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it appears that on March 30, 2009 this thread hit a milestone ...or a millistone... and went over 1000 posts!
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On March 31st, 1492- King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling Jews unwilling to convert to Christianity.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! |
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Also on April 1st, 1946- Tidal waves struck the Hawaiian Islands, killing more than 170 people.
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Also on April 2, 1917- President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy."
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On April 3rd, 1860- The Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif.
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Also on April 4th, 1968- civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.
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Also on April 5th, 1614- Pocahontas, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan tribe, married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
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Also on April 6th, On April 6, 1909- explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole
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On April 7th, 1947- Auto pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83.
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April 7, 2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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On April 8, 1968, Patricia Arquette was born...
Patricia Arquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on April 8th, 1987- Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned after saying on ABC's "Nightline" that blacks may lack some of the "necessities" for becoming baseball managers.
1987!?! |
On April, 9th, 1969- The album "Nashville Skyline" by Bob Dylan was released.
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Also on April 9, 1965, Paulina Porizkova was born...
Paulina Porizkova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Also on April 10th, 1943- Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
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Also on April 11th, 1963- The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher and its crew of 129 was lost off Cape Cod, Mass.
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Also on April 12th, 1955- The Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective.
Too bad for my father, he was infected in 1938. And Phil, Phil, Phil.... Shannen Doherty? Seriously that's the best BD for today. Well it least it wasn't Paris Hilton. |
On April 13, 1919, Madalyn Murray O’Hair was born...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.
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On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died the next day.
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Also on April 14, 1977, Sarah Michelle Gellar was born...
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Also on April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died.
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Apr 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson became the first African American Major league baseball player
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On April 16th, 1964- "The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hitmakers)," the band's debut album, was released.
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On April 17, 1961, about 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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Also on April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.
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on this day... I should've been shoved back in!!!
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April 19, 1775
The American Revolution begins At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town's common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment's hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the "shot heard around the world" was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. ---------- Post added at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:34 AM ---------- April 19, 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins In Warsaw, Poland, Nazi forces attempting to clear out the city's Jewish ghetto are met by gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. ---------- Post added at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 AM ---------- April 19, 1993 Branch Davidian compound burns At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launches a tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending a tense 51-day standoff between the federal government and an armed religious cult. By the end of the day, the compound was burned to the ground, and some 80 Branch Davidians, including 22 children, had perished in the inferno. ---------- Post added at 12:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 AM ---------- April 19, 1995 Truck bomb explodes in Oklahoma City Just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble. Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City from across the country, and when the rescue effort finally ended two weeks later the death toll stood at 168 people killed, including 19 young children who were in the building's day-care center at the time of the blast. |
Also on April 19, 1933, Jayne Mansfield was born...
Jayne Mansfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on April 19, 1933- The United States went off the gold standard.
Maybe some one knew was we had Jayne nobody was going to care about the gold? |
On April 20th, 1999- Two students went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives.
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Also on April 20, 1972, Carmen Electra was born...
Carmen Electra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On April 21st, 1986- A vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel that was linked to Al Capone was opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault was empty.
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On April 22nd, 1952- An atomic test conducted in Nevada became the first nuclear explosion shown on live network TV.
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Also on April 22, 1451, Queen Isabella I was born...
Isabella I of Castile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On April 23, 1967,Melina Kanakaredes was born...
Melina Kanakaredes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on April 23rd, 1971- The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released.
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Also on April 24, 1898- Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
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On this day, my spicy dinner from last night seems like a mistake.
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Also on April 25th, 1507- "America" was first used as the name of a continent on a map. German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller used the name in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
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Also on April 26, 1986- The world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately.
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On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.
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Also on May 3rd, 1988- The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan's activities.
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May 3rd, 1469- Italian philosopher/writer Niccolo Machiavelli was born.
1937- Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind won the Pulitzer. 1952- pilot William P. Benedict and co-pilot Joseph O. Fletcher flew the first aircraft to the north pole. they were also the first to set foot on the north pole. |
On May 4, 1970, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Allison Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer died...
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Also on May 4th, 1946- A two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended after five people were killed.
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Have you seen the "KNOWING" movie guyz? you sounds like this movie.. :)
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Also on May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla
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On May 6, 1959, Mare Winningham was born...
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Also on May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.
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May 7, 1915 - German submarine U-20 sinks the RMS Lusitania
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Now I'm going to have Traci Lords in my brain all day, thanks. Really thanks!
Also on May 7, 1945- Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II |
may 7th, 1983...
In a school playground, James Vance presses a shotgun to his chin and pulls the trigger. He and cohort Raymond Belknap had forged a suicide pact while listening to Stained Class by Judas Priest. But where Belknap succeeded, Vance fails. The dumbshit survives, destroying his face. He later uses his disfigurement to his advantage, terrorizing small children on his bicycle. Both kids' parents file suit against the band, but a judge ultimately rejects their subliminal message theory. Vance dies from painkillers on Thanksgiving three years later. |
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Also on May 8th, 1886- Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented the flavor syrup for Coca-Cola.
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may 9th...
2001-In Ghana, during a football match at Accra Stadium 126 fans lose their life during a stampede. 1972-Israeli soldiers storm a hijacked Sabena Boeing airplane at Lod airport in Tel Aviv, releasing 100 people on board. 1960-The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve the sale of the birth control pill. 1955-West Germany joins NATO. 1978-terrorist kidnappers murder Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and dump his body in Rome. |
Also on May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
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Also on May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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On May 11, 1981 greatness died.
RIP Bob Marley |
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On May 19th, 1962- Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
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On May 20th, 1927- Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Also on May 20, 1946, Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre) was born...
Cher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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