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Also on March 27th in 1939- Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.
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On March 28, 1933, in Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools...
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On May 28, 1984, President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
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On March 29, 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam...
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On March 30, 1822, Florida became a U.S. territory...
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On March 31, 1932, he Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine...
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On April 1, 1924, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch..."
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Also on April 1st, in 1970 American Motors introduced the Gremlin.
Google Image Result for http://www.cartype.com/pics/1158/full/gremlin_rs_70.jpg I had a Gremlin in the mid-nineties when I was in college.:) Lindy |
On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore...
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Are you ready for this? On April 3, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida. He had sighted the land the day before...
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On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side...
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Also on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.
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On April 5, 1985, John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis..."
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Also on April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
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Also on April 5, in 1792, George Washington exercised the first presidential veto, returning the Apportionment Act to Congress. Presidents have used the veto 2563 times since then.
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On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.
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Also on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon Church in Seneca, NY...
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On April 7, 1864, the first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California...
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Also on April 7, in 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
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Also on April 8th in 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.
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On April 9, 1833, Peterborough, NH, opened the first municipally supported public library in the United States...
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Also on April 9th, 1959- NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
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On April 10, 1866, the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was incorporated...
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Also on April 10th in 1912- The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
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On April 11th, 1945- American soldiers liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
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Also on April 11, 1921, the first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee...
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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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Also on April 12, 1864, Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there...
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On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)
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Also on April 13, 1849, the Hungarian Republic was proclaimed...
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On April 14, 1925, WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2...
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Also on April 14th, 1902- J.C. Penney opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
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OnApril 15th in 1808- A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States went into effect.
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Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in baseball playing for the brooklyn dodgers |
Also on April 15, 1784, he first balloon was flown in Ireland...
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And to help out aerophobes like me, Rand-McNally, on April 15, 1924, introduced the first Road Atlas.
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On April 16, 1705, Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton...
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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 17, 1524, New York Harbor was discovered by Giovanni Verrazano...
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