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MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012

Today is Monday, April 16, the 107th day of 2012. 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 1917 ― Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution 1948 ― Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France 1962 ― Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News 1962 ― Brazil nationalizes U.S. businesses 1983 ― Steve Garvey sets National League record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games 1987 ― Michael Jordan, becomes second NBA to score 3,000 points in a season

Apr 15, 2012

Today in History April 14

Today is Saturday, April 14, the 105th day of 2012. There are 261 days left in the year. 1614 ― Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe 1814 ― Napoleon abdicated and was banished to Elba 1859 ― Charles Dickens' ``A Tale Of Two Cities" published 1865 ― President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth 1894 ― First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) 1895 ― First performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony 1902 ― Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium 1971 ― President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China 1978 ― Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia 1992 ― U.N.-imposed embargo against Libya takes effect

Apr 13, 2012

FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012

Today is Friday, April 13, the 104th day of 2012. There are 262 days left in the year. 1668 ― John Dryden (36) becomes first English poet laureate 1742 ― George Frederic Handel's ``Messiah" performed for first time (Dublin) 1842 ― Lord Rosse successfully casts 72-inch (183-cm) mirror for a telescope 1924 ― Greek plebiscite for a republic 1926 ― At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his seventh opening-day shutout 1933 ― First flight over Mt. Everest (Lord Clydesdale) 1943 ― Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn 1960 ― France becomes the fourth nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara 1961 ― U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid 1981 ― Washington Post's Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize for ``Jimmy's World" (later admits story was a hoax and returns prize)

Apr 12, 2012

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012

Today is Thursday, April 12, the 103rd day of 2012. There are 263 days left in the year. 1204 ― Fourth Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople 1654 ― England, Ireland and Scotland unite 1857 ― Gustave Flaubert's ``Madame Bovary" published 1892 ― George C. Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter 1911 ― First non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3 hours 56 minutes) 1919 ― British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages 1927 ― General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai 1969 ― Simon & Garfunkel releases ``The Boxer" 1980 ― U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow games 1988 ― Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse (first for animal life)

Apr 11, 2012

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012

Today is Wednesday, April 11, the 102nd day of 2012. There are 264 days left in the year. 1814 ― First abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba 1906 ― Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity 1914 ― George Bernard Shaw's ``Pygmalion," premieres 1951 ― President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1957 ― Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires 1961 ― Bob Dylan's first appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village 1968 ― President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1970 ― Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in six days 1970 ― Beatles' ``Let It Be" single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for two weeks 1983 ― Third Golden Raspberry Awards; ``Oh, Incheon!” wins

Apr 10, 2012

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012

Today is Tuesday, April 10, the 101st day of 2012. 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 1849 ― Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100 1877 ― First human cannonball act performed in London 1912 ― RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage 1925 ― F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes ``The Great Gatsby" 1930 ― Synthetic rubber first produced 1947 ― Jackie Robinson became the first black in modern major league baseball (Dodgers) 1961 ― Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel 1971 ― U.S. table tennis team arrives in People's Republic of China

Apr 9, 2012

Game changer

Today is Monday, April 9, the 100th day of 2012. There 266 days left in the year. 1770 ― Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia) 1829 ― Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 1865 ― Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox 1872 ― Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk 1957 ― Suez Canal cleared for all shipping 1963 ― Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony 1968 ― Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta, Ga. 1969 ― First flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol) 1976 ― U.S. and Russia agree on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use 1987 ― For third time, Wayne Gretzky, scores seven goals in a Stanley Cup game

Apr 8, 2012

SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012

Today is Saturday, April 7, the 98th day of 2012. There are 268 days left in the year. 1118 ― Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor 1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself) 1926 ― Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose 1933 ― Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment 1934 ― In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience 1954 ― President Dwight Eisenhower fears ``domino-effect" in Indochina 1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping 1978 ― President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb 1983 ― Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt 1994 ― Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for first time

Apr 6, 2012

FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012

Today is Friday, April 6, the 97th day of 2012. 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 & final wife 1869 ― First plastic, Celluloid, patented 1906 ― First animated cartoon copyrighted 1909 ― North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson 1917 ― U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I 1980 ― Post-It notes are introduced

Apr 5, 2012

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012

Today is Thursday, April 5, the 96th day of 2012. There are 270 days left in the year. 2348 B.C. ― Noah's ark grounded, Mount 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 1896 ― First modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens 1955 ― Winston Churchill resigns as British P.M., Anthony Eden succeeds him 1963 ― Beatles receive their first silver disc (``Please Please Me”) 1974 ― Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories) 1996 ― Marlon Brando makes anti-Semitic remarks about Hollywood on Larry King 2063 ― Earth's first contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek

Apr 4, 2012

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