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Old 04-29-2012, 07:19 PM
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April 30th
1877 ~ Birthday of Alice B. Toklas, Muse and Brownie Chef.

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.

1980 ~ Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

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

2009 ~ Chrysler automobile company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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