1578 ~ Birthday of William Harvey, Scientist (circulatory system).

1735 ~ Handel's "Organ Concerto in F major”, Op. 4 No. 4 premiered.

1815 ~ Birthday of Otto von Bismarck, founder of the German Empire.

1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor.

1883 ~ Birthday of Lon Chaney, Actor (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Phantom Of The Opera).

1905 ~ The British East African Protectorate became the colony of Kenya.

1918 ~ The Royal Air Force (RAF) formed by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy Air Service.

1924 ~ Adolf Hitler sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in the "Beer Hall Putsch”.

1948 ~ The Big Bang theory was proposed in a letter to the Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.

1957 ~ The BBC's "Panorama" airs a piece on the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/70000...prilfool_vi.ram

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