04-17-2011, 07:52 PM
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April 18th
1480 ~ Birthday of Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
1772 ~ Birthday of David Ricardo, Economist.
1775 ~ Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons.
1819 ~ Birthday of Franz von Suppé, Croatian /Austrian composer.
1955 ~ Death of Albert Einstein, Physicist.
1958 ~ A federal court ruled that poet Ezra Pound should be released from an insane asylum.
1980 ~ Independence Day in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia).
1978 ~ The U.S. Senate narrowly backed President Carter's controversial Panama Canal treaty.
1992 ~ General Dostum rebelled against President Najibullah of Afghanistan & allied with Ahmed Massoud of the Northern Alliance to capture Kabul.
1999 ~ Wayne Gretzky played his last National Hockey League game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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