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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:23 am
1941 – World War II: The Independent State of Croatia was established, with Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić (pictured) as head of the puppet government of the Axis powers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:23 am
1941 – World War II: The Independent State of Croatia was established, with Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić (pictured) as head of the puppet government of the Axis powers.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Ante_Paveli%C4%87.jpg/69px-Ante_Paveli%C4%87.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:25 am
1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:25 am
1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:25 am
1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:25 am
1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:26 am
1963 – 129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:26 am
1968 – Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:26 am
1971 – Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:27 am
1972 – 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:27 am
1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:27 am
1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:28 am
1973 – A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:28 am
1979 – Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:28 am
1991 – Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:29 am
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: At least 40 Armenian civilians were massacred in Maraga, Azerbaijan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:29 am
1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:30 am
2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 6:03 am
1816 - In Philadelphia, church reformer Richard Allen, 56, was elected the first bishop of the newly-created African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. (Previously, in 1799, Allen had been the first black ordained to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 6:03 am
1838 - Birth of Edward Kremser, German chorister. Included among his numerous vocal and instrumental works is the enduring hymn tune KREMSER ("We Gather Together").
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 6:03 am
1933 - Death of Henry Van Dyke, 81, an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. He is still remembered for two writings: a book, "The Story of the Other Wise Man" (1896), and a hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" (1908).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 6:03 am
1945 - U.S. Armed forces liberated the prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany. It was estimated that nearly 57,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished in the gas chambers of Buchenwald during its eight-year existence as a Nazi concentration camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 6:04 am
1970 - The Russian Orthodox Church in America was granted autocephalic independence by its Mother organization, the Russian Orthodox Church. Headquartered today in Syosset, New York, membership in this religious body currently numbers approximately one million.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:03 pm
1961 – Aboard Vostok 3KA-3, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (pictured) became the first man to enter outer space, completing one orbit in a time of 108 minutes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:04 pm
1961 – Aboard Vostok 3KA-3, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (pictured) became the first man to enter outer space, completing one orbit in a time of 108 minutes.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Gagarin_in_Sweden.jpg/69px-Gagarin_in_Sweden.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:04 pm
1961 – Aboard Vostok 3KA-3, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (pictured) became the first man to enter outer space, completing one orbit in a time of 108 minutes.
http://www.doodlecollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/firstmaninspace11-hp-js.jpg
As Google celebrates today.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:05 pm
238 – Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:05 pm
467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:05 pm
1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:06 pm
1557 – Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:06 pm
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:06 pm
1633 – The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:06 pm
1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:07 pm
1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:07 pm
1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:07 pm
1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:08 pm
1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurred, starting from Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:09 pm
1864 – American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:18 pm
1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:19 pm
1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:19 pm
1910 – The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:19 pm
1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:19 pm
1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:19 pm
1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:20 pm
1934 – The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:20 pm
1935 – First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:20 pm
1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:20 pm
1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:20 pm
1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:20 pm
1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:24 pm
1963 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:24 pm
1968 – Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:24 pm
1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:24 pm
1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:25 pm
1980 – Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:25 pm
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:26 pm
1990 – Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:26 pm
1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name were subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:27 pm
1994 – Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:28 pm
1994 – Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:28 pm
1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:28 pm
1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:28 pm
2002 – A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:28 pm
2007 – A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:28 pm
2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/11 at 12:29 pm
2010 – A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 04/12/11 at 4:02 pm
2010 – A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
That's sad. :\'( Hard to believe that was one year ago already.
On a happier note, I interviewed for a job that day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/11 at 1:15 am
On a happier note, I interviewed for a job that day.
Good luck!
This day could go down in history for you.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/11 at 12:07 pm
1598 – King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/11 at 12:08 pm
1919 – British Indian Army troops massacred hundreds of unarmed men, women and children who were attending a peaceful gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/11 at 12:08 pm
1941 – The Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed a neutrality pact, which lasted through most of World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/11 at 12:09 pm
1948 – A convoy bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab forces, leaving about eighty people dead.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/11 at 12:09 pm
1953 – The CIA began Project MKULTRA, an illegal, covert human research program into mind control.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/11 at 12:09 pm
2009 - Twenty-three people died in a homeless hostel fire in Kamień Pomorski, Poland, the country's deadliest fire since 1980.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:48 pm
43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:49 pm
69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:49 pm
70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:49 pm
966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:50 pm
1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:50 pm
1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:50 pm
1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:50 pm
1341 – Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:50 pm
1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:51 pm
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians near the town of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:51 pm
1699 – Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:51 pm
1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:53 pm
1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:53 pm
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:53 pm
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:53 pm
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:53 pm
1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:53 pm
1865 – Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:54 pm
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:54 pm
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:54 pm
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:55 pm
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:55 pm
1909 – A massacre was orgaized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:55 pm
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:55 pm
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:55 pm
1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:56 pm
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:56 pm
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:56 pm
1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:56 pm
1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Rommel attacks Tobruk.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:57 pm
1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:57 pm
1945 – Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:57 pm
1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:57 pm
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:57 pm
1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:58 pm
1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:58 pm
1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
Let them fight for it!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:59 pm
1978 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:59 pm
1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:00 pm
1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:00 pm
1986 – 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:00 pm
1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:01 pm
1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:01 pm
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:01 pm
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:01 pm
1999 – A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones (example pictured) in Sydney and along the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:02 pm
1999 – A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones (example pictured) in Sydney and along the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/1999_Sydney_hailstorm_stones.jpg/100px-1999_Sydney_hailstorm_stones.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:02 pm
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:07 pm
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:08 pm
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:08 pm
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:08 pm
2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 2:08 pm
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 3:06 pm
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
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Written By: nally on 04/14/11 at 3:08 pm
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Next year will be the century mark since that tragic event. :\'( :\'(
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 3:09 pm
Next year will be the century mark since that tragic event. :\'( :\'(
Exactly as I was thinking.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:47 pm
1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:47 pm
1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:47 pm
1632 – Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:47 pm
1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:48 pm
1738 – Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel (pictured) loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:48 pm
1738 – Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel (pictured) loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:49 pm
1755 – A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson was first published, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:50 pm
1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:50 pm
1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:51 pm
1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The one the starts...
