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March 31st
1732 ~ Birthday of Joseph Haydn, Composer.
1837 ~ Death of John Constable, Painter.
1855 ~ Death of Charlotte Brontë, Author.
1918 ~ Daylight Savings Time went into effect in the United States for the first time.
1959 ~ The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum.
1968 ~ President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election.
1970 ~ After 12 years in orbit, Explorer 1 burnt up when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.
1976 ~ Birthday of Ashton Moore, Porn Actress.
1991 ~ The end of the Warsaw Pact.
1995 ~ Latina superstar Selena was killed by the president of her fan club.
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April 1st
1884 ~ Birthday of Florence Blanchfield, the first woman to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army.
1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor.
1917 ~ Death of Scott Joplin, Musician & Composer.
1918 ~ The Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.
1945 ~ World War II: U.S. forces invaded Okinawa.
1970 ~ President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV.
1973 ~ Birthday of Joe Francis, Girls Gone Wild Producer.
1976 ~ Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
2001 ~ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and taken to prison.
2001 ~ A U.S. intelligence gathering plane collided with a PRC Army fighter jet. The Navy crew made an emergency landing in Hainan, PRC and was detained.
Feastdays & Holidays
April Fools Day
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April 2nd
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April 3rd
1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario.
1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist.
1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan.
1975 ~ GM Anatoly Karpov was awarded the title of World Champion by default when Bobby Fischer refused to play.
1981 ~ Death of Juan Trippe, Airline & Hotel (Pan Am & InterContinental) founder .
1991 ~ Death of Graham Greene, English writer.
1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
2000 ~ Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws.
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April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1885 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, dancer.
1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left £6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England.
1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
1979 ~ Death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister (hanged).
1975 ~ Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary.
1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
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April 5th
1588 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
1614 ~ In Virginia, Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe.
1792 ~ President Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1908 ~ Birthday of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor.
1930 ~ In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1942 ~ The Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Colombo, Sri Lanka, and sank the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire southwest of the island.
1951 ~ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1976 ~ Death of Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer.
1997 ~ Death of Allen Ginsberg, Poet.
2008 ~ Death of Charlton Heston, Actor.
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1917 ~ The United States declared war on Germany.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1933 ~ Hostess Twinkies were invented.
1941 ~ Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia & Greece in WWII.
1983 ~ Birthday of Bobbi Starr, Porn actress.
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author.
1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital.
2001 ~ Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the U.S. days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in the same day - first in France for belonging to a group supporting Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges.
...a bad day for Ahmed.
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April 7th
1614 ~ Death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist.
1770 ~ Birthday of William Wordsworth, English poet.
1795 ~ France adopted the meter as the unit of length.
1862 ~ Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
1891 ~ Death of P. T. Barnum, Circus Impresario.
1947 ~ Death of Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and industrialist.
1953 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld was elected United Nations Secretary General.
1964 ~ IBM announced the System/360.
1968 ~ Death of Jim Clark, racing driver.
1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of First Request for Comment (RFC).
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April 10th
1847 ~ Birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist & Publisher.
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic left port in Southampton, England.
1919 ~ Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed by government forces.
1932 ~ Birthday of Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, anad many others).
1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in MLB.
1954 ~ Death of Auguste Lumière, Cinema Pioneer.
1963 ~ The American submarine USS Thresher and its crew was lost off Cape Cod, Mass.
1966 ~ Death of Evelyn Waugh, Writer.
1970 ~ Paul McCartney announced that The Beatles had broken up.
1998 ~ The Belfast Agreement was signed.
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April 13th
1570 ~ Birthday of Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator.
1742 ~ George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
1743 ~ Birthday of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President.
1829 ~ The British Parliament granted freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1964 ~ Sidney Poitier broke the color barrier when he was awarded the “Best Actor” Oscar.
1970 ~ Apollo 13 was almost lost when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.
1980 ~ Birthday of Jana Cova, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ The Soviet Union admitted committing the Katyn Massacre.
1997 ~ Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win The Masters Tournament.
2008 ~ Death of John Wheeler, Theoretical Physicist (Black & Worm Holes) & Educator (Richard Feynman, Kip Thorne, & Hugh Everett, among others).
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