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Post by Richard Frost » Sat Apr 17 2021 10:11am

17th April

HAIKU POETRY DAY
Observed annually on April 17, Haiku Poetry Day encourages all to try their hand in creativity. Haiku poetry is a form of Japanese poetry that is non-rhyming and usually consists of 3 lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5. Usually, an element of nature, a season, a moment of beauty, or an individual experience inspires haiku poems. Sensory language is used to capture a feeling, image, or moment.

From Haiku: This Other World
Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.

As one of the world’s oldest and regularly used poetry, some recognizable poets wrote many haiku. While the most well-known is Matsuo Basho, others we may recognize are William Blake, T.S. Eliot, or Maya Angelou. And as small as the poem may be, it can be quite challenging to write. Try capturing an entire moment or emotion in 17 syllables and getting it right.

However, English haiku does not always follow the strict syllable count found in Japanese haiku. The typical length of haiku in English language journals is 10-14 syllables versus the 5-7-5 syllables used in the Japanese language.

On this day in history

858 Benedict III's reign as Catholic Pope ends with his death
1387 Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" characters begin their pilgrimage to Canterbury (according to scholars)
1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the "Canterbury Tales" the first time at the court of English King Richard II
1492 Christopher Columbus signs a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promises him 10% of all riches found, and the governorship of any lands encountered.
1524 Giovanni Verrazano, a Florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay
1534 Sir Thomas More confined in the Tower of London
1555 Siena surrenders to Spanish troops
1596 Archduke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais
1711 Charles VI becomes Holy Roman Emperor after the death of his brother Joseph I
1747 French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands
1758 Francis Williams, 1st US black college graduate, publishes poems
1774 First Unitarianism church service in London held by Theophilus Lindsey at the Essex Street Chapel
1797 Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, one of the largest invasions of Spanish territories in America
1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships
1817 1st US school for deaf (Hartford, Connecticut)
1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40'N
1839 Guatemala forms a republic
1853 Johan Rudolf Thorbecke's government in the Netherlands resigns
1853 US Marine Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco forms
1860 Champion of England Tom Sayers and American John Heenan fight out brutal 2 hour, 27 minute draw near Farnborough, England; police stop fight acknowledged as first world title bout
1861 Indianola TX - "Star of West" taken by Confederacy
1861 Virginia secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1863 Grierson's raid begins as Colonel Grierson and 1700 horse troopers set off from La Grange, Tennessee
1864 Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina
1864 Bread revolt in Savannah, Georgia
1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Abraham' Lincoln's assassination
1875 Modern Snooker invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain, a bored British officer in Jabalpur, India
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
1899 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia in 2:54:38
1900 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession
1905 US Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional in Lochner v. New York by declaring the "right to free contract" implicit in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution
1905 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz in 2:38:25.4
1907 Ellis Island, New York records 11,745 immigrants
1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in race record 2:21:39.6; first of 7 race victories
1912 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
1916 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth in 2:27:16.4
1922 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in race record 2:18:10; his 2nd race victory; first of 3 consecutive wins
1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Mayer Co merged to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
1925 Paul Painlevé succeeds Edouard Herriot as French premier
1927 Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls, Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1930 Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
1930 DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene
1932 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery
1933 37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson in 2:31:01.6
1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 SN Behrman's "No Time for Comedy" premieres in NYC
1939 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown in 2:28:51.8; his second victory in the event
1941 British troops land in Iraq
1941 US Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
1942 12 Lancasters bomb MAN factory in Augsburg
1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp
1942 POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein
1943 Marshal Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
1943 SS General Jürgen Stroop arrives in Warsaw
1944 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4; second straight victory; 3rd of 4 titles
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands
1945 Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan
1945 US troops land in central Mindanao, Philippines during Battle of Mindanao
1946 Syria declares independence from French administration
1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit
1948 Elpidio Quirino assumes the Presidency of the Philippines, taking his oath of office two days after the death of President Manuel Roxas
1950 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of South Korea in 2:32:39
1956 Bulgaria premier Valko Chervenkov resigns
1956 Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain
1956 USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves
1956 Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament
1958 Brussels World Fair opens in Belgium
1960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government
1960 Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn
1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
1961 33rd Academy Awards: "Apartment" wins best film, Burt Lancaster & Elizabeth Taylor win best actor, actress
1961 65th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:39; his 2nd event title
1961 Jimmy Stewart accepts an honorary Oscar on behalf of his friend Gary Cooper, who is too ill to attend
1964 "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 3 performances
1964 "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 375 performances
1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2,368 base)
1964 Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world
1966 100th international soccer match between Netherlands and Belgium (3-1)
