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Also on April 10, 1968, Mickey Hart joined the Grateful Dead...
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On April 11, 1968, Big Brother & the Holding Company made their national TV debut on ABC's "Hollywood Palace..."
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Also on April 11, 1951, President Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East.
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Also on April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S Truman became president
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April 12
This Day in History...
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...8ifto1_500.jpg Microsoft introduces the Kin 1, left, and Kin 2, right, two new social messaging phones during a news conference in San Francisco, on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010. -- (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar) |
On April 13, 1970, Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum...
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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, 1980, a New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" the official state song...
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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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Also on April 15, 1966, Buffalo Springfield performed for the first time as the opening act for the Byrds in San Bernadino, CA...
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On April 16, 1947, America's worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.
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On April 16, 1972, the Electric Light Orchestra played their first live show in England...
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On April 17, 1964, the Rolling Stones' debut album, "The Rolling Stones" was released in the U.K...
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Also 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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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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Also on April 18, 1989, the album "Twice Shy" was released by Great White...
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On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500.
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Also on April 19, 1988, Sonny Bono was inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, CA...
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On April 19, 1775 'the shot heard round the world' kicked off the American Revolutionary War at the battles of Lexington and Concord. Happy Anniversary America.
---------- Post added at 11:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:44 AM ---------- On April 19, 1993 the FBI ended a 51 day standoff in Waco, TX by killing 76 men, women, and children. |
On April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
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Also on April 20, 1987, Ozzy Osbourne released the album "Tribute." It was a live album recorded with Randy Rhoads. Rhoads had died in 1982...
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On April 21st, 1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action during World War I.
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Also on April 21, 1969, Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band played at London's Royal Albert Hall...
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also on April 21, 1951 my brother was born
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On April 22, 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.
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Also on April 22, 1978, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd made their first appearance as The Blues Brothers on NBC's "Saturday Night Live..."
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On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
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Also on April 23, 1971, the Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released. It was the band's first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records...
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On April 24th, 1990, The Hubble telescope takes off for space. The space shuttle Discovery takes off, carrying the revolutionary Hubble Telescope into orbit high above the Earth's atmosphere.
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Also on April 24, 1990, the road crew for Roger Waters discovered an unexploded World War II era bomb while constructing the set for "The Wall" concert in Potsdamer Platz, Germany...
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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 25, 1967, the Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love" during a British TV broadcast. Marianne Faithfull sang in the chorus...
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On April 26th, 1962- First US rocket lands on Moon The American Moon rocket Ranger IV lands on the far side of the Moon but fails to send back pictures due a technical fault.
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Also on April 26, 1966, the New York Times reported Ray Charles would undergo tests to see whether or not he had abstained from narcotic drugs...
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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 April 27, 1976, David Bowie was detained on a train trip from Russia to Poland because he had nazi books. The books were for research on a project...
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On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.
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On April 28, 1987, on a plane that was returning to Boston, from Miami, Ozzy Osbourne bought three rounds of drinks and sang "Crazy Train" over the PA system...
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On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
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