03-25-2006, 10:18 AM
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March 25th
1634 ~ The first settlers arrived in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
1807 ~ The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1867 ~ Birthday of Arturo Toscanini, Conductor.
1881 ~ Birthday of Béla Bartók, Composer.
1918 ~ Death of Claude Debussy, Composer.
1942 ~ Birthday of Aretha Franklin, Singer.
1957 ~ The European Economic Community was established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1975 ~ King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1992 ~ Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1998 ~ President Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that ''we did not act quickly enough'' to stop the slaughter of one million Rwandans four years earlier.
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03-26-2006, 08:38 AM
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March 26th
1827 ~ Death of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer.
1874 ~ Birthday of Robert Frost, Poet.
1881 ~ Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about industrial pollution.
1892 ~ Death of Walt Whitman, Poet.
1904 ~ Birthday of Joseph Campbell, Author & Mythologist.
1911 ~ Birthday of Tennessee Williams, Playwright.
1964 ~ The musical ''Funny Girl'', starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway.
1971 ~ East Pakistan proclaimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh.
1979 ~ Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in Washington, DC.
1999 ~ The Melissa worm infected e-mail systems around the world.
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03-27-2006, 06:13 AM
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March 27th
1836 ~ Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1845 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist, awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics.
1863 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Royce, automobile pioneer.
1871 ~ First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 ~ Birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect.
1958 ~ Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union.
1968 ~ Death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
1972 ~ Death of M. C. Escher, Dutch artist.
1977 ~ Two jumbo jets collided on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.
2002 ~ Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber killed 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
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03-28-2006, 08:58 AM
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March 28th
1854 ~ Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declared war on Russia.
1881 ~ Death of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1903 ~ Birthday of Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist.
1910 ~ Henri Fabre becomes the first man to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1939 ~ Generalissimo Franco entered Madrid, essentially ending the Spanish Civil War.
1943 ~ Death of Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist.
1947 ~ The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio.
1979 ~ A pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
1987 ~ Death of Maria von Trapp, Singer.
2004 ~ Death of Peter Ustinov, Actor.
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03-29-2006, 06:24 AM
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March 29th
1638 ~ Swedish colonists established first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.
1799 ~ New York passed a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
1867 ~ Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1899 ~ Birthday of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader.
1912 ~ Death of Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer.
1981 ~ First running of the London Marathon.
1982 ~ Queen Elizabeth gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1984 ~ The Baltimore Colts of the NFL moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night.
2004 ~ Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 ~ Death of Alistair Cooke, Television Host.
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03-30-2006, 06:18 AM
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March 30th
1746 ~ Birthday of Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver.
1842 ~ Anesthesia (ether) was used for the first time in an operation.
1853 ~ Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, Painter.
1870 ~ Texas was readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1912 ~ France established a protectorate over Morocco.
1951 ~ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage.
1951 ~ Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the U.S. Census Bureau.
1977 ~ Death of Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer.
1981 ~ President Reagan was shot and seriously injured.
1987 ~ Vincent Van Gogh's painting Sunflowers was bought for almost $40 million.
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03-31-2006, 06:33 AM
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March 31st
1596 ~ Birthday of René Descartes, Mathematician.
1621 ~ Birthday of Andrew Marvell, English poet.
1732 ~ Birthday of Joseph Haydn, Composer.
1837 ~ Death of John Constable, Painter.
1855 ~ Death of Charlotte Brontë, Author.
1918 ~ Daylight Savings Time went into effect in the United States for the first time.
1959 ~ The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum.
1968 ~ President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for re-election.
1970 ~ After 12 years in orbit, Explorer 1 burns up when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.
1991 ~ The end of the Warsaw Pact.
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04-01-2006, 08:37 AM
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April 1st
1815 ~ Birthday of Otto von Bismarck, Politician.
1884 ~ Birthday of Florence Blanchfield, the first woman to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army.
1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor.
1917 ~ Death of Scott Joplin, Musician & Composer.
1918 ~ The Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.
1945 ~ World War II: American forces invaded Okinawa.
1957 ~ The all time best April Fools hoax! Play the video and enjoy.
1976 ~ Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
2001 ~ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and taken to prison.
2001 ~ A U.S. intelligence gathering plane collides with a PRC Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, PRC and is detained.
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04-02-2006, 06:31 AM
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April 2nd
1725 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Casanova, adventurer and writer.
1805 ~ Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer.
1875 ~ Birthday of Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer.
1917 ~ President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany.
1917 ~ The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, took her seat as a representative from Montana.
1966 ~ Death of C.S. Forester, Author.
1978 ~ Dallas premieres on CBS, beginning a 13-year run.
1982 ~ Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands starting the war.
1986 ~ A grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter were sucked out of a TWA jet when it was bombed by a group calling itself the Ezzedine Kassam Unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells
2004 ~ Islamist terrorists involved in the March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks attempted a bombing of the Spanish high-speed train near Madrid.
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04-03-2006, 05:22 AM
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April 3rd
1783 ~ Birthday of Washington Irving, Author.
1882 ~ Jesse James is shot in the back and killed for a $5,000 reward.
1885 ~ Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1897 ~ Death of Johannes Brahms, Composer.
1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario.
1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist.
1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan.
1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
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04-04-2006, 05:15 AM
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April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1885 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, dancer.
1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left Ł6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England.
1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.
1969 ~ Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary artificial heart.
1984 ~ President Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary.
1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
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04-05-2006, 05:29 AM
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April 5th
1588 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
1614 ~ In Virginia, Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe.
1792 ~ President 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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04-06-2006, 05:16 AM
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw.
1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1933 ~ HostessTwinkies were invented.
1974 ~ ABBA won the 19th Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, singing "Waterloo".
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author.
1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital.
1998 ~ Death of Tammy Wynette, Country Singer.
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04-07-2006, 05:23 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 meter 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 Jim Clark, racing driver.
1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of the first Request for Comment (RFC).
2003 ~ U.S. troops captured Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's regime fell two days later.
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April 8th
1820 ~ The Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1848 ~ Death of Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer.
1889 ~ Birthday of Sir Adrien Boult, English Conductor.
1919 ~ Birthday of Ian Smith, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
1945 ~ Pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at the POW camp at Flossenbürg.
1953 ~ Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of being a member of the Mau Mau.
1973 ~ Death of Pablo Picasso, artist.
1975 ~ Frank Robinson managed his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1983 ~ Death of Omar Bradley, General.
2005 ~ The funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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