1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1967 71st Boston Marathon: Dave McKenzie of New Zealand wins in 2:15:45; American Bobbi Gibb 1st woman for 2nd straight year in 3:27:17 (unsanctioned)
1967 Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti beats American Emile Griffith in a 15 round points decision to win world middleweight crown at Madison Square Garden; start of famous trilogy of fights between the pair
1968 "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 72 performances
1969 Alexander Dubček forced to resign as first secretary of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy
1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert
1969 People's Democracy activist Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected to Westminster at 21 years old
1970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
1970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released
1971 Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR)
1972 76th Boston Marathon: Olavi Suomalainen of Finland wins men's race in 2:15:39; American Nina Kuscsik takes inaugural women's title in 3:10:26; first year women's race officially sanctioned
1972 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
1973 German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded
1974 Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from CWU, Ellensburg, Washington
1974 Muslim fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis, Egypt
1975 The Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia marking the end of the Cambodian Civil war (Kampuchea National Day)
1976 Australian tennis star Evonne Goolagong Cawley wins her second WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Chris Evert 6–3, 5–7, 6–3
1977 "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 864 performances
1977 Christian-democrats win Belgian parliamentary election
1978 63,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)
1978 82nd Boston Marathon: US double; Bill Rodgers wins his 2nd men's title in 2:10:13; Gayle Barron women's champion in 2:44:52
1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden"
1979 Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?" premieres in London
1979 Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point
1981 Carl Gottlieb's movie "Caveman", starring Ringo Starr, Shelley Long, Barbara Bach, Dennis Quaid, Jack Gilford, and John Matuszak premieres
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Proclamation of the Constitution Act by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
1983 1st National Coin Week begins
1983 Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)
1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1984 During Libyan Embassy demonstration in London, British police officer Yvonne Fletcher shot dead
1986 Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove"
1987 Richard Wilbur appointed as American poet laureate
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50)
1989 93rd Boston Marathon: Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia takes men's race in 2:09:06; Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway wins her 2nd women's title in 2:24:33
1989 Polish labor union granted legal status
1989 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
1990 Gas explosion on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1991 Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46)
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in US
1993 Two Los Angeles police officers convicted in federal court of violating Rodney King's civil rights and sentenced to prison, while two others are acquitted,
1993 STS-56 (Discovery) lands
1994 "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 performances
1994 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 performances
1994 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Lee Trevino beats Jim Colbert by 1 stroke for his second title in the event
1994 Aruba government of Oduber falls
1995 99th Boston Marathon: Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya claims 3rd straight title in 2:09:22; Uta Pippig of Germany wins 2nd consecutive women's event in 2:25:11
1997 John Bell aged 115 receives a new pacemaker
2000 104th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Elijah Lagat wins men's race in 2:09:47; Catherine Ndereba takes women's title in 2:26:11
2001 A letter between Gale Norton and Jeb Bush is released, stating that the Bush administration has decided to go ahead with plans to auction 6 million acres of potentially oil-and-gas-rich seabed in the Gulf of Mexico
2002 Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two United States Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War
2005 51st British Academy Television Awards: "Little Britain" Best Comedy, "Sex Traffic" Best Drama
2006 110th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot wins 2nd men's title in 2:07:14; Rita Jeptoo takes women's title in 2:23:38
2009 Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark becomes the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the first woman to lead the organization
2011 "Thor", directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, premieres in Sydney, Australia
2011 "Game of Thrones", based on the fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin premieres on HBO
2012 The 8th century St. Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, is purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds
2013 5 people are killed in Wana, Pakistan, by a United States drone attack
2013 15 people are killed and 100 are injured after a fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas
2013 North Korea blocks a South Korean supply delegation from the Kaesong joint industrial zone
2013 Same-sex marriage is legalized in New Zealand
2014 Abdelaziz Bouteflika wins a fourth term as President of Algeria
2015 Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane is awarded a posthumous Special Citation by the Pulitzer Prize board
2015 James Anderson becomes the highest wicket-taking bowler in England's test cricket history
2017 1st living giant shipworm at 3 ft found in the Philippines, really a type of clam
2017 121st Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Geoffrey Kirui takes men's title in 2:09:37; Edna Kiplagat women's champion in 2:21:52
2018 Former F.B.I. director James Comey publishes his political autobiography “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership”
2018 Protests across India at the rape and murder of an 8-year old Muslim girl in Kathua, Bengalu
2019 Research showing pigs brains partially brought back to life at Yale University, published in "Nature"
2019 Beyoncé releases a live album of her 2018 Coachella performance on the same day as her Netflix documentary "Homecoming"
2019 Terror alert closes schools in Denver, Colorado, due to 18 year-old woman obsessed with Columbine massacre, who is then found dead
2019 10 babies with "bubble boy disease" cured using a gene therapy made from HIV at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, according to new study
2020 WHO warns Africa could be next epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 300,000 deaths, pushing 30 million into poverty as it records nearly 1000 deaths and 19,000 cases to date
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun Apr 18 2021 9:39am

