04-17-2011, 04:15 AM | #2481 (permalink) |
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Also on April 17th in 1892- The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.
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04-18-2011, 01:36 AM | #2482 (permalink) |
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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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04-18-2011, 02:10 AM | #2483 (permalink) |
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Also on April 18, 1676, Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians...
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04-19-2011, 01:51 AM | #2484 (permalink) |
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On April 19, 1939, Connecticut approved the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution after 148 years...
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04-19-2011, 01:55 AM | #2485 (permalink) |
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Also 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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04-19-2011, 07:54 AM | #2486 (permalink) |
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April 19, 1775 marks the beginning of the revolutionary war.
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04-20-2011, 02:15 AM | #2487 (permalink) |
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On April 20, 1912, Fenway Park opened as the home of the Boston Red Sox...
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04-20-2011, 06:18 AM | #2488 (permalink) |
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Also on April 20th 1972 The manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.
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04-21-2011, 01:58 AM | #2489 (permalink) |
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On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.
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04-21-2011, 02:08 AM | #2490 (permalink) |
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Also on April 21, 1918, German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down and killed during World War I...
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04-22-2011, 01:48 AM | #2491 (permalink) |
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On April 22nd 1864 Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.
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04-22-2011, 02:12 AM | #2492 (permalink) |
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Also on April 22, 1914, Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles...
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04-23-2011, 01:46 AM | #2494 (permalink) |
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On April 23, 1924, the U.S. Senate passed the Soldiers Bonus Bill...
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04-23-2011, 04:34 AM | #2495 (permalink) |
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Also on April 23rd in 1971- The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released.
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04-24-2011, 02:21 AM | #2496 (permalink) |
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On April 24, 1805, the U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli...
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04-24-2011, 03:35 AM | #2497 (permalink) |
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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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04-25-2011, 01:18 AM | #2498 (permalink) |
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On April 25th, 1945- U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.
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04-25-2011, 02:02 AM | #2499 (permalink) |
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Also 0n April 25, 1792, the guillotine was first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier...
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04-26-2011, 02:15 AM | #2500 (permalink) |
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On April 26, 1906, in Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time...
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04-26-2011, 03:00 AM | #2501 (permalink) |
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Also on April 26th in 1606- An expedition of English colonists went ashore at Cape Henry, Va., to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. (They later settled at Jamestown.)
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04-27-2011, 12:53 AM | #2502 (permalink) |
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O April 27th in 1521- Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
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04-27-2011, 02:22 AM | #2503 (permalink) |
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Also on April 27, 1861, U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus...
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04-28-2011, 12:42 AM | #2504 (permalink) |
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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.
"Well his name was Captain Adam Troy And he sailed the "Kon-Tiki" Now the captain's gone but he won't be forgotten Nor his likes will we ever see" Jimmy Buffett
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04-28-2011, 02:11 AM | #2505 (permalink) |
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Also 0n April 28, 1789, a mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift...
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04-29-2011, 02:24 AM | #2506 (permalink) |
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On April 29, 1913, Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper...
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04-29-2011, 02:54 AM | #2507 (permalink) |
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Also 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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04-30-2011, 04:26 AM | #2508 (permalink) |
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On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.
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04-30-2011, 04:32 AM | #2509 (permalink) |
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Also on April 30, 1900, Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express..."
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05-01-2011, 01:56 AM | #2510 (permalink) |
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On May 1, 1889, Asa Candler published a full-page advertisement in The Atlanta Journal, proclaiming his wholesale and retail drug business as "sole proprietors of Coca-Cola ... Delicious. Refreshing. Exhilarating. Invigorating." Mr. Candler did not actually achieve sole ownership until 1891 at a cost of $2,300...
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05-02-2011, 02:01 AM | #2511 (permalink) |
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On May 2, 1776, France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British...
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05-02-2011, 02:45 AM | #2512 (permalink) |
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Also on May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
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05-02-2011, 08:11 AM | #2513 (permalink) |
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may 2nd 1930
President Hoover in a speech said that the stock market crash of last year was just a temporary setback and would soon pass and that the economy would soon bounce back ( this was 6 months after the stock market crash and the great depression of the 1930's would continue and worsen over the next 5 years )
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05-03-2011, 01:26 AM | #2514 (permalink) |
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On May 3, 1971, anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
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05-03-2011, 02:03 AM | #2515 (permalink) |
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Also on May 3, 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising...
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05-04-2011, 02:25 AM | #2516 (permalink) |
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On May 4, 1970, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Allison Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer died...
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05-05-2011, 01:57 AM | #2517 (permalink) |
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On May 5, 1862, the Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day...
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05-05-2011, 02:20 AM | #2518 (permalink) |
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Which oddly means nothing down here south of the border.
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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05-06-2011, 02:13 AM | #2519 (permalink) |
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On May 6, 1840, the first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain...
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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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