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04-25-2016, 03:11 PM | #31 |
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April 25, 1847
The last survivors of The Donner Party leave the wilderness. 1859 Ground is broken for the Suez Canal. 1898 The U.S. declares war on Spain. 1915 The Battle of Gallipoli begins. 1916 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time. 1944 The United Negro College Fund is established. 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson describe the structure of DNA. 1954 The first practical solar cell is demonstrated. 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping. 1960 The USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1961 Robert Noyce patents the integrated circuit. 1983 Pioneer 10 travels beyond the orbit of Pluto. Yuri Andropov invites 11-year old Samantha Smith to visit the Soviet Union. 2015 Nepal is hit with a 7.8 earthquake that kills over 9,000 people. Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Births Oliver Cromwell-1599; Guglielmo Marconi-1874; Edward R. Murrow-1908; Ella Fitzgerald-1917; Albert King-1923; Paul Mazursky-1930; Meadowlark Lemon-1932; Jerry Leiber-1933; Al Pacino-1940; Stu Cook-1945; Steve Ferrone-1950; Joe Buck-1969; Tim Duncan-1976 Deaths 12th Dalai Lama-1875; Art Fleming, Ginger Rogers-1995; Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes-2002; Bobby Pickett-2007; Bea Arthur-2009
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04-26-2016, 11:37 AM | #32 |
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April 26, 1777
Sixteen year old Sybil Ludington rides forty miles to alert Colonial forces to the approach of the British. 1865 Presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union forces. 1933 The Gestapo is established. 1962 Ranger 4, the first U.S. spacecraft to reach another celestial body, crashes into the far side of the moon. 1966 An earthquake destroys most of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 1986 The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes and burns, resulting in the world's worst nuclear power plant accident. 1989 A tornado strikes Bangladesh, killing 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving almost 80,000 homeless. It is the world's deadliest tornado. 1991 A tornado outbreak sees 70 tornadoes form over the central U.S.. Births Marcus Aurelius-121; John James Audubon-1785; Frederick Law Olmsted-1822; Rudolf Hess-1894; Charles Francis Richter-1900; Carol Burnett-1933; Gary Wright-1943; Jet Li-1963 Deaths John Wilkes Booth-1865; Gypsy Rose Lee-1970; Jim Davis-1981; Count Basie-1984; Broderick Crawford-1986; Lucille Ball-1989; A. B. Guthrie, Jr.-1991; George Jones-2013; Jayne Meadows-2015
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04-26-2016, 01:59 PM | #34 |
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Practical. When telling the story, if they say Sybil Ludington the response is, Who? Saying Paul Revere who everybody knows, they aren't interrupted and get on with it. Besides, it's in the national interest to promote a hero, instead of heroin. That shit's bad for kids, and other living things.
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04-27-2016, 10:40 AM | #35 |
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04-27-2016, 02:42 PM | #36 |
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04-28-2016, 03:03 PM | #37 |
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April 28, 1503
Battle of Cerignola, the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder (as opposed to black powder). 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty, Lt. Bligh and 18 others are set adrift, while the remaining crew return, temporarily, to Tahiti. 1869 Chinese and Irish laborers lay ten miles of railroad track in one day, a record that remains unbroken today. 1881 Billy The Kid escapes from the Lincoln County, New Mexico jail. 1932 A vaccine for yellow fever is announced. 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress are executed by firing squad. 1947 Thor Heyerdahl, and five crew, set out from Peru on the Kontiki, to prove ancient Peruvians could have settled in Polynesia. 1952 Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. U.S. occupation of Japan ends. 1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction to the U.S. Army. He is stripped of his boxing championship and license. 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. 1988 Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, to her death, when part of the 737's fuselage separates mid-flight. 1994 Former CIA officer/analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to espionage. 2001 Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist. Births James Monroe-1758; Lionel Barrymore-1878; Jan Oort-1900; Oskar Schindler-1908; Ferruccio Lamborghini-1916; Harper Lee-1926; James Baker-1930; Tariq Aziz-1936; Saddam Hussein-1937; Ann-Margret-1941; Terry Pratchett-1948; Bruno Kirby, Indian Larry-1949; Jay Leno-1950; Chuck Leavell, Mary McDonnell-1952; Hal Sutton-1958; Elena Kagan-1960; John Daly-1966 Deaths John "Jack" Russell-1883; Benito Mussolini-1945; Ed Begley (Sr.)-1970; Tommy Caldwell-1980; Steve Currie-1981; Ken Curtis-1991; Jim Valvano-1993; Rory Calhoun-1999; Dabbs Greer, Tommy Newsom-2007; Vern Gosdin "The Voice"-2009; Jack Ely-2015