I have nothing for you today. If you were in Biden country you could celebrate the following.

National Lineman Appreciation Day
National Newspaper Columnists Day
National Transfer Money to Your Daughter's Account Day
National Velociraptor Awareness Day

On this day in History

310 St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
387 Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus
1025 Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland
1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid in the Vatican by Pope Julius II
1518 Bona Sforza is crowned queen consort of Poland
1521 Diet of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther
1552 Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz
1663 Osman declares war on Austria
1666 Peace of Kleef: Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Munster
1676 Sudbury, Massachusetts, attacked by Indians
1688 "Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery": Francis Daniel Pastorius authors 1st formal written protest against African-American slavery in English colonies in Germantown, Pennsylvania
1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid
1775 Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charlestown to Lexington warning the "regulars are coming!"
1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day when it began
1797 France & Austria sign ceasefire
1809 First run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket, England
1835 William Lamb (Lord Melbourne) becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Robert Peel resigns out of frustration
1848 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico
1856 Russian Chancellor Count Nesselrode resigns
1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies (US Civil War)
1862 Battle of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orlean's, Louisiana
1864 Battle of Poison Springs, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
1864 Battle of Dybbøl: Denmark is defeated by Prussian and Austrian forces storming Dybbol fort in the deciding battle of the Second Schleswig War
1865 Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to General William T. Sherman in North Carolina
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1869 1st international cricket match, held in San Francisco, won by California
1874 David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey
1876 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins
1880 An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 Natural History Museum opens in South Kensington, England
1890 NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Canadian Ron McDonald in race record 2:42:00
1899 John McGraw, at 36, has his managerial debut as Oriole manager
1899 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria
1904 L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring in 2:38:04.4
1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Neth Church forms in Utrecht
1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city
1906 The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement
1907 Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour" premieres in NYC
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens in San Francisco
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Fred Cameron in 2:28:52.4
1912 Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City
1912 Tripolitan War: in continuing hostilities, Turkey closes the Dardanelles Straits after an Italian naval bombardment of the coastline
1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1916 US Secretary of State Warns Germany that the USA may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop
1916 Edith Wharton is appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest award, for her contribution to the war effort
1918 The People's Council of Latvia proclaims the independence of the new country of Latvia
1921 Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy" premieres in NYC
1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna in race record 2:18:57.6
1922 Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0
1923 Poland annexes Central Lithuania
1924 1st crossword puzzle book published by Simon & Schuster
1925 World's Fair opens in Chicago
1926 Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf, Germany
1927 Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China
1927 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:40:22.2; his 5th victory in the event
1929 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1930 Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da
1930 BBC news announcer announces "there is no news" at 20:45 news bulletin, plays music instead
1932 36th Boston Marathon won by German runner Paul de Bruyn in 2:33:36.4
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas)
1934 Adolf Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop ambassador for disarmament
1935 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
1935 Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1936 Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu
1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson in 2:35:34.8; his second victory in the event
1939 Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
1939 Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
1942 James Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
1943 Operation Vengeance: US Army Air Force P-38G fighter aircraft from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal ambush and shoot down the transport bomber aircraft of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy and mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack
1944 Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free" premieres in NYC
1945 Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propaganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia established
1946 Rome, Auerbach and Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances
1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts)
1946 US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government
1948 International Court of Justice opens at The Hague Netherlands
1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1949 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gösta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8
1950 Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
1951 "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
1951 Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
1951 France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community
1953 "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances
1954 Egyptian Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power and appoints himself Prime Minister
1955 "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 performances
1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed in USA
1955 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens
1955 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
1956 Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
