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April 18th
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.
1983 ~ A suicide bomber destroyed the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1986 ~ Birthday of Denice K., Danish porn actress, producer, and radio host.
1999 ~ Wayne Gretzky played his last National Hockey League game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
2002 ~ Death of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer.
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04-19-2013, 04:59 AM
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Interesting that the fertiliser plant blew up 20 years after after Waco.
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04-19-2013, 04:45 PM
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Yes. It is. The FBI’s investigative resources are a tad stretched at the moment though, and not because of the sequestration.
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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.
1836 ~ Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat Mexican troops under General Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.
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 ~ Manfred von Richthofen, the German fighter ace known as "The Red Baron", was shot down and killed.
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.
1984 ~ The American announcement of the isolation of the AIDS virus.
1985 ~ Coca-Cola changed its formula and released New Coke.
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, Soviet strongman and the architect of the dismantling of the USSR.[/QUOTE]
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April 24th
1731 ~ Death of Daniel Defoe, English Writer.
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.
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.
1997 ~ Death of Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician.
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April 26th
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.
1945 ~ The Battle of Bautzen: The last successful German armoured offensive of WWII.
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 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.
1969 ~ Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France.
2001 ~ Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.
2003 ~ Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launched.
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April 29th
1863 ~ Birthday of William Randolph Hearst, American publisher.
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.
2008 ~ Death of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD .
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