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Post by Tamrin on Apr 7, 2009 6:07:29 GMT 10
7 April0030 - Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, according to astronomer Schaefer) 1506 - Birth of St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 1939 - Birth of David Frost Tenderdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was) 1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!) 1971 - President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free 1983 - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt 1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time  Francis Xavier (Born this day 1506) Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 8, 2009 5:50:40 GMT 10
8 April0563 -BC- Birth of Gautama Buddha, (as celebrated in Japan-Kambutsue) 1460 - Birth of Ponce de León, San Tervas de Campos Spain, Spanish conqueror/explorer, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida 1492 - Lorenzo I de' Medici"il Magnifico" ruler of Florence (1469-92), dies 1865 - General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia 1943- Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau 1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time 1947 - Henry Ford US industrialist (Ford cars), dies  Ponce de León(Born this day 1460)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 9, 2009 6:16:41 GMT 10
9 AprilUS, England: Churchill Day (1963) 1770 - Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia) 1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti poet/pre-Raphaelite painter, dies at 53 1909 - Birth of [Sir] Robert Helpmann Mount Gambier Australia, [dancer] actor (Second Time Lucky) 1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state 1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer German theologist/antifascist, hanged 1963 - Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony 1970 - Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles  Sir Winston Churchill
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2009 9:18:08 GMT 10
10 AprilGood Friday[/b] 1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice 1794 - Birth of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, opened Japan 1829 - Birth of William Booth, founder (Salvation Army) 1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of México 1872 - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans 1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39 1954 - Auguste Lumière, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81  Emiliano Zapata (Died this day 1919)It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 11, 2009 8:39:40 GMT 10
11 April1689 - William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain 1876 - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks is organized 1906 - Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity 1951 - President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1968 - President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1981 - Race riot in London area of Brixton 1992 - Euro-Disney opens near Paris France  William & Mary
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 12, 2009 8:12:46 GMT 10
12 April1204 - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople 1545 - French king François I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed 1606 - England adopts the Union Jack as its flag 1869 - North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law 1919 - British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages 1945 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1933-1945, Democrat), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs GA at 63 1990 - 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgiveness  The Fourth Crusade set out to recapture Muslim Jerusalem instead the Crusaders sacked Christian Constantinople
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 13, 2009 9:18:41 GMT 10
13 April US: Huguenot Day (1598)1556 - Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope 1598 - Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1743 - Birth of Thomas Jefferson, Shadwell VA, (D-R) 3rd US President (1801-09) 1829 - English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics 1854 - Birth of Richard T. Ely, US economist (Hard Times) 1959 - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists 1986 - Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue  Richard T. Ely, U.S. economist (Born this day 1854) We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservativism
or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth.
Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism,
and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 14, 2009 5:53:30 GMT 10
14 April0073 - According to Jewish historian Josephus, 967 Jewish zealots committed mass suicide within the fortress of Masada 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth 1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium 1964 - Rachel L Carson, US biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56 1971 - Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation 1986 - Simone de Beauvoir French author (Deuxième Sexe), dies at 86 1993 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 15, 2009 6:20:48 GMT 10
15 April1452 - Birth of Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary 1858 - Birth of Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social) 1912 - RMS Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage, after striking an iceberg 1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour 1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74 1985 - South Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites 1989 - Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 16, 2009 6:14:41 GMT 10
16 April1850 - Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies 1871 - German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions 1889 - Birth of Charlie Chaplin [The Little Tramp], Lambeth London England, comedian/actor/director 1917 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution 1918 - Birth of Spike Milligan, Ahmed Nagar India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers) 1921 - Birth of Peter Ustinov, London England, actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd) 1948 - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France  Charlie Chaplin (Born this day 1889) A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure
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