1958 Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra, Indonesia
1958 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule
1963 Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1964 Albert Hague and Marty Brill's musical "Cafe Crown", starring Theodore Bikel, closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
1964 "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1964 Artisans strike in Belgium ends
1964 Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane"
1966 70th Boston Marathon: Kenji Kimihara of Japan wins in 2:17:11; American Bobbi Gibb first woman in 3:21:40 (unsanctioned)
1967 Jonathan Frid makes his 1st appearance as 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins on TV's "Dark Shadows", show becomes a huge hit
1968 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms
1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1968 Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band" premieres in NYC
1968 Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII" premieres in London
1968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Greek actress and activist Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
1970 France beats England, 35-13 at Stade Colombes, Paris to earn a share of the Five Nations Rugby Championship with Wales
1972 "Lost in the Stars" based on the novel "Cry the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
1972 The Widgery Report on 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of Derry who call it the "Widgery Whitewash"
1973 US Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program, established in 1959 by President Eisenhower
1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi
1976 30th Tony Awards: "Travesties" & "A Chorus Line" win
1977 Musical revue "Side by Side by Sondheim" opens at Music Box, NYC for 390 performances
1977 81st Boston Marathon: Canadian Jerome Drayton wins men's race in 2:14:46; American Miki Gorman takes her 2nd women's event in 2:48:33
1977 Alex Haley author of "Roots" awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999
1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1982 Zimbabwean capital Salisbury renamed Harare
1983 87th Boston Marathon: American double; Greg Meyer men's champion in 2:09:00; Joan Benoit takes women's race in 2:22:43; her 2nd event title
1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon
1983 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for the novel "The Color Purple"
1984 Space Shuttle Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
1984 Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
1985 Wham become the first western pop act to release an album in China
1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
1986 Robert M Gates becomes deputy director of CIA
1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1987 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver near Coolidge, Arizona
1988 92nd Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins men's race in 2:08:43; Rosa Mota of Portugal repeats as women's champion in 2:24:30
1988 Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over"
1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
1990 Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1991 US Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
1992 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)
1993 "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
1993 Van Halen Rocker, David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10
1993 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: American Tom Wargo pars second playoff hole to beat Bruce Crampton of Australia and take his first and only major title
1994 "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC
1994 98th Boston Marathon: Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya wins 2nd straight title in 2:07:15; Uta Pippig of Germany claims women's race in 2:21:45
1994 Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day for WI vs England to beat Gary Sobers' world record
1994 Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 4 days later
1994 Lebanon drops relations with Iran
1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
1995 Houston Post folds after 116 years
1996 Revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", starring Nathan Lane, opens at St James Theater NYC for 715 performances
1996 In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces accidentally shell the UN compound at Quana.
1999 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Allen Doyle wins first of 4 Senior PGA major titles with a 2 stroke margin over runner-up Vicente Fernández of Argentina
2004 50th British Academy Television Awards: "Little Britain" Best Comedy, "Buried" Best Drama
2005 109th Boston Marathon: Hailu Negussie of Ethiopia claims men's section in 2:11:44; Catherine Ndereba of Kenya wins back-to-back races and 4th overall women's title in 2:25:12
2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision
2010 45th Academy of Country Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, and Miranda Lambert win
2011 115th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Geoffrey Mutai wins men's race in record 2:03:02; Caroline Kilel takes women's section in 2:22:36
2012 The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts
2013 27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62
2013 "Iron Man 3", directed by Shane Black, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, premieres in London
2014 12 Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest
2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Lou Reed, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Green Day, Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the 5 Royales
2016 120th Boston Marathon: Ethiopian double; Lemi Berhanu Hayle wins men's section in 2:12:45; Atsede Baysa takes women's event in 2:29:19
2016 Laureus World Sports Awards, Palais am Funkturm, Berlin, Germany: Sportsman: Novak Đoković; Sportswoman: Sernea Williams; Team: New Zealand Men's National Rugby Union team
2017 British Prime Minister Teresa May announces she will seek a "snap" election
2017 Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first player to score 100 goals in the Champions League with a hat-trick in Real Madrid's 4-2 win over Bayern Munich
2018 Protests begin in Managua, Nicaragua, over proposed changes to social security, protesters beaten by suspected pro-government gangs
2018 “Black Panther” is the first film shown at a commercial cinema in 35 years in Saudi Arabia as cinemas are reopened
2019 Irish Journalist Lyra McKee shot to death covering riots in Derry, Northern Ireland with dissident republican group the New IRA claiming responsibility
2020 French flagship aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle reports over 1,000 cases of COVID-19, prompting an investigation
2020 Canada's worst modern mass shooting as a gunman kills 18 people, including a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, across Nova Scotia
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Post by Richard Frost » Mon Apr 19 2021 9:11am

