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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2009

Today is Saturday, April 18, the 108th day of 2009. There are 257 days left in the year. 1834 _ Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia 1853 _ First train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km) 1906 _ San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75 percent of the city 1906 _ Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht 1909 _ Joan of Arc declared a saint 1948 _ International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands 1949 _ Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth 1975 _ John Lennon releases ``Stand by Me" 1977 _ Alex Haley, author of ``Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize 1994 _ Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke and dies four days later

Apr 17, 2009

FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009

Today is Friday, April 17, the 107th day of 2009. There are 258 days left in the year. 1521 _ Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church 1524 _ Giovanni Verrazano, a Florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay 1534 _ Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower 1704 _ First successful U.S newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell . 1945 _ 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1956 _ Kominform disbands 1969 _ Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy 1969 _ The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their first concert 1971 _ People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman 1975 _ Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war

Apr 16, 2009

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009

Today is Thursday, April 16, the 106th day of 2009. 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 homerun 1871 _ German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions 1917 _ Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution 1945 _ German troops in Groningen surrender 1948 _ Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France 1962 _ Brazil nationalizes U.S. businesses 1986 _ To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Kadhafi appears on TV

Apr 15, 2009

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009

Today is Wednesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2009. There are 260 days left in the year. 1250 _ Pope Innocent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue 1493 _ Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella 1729 _ Johann S. Bachs ``Matthews Passion" premieres in Leipzig 1738 _ Bottle opener invented 1892 _ General Electric Company forms and is incorporated in New York 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 Japanese sea 1997 _ Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring No. 42 for all teams

Apr 14, 2009

TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009

Today is Tuesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2008. 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 1863 _ William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press 1865 _ President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth 1949 _ International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment 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, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009

Today is Monday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2009. 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) 1869 _ Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) 1924 _ Greek plebiscite for a republic 1933 _ First flight over Mt. Everest (Lord Clydesdale) 1960 _ France becomes the fourth nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara 1961 _ U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid 1987 _ Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)

Apr 12, 2009

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2009

Today is Saturday, April 11, the 101st day of 2009. There are 264 days left in the year. 1567 _ Dutch Prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda 1689 _ William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain 1814 _ First abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba 1865 _ Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction 1906 _ Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity 1914 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Pygmalion," premieres 1950 _ Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco 1951 _ President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1956 _ Singer Nat King Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites 1970 _ Beatles' ``Let It Be," single goes No. 1 and stays No.1 for two weeks

Apr 10, 2009

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2009

Today is Friday, April 10, the 100th day of 2009. There are 265 days left in the year. 837_ Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth 1923 _ Hitler demands ``hatred and more hatred" in Berlin 1925 _ F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes ``The Great Gatsby" 1925 _ Czarina re-christens Stalingrad (now Volgograd) 1938 _ Austria becomes a state of Germany 1946 _ First election for Japanese Diet 1961 _ Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel 1971 _ U.S. table tennis team arrives in People's Republic of China 1972 _ 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars 1981 _ Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded

Apr 9, 2009

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009

Today is Thursday, April 9, the 99th day of 2009. There are 266 days left in the year. 1770 _ Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia) 1864 _ Battle of Pleasant Hill, La., 2,870 casualties 1872 _ Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk 1912 _ Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York 1914 _ First full color film shown ``The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London) 1966 _ Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris, France 1967 _ First Boeing 737 rolls out 1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr. buried in Atlanta Ga. 1969 _ First flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol) 1970 _ Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles

Apr 8, 2009

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2009

Today is Wednesday, April 8, the 98th day of 2009. There are 267 days left in the year. 1781 _ Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379 1783 _ Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim 1865 _ General Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia 1879 _ Milk is sold in glass bottles for first time 1913 _ Opening of China's first parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) 1945 _ Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi General Christiansen flees Netherlands 1946 _ League of Nations assembles for last time 1952 _ President Harry Truman seizes the steel mills to prevent a strike 1992 _ After 151 years Britain's ``Punch Magazine" final issue 1994 _ Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases

Apr 7, 2009

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