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04-29-2016, 02:12 PM | #38 |
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April 29, 1770
James Cook arrives at Botany Bay, Australia. 1945 The concentration camp at Dachau is liberated by U.S. troops. 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: U.S. troops begin evacuating U.S. citizens from Saigon. 2004 After 107 years of production, Oldsmobile builds its final car. Births William Randolph Hearst-1863; Duke Ellington-1899; Hirohito-1901; Lonnie Donegan-1931; Rod McKuen, Willie Nelson-1933; Otis Rush-1935; Bernard Madoff-1938; Tommy James, Johnny Miller-1947; Dale Earnhardt, Sr.-1951; Jerry Seinfeld-1954; Daniel Day-Lewis, Timothy Treadwell-1957; Jay Cutler-1983 Deaths J. B. Lenoir-1967; Alfred Hitchcock-1980; Mike Royko-1997; Amarillo Slim-2012; Bob Hoskins-2014; Calvin Peete-2015
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04-30-2016, 02:12 PM | #39 |
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April 30, 1492
Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. 1789 George Washington takes the Presidential Oath of Office and becomes the first President of the United States. 1803 The U.S. purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15,000,000, doubling the size of the nation. 1812 The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state, Louisiana. 1900 Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory. Casey Jones drives his train through a thirty foot ditch. 1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. 1975 The Peoples Army of Vietnam captures Saigon. 2009 Chrysler files Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Births Alice B. Toklas-1877; Al Lewis-1923; Michael Waltrip-1963; Johnny Galecki-1975; Kunal Nayyar-1981 Deaths Casey Jones-1900; Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun-1945; Alben W. Barkley-1956; George Balanchine, Muddy Waters-1983; Sergio Leone-1989; Darrell Sweet-1999; Tom Poston-2007; Ben E. King-2013
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05-02-2016, 09:47 AM | #41 |
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May 2, 1885
The magazine 'Good Housekeeping' goes on sale for the first time. 1918 General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company. 1952 The De Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, makes its maiden flight. 1955 Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1969 The Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City. 1982 Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. 1986 The city of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the nuclear power plant there explodes and burns. 2000 President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. 2011 Osama bin Laden is killed by U.S. Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Births 1729 Catherine the Great; 1859 Jerome K. Jerome; 1892 Manfred von Richthofen 'The Red Baron'; 1903 Dr. Benjamin Spock; 1907 Pinky Lee; 1922 Roscoe Lee Browne; 1929 Link Wray; 1936 Engelbert Humperdinck; 1945 Judge Dread (No, really); 1945 Bianca Jagger; 1946 Lesley Gore, David Suchet; 1947-James Dyson; 1948 Larry Gatlin; 1950 Lou Gramm; 1951 John Glascock; 1955 Donatella Versace; 1962 Big Boss Man; 1967 Mika Brzezinski; 1972 Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson; 1975 David Beckham; 1985 Lily Allen, Kyle Busch Deaths 1519 Leonardo da Vinci; 1880 Eberhard Anheuser; 1957 Joseph McCarthy; 1972 J. Edgar Hoover; 1984 Jack Barry; 1990 David Rappaport; 1999 Oliver Reed; 2006 Louis Rukeyser; 2009 Jack Kemp; 2010 Lynn Redgrave; 2011 Osama bin Laden; 2012 Junior Seau; 2014 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.; 2015 Ruth Rendell
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05-03-2016, 12:58 PM | #42 |
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May 3, 1715
A total solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Edmund Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy. 1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city. 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. 1937 Gone With The Wind wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 1952 The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time. 1973 The 108-story Sears Tower, in Chicago, is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. 1978 The first spam email is sent . 1987 Bobby Allison crashes at Talladega Superspeedway, leading NASCAR to develop restrictor plates for the Daytona, and Talledega races the next year. 1999 An F5 tornado strikes southwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, producing a wind speed of 301 mph (+/- 20 mph), the highest wind speed ever recorded. It is one of 66 tornadoes that day. 2000 Geocaching becomes a thing. 2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses. Births 1849 Jacob Riis; 1874 Franηois Coty; 1879 Fergus McMaster; 1903 Bing Crosby; 1906 Mary Astor; 1917 Betty Comden; 1919 Pete Seeger; 1921 Sugar Ray Robinson; 1928 Dave Dudley; 1932 Robert Osborne; 1933 James Brown, Brother Stair; 1934 Frankie Valli; 1935 Ron Popeil; 1944 Pete Staples; 1947 Doug Henning; 1951 Christopher Cross; 1953 Bruce Hall; 1975 Willie Geist; 1975 Christina Hendricks; 1981 J. Tillman Deaths 1972 Bruce Cabot; 1986 Robert Alda; 1996 Jack Weston; 2006 Earl Woods; 2007 Wally Schirra; 2011 Jackie Cooper
