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SATURDAY APRIL 16, 2011

Today is Saturday, April 16, the 106th day of 2011. There are 259 days left in the year. 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 1962 _ Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News 1974 _ 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario, Calif. 1975 _ Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh 1977 _ Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia 1986 _ To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV 1993 _ Jury reaches guilty verdict in federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17

Apr 15, 2011

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011

Today is Friday, April 15, the 105th day of 2011. 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 1865 ― Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl 1911 ― Walter Johnson pitches a record-tying four strike outs in an inning 1922 ― Poodle Dog Restaurant closes 1931 ― The first walk across America backwards began 1959 ― Fidel Castro begins U.S. goodwill tour 1969 ― North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above East Sea 1996 ― 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9

Apr 14, 2011

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2011

Today is Thursday, April 14, the 104th day of 2011. There are 261 days left in the year. 1814 ― Napoleon abdicated and was banished to Elba 1859 ― Charles Dickens' ``A Tale Of Two Cities" published 1863 ― William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press 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 1963 ― George Harrison is impressed by the unsigned group ``Rolling Stones" 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 1989 ― 1,100,000,000th Chinese born

Apr 13, 2011

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011

Today is Wednesday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2011. There are 262 days left in the year. 1204 ― Crusaders occupy Constantinople 1598 ― Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1668 ― John Dryden (36) becomes first English poet laureate 1742 ― George Frederic Hendel's ``Messiah" performed for first time (Dublin) 1933 ― First flight over Mt. Everest (Lord Clydesdale) 1941 ― Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect 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) 1987 ― Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999) 1992 ― Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie

Apr 12, 2011

TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011

Today is Tuesday, April 12, the 102nd of 2011. 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 1896 ― Stamasia Portrisi is first woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens) 1919 ― British Parliament passes a 48-hour workweek with minimum wages 1961 ― Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1) 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, 2011

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011

Today is Monday, April 11, the 101st day of 2011. There are 264 days left in the year. 1814 _ First abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba 1830 _ Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini 1865 _ Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction 1906 _ Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity 1914 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Pygmalion,” premieres 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 1980 _ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment

Apr 10, 2011

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2011

Today is Saturday, April 9, the 99th day of 2011. There are 266 days left in the year. 1770 ― Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia) 1831 ― Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain 1872 ― Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk 1878 ― First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn 1894 ― First performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz 1963 ― Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony 1967 ― First Boeing 737 rolls out 1968 ― Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta, Ga. 1970 ― Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles 1979 ― Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins

Apr 8, 2011

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2011

Today is Friday, April 8, the 98th day of 2011. 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 1832 ― Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro 1879 ― Milk is sold in glass bottles for first time 1893 ― The Critic reports that the ice cream soda is our national drink 1913 ― Opening of China's first parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) 1968 ― 40th Academy Awards postponed to April 10th due to death of Martin Luther King Jr. 1985 ― India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster 1989 ― One-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debuts and lasts 4 2/3 innings 1994 ― Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases

Apr 7, 2011

THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011

Today is Thursday, April 7, the 97th day of 2011. There are 268 days left in the year. 451 ― Attila's Hun's plunder Metz 1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself) 1923 _ Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party 1926 ― Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose 1948 ― World Health Organization established by U.N. 1954 ―President Dwight Eisenhower fears ``domino-effect" in Indochina 1966 ― U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!) 1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping 1980 ― Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis 1983 ― Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

Apr 6, 2011

TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011

Today is Tuesday, April 5, the 95th day of 2011. 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 1887 ― Anne Sullivan teaches ``water" to Helen Keller 1896 ― First modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens 1951 ― Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death 1954 ― Elvis Presley records his debut single, ``That's All Right" 1955 ― Winston Churchill resigns as British P.M., Anthony Eden succeeds him 1974 ― Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories) 1989 ― Solidarity granted legal status in Poland 2063 ― Earth's first contact by extraterrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek

Apr 4, 2011

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