04-06-2004, 06:17 PM
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April 7th
1652 ~ The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
1770 ~ Birthday of William Wordsworth, one of the 'Lake Poets'.
1795 ~ France adopted the meter as the unit of length and the base of the metric system.
1860 ~ Birthday of W.K. Kellog, who started a business named ‘Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company’.
1908 ~ Birthday of Percy Faith, Composer.
1915 ~ Birthday of Billie Holiday, Jazz Singer
1920 ~ Birthday of Ravi Shankar, Sitar player & Composer.
1945 ~ The Japanese battleship ‘Yamato’, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa.
1949 ~ The musical ‘South Pacific’ by Rogers and Hammerstein opened on Broadway.
1975 ~ Beverly Sills made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Gioacchino Rossini's "Siege of Corinth". What a voice!
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