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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009

Today is Thursday, April 30, the 120th day of 2009. There are 245 days left in the year. 311 _ Emperor Galerius recognizes Christians legally in the Roman Empire 1722 - The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant 1789 - George Washington inaugurated as first President of U.S. 1808 - First practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory 1871 - Apaches in Arizona surrender to white and Mexican adventurers; 144 die 1885 - Boston Pops Orchestra forms 1904 - Ice cream cone makes its debut 1973 - Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al 1978 - ``Elvis The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances

Apr 29, 2009

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009

Today is Wednesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2009. There are 246 days left in the year. 1429 _ Joan of Arc leads Orleans France, to victory over English 1661 _ Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan 1784 _ Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna) 1813 _ Rubber is patented 1834 _ Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia 1852 _ First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published 1856 _ End of Crimean War 1936 _ First pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5 1974 _ President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House 1995 _ Longest sausage ever, at 2,877 miles, made in Kitchener in Ontario, Canada

Apr 28, 2009

TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2009

Today is Tuesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2009. There are 247 days left in the year. 1376 _ English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay 1686 _ First volume of Isaac Newton's ``Principia" published 1770 _ Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia 1848 _ Free last slaves in French colonies 1914 _ W. .H Carrier patents air conditioner 1932 _ Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced 1964 _ Japan joins OECD 1966 _ 38th Academy Awards _ ``Sound of Music," Julie Christie & Lee Marvin win 1967 _ Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title 1975 _ Last Americans evacuated from Saigon

Apr 27, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2009

Today is Monday, April 27, the 117th day of 2009. There are 248 days left in the year. 4977 B.C. _ Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe 1509 _ Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice 1526 _ Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi 1565 _ First Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms 1861 _ President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus 1956 _ Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing 1960 _ South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns 1983 _ Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson 1989 _ Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China 1994 _ President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California

Apr 26, 2009

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009

Today is Saturday, April 25, the 115th day of 2009. There are 250 days left in the year. 1507 _ Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name America 1719 _ Daniel Defoes publishes ``Robinson Crusoe" 1792 _ Guillotine first used, executes highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier 1850 _ Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices 1859 _ Ground broken for Suez Canal 1867 _ Tokyo is opened for foreign trade 1886 _ Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna 1905 _ Whites win right to vote in South Africa 1926 _ Giacomo Puccini's opera, ``Turandot," premieres in Milan 1938 _ First use of seeing eye dog

Apr 24, 2009

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009

Today is Friday, April 24, the 114th day of 2009. There are 251 days left in the year. 1792 _ ``La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle 1833 _ Patent granted for first soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty 1871 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Aida" is produced (Cairo) 1872 _ Volcano Vesuvius erupts 1898 _ Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 1950 _ President Harry Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government 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 1989 _ Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China

Apr 23, 2009

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009

Today is Thursday, April 23, the 113th day of 2009. There are 252 days left in the year. 1867 _ Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel 1900 _ First known occurrence of word ``hillbillie" (New York Journal) 1932 _ Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon 1949 _ Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing 1956 _ U.S. Supreme court ends race segregation on buses 1962 _ First U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched 1969 _ Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 1971 _ Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike 1985 _ Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula 1995 _ President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims

Apr 22, 2009

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009

Today is Wednesday, April 22, the 112th day of 2009. There are 253 days left in the year. 1509 _ Henry VIII ascends to throne to become King of England 1526 _ First slave revolt occurs in South Carolina 1529 _ Treaty of Saragosa: Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere 1769 _ Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's ``official" mistress 1876 _ Tchaikovsky completes his ``Swan Lake" ballet 1884 _ Thomas Stevens starts first bicycle trip around the world (2 years 9 months) 1906 _ Olympic games held in Athens are not accepted by the IOC 1944 _ Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg 1970 _ First Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources 1989 _ Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)

Apr 21, 2009

TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2009

Today is Tuesday, April 21, the 111th day of 2009. There are 254 days left in the year. 0753 B.C. _ Traditional date of the foundation of Rome 1689 _ William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England 1785 _ Russian tsarina Catarina II ends noble privileges 1789 _ John Adams sworn in as first U.S. vice president (nine days before Washington) 1865 _ Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington 1948 _ First Polaroid camera is sold in U.S. 1956 _ Elvis Presley's first hit record, ``Heartbreak Hotel," becomes No. 1 1963 _ Beatles meet Rolling Stones for first time 1975 _ Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years 1989 _ Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom

Apr 20, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2009

Today is Monday, April 20, the 110th day of 2009. There are 255 days left in the year. 1653 _ Cromwell routes English parliament to house 1770 _ Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales 1841 _ First detective story (Poe's ``Murders in the Rue Morgue") published 1884 _ Pope Leo XIII encyclical ``On Freemasonry" 1904 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Candida," premieres in London 1920 _ Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1945 _ Soviet troops enter Berlin 1945 _ U.S. forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa 1996 _ Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season 1999 _ Deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School, Littleton, Col., 13 killed & 23 wounded

Apr 19, 2009

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