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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012

Today is Wednesday, April 4, the 95th day of 2012. There are 271 days left in the year. 1558 ― Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders 1581 ― Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted 1660 ― English King Charles II ends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion) 1912 ― Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet 1932 ― Vitamin C first isolated, C. C. King, University of Pittsburgh 1945 ― U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1949 ― North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington, D.C.) 1958 ― First march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston, England) 1964 ― Beatles' ``Can't Buy Me Love," single goes No. 1 and stays No.1 for 5 weeks 1989 ― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle

Apr 3, 2012

TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012

Today is Tuesday, April 3, the 94th day of 2012. There are 272 days left in the year. 1657 ― English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1856 ― Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1868 ― An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50-feet tidal wave 1922 ― Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1933 ― First airplane flight over Mount Everest 1957 ― Samuel Beckett's ``Endgame," premieres in London 1958 ― Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana 1965 ― First atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched 1978 ― European market and China signs trade agreement 1991 ― U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution

Apr 2, 2012

MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012

Today is Monday, April 2, the 93rd day of 2012. There are 273 days left in the year. 1595 ― Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope 1800 ― First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's first Symphony in C 1827 ― Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils 1845 ― H. L. Fizeau and J. Leon Foucault take first photo of Sun 1902 ― First motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1908 ― Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday 1912 ― Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang Party in China 1917 ― President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1931 ― Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tenn. 1966 ― Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes first spacecraft to orbit Moon

Apr 1, 2012

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012

Today is Saturday, March 31, the 91st day of 2012. There are 275 days left in the year. 1657 ― English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown 1814 ― Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris, France 1909 ― Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time 1920 ― British parliament accept Irish ``Home Rule"-law 1921 ― Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity 1933 ― German Republic gives power to Hitler 1945 ― Tennessee Williams' ``Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York City 1959 ― Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India 1967 ― Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar 1980 ― President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry

Mar 30, 2012

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012

Today is Friday, March 30, the 90th day of 2012. There are 276 days left in the year. 1533 ― Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon 1778 ― Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath 1814 ― Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon 1842 ― Ether was used as an anesthetic for first time by Dr. Crawford Long (Jefferson, Ga.) 1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War 1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia) 1867 U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2cents an acre ― Seward's Folly) 1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race 1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory 1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam

Mar 29, 2012

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012

Today is Thursday, March 29, the 89th day of 2012. 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 1852 ― Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day 1936 ― Nazi propaganda claims 99 percent of Germans voted for Nazi candidates 1951 ― ``King & I" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 1,246 performances 1971 ― Chilean President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines 1971 ― First Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre 1985 ― Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist 1994 ― Serbs and Croats signed a ceasefire to end the war in Croatia

Mar 28, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012

Today is Wednesday, March 28, the 88th day of 2012. There are 278 days left in the year. 1797 ― Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine 1866 ― first ambulance goes into service 1891 ― First world weightlifting championship held 1910 ― First seaplane, takes off from water at Martigues, France (Henri Fabre) 1922 ― First microfilm device introduced 1939 ― Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down 1959 ― Eleven days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama 1979 ― Major nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, Middletown, Pa. (no deaths) 1990 ― Michael Jordan scores 69 points, fourth time he scores 60 points in a game 1995 ― World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo merge

Mar 27, 2012

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012

Today is Tuesday, March 27, the 87th day of 2012. There are 279 days left in the year. 1625 ― Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne 1790 ― The shoelace invented 1914 ― first successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) 1931 ― Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor 1933 ― Japan leaves League of Nations 1933 ― Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett 1945 ― Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. soldiers killed 1958 ― Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and first secretary of Communist Party 1966 ― Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia 1988 ― Ku Ok-hee wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament

Mar 26, 2012

MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012

Today is Monday, March 26, the 86th day of 2012. There are 280 days left in the year. 1780 ― first British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor) 1812 ― Earthquake destroys 90 percent of Caracas; about 20,000 die 1824 ― First performance of Beethoven's ``Missa Solemnis" 1871 ― Paris Commune founded 1872 ― Thomas J. Martin patents fire extinguisher 1885 ― Eastman Film Co. manufactures first commercial motion picture film 1937 ― Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye 1942 ― First ``Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps 1971 ― Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence 1979 ― Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt

Mar 25, 2012

SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012

Today is Saturday, March 24, the 84th day of 2012. There are 282 days left in the year. 1721 _ Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburg Concerts 1898 _ First automobile sold 1906 _ ``Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world 1930 _ Planet Pluto named 1949 _ Walter & John Huston become first father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of ``Treasure of Sierra Madre") 1958 _ Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) 1960 _ U.S. appeals court rules novel, ``Lady Chatterley's Lover", not obscene 1962 _ Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys 1976 _ Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military 1989 _ Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska

Mar 23, 2012

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