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March 30th
1746 ~ Birthday of Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver.
1842 ~ Anesthesia (ether) was used for the first time in an operation.
1853 ~ Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, Painter.
1870 ~ Texas was readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1951 ~ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage.
1951 ~ Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the U.S. Census Bureau.
1977 ~ Death of Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer.
1981 ~ President Reagan was shot and seriously injured.
1987 ~ Vincent Van Gogh's painting Sunflowers was bought for almost $40 million.
1998 ~ German automaker BMW bought Rolls-Royce for $570 million.
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April 1st
1815 ~ Birthday of Otto von Bismarck, Politician.
1884 ~ Birthday of Florence Blanchfield, the first woman to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army.
1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor.
1917 ~ Death of Scott Joplin, Musician & Composer.
1918 ~ The Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.
1945 ~ World War II: U.S. forces invaded Okinawa.
1970 ~ President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV.
1976 ~ Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
2001 ~ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and taken to prison.
2001 ~ A U.S. intelligence gathering plane collided with a PRC Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, PRC and was detained.
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April 3rd
1783 ~ Birthday of Washington Irving, Author.
1882 ~ Jesse James was shot in the back and killed for a $5,000 reward.
1885 ~ Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his engine design.
1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1897 ~ Death of Johannes Brahms, Composer.
1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario.
1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist.
1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan.
1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
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April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1885 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, dancer.
1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left £6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England.
1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.
1979 ~ Death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister (hanged).
1984 ~ President Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary.
1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw.
1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1933 ~ Hostess Twinkies were invented.
1971 ~ Death of Igor Stravinsky, Composer.
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author.
1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital.
2001 ~ Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the U.S. days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in the same day - first in France for belonging to a group supporting Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges.
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April 7th
1614 ~ Death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist.
1770 ~ Birthday of William Wordsworth, English poet.
1795 ~ France adopted the meter as the unit of length.
1862 ~ Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
1891 ~ Death of P. T. Barnum, Circus Impresario.
1947 ~ Death of Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and industrialist.
1953 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld was elected United Nations Secretary General.
1964 ~ IBM announced the System/360.
1968 ~ Death of Jim Clark, racing driver.
1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of First Request for Comment (RFC).
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April 9th
1682 ~ Robert de LaSalle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River, claimed it for France and named it Louisiana.
1865 ~ Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
1906 ~ Birthday of Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor.
1940 ~ Operation Weserübung: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.
1942 ~ HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire were sunk off Ceylon’s (Sri Lanka) east coast by Japanese naval aircraft.
1926 ~ Birthday of Hugh Hefner, Editor & Publisher.
1928 ~ Birthday of Tom Lehrer, Musician & Satirist.
1959 ~ Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect.
1991 ~ Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 ~ Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, beheading a toppled statue of the dictator in downtown Baghdad.
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No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac
Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."
An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"
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April 10th
1847 ~ Birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist & Publisher.
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic left port in Southampton, England.
1919 ~ Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed by government forces.
1931 ~ Death of Khalil Gibran - Lebanese Poet.
1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in MLB.
1954 ~ Death of Auguste Lumière, Cinema Pioneer.
1963 ~ The American submarine USS Thresher and its crew was lost off Cape Cod, Mass.
1966 ~ Death of Evelyn Waugh, Writer.
1970 ~ Paul McCartney announced that The Beatles had broken up.
1998 ~ The Belfast Agreement was signed.
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