19th April

GARLIC DAY
Each year on April 19th, Garlic Day celebrates a vegetable also known as the stinking rose. The fragrant and potent root has been seasoning dishes for thousands of years.

This stinking rose is a member of the lily family. This family also includes onions, leeks, and shallots. While garlic originated in Asia over 7,000 years ago, it is used in a variety of cuisines.

Garlic is quite versatile, too. It is also used for medicinal purposes. The mighty bulb is considered an herbal remedy for colds and may reduce blood pressure and cholesterol. Modern science has also proven garlic’s antibiotic properties.

Myth and superstition reek of garlic. The most familiar one suggests that garlic wards off vampires. This same theory seemed to work on witches, werewolves, demons and other such evils one could come across. Folklore also tells us garlic grew from satan’s left footprint when he left the Garden of Eden; Greek midwives kept evils spirits away with it, and courage filled Roman soldiers who consumed the bulb.

Consider our dreams and garlic, too. Our dreams often have meaning. Dreaming of garlic is no different. To dream about garlic in the house suggests good luck and if the dream includes eating garlic (perhaps in a pesto sauce), there might be hidden secrets. Over 300 varieties of garlic grow around the world to dream about as well!

Gilroy, California claims to be the Garlic Capital of the World. Will Rogers was once quoted as saying it is “…the only place in America where you can marinate a steak just by hanging it out on a clothesline.”

