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MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

Today is Monday, April 8, the 98th day of 2013. There are 267 days left in the year. 1766 ― First fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain 1781 ― Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379 1879 ― Milk is sold in glass bottles for first time 1946 ― League of Nations assembles for last time 1968 ― 40th Academy Awards postponed to April 10th due to death of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 ― Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King Jr. assassination1979 ― People's Republic of China joins IOC1986 ― Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, Calif. 1994 ― Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases 1997 ― Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0

Apr 7, 2013

SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013

Today is Saturday, April 6, the 96th day of 2013. There are 269 days left in the year.648 B.C. ― Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks 610 ― Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the Koran descended to Earth 1327 ― Italian poet Petrarch first sets eyes on his beloved Laura 1722 ― Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards 1868 ― Brigham Young marries his 27th and final wife 1909 ― North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson 1917 ― U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I 1974 ― 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" 1980 ― Post-It Notes are introduced 1986 ― Soccer ball juggled nonstop for 14:14 hours

Apr 5, 2013

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

Today is Friday, April 5, the 95th day of 2013. There are 270 days left in the year. 2348 B.C. ― Noah's ark grounded, Mt. Ararat (calculated date) 1614 ― Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe 1621 ― Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England 1803 ― First performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D 1887 ― Anne Sullivan teaches “water” to Helen Keller 1896 ― First modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens 1955 ― Winston Churchill resigns as British P.M., Anthony Eden succeeds him 1971 ― Fran Phipps is first woman to reach North Pole 1974 ― Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories) 1984 ― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) 

Apr 4, 2013

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

Today is Thursday, April 4, the 94th day of 2013. There are 271 days left in the year.1581 ― Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted 1850 ― City of Los Angeles incorporated 1912 ― Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet 1932―Vitamin C first isolated, C. C. King, University of Pittsburgh1932 ― George Bernard Shaw's “Too True to be Good,” premieres in NYC 1958 ― Eugene Ionesco's “Tueur sans Gages” premieres in Darmstadt 1960 ― 32nd Academy Awards; “Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signore win 1969 ― Dr. Denton Cooley implants first temporary artificial heart 1986 ― Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season 1989― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle

Apr 3, 2013

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

Today is Wednesday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2013. There are 272 days left in the year. 1657 ― English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1922 ― Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1933 ― First airplane flight over Mt. Everest 1948 ― Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5-billion aid to 16 European countries) 1949 ― North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada1958 ― Fidel Castro’s rebels attacked Havana 1964 ― Beatles hold the top six spots on the Sydney, Australia, record charts 1974 ― 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south and midwest killed approximately 3151986 ― U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000 1991 ― U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution

Apr 2, 2013

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

Today is Tuesday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2013. There are 273 days left in the year. 1800 ― First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s 1st Symphony in C 1827 ― Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils 1845 ― H. L. Fizeau & J. Leon Foucault take first photo of Sun 1902 ― First motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles) 1912 ― Sun Yet-sen forms Guomindang Party in China 1917 ― President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany1921 ― Professor Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity 1966 ― Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes first spacecraft to orbit Moon 1970 ― Two men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in the world 1996 ― Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals first base in 1,097th career game

Apr 1, 2013

MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

Today is Monday, April 1, the 91st day of 2013. There are 274 days left in the year. 1578 ― William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation 1748 ― Ruins of Pompeii found 1792 ― Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women’s right to divorce 1935 ― First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, N.Y. 1952 ― “Big Bang” theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow 1966 ― Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai starts “Cultural revolution” 1976 ― Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs originate Apple Computer 1979 ― Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah 1980 ― Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr’s record with 103rd assist 1982 ― U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama

Mar 31, 2013

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2013

Today is Saturday, March 30, the 89th day of 2013. There are 276 days left in the year. 239 B.C. ― First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1533 ― Henry VIII divorces his first wife, Catherine of Aragon 1778 ― Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath 1814 ― Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon 1842 ― Ether was used as anesthetic for first time by Dr. Crawford Long (Jefferson, Ga.) 1858 ― Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia) 1867 ― U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre; “Seward's Folly”) 1953 ― Einstein announces revised unified field theory 1987 ― Vincent van Gogh's “Sunflowers" sells for record $39.7 million 1990 ― Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the “Seniors" golf tournament 

Mar 29, 2013

FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013

Today is Friday, March 29, the 88th day of 2013. There are 277 days left in the year. 1798 ― Republic of Switzerland forms 1827 ― 20,000 attend Ludwig van Beethoven’s burial in Vienna 1848 ― Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam 1886 ― Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine) 1936 ― Nazi propaganda claims 99 percent of Germans voted for Nazi candidates 1961 ― After a 4-year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge 1971 ― Chile President Allende nationalizes banks, copper mines 1973 ― Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam, nine years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1986 ― Beatles’ records officially go on sale in Russia 1994 ― Serbs and Croats signed a ceasefire to end the war in Croatia

Mar 28, 2013

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

Today is Thursday, March 28, the 87th day of 2013. There are 278 days left in the year. 1794 ― Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) 1859 ― First performance of John Brahms’ first Serenade for orchestra 1866 ― First ambulance goes into service 1922 ― First microfilm device introduced 1930 ― Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara 1939 ― Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down 1959 ― 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet’s government and installs Panchen Lama1977 ― 49th Academy Awards: “Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win1993 ― Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031) 1995 ― World's largest bank; Japan’s Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge 

Mar 27, 2013

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