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze...."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:52 pm
1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:52 pm
1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:52 pm
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:52 pm
1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:52 pm
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:53 pm
1912 – The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg, killing over 1,500 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:54 pm
1912 – The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg, killing over 1,500 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:54 pm
1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:55 pm
1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:55 pm
1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:55 pm
1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:55 pm
1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:55 pm
1935 – Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:55 pm
1940 – The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:56 pm
1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:56 pm
1942 – The George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders" by King George VI.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:56 pm
1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:57 pm
1947 – Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:57 pm
1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:58 pm
1955 – American restaurateur Ray Kroc opened the ninth McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, an occasion considered to be the founding of the present corporation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:58 pm
1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:58 pm
1958 – Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:59 pm
1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:59 pm
1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:00 pm
1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:00 pm
1979 – A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:00 pm
1983 – Tokyo Disney Resort (and the Tokyo Disneyland park) opens in Tokyo Bay (Japan)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:01 pm
1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:01 pm
1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi Final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool F.C. fans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:02 pm
1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:02 pm
1992 – The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:02 pm
1994 – Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:02 pm
1995 – At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities signed an agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:02 pm
2002 – An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:03 pm
2010 – Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 1:03 pm
2011 – 2011 Cirebon bombing : a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in an Indonesian Police compound in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:37 am
1178 BC – The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:52 am
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:55 am
1346 – The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:55 am
1521 – Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:55 am
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:55 am
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:56 am
1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:56 am
1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:56 am
1818 – The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty, which laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:57 am
1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:57 am
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:57 am
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:58 am
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:58 am
1862 – American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:58 am
1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:59 am
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:59 am
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:59 am
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 4:59 am
1917 – Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:00 am
1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:00 am
1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:00 am
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:01 am
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:02 am
1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:02 am
1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:02 am
1943 – Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:02 am
1943 – Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
So he started it all!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:03 am
1944 – Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade,killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:03 am
1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:03 am
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:03 am
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:04 am
1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch (pictured) first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:04 am
1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch (pictured) first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:05 am
1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:06 am
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:06 am
1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:06 am
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:06 am
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:06 am
1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:06 am
1992 – The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:07 am
2001 – India and Bangladesh began a five-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:07 am
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:07 am
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree killing in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 5:07 am
2007 – President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo declares the First Ivorian Civil War to be over.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:24 am
1521 - German reformer Martin Luther, 34, arrived at the Diet of Worms, where he afterward defended his "Ninety-Five Theses," first advanced in 1517. At the Diet, Luther refused to recant his ideas 'unless overcome by Scripture.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:24 am
1772 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'I think there is a scriptural distinction between faith and feeling, grace and comfort.... The degree of the one is not often the just measure of the other.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:24 am
1829 - Death of Carl G. Glaser, 45, German choral master and composer of the hymn tune AZMON, to which we today sing, "O For a Thousand Tongues."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:24 am
1904 - Birth of Merrill C. Tenney, American N.T. scholar. In addition to his many scholarly writings, Tenney was dean of the Wheaton College Graduate School in Illinois from 1947-71.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:25 am
1948 - Christians in Action was incorporated in Compton, CA. Founded by Rev. Lee Shelley, this interdenominational overseas mission helps establish national churches in nearly two dozen overseas countries.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:48 am
1917 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:48 am
1925 - During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:48 am
1926 - Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:49 am
1941 - Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:49 am
1951 - British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:52 am
1961 - 15th Tony Awards: Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:52 am
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:53 am
1972 - "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 perfs
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:54 am
1978 - "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:54 am
1980 - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:55 am
1983 - Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/11 at 6:55 am
1986 - West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:35 am
69 – After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:35 am
1080 – On the death of his brother Harald III, Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized, became King of Denmark.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:35 am
1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:36 am
1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:36 am
1521 – Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:36 am
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:37 am
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
But was it called New York then?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:37 am
1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:37 am
1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:37 am
1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:38 am
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:38 am
1895 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:38 am
1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:39 am
1907 – Construction started on the first ship in the Minas Geraes class, making Brazil the third country in the world to build a dreadnought battleship and sparking a South American naval arms race.