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May 4, 1776
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. 1814 Napolιon Bonaparte arrives at the island of Elba, to begin his exile. 1904 Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce meet in Manchester, England. 1932 Al Capone begins serving an 11-year prison sentence for tax evasion. 1953 Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea" wins the Pulitzer Prize. 1959 The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held. 1961 American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. 1970 Four dead in O-hi-o: The Ohio Nat'l Guard opens fire on students protesting the war in Vietnam, killing four and wounding nine. 1979 Margaret Thatcher, "The Iron Lady", becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1988 Tons of stored Space Shuttle fuel detonate in a gigantic explosion during a fire at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada, near Henderson, Nevada. Video 2007 Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. 95% of the city is leveled. The tornado was part of the May 2007 tornado outbreak. Births 1796 Horace Mann; 1916 Richard Proenneke; 1919 Dory Funk; 1923 Ed Cassidy; 1928 Thomas Kinsella, Hosni Mubarak; 1929 Audrey Hepburn; 1939 Paul Gleason; 1940 Robin Cook; 1941 George Will; 1942 Nickolas Ashford; 1953 Pia Zadora; 1959 Randy Travis, Bob Tway; 1972 Mike Dirnt; 1978 Erin Andrews; 1989 Rory McIlroy Deaths 1975 Moe Howard; 1980 Josip Broz Tito; 1987 Paul Butterfield; 2009 Dom DeLuise; 2012 Adam Yauch
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May 5, 1260
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. 1494 Christopher Columbus lands at Jamaica. 1821 Napoleon dies, in exile, on the island of St. Helena. 1865 The first train robbery in the United States takes place, in North Bend, Ohio. 1866 Memorial Day is first celebrated in the United States, in Waterloo, New York. 1905 Fingerprints are used as evidence for the first time. 1920 Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. 1925 John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. 1934 The first Three Stooges short is released. 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space. 1965 The Warlocks, later known as The Grateful Dead, make their first public appearance, in Menlo Park, CA. 1973 Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in 1 minute 59 2⁄5 seconds, a record that still stands. Births 1813 Sψren Kierkegaard; 1818 Karl Marx; 1830 John B. Stetson (the hat guy); 1864 Nellie Bly; 1901 Blind Willie McTell; 1914 Tyrone Power; 1926 Ann B. Davis (Alice on the Brady Bunch); 1934 Ace Cannon; 1942 Tammy Wynette; 1943 Michael Palin; 1944 John Rhys-Davies; 1944 Roger Rees; 1945 Kurt Loder; 1948 Bill Ward; 1988 Adele Deaths 1821 Napoleon; 2008 Irv Robbins (co-founded Baskin-Robbins); 2015 Craig Gruber (bassist for Rainbow and Elf)
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May 6, 1840
The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom. 1861 Arkansas secedes from the Union. 1877 Oglala Lakota chief Crazy Horse surrenders to U.S. troops. 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public. 1910 George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of Edward VII. 1915 Babe Ruth hits first major league home run. 1935 Works Progress Administration is created. First flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. 1937 The Hindenburg catches fire at Lakehurst, New Jersey and is destroyed in less than 60 seconds. 36 people die. 1940 John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" wins the Pultizer Prize. 1941 Bob Hope performs his first USO show. 1945 Axis Sally delivers her last broadcast. 1954 Roger Bannister runs the mile in under four minutes. 1989 Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, opens, igniting the coaster wars. 1994 The Channel Tunnel opens. Paula Jones files a sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. After missing for 8 days, former CIA director William Colby's body is found. 2013 Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Their captor is taken into custody. Births 1856 Sigmund Freud, Robert Peary; 1895 Rudolph Valentino; 1903 Toots Shor; 1913 Stewart Granger; 1915 Orson Welles; 1931 Willie Mays; 1945 Bob Seger; 1950 Jeffery Deaver, Robbie McIntosh; 1953 Tony Blair; 1960 Roma Downey; 1961 George Clooney Deaths 1862 Henry David Thoreau; 1902 Bret Harte; 1910 Edward VII; 1919 L. Frank Baum; 1952 Maria Montessori; 1983 Kai Winding; 1987 William J. Casey; 2004 Barney Kessel
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