylor Barnum of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
1945 ~ World War II: United States forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 ~ Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1961 ~ Bob Dylan made his singing début in New York City.
1970 ~ Apollo 13 was launched.
1979 ~ Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deposed.
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04-12-2005, 05:09 AM
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April 12th
65 ~ Death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Philosopher, Dramatist & Statesman.
1606 ~ The Union Jack was adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
1861 ~ American Civil War: The war began with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1884 ~ Birthday of Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1922.
1895 ~ Birthday of Lily Pons, Opera Soprano.
1937 ~ Sir Frank Whittle ground-tested the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England.
1940 ~ Birthday of Herbie Hancock, Musician.
1944 ~ Birthday of John Kay, of Steppenwolf.
1961 ~ Russians win space race: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space aboard Vostok 1.
1984 ~ Arthur Scargill, the man who led the destruction of the National Union of Mineworkers ruled out a national ballot of miners on whether to continue their strike.
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04-13-2005, 05:08 AM
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April 13th
1570 ~ Birthday of Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator.
1598 ~ King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1743 ~ Birthday of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States.
1826 ~ Death of Franz Danzi, German composer.
1829 ~ The British Parliament granted freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1861 ~ American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrendered
1892 ~ Birthday of Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, commander of RAF's Bomber Command in World War II.
1943 ~ World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre was announced in Germany.
1987 ~ Portugal and China signed an agreement in which the island of Macao would be returned to China in 1999.
1990 ~ The Soviet Union admitted committing the Katyn Massacre.
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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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April 15th
1452 ~ Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci
1707 ~ Birthday of Leonhard Euler, Mathematician.
1802 ~ William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to write I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1920 ~ Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
1924 ~ Birthday of Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor & Violinist.
1924 ~ Rand McNally published its first road atlas.
1947 ~ Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.
1980 ~ Death of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Writer.
1994 ~ Globalization: Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities signed the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and created the World Trade Organization.
1998 ~ Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Dictator.
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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney
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04-16-2005, 06:10 AM
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April 16th
1071 ~ Bari fell to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1867 ~ Birthday of Wilbur Wright, Pioneer Pilot.
1889 ~ Birthday of Charlie Chaplin, Actor, Writer & Film Producer.
1912 ~ Harriett Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1918 ~ Birthday of Spike Milligan, Comedian.
1921 ~ Birthday of Peter Ustinov, Writer, Actor & Film Director.
1927 ~ Birthday of Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinal.
1943 ~ Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1947 ~ Bernard Baruch coined the term Cold War to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
2001 ~ First 3G voice call on Vodafone UK's 3G network.
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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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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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April 19th
1587 ~ Sir Francis Drake sank the Spanish fleet in Cadiz Harbor.
1770 ~ Captain James Cook spotted Australia.
1861 ~ American Civil War: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland attacked Federal Army troops marching through the city.
1881 ~ Death of Benjamin Disraeli, former Prime Minister of the U.K.
1882 ~ Death of Charles Darwin, Biologist & Author.
1912 ~ Birthday of Glenn Seaborg, Chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
1956 ~ Actress Grace Kelly married Rainier III of Monaco.
1989 ~ Death of Daphne du Maurier, Author.
1993 ~ The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas ended when a fire broke out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 ~ Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed, killing 168.
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