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April is:
Today is:
Born on this Day
1602: William Lilly, English astrologer, author, almanac compiler
1623: Franáois de Montmorency Laval, 1st Roman Catholic Bishop in
Canada
1777: German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss
1870: Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, who wrote the operetta "The
Merry Widow"
1888: Educator and poet John Crowe Ransom in Pulaski, Tennessee. Ransom
was a leading theorist of the Southern literary renascence that began after Worl War I.
1900: John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central
Railroad. The legendary engineer, "Casey" died in a wreck near
Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers.
1909: Princess Juliana of the Netherlands
1910: Actor Al Lewis
1912: Actress Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens) Our Miss Brooks, Grease
1926: Actress Cloris Leachman
1933: Singer Willie Nelson
1938: Talk show host Gary Collins
1940: Actor Burt Young
1943: Singer Bobby Vee
1944: Actress Jill Clayburgh
1946: Sweden's King Carl Gustav XVI
1948: Actor Perry King
1953: Singer Merril Osmond
1954: Movie director Jane Campion ("The Piano")
1959: Actor Paul Gross ("Due South")
1961: Basketball player Isiah Thomas
1962: Country musician Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks)
1967: Rapper Turbo B (Snap)
1969: Rock musician Clark Vogeler (Toadies)
1971: Rhythm-and-blues singer Chris "Choc" Dalyrimple (Soul
For Real)
1972: Rock singer J.R. Richards (Dishwalla)
1973: Rhythm-and-blues singer Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees)
1975: Actor Johnny Galecki ("Roseanne")
1982: Actress Kirsten Dunst
1984: Country singer Tyler Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons)
0060: Probable Beltane sacrifice of "Lovernios
the Druid" (Lindow Man I)
0259: Death of Sts. Marian and James
0311: Galerius Valerius Maximianus issued an
edict under which Christians were legally recognized in the Roman Empire.
0535: Theodahad, King of the Ostrogoths, has
his wife Amalasuntha, daughter of Justinian, Emperor of the East, strangled
1245: John of Plato Carpini arrives at Batu
Khan's camp on the Volga
1250: Louis IX ransomed at Daimetta
1396: The French army sets forth for Budapest
1450: Frederick of Hohenzollern invested as
Elector of Brandenburg
1492: Columbus receives his commission of
exploration from Spain
1492: Decree expelling the Jews from Spain is
publicly announced
1524: Death of Pierre du Terrail, the
Chevalier de Bayard, "Sans Peer Et Sans Reproche", from a musket
ball in the back, in the assault on Bresica, Italy
1527: Treaty of Westminster
1539: Hernando de Soto, with 600 troops, lands
in Florida
1544: Thomas, Baron Audley, English Lord
Chancellor (1533-44), dies
1555: Death of Pope Marcellus II
1611: Burning of Louis Gaufridi, for
witchcraft, at 5:00 pm
1629: John Endicott appointed as Governor of
the Plantation of Massachusetts Bay
1789: George Washington was inaugurated as the
first president of the United States. Taking office in New York.
1803: The United States more than doubled its
land area with the Louisiana purchase. It obtained all French territory west
of the Mississippi River for $15 Million.
1812: Louisiana became the 18th state of the
Union.
1815: The central provinces were designated as
the Kingdom of Poland, under Alexander of Russia.
1889: The first national holiday in the United
States was celebrated. The citizens of the U.S. observed the centennial of
George Washington's inauguration.
1900: Hawaii was organized as a US territory.
1900: Engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad was killed in a wreck near
Vaughan, Mississippi, after staying at the
controls in an effort to save the passengers. 1922: Charles Robertson of the
Chicago White Sox pitched the major league's sixth perfect game. The Chisox
defeated the Detroit Tigers 2-0.
1922: Percy Grainger's mother jumped to death
from the 18th story of a building in New York City. She left a note to her
son that said, "You and I never loved one another anything but purely
and right." The two were abnormally close, so there had been rumors of
intimacy.
1939: The New York World's Fair, billed as a
look at "the world of tomorrow," officially opened.
1939: The first railroad car equipped with
fluorescent lights was put into service. The train car was known as the
"General Pershing Zephyr.""
1939: Baseball's "Iron Man," Lou
Gehrig, played his last game with the New York Yankees.
1940: Belle Martell was licensed in California
by state boxing officials to be the first American woman, prize-fight
referee.
1940: Paul Hindemith took a professorship at
Yale. Hindemith was forced out of Nazi Germany, partly because his wife was
Jewish and partly because the Nazis thought his music was too modern, no
matter how Aryan it was.
