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SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013

Today is Saturday, April 20, the 110th day of 2013. There are 255 days left in the year. 1653 ― Cromwell routes English parliament to house 1841 ― First detective story (Poe's “Murders in the Rue Morgue") published 1902 ― Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium 1904 ― George Bernard Shaw's “Candida," premieres in London 1917 ― Pravda (Lenin names Russia “Free land of world") 1967 ― U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War 1977 ― Woody Allen's film “Annie Hall” premieres 1986 ― Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland 1993 ― Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years) 1996 ― Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season

Apr 20, 2013

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013

Today is Friday, April 19, the 109th day of 2013. There are 256 days left in the year. 1770 ― Captain James Cook first sees Australia 1897 ― First Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10 1910 ― Halley’s comet seen by naked eye first time this trip (Curacao) 1919 ― French assembly decides on eight-hour workday 1941 ― Bertolt Brecht’s “Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder,” premieres in Zurich 1948 ― Chiang Kai-shek elected president of nationalist China 1951 ― General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career 1956 ― U.S. actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco’s Prince Rainier III (civil ceremony) 1967 ― Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't) 1984 ― Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs, first appears in print (Nature magazine) 

Apr 18, 2013

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

Today is Wednesday, April 17, the 107th day of 2013. There are 258 days left in the year.1421 ― Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown 1492 ― Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies 1521 ― Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church 1534 ― Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower 1865 ― Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination 1895 ― Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) 1956 ― Kominform disbands 1975 ― Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war 1983 ― Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter 1986 ― IBM produces first megabit chip

Apr 16, 2013

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

Today is Tuesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2013. There are 259 days left in the year.1521 ― Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms 1705 ― Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College 1724 ― First Easter observed 1789 ― George Washington heads for first presidential inauguration 1854 ― Franz Liszt's “Mazeppa”, premieres 1917 ― Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution 1947 ― Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York City) 1948 ― Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris, France 1962 ― Brazil nationalizes U.S. businesses 1986 ― To dispel rumors he’s dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV

Apr 15, 2013

MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

Today is Monday, April 15, the 105th day of 2013. There are 260 days left in the year.1493 ― Columbus meets with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella 1729 ― Johann S.Bach’s "Matthew’s Passion" premieres in Leipzig 1738 ― Bottle opener invented 1892 ― General Electric Company forms and is incorporated in New York 1896 ― First Olympic games close at Athens, Greece 1912 ― Titanic sinks at 2:27 a.m. in North Atlantic as the band plays on 1945 ― FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home 1969 ― North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea 1970 ― Libyan leader Gadhafi launches "Green Revolution" 1989 ― Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests 

Apr 14, 2013

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013

Today is Saturday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2013. There are 262 days left in the year.837 ― Best view of Halley's Comet in 2,000 years 1598 ― Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1668 ― John Dryden, 36, becomes first English poet laureate 1742 ― George Frederick Handel's “Messiah” performed for first time (Dublin) 1924 ― Greek plebiscite for a republic 1933 ― First flight over Mt. Everest (Lord Clydesdale) 1960 ― France becomes fourth nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara 1961 ― U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid 1964 ― Sidney Poitier becomes first black man to win Oscar for best actor 1972 ― First baseball players’ strike ends after 13 days 

Apr 12, 2013

FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013

Today is Friday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2013. There are 263 days left in the year.1111 ― Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor 1204 ― Fourth Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople 1654 ― England, Ireland and Scotland unite 1857 ― Gustave Flaubert's “Madame Bovary” published 1877 ― Catcher’s mask first used in a baseball game 1942 ― Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan 1966 ― First B-52 bombing on North Vietnam 1969 ― Simon & Garfunkel releases “The Boxer" 1988 ― Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse (first for animal life) 1992 ― Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1 

Apr 11, 2013

THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013

Today is Thursday, April 11, the 101st day of 2013. There are 264 days left in the year.1814 ― First abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba 1865 ― Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction 1906 ― Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity 1914 ― George Bernard Shaw's “Pygmalion," premieres 1945 ― Allies liberate first Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany 1951 ― President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1961 ― Bob Dylan's first appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village 1968 ― President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1970 ― Beatles' “Let It Be”, single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for two weeks 1986 ― Dodge Morgan completes nonstop sail solo around the world in 150 days 

Apr 10, 2013

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

Today is Wednesday, April 10, the 100th day of 2013. There are 265 days left in the year. 837 ― Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth 1516 ― First ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice 1868 ― First performance of John Brahms' “Ein German Requiem” 1872 ― Arbor day first celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to April 22 1912 ― RMS Titanic sets sail for its first & last voyage 1923 ― Hitler demands “hatred and more hatred" in Berlin 1925 ― F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes “The Great Gatsby” 1930 ― Synthetic rubber first produced 1972 ― U.S., USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons 1981 ― Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded 

Apr 9, 2013

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

Today is Tuesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2013. There are 266 days left in the year. 1667 ― First public art exhibition (Palais Royal, Paris, France) 1866 ― Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson’s veto 1872 ― Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk 1906 ― Intercalated Games opens in Athens; special Olympic gathering that helped get the Olympic movement back on track1912 ― Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York 1953 ― “TV Guide” publishes first issue 1965 ― India and Pakistan engage in border fight 1966 ― Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris, France 1968 ― Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta, Ga. 1970 ― Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles  

Apr 8, 2013

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