On this day in history

607 Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth
1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London
1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly
1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
1591 Chartres surrenders to King Henry IV in France
1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1713 Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, decreeing that Habsburg possessions could be inherited by a daughterI
1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia
1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis" premieres in Paris
1775 Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts. The "Shot Heard Round the World" took place in Concord later that day
1775 New England militiamen begin the siege of Boston, hemming in the British army garrison
1775 Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott are captured by British troops riding from Lexington to Concord, Prescott escapes to warn Concord
1782 John Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government and house he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became first American embassy.
1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
1836 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor" premieres in St Petersburg
1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
1839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom & Luxembourg a Grand Duchy
1852 California Historical Society forms
1853 Netherlands Van Hall government forms
1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops and fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1877 Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)
1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels
1892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made automotive for a test drive
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther" premieres in NYC
1897 1st Boston Marathon (B.A.A. Road Race), won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10; the world's oldest annual marathon inspired by success of the first marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics
1901 In the Philippines, recently captured insurgent leader Emilio Aguinaldo issues a proclamation advising his countrymen to end their rebellion and use of peaceful means to work with the US toward independence
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
1906 SF Earthquake ends killing 452
1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud in 2:53:36.8
1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church
1909 A convention with Turkey recognizes Bulgarian independence
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play" premieres in London
1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Édouard Fabre in 2:31:41.2
1916 "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London
1916 Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano
1916 Alderman Kelly reads the 'Castle Order' to a meeting of Dublin Corporation; this forged document supposedly from Dublin Castle, indicated that there was to be mass arrests of Irish Volunteers to prevent "trouble"
1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes first premeditated free-fall parachute jump
1919 Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1926 30th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Johnny Miles in 2:25:40.4
1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London
1927 Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a New York stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.
1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928 Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1932 Bonnie Parker is captured in a failed hardware store burglary, and subsequently jailed. A grand jury fails to indict her, however, and she is released a few months later
1933 FDR announces US will leave gold standard
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st feature length film, "Stand Up & Cheer"
1936 First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine, anti-Jewish riots break out
1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls, New York
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 Bertolt Brecht's play "Mother Courage and her Children" premieres in Zurich
1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1941 Milk rationed in Holland
1943 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8; his 2nd of 4 wins in the event
1943 Jews refuse to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then orders its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1943 Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1945 US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established
1947 AAU record for a 25-foot rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1947 Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (2:25:39)
1947 England beats France, 6-3 at Twickenham to be level on points with Wales for a share of the Five Nations Rugby Championship; first appearance of France in tournament since 1931
1948 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:02; his 4th victory in the event
1948 American Broadcasting Company (ABC) TV network debuts
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1954 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
1954 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence DeMar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network
1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
1963 "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances
1963 Johnny Cash releases his single "Ring Of Fire" written by his future wife June Carter and Merle Kilgore
1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1964 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma" premieres in West Berlin
1965 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in race record 2:16:33
1965 "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", fourth full album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Band, is released
1967 "Casino Royale" James Bond comedy film starring David Niven and Peter Sellers premieres. Based on the Ian Fleming novel.
1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years
1968 Belgian construction workers strike
1969 Serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
1970 "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
1970 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win
1971 After smashing 124 in the 1st innings, Indian cricket opener Sunil Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd innings in the drawn 5th Test against the West Indies in Port of Spain, Trinidad
1971 75th Boston Marathon: Álvaro Mejía of Colombia wins in 2:18:45; American Sara Mae Berman 1st woman for 3rd straight year in 3:08:30 (unsanctioned)
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Sharon Tate
1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1972 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 performances
1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of the British Commonwealth
1972 Hungary revises its constitution to declare itself a socialist state
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 British Prime Minister Edward Heath confirms that a plan to conduct an arrest operation, in the event of a riot during the march on 30 January 1972, was known to British government Ministers in advance
1973 Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow"
1973 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1976 80th Boston Marathon: US double; Jack Fultz is men's winner in 2:20:19; Kim Merritt takes women's section in 2:47:10
1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
1980 25th Eurovision Song Contest: Johnny Logan for Ireland wins singing "What's Another Year" in The Hague
1981 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos" premieres in NYC
1982 86th Boston Marathon: American Alberto Salazar claims men's title in 2:08:51; Charlotte Teske of West Germany wins women's section in 2:29:33
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st African American NASA astronaut
1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 Sally Ride is named the 1st American woman astronaut
1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1983 France performs nuclear test
1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature magazine)
1984 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, with green and gold the national colors
1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ)
1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
1989 Central Park Five: Violent rape of jogger Trisha Meili in NYC's Central Park became one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s. 5 men wrongfully convicted spend between 6-13 years in prison
1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce n Nicaragua's civil war
1991 Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1992 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Lee Trevino beats Mike Hill by 1 stroke for his 3rd seniors major title
1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 performances
1992 Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
1993 97th Boston Marathon: Cosmas N'deti of Kenya wins men's event in 2:09:33; Olga Markova of Russia repeats as women's champion in 2:25:27
1993 After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas (accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes)
1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crash lands in Iowa
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
1994 Rodney King awarded $3,800,000 compensation by the Los Angeles County for his police beating
1994 US Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1994 "Illmatic" debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh sets a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 and injuring 500
1996 South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
1997 Renee Slaughter crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl
1998 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Hale Irwin makes it 3 straight titles in the event with a convincing 7 stroke margin over runner-up Larry Nelson
1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
1999 103rd Boston Marathon: Joseph Chebet of Kenya takes men's title in 2:09:52; 3-peat for Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia in women's race in 2:23:25
2003 Nina Simone is awarded and honorary degree by the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia
2004 108th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Timothy Cherigat takes men's title in 2:10:37; Catherine Ndereba wins her 3rd women's event in 2:24:27
2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
2010 114th Boston Marathon: Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya wins 4th men's title in 2:05:52; Teyba Erkesso of Ethiopia women's champion in 2:26:11
2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days
2015 Boat carrying approx. 850 migrants is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean between Italian and Libya, with only 27 migrants rescued.
2015 50th Academy of Country Music Awards: Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert win
2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba's new president, after former president Raúl Castro steps down
2018 US Senator Tammy Duckworth (Illinois (D)) is the first parent to bring a baby into the Senate chambers, a day after the Senate votes to allow babies on the chamber's floor
2018 King Mswati III of Swaziland changes the name of Swaziland to Eswatini, or “Land of the Swati”
2020 Together At Home concert for COVID-19 aid curated by Lady Gaga and streamed worldwide
2020 US COVID-19 death toll passes 40,000, with 742,442 cases recorded according to Johns Hopkins tally
2020 UK COVID-19 death toll reaches 16,060 (hospitals only), as "The Sunday Times" criticizes Boris Johnson's government's response, saying they "sleepwalked into disaster"
2020 Turkey passes Iran to become the Middle Eastern country with the most COVID-19 cases with 86,306 infections, Iran continues to have the most deaths
2021 New Zealand and Australia open a travel bubble between the two countries after more than a year of border closures
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Post by Richard Frost » Tue Apr 20 2021 10:54am

