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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1917 ~ The United States declared war on Germany.
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.
1941 ~ Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia & Greece in WWII.
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.
...a bad day for Ahmed.
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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 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.
1932 ~ Birthday of Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, anad many others).
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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April 13th
1570 ~ Birthday of Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator.
1598 ~ Henry IV of France granted freedom of religion to Hguenots.
1742 ~ George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
1743 ~ Birthday of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President.
1829 ~ The British Parliament granted freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1964 ~ Sidney Poitier broke the color barrier when he was awarded the “Best Actor” Oscar.
1970 ~ Apollo 13 was almost lost when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.
1980 ~ Birthday of Jana Cova, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ The Soviet Union admitted committing the Katyn Massacre.
2008 ~ Death of John Wheeler, Theoretical Physicist (Black & Worm Holes) & Educator (Richard Feynman, Kip Thorne, & Hugh Everett, among others).
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April 15th
1707 ~ Birthday of Leonhard Euler, Mathematician.
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic sank.
1912 ~ Birthday of Kim Il-sung, "Great Leader" & President of North Korea .
1924 ~ Birthday of Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor.
1945 ~ British & Canadian troops liberate Bergen-Belsen
1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke MLB's racial segregation by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1955 ~ The first McDonald's restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1971 ~ Birthday of Sarah Jane Hamilton, Porn Actress.
1994 ~ Representatives of 124 countries signed the Marrakesh Agreements which replaced the GATT with the WTO.
1998 ~ Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Dictator.
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April 16th
1867 ~ Birthday of Wilbur Wright, Pioneer Pilot.
1889 ~ Birthday of Charlie Chaplin, Actor, Writer & Film Producer.
1912 ~ Harriett Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1921 ~ Birthday of Peter Ustinov, Writer, Actor & Film Director.
1927 ~ Birthday of Joseph Ratzinger, German Shepard.
1943 ~ Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1947 ~ The explosive nature of ammonium nitrate fertilizer first tested in the wild.
1963 ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while locked up for protesting against segregation.
1991 ~ Death of David Lean, British film director (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, A Passage to India).
1993 ~ The UN voted to make Srebrenica a 'safe haven'.
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April 17th
1521 ~ Martin Luther appeared before the Holy Roman Emperor at Worms, Germany, and was cross-examined about his thoughts on religious reform.
1741 ~ Birthday of Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1790 ~ Death of Benjamin Franklin, Politician, Inventor, Diplomat, & Printer.
1837 ~ Birthday of J.P. Morgan, Financier, Art Collector, & Philanthropist.
1861 ~ The Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
1894 ~ Birthday of Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician & Premier 1958-1964.
1903 ~ Birthday of Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist.
1961 ~ Cuba was invaded at the “Bay of Pigs” by a U.S. supported invasion force of 1,500 Cuban exiles, who were defeated by Fidel Castro's forces.
1984 ~ Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed by gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London.
2003 ~ Death of Dr. Robert Atkins, noted for the Atkin's Diet.
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April 18th
1480 ~ Birthday of Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
1772 ~ Birthday of David Ricardo, Economist.
1775 ~ Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons.
1819 ~ Birthday of Franz von Suppé, Croatian /Austrian composer.
1955 ~ Death of Albert Einstein, Physicist.
1958 ~ A federal court ruled that poet Ezra Pound should be released from an insane asylum.
1980 ~ Independence Day in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia).
1978 ~ The U.S. Senate narrowly backed President Carter's controversial Panama Canal treaty.
1992 ~ General Dostum rebelled against President Najibullah of Afghanistan & allied with Ahmed Massoud of the Northern Alliance to capture Kabul.
1999 ~ Wayne Gretzky played his last National Hockey League game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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