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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:28 am
1915 – The Germans released chlorine gas as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres, killing over 5,000 soldiers within ten minutes by asphyxiation in the first large-scale successful use of poison gas in World War I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:28 am
1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:28 am
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:29 am
1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:29 am
1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:29 am
1951 – Korean War: The People's Volunteer Army of China attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, starting the Battle of Kapyong.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:30 am
1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:30 am
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:30 am
1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:30 am
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:31 am
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
Has it been going that long?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:31 am
1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:31 am
1983 – The German magazine Der Stern claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:32 am
1992 – In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:32 am
1993 – Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:32 am
1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:32 am
1997 – The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:32 am
1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:33 am
2000 – In a predawn raid, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida, and returned him to his Cuban father.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:34 am
2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:34 am
2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
An update of telephone dialling codes in the UK in response to the rapid late-1990s growth of telecommunications and impending exhaustion of numbers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:34 am
2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass, Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:35 am
2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:35 am
2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized about Japan's war records.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:35 am
2006 – 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:36 am
2008 – The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 12:36 am
2010 – Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig owned by BP and Transocean, sinks to the bottom of the Gulf Of Mexico after having a blowout two days earlier. The well then created the largest oil spill in U.S. history by constantly gushing oil through the damaged wellhead.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 1:28 am
1776 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I found Christ in me the hope of glory; but felt a pleasing, painful sensation of spiritual hunger and thirst for more of God.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 1:28 am
1864 - The motto "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. coinage, being struck on a bronze two-cent piece, issued during the American Civil War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 1:29 am
1897 - In New York City, the world's largest Jewish daily newspaper, "The Forward," was first published. Abraham Cahan, 43, one of its founders, became editor of the paper in 1903, remaining until his death in 1951.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 1:29 am
1933 - American Bible teacher and author Kenneth E. Hagin traces his conversion to a saving Christian faith back to this date, at age 16.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/11 at 1:29 am
1960 - At a constitutional convention in Minneapolis, three major Lutheran bodies in the U.S. merged to form the American Lutheran Church, with a combined membership of about two million.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:30 am
215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:31 am
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:31 am
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England,
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:31 am
1343 – Estonia: St. George's Night Uprising.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:32 am
1348 – The first-ever appointments of the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry, founded by King Edward III of England, that is presently bestowed on recipients in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms, were announced.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:32 am
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:32 am
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:32 am
1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:33 am
1661 – Charles II was crowned King of England, Ireland, and Scotland at Westminster Abbey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:33 am
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising - a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:33 am
1910 – Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:33 am
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:34 am
1920 – The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:34 am
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:34 am
1927 – Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:34 am
1932 – The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:34 am
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:35 am
1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:35 am
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:36 am
1942 – World War II: In retaliation for the Royal Air Force bombing of Lübeck several weeks prior, the Luftwaffe began a series of bombing raids in England, starting with Exeter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:36 am
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:36 am
1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:37 am
1961 – In the midst of the Algerian War, President Charles de Gaulle delivered a televised speech calling on the military personnel and civilians of France to oppose the Algiers putsch, a coup d'état attempt against him.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:37 am
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) was a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:37 am
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:38 am
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:39 am
1987 – 28 construction workers die when the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment building collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:40 am
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:40 am
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:41 am
1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:41 am
2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:41 am
2009 – The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:42 am
2010 – Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer (pictured) signed the controversial anti-illegal immigration bill SB 1070 into law.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:42 am
2010 – Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer (pictured) signed the controversial anti-illegal immigration bill SB 1070 into law.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Jan_Brewer.jpg/84px-Jan_Brewer.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 04/23/11 at 6:46 am
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
I prefer Classic Coke.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 7:08 am
I prefer Classic Coke.