20 April

Chinese Language Day (Chinese)
April 20 was chosen as the date "to pay tribute to Cangjie, a mythical figure who is presumed to have invented Chinese characters about 5,000 years ago". The first Chinese Language Day was celebrated in 2010 on the 12th of November, but since 2011 the date has been the 20th of April, roughly corresponding to Guyu in the Chinese calendar.


20 April - 1 May RIDVAN Baha’i
The most important Baha’i festival. In these 12 days, in the garden outside Baghdad after which the festival is named, Baha’u’llah declared himself the Promised One, prophesied by the Bab. The first, ninth and twelfth days are especially significant and are holy days, when no work is done. It is during this period that Baha’is elect all their governing bodies.

April 20-22, Earth Day 2021
Earth Day 2021 begins with a global youth climate summit led by Earth Uprising, in collaboration with My Future My Voice, OneMillionOfUs and hundreds of youth climate activists. The summit begins at 2:30 PM Eastern Time on April 20.

On this day in history

295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1551 John Dudley becomes Earl Marshal of England
1611 First known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London, recorded by Simon Forman
1650 Dutch East India Company (VOC) management sets new guidelines
1653 Oliver Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1657 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1689 The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry
1702 Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
1715 Nicholas Rowe's play "The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey" premieres in London
1736 French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis begins Lapland expedition to measure latitude and shape of the earth, joined by fellow scientists Anders Celsius, Charles Etienne Louis Camus, Alexis Clairaut, and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier
1759 George Frideric Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey, London
1770 Captain James Cook arrives in New South Wales
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1785 Thomas Warton appointed British Poet Laureate by King George III
1792 Amidst the French Revolution, France declares war on Austria and Prussia, beginning the French Revolutionary Wars
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod" premieres in Weimar
1809 Napoleon I and French forces defeat Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1810 The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain
1818 Napoleon Bonaparte bids emotional farewell to his old guard at Palace of Fontainebleau
1828 Frenchman René Caillié is the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, returns to win 10,000 franc prize from Société de Géographie
1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
1862 First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1865 Crosby Opera House opens in Chicago, Illinois; destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871
1871 US 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
1887 Georges Bouton wins the world’s 1st motor race on a steam-powered quadricycle, a 'test' organised by French newspaper Le Velocipede
1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres in NYC
1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1899 David Beatty is appointed executive officer of the HMS Barfleur, a small battleship and flagship of the China Station
1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride
1903 7th Boston Marathon won by Irishman John Lorden in 2:41:29.8
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey in 2:25:43.2
1908 Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1914 18th Boston Marathon won by Canadian James Duffy in 2:25:01.2
1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1914 US President W Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asks a joint session of Congress to approve armed force if necessary; Congress approves
1915 The Armenians rise and seize the Turkish town of Van, which they hold until Russians relieve them on 19 May; thousands of Armenians are killed
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1918 Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1919 King Nicholas of Montenegro abdicates under duress
1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1925 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor in 2:33:00.6
1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1931 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan in 2:46:45.8
1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1935 "Your Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
1936 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown in 2:33:40.8
1936 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith in 2:26:51.2
1942 German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
1944 Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1945 Soviet artillery begins shelling Berlin
1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1947 Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark
1948 Walter P. Reuther UAW President shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1951 4th Cannes Film Festival: "Miss Julie" directed by Alf Sjoberg and "Miracle in Milan" directed by Vittorio De Sica jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1953 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
1954 "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
1955 "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
1960 "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
1962 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1962 OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
1963 "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
1963 -30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1963 10th National Film Awards (India): "Dada Thakur" wins the Golden Lotus
1964 68th Boston Marathon won for second straight year by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59
1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia
1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126.
1968 South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1968 British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech
1968 Pierre Trudeau sworn in as Canada's 15th Prime Minister
1969 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope & 1776 win
1969 Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down and at an electricity pylon at Kilmore, County Armagh
