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April 21st
1649 ~ The Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.
1816 ~ Birthday of Charlotte Brontë, Author.
1838 ~ Birthday of John Muir, Environmentalist.
1910 ~ Death of Mark Twain, author.
1912 ~ The New York Giants and New York Yankees played an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
1918 ~ "The Red Baron", Manfred von Richthofen, was shot down and killed over France.
1926 ~ Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1944 ~ Women in France were enfranchised.
1960 ~ Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
1992 ~ The first extrasolar planets were announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
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April 23rd
1564 ~ Birthday of William Shakespeare, Playwright.
1858 ~ Birthday of Max Planck, Physicist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 1918.
1891 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet Composer.
1954 ~ Hank Aaron hit his first major league home run.
1968 ~ Birthday of Timothy McVeigh, American Terrorist.
1969 ~ Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating Sen. Robert Kennedy.
1985 ~ The Coca-Cola Co. introduced New Coke.
1998 ~ Death of James Earl Ray, Assassin.
2004 ~ President Bush eased Reagan-era sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi's giving up weapons of mass destruction.
2007 ~ Death of Boris Yeltsin, architect of the dismantling of the USSR.
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April 24th
1898 ~ Spain declared war on the U.S. over Cuba.
1905 ~ Birthday of Robert Penn Warren, Writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, first American Poet Laureate.
1916 ~ The Easter uprising began when some 1,600 Irish nationalists seized several key sites in Dublin.
1942 ~ Birthday of Barbra Streisand, American Singer & Actress.
1967 ~ Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1.
1974 ~ Death of Bud Abbott, Actor & Comedian (Abbott and Costello).
1986 ~ Death of Wallis Simpson, Mistress & Wife of The Duke of Windsor.
1990 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.
1996 ~ The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.
2004 ~ Death of Estée Lauder, Cosmetics pioneer.
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April 26th
1711 ~ Birthday of David Hume, Philosopher & Historian.
1785 ~ Birthday of John Audubon, Naturalist & Illustrator.
1865 ~ Death of John Wilkes Booth, Actor & Assassin. Buried in Green Mount Cemetery.
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.
1945 ~ The Battle of Bautzen: The last successful German armoured offensive of WWII.
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 28th
1789 ~ Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift.
1906 ~ Birthday of Kurt Gödel, mathematician.
1937 ~ Birthday of Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq.
1941 ~ Birthday of Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress.
1945 ~ Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were killed by members of the Italian resistance movement while trying to flee Italy.
1947 ~ Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki.
1952 ~ The U.S. occupation of Japan ended.
1994 ~ C.I.A. official Aldrich Ames pleaded guilty to selling U.S. secrets to the USSR.
2001 ~ Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.
2003 ~ Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launched.
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April 29th
1893 ~ Birthday of Harold Urey, American chemist, awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1945 ~ Start of Operation Manna.
1945 ~ American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1951 ~ Death of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher.
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.
1936 ~ Death of John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist.
2008 ~ Death of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD.
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May 1st
1840 ~ The Penny Black postage stamp put on sale in the UK.
1869 ~ The Folies Bergères opened in Paris. Edouard Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” recalls the lot of one of the employees.
1904 ~ Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech Composer.
1939 ~ Birthday of Judy Collins, American folk singer.
1941 ~ Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premiered in New York City.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rita Coolidge, Singer.
1960 ~ Gary Powers was shot down in a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union.
1978 ~ Death of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1982 ~ RAF aircraft attack two airstrips near Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
2004 ~ Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined the European Union.
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May 4th
1825 ~ Birthday of Thomas Henry Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog", English Scientist.
1852 ~ Birthday of Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.
1929 ~ Birthday of Audrey Hepburn, Film & Stage Actress Extraordinaire.
1942 ~ The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought with carrier aircraft, began during World War II.
1953 ~ Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea".
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.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher.
1925 ~ Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Dayton, Tennessee.
1944 ~ Birthday of John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor (Gimli).
1948 ~ Birthday of Bill Ward, British Musician (Black Sabbath).
1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
1967 ~ First all-British satellite 'Ariel 3' launched into orbit.
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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