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SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010

Today is Saturday, April 24, the 114th day of 2010. There are 251 days left in the year. 1833 _ Patent granted for first soda fountain to Jacob Evert and George Dulty 1871 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Aida" is produced (Cairo) 1872 _ Volcano Vesuvius erupts 1888 _ Eastman Kodak forms 1897 _ First reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House 1898 _ Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 1953 _ Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 1955 _ Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for-self determination ends 1961 _ JFK accepts ``sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs 1970 _ People's Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song ``East is Red"

Apr 23, 2010

Today in History

Today is Friday, April 23, the 113rd day of 2010. There are 252 days left in the year. 1867 _ Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel 1949 _ Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing 1954 _ Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits first of his 755 homers 1967 _ Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes first in-flight casualty when its parachute lines became tangled and the parachutes failed to open properly upon return to Earth 1969 _ Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 1984 _ AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) 1985 _ Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula 1993 _ Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia 1993 _ Peter Townshend's musical ``Tommy," premieres in NYC 1995 _ President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims

Apr 22, 2010

Today in History

Today is Thursday, April 22, the 112nd day of 2010. There are 253 days left in the year. 687 B.C. _ Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra 1659 _ Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament 1876 _ Tchaikovsky completes his ``Swan Lake" ballet 1906 _ Olympic games held in Athens are not accepted by the IOC 1914 _ Mexico ends diplomatic relations with U.S. 1915 _ First military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WWI 1952 _ First atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nev. 1970 _ Flat Earth celebrated 1983 _ Stern magazine announces major historical find _ discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax) 1989 _ Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)

Apr 21, 2010

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010

Today is Wednesday, April 21, the 111th day of 2010. There are 254 days left in the year. 753 B.C. _ Traditional date of the foundation of Rome 1689 _ William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king and queen of England 1828 _ Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary 1898 _ Spanish-American War begins 1946 _ SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany 1948 _ First Polaroid camera is sold in U.S. 1963 _ Beatles meet Rolling Stones for first time 1976 _ Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing 1989 _ Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom 1996 _ Chicago Bulls win NBA record 72 games (72-8)

Apr 20, 2010

TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010

Today is Tuesday, April 20, the 110th day of 2010. 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 1904 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Candida", premieres in London 1917 _ Pravda (Lenin names Russia ``Free land of world") 1920 _ Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1974 _ Paul McCartney releases ``Band on the Run" 1986 _ Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game 1993 _ Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years) 1996 _ Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season 1999 _ Deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colo., 13 killed, 23 wounded

Apr 19, 2010

MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010

Today is Monday, April 19, the 109th day of 2010. There are 256 days left in the year. 1587 _ Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz, Spain, and sinks Spanish fleet 1770 _ Captain James Cook first sees Australia 1861 _ Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War) 1897 _ First Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10 1909 _ Joan of Arc, declared a saint 1933 _ FDR announces U.S. will leave the gold standard 1948 _ Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China 1951 _ General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career 1967 _ Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they didn't) 1995 _ Truck bomb outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 and injures 500

Apr 18, 2010

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2010

Today is Saturday, April 17, the 107th day of 2010. There are 258 days left in the year. 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 1629 _ first commercial fishery established 1956 _ USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves 1969 _ Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed 1971 _ People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman 1975 _ Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war 1983 _ India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket 1986 _ IBM produces first megabit-chip

Apr 16, 2010

FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010

Today is Friday, March 16, the 106th day of 2010. There are 259 days left in the year. 1521 _ Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms 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 1986 _ To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Qadhafi appears on TV 1987 _ Michael Jordan, becomes second NBA to score 3,000 points in a season 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, 2010

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010

Today is Thursday, April 15, the 105th day of 2010. There are 260 days left in the year. 1729 _ Johann S. Bach's ``Matthew's Passion" premieres in Leipzig 1738 _ Bottle opener invented 1861 _ Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln 1896 _ First Olympic games close at Athens, Greece 1900 _ International Exposition opens in Paris, France 1911 _ Walter Johnson pitches a record-tying four strike outs in an inning 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 1981 _ Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story 1985 _ South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites & non-whites

Apr 14, 2010

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010

Today is Wednesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2010. There are 261 days left in the year. 1611 _ Word ``telescope" is first used (Prince Federico Cesi) 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 1912 _ The Titanic, launched on May 31, 1911, on route from Southampton to New York with 2,200 passengers, strikes iceberg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia at approximately 11:30p.m., and sinks early the next morning (1500-plus death toll) 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

Apr 13, 2010
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