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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2009 6:32:31 GMT 10
17 April1421 - Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown 1521 - Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church 1790 - Benjamin Franklin US, (Poor Richard's Almanac), dies at 84 1932 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery 1937 - Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig, debut 1939 - Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact 1983 - India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket  Daffy Duck debuted this day 1937(Here seen as the meta-fictional character Duck Dodgers)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 18, 2009 8:59:16 GMT 10
18 April1480 - Birth of Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) 1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!" 1857 - Birth of Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial 1948 - International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands 1949 - Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth 1955 - Albert Einstein, German/US physicist (E=MC²), dies 1964 - Geraldine Mock of US becomes 1st woman to fly solo round the world  Paul Revere's midnight ride(this day 1775)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2009 8:25:29 GMT 10
19 AprilUS: John Parker Day (1775) honors minutemen Cuba: Bay of Pigs Victory Day (1961) 1770 - Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia 1775 - Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world" 1882 - Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies 1904 - Much of Toronto destroyed by fire 1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies 1932 - President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week 1943 - Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz  Captain John Parker, MinutemanLexington Common Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon.
But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 20, 2009 6:20:53 GMT 10
20 April0121 - Birth of Marcus Aurelius, 16th Roman emperor (161-80), philosopher
1770 - Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1799 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1853 - Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad1884 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry" 1889 - Birth of Adolf Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45) 1945 - Soviet troops enter Berlin For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe
like a madman in search of something that he could set on fire.
Unfortunately, he again and again finds hirelings
who open the gates of their country to this international incendiaryHitler (Born this day 1889) referring to Churchill!?
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 21, 2009 7:02:54 GMT 10
21 April0753 - BC- Traditional date of the foundation of Rome 1864 - Birth of Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism) 1910 - Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 1918 - "Red Baron" [Manfred von Richtofen] shot down in WWI at 25 1926 - Birth of Elizabeth II [Alexandra Mary Windsor], queen of England (1952- ) 1946 - John M Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62 1995 - FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Oklahoma City bombing Elizabeth II (Born this day 1926)  We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship
to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 22, 2009 6:10:36 GMT 10
22 April(Earth Day) 1526 - 1st slave revolt occurs in South Carolina 1662 - Royal Society incorporates1724 - Birth of Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) 1870 - Birth of Nikolai Lenin [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist 1904 - Birth of J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, New York NY, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project 1938 - Birth of Alan Bond, Hammersmith U.K., Australian corporate criminal/yachtsman 1984 - Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82  Vladimir Lenin(Born this day 1870) When there is state there can be no freedom,
but when there is freedom there will be no state
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 23, 2009 6:45:28 GMT 10
23 April0034 - Christ crucified, according to Isaac Newton 0303 - George knight of Cappadocië/saint/patron of England, beheaded 1348 - 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter 1616 - William Shakespeare, (born 1564) English author, dies on his 52nd birthday 1867 - Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel 1984 - AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) 1993 - Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia  Ethiopian depiction of Saint George, Patron Saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia. Said to have been beheaded this day in 303
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 24, 2009 6:19:25 GMT 10
24 AprilArmenia: Armenian Martyrs' Day (1915) 1576 - Birth of San Vicente de Paúl 1898 - Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 1915 - Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter 1944 - RAF bombs Munich 1954 - Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations 1969 - Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead 1989 - Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China  Who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?Adolf Hitler
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 25, 2009 8:14:19 GMT 10
25 AprilAustralia, Nauru, New Zealand, Solomon Is, Tonga, W Samoa: ANZAC Day (1915) 1599 - Birth of Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) 1867 - Tokyo is opened for foreign trade 1898 - US declares war on Spain over Cuba 1915 - 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli 1945 - Red army completely surrounds Berlin 1954 - British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects are arrested) 1971 - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington DC  Anzac DayThey shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 26, 2009 8:47:17 GMT 10
26 May1478 - Easter is celebrated for the first time 1711 - Birth of David Hume, England, empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature) 1785 - Birth of John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist 1819 - Odd Fellows Lodge is established 1865 - John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27 1889 - Birth of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus) 1937 - German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain  Guernica by Pablo Picasso,commissioned as a reminder of the bombing of the town in 1937
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