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April 26th
1607 ~ Colonists made landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, to create the first permanent English settlement in North America.
1711 ~ Birthday of David Hume, Philosopher & Historian.
1785 ~ Birthday of John Audubon, Naturalist & Illustrator.
1935 ~ Birthday of Carol Burnett, Singer, Actress & Comedienne.
1937 ~ Planes from the Condor Legion, an adjunct of the Luftwaffe, bombed the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
1964 ~ Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
1986 ~ The world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union.
1989 ~ Death of Lucille Ball, Actress & Comedienne.
1994 ~ South Africa held its first multiracial elections.
2005 ~ Syria's 29-year military presence in Lebanon ended.
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April 27th
1521 ~ Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
1667 ~ John Milton sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1791 ~ Birthday of Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse code.
1813 ~ U.S. troops captured York (present day Toronto), the capital of Ontario.
1822 ~ Birthday of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President.
1904 ~ The Australian Labor Party became the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
1965 ~ Death of Edward R. Murrow, Journalist.
1972 ~ Death of Kwame Nkrumah, first post-independence leader of Ghana.
1945 ~ Soviet and American armies link up at the Elbe.
1999 ~ Death of Al Hirt, Musician.
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April 29th
B]1770[/B] ~ James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia.
1863 ~ Birthday of William Randolph Hearst, American publisher.
1893 ~ Birthday of Harold Urey, American chemist, awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1936 ~ Birthday of Zubin Mehta, Indian-born American conductor.
1945 ~ Start of Operation Manna.
1945 ~ American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1958 ~ The Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, opened in London.
1980 ~ Death of Alfred Hitchcock, director.
1992 ~ Rioting broke out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating Rodney King.
1997 ~ The Chemical Weapons Convention, a worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons, went into effect.
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May 4th
1626 ~ Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now Manhattan.
1825 ~ Birthday of Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist.
1852 ~ Birthday of Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.
1928 ~ Birthday of Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt.
1942 ~ The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began during World War II.
1970 ~ The Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
1975 ~ Death of Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges.
1979 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the UK’s first female Prime Minister.
1980 ~ Death of Josip Tito, President of Yugoslavia.
1982 ~ The HMS Sheffield was sunk by an Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
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May 5th
1807 ~ Death of P.D.Q. Bach, fictitious Composer.
1813 ~ Birthday of Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher.
1821 ~ Death of Napoleon Bonaparte, Ruler of France.
1891 ~ NYC’s Carnegie Hall had its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1925 ~ Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Dayton, Tennessee.
1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
1980 ~ Great Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege.
1992 ~ Wolfenstein 3D was released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.
1995 ~ Death of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion.
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May 6th
1758 ~ Birthday of Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary.
1856 ~ Birthday of Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis.
1915 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, Writer.
1915 ~ Birthday of Orson Welles, Director.
1937 ~ The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1940 ~ John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1953 ~ Birthday of Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1954 ~ Roger Bannister became the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
1994 ~ Queen Elizabeth and French President François Mitterrand opened the Chunnel.
1994 ~ Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991.
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May 8th
1794 ~ French chemist Antoine Lavoisier was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.
1828 ~ Birthday of Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, awarded the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize.
1873 ~ Death of John Stuart Mill, Empiricist Philosopher.
1895 ~ Birthday of Fulton J. Sheen, bishop and television personality.
1973 ~ The Second Battle of Wounded Knee ended.
1978 ~ David Berkowitz pleaded guilty to the ''Son of Sam'' killings.
1984 ~ The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics.
1985 ~ Death of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer.
1988 ~ Death of Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction writer.
1999 ~ The Citadel, South Carolina's formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet.
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