I tried the Vanilla flavoured Coke and it was dire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 1:19 am
1479 BC – Thutmose III (statue pictured) became the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, although during the first 22 years of the reign he was co-regent with his aunt, Hatshepsut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 1:19 am
1479 BC – Thutmose III (statue pictured) became the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, although during the first 22 years of the reign he was co-regent with his aunt, Hatshepsut.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/TuthmosisIII.JPG/75px-TuthmosisIII.JPG
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:01 am
1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:01 am
1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:02 am
1800 – The Library of Congress, the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part of an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the nation's capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:02 am
1862 – American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:03 am
1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:03 am
1898 – The Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:03 am
1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:03 am
1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:04 am
1915 – The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:04 am
1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:04 am
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:05 am
1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:05 am
1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:05 am
1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:05 am
1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:06 am
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:06 am
1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:06 am
1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:06 am
1961 – The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:06 am
1963 – Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:06 am
1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:07 am
1967 – The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 1 crashed in Siberia during its return to Earth, killing cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the first human to die during a spaceflight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:08 am
1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:08 am
1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:08 am
1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:09 am
1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:09 am
1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:09 am
1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:11 am
1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:11 am
1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:11 am
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:12 am
2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:12 am
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:13 am
2005 – Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:13 am
2006 – King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 2:13 am
2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 7:20 am
387 - Augustine of Hippo, 32, was baptized on this Eve of Easter. He told the story of his Christian conversion from a profligate life in his "Confessions," written between 397-401.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 7:20 am
1576 - Birth of St. Vincent de Paul, French Catholic priest. He founded several religious orders during his lifetime, including the Lazarists (or Vincentians) in 1625.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 7:20 am
1870 - At the Vatican I Ecumenical Council, the dogmatic constitution "Dei filius" was published. Explaining the relationship between faith and reason, it declared that God could be known by human thought processes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 7:20 am
1920 - Death of Eliza P. Hewitt, 69, American Presbyterian S.S. teacher and hymnwriter. Many of her verses are still sung today, including "More About Jesus," Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus" and "Sunshine in My Soul."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/11 at 7:20 am
1944 - In deciding the legal case "United States v. Ballard," the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the general principle that "the truth of religious claims is not for secular authority to determine."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 1:10 am
404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 1:10 am
1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 1:11 am
1644 – The Ming Dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor (pictured) committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 1:11 am
1644 – The Ming Dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor (pictured) committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/%E6%9C%B1%E7%94%B1%E6%A3%80.jpg/70px-%E6%9C%B1%E7%94%B1%E6%A3%80.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 1:12 am
1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:15 am
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:15 am
1792 – La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:15 am
1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:15 am
1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:15 am
1845 – Rioters burned down the building housing the Parliament of the Province of Canada while the members of the Legislative Assembly were sitting in session.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:16 am
1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:16 am
1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:17 am
1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:17 am
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:17 am
1861 – American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:17 am
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:17 am
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:18 am
1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:18 am
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:19 am
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:19 am
1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declare martial law in Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:20 am
1916 – Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
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1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I decided upon the League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:20 am
1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:20 am
1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:21 am
1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:22 am
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:22 am
1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:22 am
1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:22 am
1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:22 am
1945 – Last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:22 am
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:23 am
1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:23 am
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:24 am
1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:24 am
1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:24 am
1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:25 am
1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:25 am
1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the Estado Novo regime.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:25 am
1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:26 am
1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:26 am
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:27 am
1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:27 am
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:28 am
1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:28 am
1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:29 am
2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:29 am
2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:29 am
2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:29 am
2005 – 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:29 am
2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:30 am
1530 - The Augsburg Confession was read publicly at the Diet of Worms. Written principally by Philip Melanchthon, the document comprised the first official summary of the Lutheran faith.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:31 am
1792 - Birth of John Keble, English clergyman and poet. Credited with having founded the Oxford Movement in 1833, Keble also authored the hymn, "Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear" (1820).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:31 am
1800 - Death of William Cowper, 69, English poet. A lifelong victim of depression, Cowper nevertheless left a great spiritual literary legacy, including three enduring hymns: "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" and "There is a Fountain."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:31 am
1929 - The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America was organized in Detroit, partly in response to the insurgence of Communism in Eastern Europe. Previously, its parishes were under jurisdiction of the Patriarchate in Bucharest, Hungary.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 3:31 am
1982 - Captured in 1967, the Sinai Peninsula was returned by Israel to Egypt, as part of the 1979 Camp David Accord.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 10:30 am
1928 - Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes first guide dog for the blind
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 10:30 am
1946 - Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent," premieres in London
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/11 at 10:31 am
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:32 pm
1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:33 pm
1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:33 pm
1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:33 pm
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:34 pm
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:35 pm
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:36 pm
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:36 pm
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:36 pm
1926 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:36 pm
1928 – Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:38 pm
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:39 pm
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:39 pm
1942 – The Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:39 pm
1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:40 pm
1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:40 pm
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:41 pm
1956 – First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:41 pm
1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:41 pm
1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:42 pm
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:42 pm
1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:42 pm
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:42 pm
1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:43 pm
1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:43 pm
1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:44 pm
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:45 pm
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:45 pm
1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:45 pm
1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:46 pm
1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:46 pm
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:47 pm
1994 – China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:47 pm
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/11 at 1:47 pm
2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:21 pm
1296 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:22 pm
1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:22 pm
1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:22 pm
1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:23 pm
1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
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1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:23 pm
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:23 pm
1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:23 pm
1749 – First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
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1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:24 pm
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
Now what happened next?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:24 pm
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:25 pm
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:25 pm
1810 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:25 pm
1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:25 pm
1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:26 pm
1861 – President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:26 pm
1865 – An explosion destroyed the steamboat SS Sultana on the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:27 pm
1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:28 pm
1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:28 pm
1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:28 pm
1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:28 pm
1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:29 pm
1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:29 pm
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:29 pm
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:30 pm
1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:31 pm
1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:31 pm
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:31 pm
1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:31 pm
1959 – The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:32 pm
1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1974 – 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:34 pm
1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:34 pm
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:34 pm
1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:35 pm
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:35 pm
1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons.
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1993 – Members of the Zambia national football team were killed in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon, en route to Dakar, Senegal, to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:35 pm
1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:37 pm
1996 – The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:37 pm
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:37 pm
2005 – The Airbus A380 (pictured), the largest passenger airliner in the world, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:38 pm
2005 – The Airbus A380 (pictured), the largest passenger airliner in the world, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
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