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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013

Today is Thursday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2013. There are 243 days left in the year.1536 ― King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest 1833 ― Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs 1932 ― Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (“The Good Earth”) 1933 ― In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions 1956 ― U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus 1968 ― Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London 1975 ― Apple records closes down 1977 ― “The King & I” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances 1980 ― Pink Floyd's “Another Brick in Wall (Part II)” is banned in South Africa 1982 ― Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 

May 1, 2013

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

Today is Wednesday, May 1, the 121st day of 2013. There are 244 days left in the year. 1006 ― Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus 1707 ― England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain 1786 ― Mozart’s opera “Marriage of Figaro” premieres in Wien (Vienna) 1840 ― First adhesive postage stamps (“Penny Blacks” from England) issued 1844 ― Samuel Morse sends first telegraphic message 1889 ― First International Workers Day, according to the Second International 1891 ― Cy Young pitches first game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 1948 ― North Korea proclaims itself People’s Democratic Republic of Korea 1966 ― Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) 1967 ― Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas 

Apr 30, 2013

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013

Today is Tuesday, April 30, the 120th day of 2013. There are 245 days left in the year.311 ― Emperor Galerius recognizes Christians legally in the Roman Empire 1722 ― The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant 1772 ― John Clais patents first scale 1789 ― George Washington inaugurated as first president of U.S. 1808 ― First practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 1904 ― Ice cream cone makes its debut 1961 ― Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize 1978 ― “Elvis The Legend Lives!” closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances 1991 ― In Bangladesh a cyclone kills over 131,000 and leaves 9 million homeless 1997 ― Big Ben stops at 12:11 p.m. for 54 minutes 

Apr 29, 2013

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

Today is Monday, April 29, the 119th day of 2013. There are 246 days left in the year.1429 ― Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English  1661 ― Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan 1784 ― Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna) 1813 ― Rubber is patented 1834 ― Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia 1852 ― First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published 1913 ― Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper 1945 ― Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun 1946 ― Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals 1992 ― Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin 

Apr 28, 2013

SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013

Today is Saturday, April 27, the 117th day of 2013. There are 248 days left in the year. 4977 B.C. ― Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe 1509 ― Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice 1861 ― President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus 1908 ― Fourth modern Olympic Games open in London 1945 ― Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner 1956 ― Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing 1960 ― South Korean President Syng-man Rhee resigns 1983 ― Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson 1987 ― U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII 1989 ― Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China 

Apr 26, 2013

FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013

Today is Friday, April 26, the 116th day of 2013. There are 249 days left in the year.1478 ― Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de'Medici 1478 ― Easter is celebrated for the first time 1514 ― Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn 1564 ― William Shakespeare baptized 1721 ― Smallpox vaccination first administrated 1835 ― Frederic Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise Brillante,” premieres in Paris, France 1964 ― Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Tanzanian Union Day) 1982 ― Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island 1986 ― Worst nuclear disaster, fourth reactor at Chernobyl, USSR, explodes, 31 die 1991 ― Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics

Apr 25, 2013

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

Today is Thursday, April 25, the 115th day of 2013. There are 250 days left in the year. 1507 ― Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first uses name America 1719 ― Daniel Defoe publishes “Robinson Crusoe" 1792 ― Guillotine first used, executes highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier 1867 ― Tokyo is opened for foreign trade 1886 ― Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna 1926 ― Giacomo Puccini's opera “Turandot", premieres in Milan 1928 ― Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes first guide dog for the blind 1954 ― Bell labs announces first solar battery (New York City) 1956 ― Elvis Presley's “Heartbreak Hotel" goes No. 1 1971 ― About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington, D.C. 

Apr 24, 2013

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013

Today is Wednesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2013. There are 251 days left in the year. 1061 ― Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed 1871 ― Giuseppe Verdi's opera “Aida" is produced (Cairo) 1915 ― Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1915 ― German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper 1916 ― Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins 1955 ― Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination ends 1968 ― Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City 1989 ― Massachusetts declares today “New Kids on the Block Day" 1989 ― Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing, China 1990 ― West & East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1

Apr 23, 2013

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

Today is Tuesday, April 23, the 113th day of 2013. There are 252 days left in the year.1348 ― First English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter) 1867 ― Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel 1949 ― Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing 1956 ― U.S. Supreme court ends race segregation on buses 1969 ― Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 1977 ― Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10 1984 ― AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) 1985 ― Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula1989 ― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Los Angeles Laker1993 ― Peter Townshend's musical “Tommy," premieres in NYC

Apr 22, 2013

MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

Today is Monday, April 22, the 112th day of 2013. There are 253 days left in the year. 687 B.C. ― Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra 1509 ― Henry VIII ascends to throne to become king of England 1659 ― Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament 1876 ― Tchaikovsky completes his “Swan Lake” ballet 1906 ― Olympic games held in Athens are not accepted by the IOC 1944 ― Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg, Austria 1969 ― First human eye transplant performed 1970 ― First Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources 1981 ― Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his third shutout in four starts 1994 ― In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, is made 

Apr 21, 2013

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