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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009

Today is Tuesday, April 7, the 97th day of 2009. There are 268 days left in the year. 0451 _ Attila's Hun's plunder Metz 1118 _ Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor 1348 _ Prague U, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV 1805 _ Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself) 1827 _ English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches 1943 _ Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg 1980 _ Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis 1983 _ Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt 1989 _ Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths 1990 _ Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations

Apr 6, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2009

Today is Monday, April 6, the 96th day of 2009. There are 269 days left in the year. 648 B.C. _ Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks 610 _ Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the Koran descended to Earth 1327 _ Italian poet Petrarch first sets eyes on his beloved Laura 1722 _ Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards 1868 _ Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife 1869 _ First plastic, Celluloid, patented 1889 _ George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for first time 1896 _ First modern Olympic games begin in Athens Greece; American, James Connolly, wins first Olympic gold medal in modern history 1917 _ U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I 1945 _ Massive kamikaze-attack on U.S. battle fleet near Okinawa

Apr 5, 2009

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2009

Today is Saturday, April 4, the 94th day of 2009. There are 271 days left in the year. 1832 _ Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro 1905 _ Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000 1912 _ Chinese Republic proclaimed in Tibet 1932 _ Vitamin C first isolated, C. C. King, University of Pittsburgh 1944 _ De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists 1945 _ U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1947 _ U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization established 1949 _ North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington DC) 1960 _ 32nd Academy Awards _ ``Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win 1974 _ Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's homerun record by hitting his 714th

Apr 3, 2009

FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009

Today is Friday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2009. There are 272 days left in the year. 1657 _ English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1910 _ Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt. McKinley climbed 1917 _ Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd 1922 _ Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1941 _ Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion 1957 _ Samuel Beckett's ``Endgame", premieres in London 1958 _ Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana 1968 _ North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks 1978 _ European market and China signs trade agreement 1991 _ U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution

Apr 2, 2009

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2009

Today is Thursday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2009. There are 273 days left in the year. 1800 _ First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C 1827 _ Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils 1845 _ H. L. Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take first photo of Sun 1872 _ George B. Brayton patents gasoline powered engine 1912 _ Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang Party in China 1917 _ President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1954 _ Plans to build Disneyland first announced 1958 _ National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA 1970 _ Two men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in the world 1982 _ Several thousand Argentine troops seize disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands

Apr 1, 2009

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009

Today is Wednesday, April 1, the 91st day of 2009. There are 274 days left in the year. 1578 _ William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation 1748 _ Ruins of Pompeii found 1778 _ Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates ``$" symbol 1836 _ Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands 1867 _ International Exhibition opens in Paris France 1891 _ Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti 1934 _ Bonnie and Clyde kill two police officers 1945 _ U.S. forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WWII 1952 _ Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow 1979 _ Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah

Mar 31, 2009

TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009

Today is Tuesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2009. 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 1889 _ 300-meter Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution) 1909 _ Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time 1921 _ Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity 1945 _ Tennessee Williams' ``Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York City 1965 _ U.S. ordered the first combat troops to Vietnam 1967 _ Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar 1980 _ President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry 1991 _ Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves

Mar 30, 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009

Today is Monday, March 30, the 89th day of 2009. There are 276 days left in the year. 239 B.C. _ First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1533 _ Henry VIII divorces his first wife, Catherine of Aragon 1778 _ Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath 1814 _ Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon 1856 _ Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War 1858 _ Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia) 1953 _ Einstein announces revised unified field theory 1972 _ North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam 1981 _ President Reagan shot and wounded by John W. Hinckley Jr. 1987 _ Vincent van Gogh's ``Sunflowers" sells for record $39.7 million

Mar 29, 2009

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2009

Today is Saturday, March 28, the 87th day of 2009. There are 278 days left in the year. 1794 _ Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) 1845 _ Mexico drops diplomatic relations with U.S. 1854 _ During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia 1891 _ First world weightlifting championship held 1922 _ First microfilm device introduced 1930 _ Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara 1556 _ Origin of Fasli Era (India) 1959 _ 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama 1960 _ Pope John raises the first Japanese, first African & first Filipino cardinal 1967 _ U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

Mar 27, 2009

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2009

Today is Friday, March 27, the 86th day of 2009. There are 279 days left in the year. 1625 _ Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and 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 1958 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and First Secretary of Communist Party 1973 _ 45th Academy Awards: ``Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win; Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians 1977 _ 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash, Tenerife 1988 _ Ku Ok-hee wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament 1997 _ 39 cult members in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)

Mar 26, 2009

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