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Old 04-29-2011, 08:28 PM
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April 30th
1877 ~ Birthday of Alice B. Toklas, Muse and Brownie Chef.

1883 ~ Death of Édouard Manet, Impressionist Painter.

1916 ~ Birthday of Claude Shannon, the "Father of Information Theory”.

1938 ~ Birthday of Larry Niven, Science Fiction author.

1945 ~ Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide after being married for one day.

1948 ~ The Land Rover was introduced.

1973 ~ President Nixon took responsibility for the Watergate scandal.

1975 ~ The South Vietnamese government in Saigon fell to Communist forces.

1985 ~ Birthday of Ashley Alexandra Dupré, Singer & Call Girl.

1993 ~ CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to everyone.
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