04-14-2007, 05:02 AM
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April 14th
1629 ~ Birthday of Christiaan Huygens, Mathematician.
1759 ~ Death of Georg Friedrich Handel, Composer.
1865 ~ President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
1904 ~ Birthday of Sir John Gielgud, Actor.
1912 ~ RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
1935 ~ Death of Emmy Noether, Mathematician.
1939 ~ ''The Grapes of Wrath'' by John Steinbeck was published.
1964 ~ Death of Rachel Carson, Writer & Ecologist.
1988 ~ The USSR pledged to leave Afghanistan.
1970 ~ The Oregon Supreme Court nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to homosexual couples a year earlier by Portland's Multnomah County.
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