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FRIIDAY, APRIIL 11, 2008

Today is Friday, April 11, the 102nd day of 2008. There are 264 days left in the year. 1689 _ William III and Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain 1814 _ First abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba 1906 _ Einstein introduces his ``Theory of Relativity" 1914 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Pygmalion," premieres 1941 _ Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets 1951 _ President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1961 _ Bob Dylan's first appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village 1970 _ Beatles' ``Let It Be", single goes No.1 and stays No. 1 for two weeks 1970 _ Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in six days 1984 _ Chinese troops invade Vietnam

Apr 10, 2008

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008

Today is Thursday, April 10, the 101st day of 2008. There are 265 days left in the year. 1872 _ First National black convention meets in New Orleans 1916 _ First professional golf tournament held 1923 _ Hitler demands ``hatred and more hatred" in Berlin 1925 _ F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes ``The Great Gatsby" 1930 _ Synthetic rubber first produced 1945 _ U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima, Okinawa 1960 _ Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1971 _ U.S. table tennis team arrives in People's Republic of China 1979 _ Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian 1995 _ NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more

Apr 9, 2008

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008

Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 100th day of 2008. There are 266 days left in the year. 1667 _ First public art exhibition (Palais Royal, Paris France) 1770 _ Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia) 1894 _ First performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz 1914 _ First full color film shown "The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London) 1940 _ Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders) 1953 _ ``TV Guide" publishes first issue 1965 _ First game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun 1967 _ First Boeing 737 rolls out 1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr. buried in Atlanta, Ga. 1969 _ First flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)

Apr 8, 2008

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2008

Today is Tuesday, April 8, the 99th day of 2008. 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 1879 _ Milk is sold in glass bottles for first time 1913 _ Opening of China's first parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) 1916 _ Norway approves active and passive female suffrage 1953 _ Dag Hammarskjold chosen as secretary-general of U.N. 1964 _ Unmanned Gemini 1 launched 1968 _ Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King Jr. assassination 1985 _ India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster performances 1989 _ One-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 innings

Apr 7, 2008

MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008

Today is Monday, April 7, the 98th day of 2008. There are 268 days left in the year. 0451 _ Attila's Hun's plunder Metz 1712 _ Slave revolt (New York, N.Y.) 1805 _ Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself) 1827 _ English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches 1933 _ Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment 1943 _ Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg 1948 _ World Health Organization established by U.N. 1956 _ Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco 1963 _ Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic 1978 _ President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb

Apr 6, 2008

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2008

Today is Saturday, April 5, the 96th day of 2008. There are 270 days left in the year. 2348 B.C. _ Noah's ark grounded, Mount Ararat (calculated date) 1621 _ Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England 1803 _ First performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D 1894 _ Start of Sherlock Holmes ``Adventure of the Empty House" (BG) 1895 _ Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices 1896 _ First modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens 1954 _ Elvis Presley records his debut single, ``That's All Right" 1955 _ Winston Churchill resigns as British P.M., Anthony Eden succeeds him 1971 _ Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy 1974 _ Then tallest building, World Trade Center, opens in NYC (110 stories)

Apr 4, 2008

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008

Today is Friday, April 4, the 95th day of 2008. There are 271 days left in the year. 1581 _ Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted 1716 _ Russian and Prussian troops occupy Wismar 1905 _ Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000 1912 _ Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet 1920 _ Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem 1932 _ Vitamin C first isolated, C. .C King, University of Pittsburgh 1947 _ U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization established 1949 _ North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.) 1958 _ First march against nuclear weapons (Alder Aston, England) 1960 _ Senegal declares independence from France 1974 _ Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's homerun record by hitting his 714th

Apr 3, 2008

THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008

Today is Thursday, April 3, the 94th day of 2008. There are 272 days left in the year. 1657 _ English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1910 _ Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley, climbed 1948 _ Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries) 1958 _ Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana 1968 _ North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks 1977 _ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's first meeting with U.S. President Jimmy Carter 1978 _ The European Common Market and China signs a trade agreement 1982 _ The U.N. Security Council demands Argentina's withdrawal from Falkland Islands 1986 _ U.S. national debt hits $2 trillion 1991 _ The U.N. Security Council adopts a Gulf War truce resolution

Apr 2, 2008

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008

Today is April 2, the 93rd day of 2008. There are 273 days left in the year. 1800 _ First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's first Symphony in C 1827 _ Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils 1902 _ First motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles CA) 1905 _ Cairo-Capetown railway opens 1912 _ Sun Yet Sen forms Kuomintang Party in China 1917 _ President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1945 _ First U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa 1979 _ Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo and meets Egyptian President Sadat 1992 _ Edith Cresson, France's first female premier, resigns 1995 _ Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50

Apr 1, 2008

TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008

Today is Tuesday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2008. There are 274 days left in the year. 1578 _ William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation 1748 _ Ruins of Pompeii found 1789 _ House of Representatives first full meeting, New York, N.Y., F Muhlenberg first speaker 1866 _ Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in U.S. 1891 _ London-Paris telephone connection opens 1891 _ Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti 1945 _ U.S. forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WWII 1952 _ Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow 1979 _ Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah 1983 _ Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England

Mar 31, 2008

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