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April 26th
1711 ~ Birthday of David Hume, Philosopher & Historian.
1785 ~ Birthday of John Audubon, Naturalist & Illustrator.
1935 ~ Birthday of Carol Burnett, Singer, Actress & Comedienne.
1937 ~ Planes from the Condor Legion, an adjunct of the Luftwaffe, bombed the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
1945 ~ The Battle of Bautzen: The last successful German armoured offensive of WWII.
1964 ~ Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
1986 ~ The world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union.
1989 ~ Death of Lucille Ball, Actress & Comedienne.
1994 ~ South Africa held its first multiracial elections.
2005 ~ Syria's 29-year military presence in Lebanon ended.[/QUOTE]
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April 27th
1521 ~ Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
1667 ~ John Milton sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1791 ~ Birthday of Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse code.
1813 ~ U.S. troops captured York (present day Toronto), the capital of Ontario.
1822 ~ Birthday of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President.
1891 ~ Birthdayof Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer.
1904 ~ The Australian Labor Party became the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
1945 ~ Soviet and American armies link up at the Elbe.
1999 ~ Death of Al Hirt, Musician.
2007 ~ Death of Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor.
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April 28th
1789 ~ Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift.
1906 ~ Birthday of Kurt Gödel, mathematician.
1937 ~ Birthday of Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq.
1941 ~ Birthday of Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress.
1945 ~ Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were killed by members of the Italian resistance movement while trying to flee Italy.
1947 ~ Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki.
1952 ~ The U.S. occupation of Japan ended.
1969 ~ Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France.
2001 ~ Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.
2003 ~ Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launched.
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April 29th
1863 ~ Birthday of William Randolph Hearst, American publisher.
1893 ~ Birthday of Harold Urey, American chemist, awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1945 ~ Start of Operation Manna.
1945 ~ American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1951 ~ Death of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher.
1958 ~ The Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, opened in London.
1980 ~ Death of Alfred Hitchcock, director.
1992 ~ Rioting broke out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating Rodney King.
1997 ~ The Chemical Weapons Convention, a worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons, went into effect.
2008 ~ Death of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD .
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May 1st
1840 ~ The Penny Black postage stamp put on sale in the UK.
1869 ~ The Folies Bergères opened in Paris. Edouard Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” recalls the lot of one of the employees.
1904 ~ Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech Composer.
1941 ~ Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premiered in New York City.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rita Coolidge, Singer.
1960 ~ Gary Powers was shot down in a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union.
1978 ~ Death of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1982 ~ RAF aircraft attack two airstrips near Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
2004 ~ Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union.
2008 ~ Death of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "DC Madam".
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May 4th
1825 ~ Birthday of Thomas Henry Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog", English Scientist.
1852 ~ Birthday of Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.
1929 ~ Birthday of Audrey Hepburn, Film and Stage Actress Extraordinaire.
1942 ~ The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began during World War II.
1953 ~ Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea".
1970 ~ The Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
1975 ~ Death of Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges.
1979 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the UK’s first female Prime Minister.
1982 ~ The HMS Sheffield was sunk by an Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
2009 ~ Death of Dom DeLuise, American comedian and actor.
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1807 ~ Death of P.D.Q. Bach, fictitious Composer.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher.
1891 ~ NYC’s Carnegie Hall had its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1925 ~ Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Dayton, Tennessee.
1944 ~ Birthday of John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor (Gimli).
1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
1973 ~ Birthday of Brooke Ashley, a former Porn actress.
1980 ~ Great Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege.
1992 ~ Wolfenstein 3D was released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.
1995 ~ Death of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion.
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May 6th
1856 ~ Birthday of Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis.
1862 ~ Death of Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher.
1915 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, Writer.
1915 ~ Birthday of Orson Welles, Director.
1937 ~ The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1940 ~ John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1953 ~ Birthday of Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1954 ~ Roger Bannister became the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
1994 ~ Queen Elizabeth and French President François Mitterrand opened the Chunnel.
1994 ~ Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991.
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May 8th
1794 ~ French chemist Antoine Lavoisier was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.
1873 ~ Death of John Stuart Mill, Empiricist Philosopher.
1895 ~ Birthday of Fulton J. Sheen, bishop and television personality.
1968 ~ Birthday of Jamie Summers, American porn star.
1973 ~ The Second Battle of Wounded Knee ended.
1978 ~ David Berkowitz pleaded guilty to the ''Son of Sam'' killings.
1984 ~ The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics.
1985 ~ Death of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer.
1988 ~ Death of Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction writer.
1999 ~ The Citadel, South Carolina's formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet.
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May 9th
1860 ~ Birthday of J.M. Barrie, Author, creator of Peter Pan.
1874 ~ Birthday of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.
1901 ~ Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne.
1903 ~ Death of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter.
1949 ~ Birthday of Billy Joel, American musician.
1961 ~ Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles became the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
1972 ~ Israeli commandos liberated a hijacked Sabena airliner at Lod airport in Tel Aviv.
1974 ~ The U.S. Congress’s House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1986 ~ Death of Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineer.
1994 ~ Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
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