1941: Charlie "Bird" Parker's first
commercially recorded work was cut at Decca Records. The jazz great was the
originator of the bebop style of modern jazz.
1944: The New York Giants (of baseball)
defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 26-8. They also set a major-league record for
home runs driven in by a single team in a single game.
1945: "Arthur Godfrey Time" made its
debut on the CBS radio network.
1945: The debut of "Queen for a Day"
was heard on Mutual Radio. The opening line "How would YOU like to be
queen for a day?" was delivered by host Jack Bailey. The first
"Queen": Mrs. Evelyn Lane.
1945: As Russian troops approached his Berlin
bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva
Braun.
1947: President Truman signed a measure
officially changing the name of Boulder Dam to Hoover Dam.
1948: The Organization of American States held
its first meeting, in Bogota, Colombia.
1964: The FCC ruled that all TV receivers
should be equipped to receive both VHF (channels 2-13) and the new UHF
(channels 14-83).
1970: President Nixon announced the US was
sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.
1973: President Nixon announced the
resignations of his aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with
Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.
1975: South Vietnam unconditionally
surrendered to North Vietnam. The communists occupied Saigon and re-named it
Ho Chi Minh City.
1980: In London, armed gunmen seized the
Iranian Embassy demanding the release of political prisoners in Iran. The
siege lasted six days.
1983: Death claimed ballet choreographer
George Balanchine in New York at age 79, as well as blues singer and
guitarist Muddy Waters in Suburban Chicago at age 68.
1984: President Reagan, nearing the end of his
China visit, attended a farewell banquet in Beijing, then flew to Shanghai,
where he addresses more than 1,000 students at Fudan University.
1985: President Reagan set out on a trip to
Europe and an economic summit which was already overshadowed by his planned
visit to a German military cemetery where Nazi SS troops were buried.
1986: The Soviet Union released a photograph
of the damaged Chernobyl nuclear plant, and accused western news
organizations of spreading false rumors of thousands of deaths, saying only
two people had died.
1987: Pope John Paul II began a five-day visit
to West Germany.
1987: Education Secretary William Bennett
called for mandatory AIDS testing for several groups of people, including
hospital patients and prison inmates.
1987: President Reagan welcomed Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone to the White House.
1988: General Manuel Noriega, waving a
machete, vowed at a rally to keep fighting United States efforts to oust him
as Panama's military ruler.
1988: "Molloko," the first
California condor chick to be conceived in captivity, was hatched at the San
Diego Wild Animal Park.
1989: President Bush attended a parade in New
York City celebrating the bicentennial of the American presidency.
1989: 500,000 people attended a papal mass in
Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatified Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th
century Madagascar woman.
1990: Hostage Frank Reed was released by his
captives in Lebanon; he was the second American to be released in eight
days.
1991: An estimated 125,000 people died as a
cyclone struck Bangladesh.
1991: Former Massachusetts Senator Paul
Tsongas announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1992: As rioting in Los Angeles entered its
second day, President Bush condemned the violence, and said the Justice
Department would intensify its investigation of police conduct in the
beating of Rodney King.
1992: NATO appointed U.S. Gen. John
Shalikashvili as the new commander of its forces in Europe.
1993: Top-ranked women's tennis player Monica
Seles was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg, Germany, by a man
who described himself as a fan of second-ranked German player Steffi Graf.
(The man, convicted of causing grievous bodily harm, was given a suspended
sentence.)
1994: Some 100,000 men, women and children
fleeing ethnic slaughter in Rwanda crossed into neighboring Tanzania.
1995: More than 10,00 soldiers, students and
children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, celebrated the 20th anniversary of
the end of the war.
1995: President Clinton announced he would end
U.S. trade and investment with Iran, denouncing the Tehran government as
"inspiration and paymaster to terrorists.""
1996: President Clinton and Israeli Prime
Minister Shimon Peres signed an accord in Washington extending US help to
Israel in countering terrorism.
1997: The Senate approved the nomination of
Alexis Herman to be labor secretary.
1997: ABC TV aired the "coming out"
episode of the situation comedy "Ellen" in which the title
character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, acknowledges her homosexuality.
1997: President Clinton reopened the newly
renovated Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in Washington
DC.
1999: A bomb exploded at a gay pub in London,
killing three people and injuring more than 70.
1999: The Rev. Jesse Jackson met with three
U.S. soldiers being held prisoner by Yugoslavia.
2000: Hundreds of thousands shamelessly participated in a gay-rights rally in Washington.
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