1529 ~ Spain and Portugal divided the eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragosa.

1658 ~ Birthday of Giuseppe Torelli, Composer.

1724 ~ Birthday of Immanuel Kant, Philosopher.

1864 ~ The U.S. Congress mandated that coins minted as U.S. currency bear the inscription "In God We Trust".

1870 ~ Birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Dictator.

1904 ~ Birthday of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist.

1915 ~ At the Second Battle Ypres the Germans introduced the use of poison gas.

1916 ~ Birthday of Yehudi Menuhin, Musician.

1970 ~ First Earth Day led to many apocalyptic predictions.

2000 ~ Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father. He had to be taken from his Miami relatives by U.S. agents in a predawn raid.

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