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April 15th
1707 ~ Birthday of Leonhard Euler, Mathematician.
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic sank.
1924 ~ Birthday of Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor.
1945 ~ British & Canadian troops liberate Bergen-Belsen
1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke MLB's racial segregation by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1955 ~ The first McDonald's restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1971 ~ Birthday of Sarah Jane Hamilton, Porn Actress.
1985 ~ Birthday of Amy Reid, German Porn Actress.
1994 ~ Representatives of 124 countries signed the Marrakesh Agreements which replaced the GATT with the WTO.
1998 ~ Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Dictator.
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April 16th
1867 ~ Birthday of Wilbur Wright, Pioneer Pilot.
1889 ~ Birthday of Charlie Chaplin, Actor, Writer & Film Producer.
1912 ~ Harriett Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1921 ~ Birthday of Peter Ustinov, Writer, Actor & Film Director.
1927 ~ Birthday of Joseph Ratzinger, German Shepard.
1943 ~ Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1947 ~ The explosive nature of ammonium nitrate fertilizer first tested in the wild.
1963 ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while locked up for protesting against segregation.
1991 ~ Death of David Lean, British film director (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, A Passage to India).
1993 ~ The UN voted to make Srebrenica a 'safe haven'.
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April 17th
1521 ~ Martin Luther appeared before the Holy Roman Emperor at Worms, Germany, and was cross-examined about his thoughts on religious reform.
1790 ~ Death of Benjamin Franklin, Politician, Inventor, Diplomat, & Printer.
1837 ~ Birthday of J.P. Morgan, Financier, Art Collector, & Philanthropist.
1861 ~ The Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
1894 ~ Birthday of Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician & Premier 1958-1964.
1903 ~ Birthday of Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist.
1961 ~ Cuba was invaded at the “Bay of Pigs” by a U.S. supported invasion force of 1,500 Cuban exiles, who were defeated by Fidel Castro's forces.
1977 ~ Birthday of Phil Jamieson, Australian singer.
1984 ~ Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed by gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London.
2003 ~ Death of Dr. Robert Atkins, noted for the Atkin's Diet.
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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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April 21st
1649 ~ The Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.
1816 ~ Birthday of Charlotte Brontë, Author.
1838 ~ Birthday of John Muir, Environmentalist.
1910 ~ Death of Mark Twain, author.
1912 ~ The New York Giants and New York Yankees played an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
1918 ~ "The Red Baron", Manfred von Richthofen, was shot down and killed over France.
1926 ~ Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1944 ~ Women in France were enfranchised.
1960 ~ Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
1992 ~ The first extrasolar planets were announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
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April 23rd
1564 ~ Birthday of William Shakespeare, Playwright.
1858 ~ Birthday of Max Planck, Physicist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 1918.
1891 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet Composer.
1954 ~ Hank Aaron hit his first major league home run.
1968 ~ Birthday of Timothy McVeigh, American Terrorist.
1969 ~ Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating Sen. Robert Kennedy.
1985 ~ The Coca-Cola Co. introduced New Coke.
1998 ~ Death of James Earl Ray, Assassin.
2004 ~ President Bush eased Reagan-era sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi's giving up weapons of mass destruction.
2007 ~ Death of Boris Yeltsin, architect of the dismantling of the USSR.
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April 24th
1898 ~ Spain declared war on the U.S. over Cuba.
1905 ~ Birthday of Robert Penn Warren, Writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, first American Poet Laureate.
1916 ~ The Easter uprising began when some 1,600 Irish nationalists seized several key sites in Dublin.
1942 ~ Birthday of Barbra Streisand, American Singer & Actress.
1967 ~ Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1.
1974 ~ Death of Bud Abbott, Actor & Comedian (Abbott and Costello).
1986 ~ Death of Wallis Simpson, Mistress & Wife of The Duke of Windsor.
1990 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.
1996 ~ The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.
2004 ~ Death of Estée Lauder, Cosmetics pioneer.
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April 26th
1785 ~ Birthday of John Audubon, Naturalist & Illustrator.
1865 ~ Death of John Wilkes Booth, Actor & Assassin. Buried in Green Mount Cemetery.
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.
1986 ~ The world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union.
1988 ~ Birthday of Kimber James, transsexual Porn actress.
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.
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I was taught that it was an attempt to secure a winter supply line to Russia.
Time and perspectives.
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