1970 74th Boston Marathon: Englishman Ron Hill wins in 2:10:30 (US record): American Sara Mae Berman 1st woman for 2nd straight year in 3:05:07 (unsanctioned)
1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1972 Virgil Thomson's final opera, "Lord Byron", with libretto by Jack Larson, first performance at Lincoln Center, New York City
1973 Mass murderer Ed Kemper attempts to dispose of his mother's vocal chords in a domestic waste disposal unit
1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
1974 Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Band on the Run" in the US
1974 'The Troubles', the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim
1975 29th Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win
1976 George Harrison sings "The Lumberjack Song" with Monty Python in NYC
1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
1977 "Annie Hall", directed by Woody Allen and starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1978)
1979 President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia
1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
1980 Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria sees hundreds of Berber political activists arrested
1980 Cuban President Fidel Castro announces he is opening the Mariel Port for Cubans to leave, about 125,00 leave in next 5-6 months
1981 85th Boston Marathon: Toshihiko Seko of Japan wins men's race in 2:09:26; Allison Roe of New Zealand takes women's title in 2:26:46
1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1981 "Fire and Smoke" single released by Earl Thomas Conley (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)
1982 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs in Belfast, Derry, Armagh, Ballymena, Bessbrook and Magherafelt; 2 civilians are killed and 12 injured
1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock (lands 2 days later)
1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
1985 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
1985 ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas
1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1987 91st Boston Marathon: Toshihiko Seko of Japan wins 2nd title in 2:11:50; Rosa Mota of Portugal claims women's event in 2:25:21; her first of 3 race victories
1987 Sri Lankan Civil War: Tamils shoot 122 Sinhalese dead
1987 US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Odense Teater, Odense
1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
1991 Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85)
1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1992 100th episode of American sitcom "Murphy Brown" airs
1992 96th Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya repeats in 2:08:14 for his 3rd title; Olga Markova first Russian women's champion in 2:23:43
1992 All-star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium, London
1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
1992 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
1994 Danny Harold Rolling sentenced to death in Florida for killing 5
1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1994 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
1997 "Gin Game" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
1997 "Present Laughter" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1997 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Defending champion Hale Irwin wins his second of 3 straight Senior PGA C’ships by streeting runners-up Dale Douglass and Jack Nicklaus by 12 strokes
1998 TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53.
1998 German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1998 102nd Boston Marathon: Moses Tanui of Kenya wins men's title in 2:07:34; Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia wins back-to-back women's events in 2:23:21
1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado
2004 In Iraq,12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents,killing 22detainees and wounding 92
2007 Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 Danica Patrick driving for Andretti Green Racing wins the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi; first female driver in history to win an IndyCar Series race
2008 54th British Academy Television Awards: "Fonejacker" Best Comedy, "The Street" best Drama
2009 113th Boston Marathon: Deriba Merga of Ethiopia wins men's event in 2:08:42; Salina Kosgei of Kenya women's champion in 2:32:16
2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental disaster
2012 Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
2012 40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico
2012 People magazine name Eva Mendes as one of 2012's Most Beautiful at Every Age
2013 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China
2013 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado
2013 Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy
2015 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Anthony Doerr's for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"
2015 119th Boston Marathon: Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia wins men's race in 2:09:17; Caroline Rotich of Kenya women's champion in 2:24:55
2017 Terrorist attack on police van on Champs Élysées, Paris 1 police officer killed, 2 injured
2018 Mexican court bars sales of controversial Frida Kahlo Barbie doll
2018 Arsène Wenger announces he will leave London EPL club Arsenal after 22 years as manager
2018 Commonwealth countries decide Prince Charles will succeed Queen Elizabeth as the next head of the Commonwealth
2018 Actress Allison Mack arrested on charges of sex trafficking in relation to sex cult NXIVM in New York
2020 Three US states, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina the 1st to announce end to some COVID-19 restrictions
2020 Price of US oil turns negative for the 1st time in history - West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for US oil, falls as low as minus $37.63 a barrel as worldwide demand falls
2020 The last three cruise ships still afloat amid Covid pandemic, finally dock at the ports of Marseille, France; Barcelona, Spain; and Los Angeles California
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Post by Richard Frost » Wed Apr 21 2021 10:46am

21st April

World Creativity and Innovation Day
World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) was founded on 25 May, 2001 in Toronto, Canada. The founder of the day was the Canadian Marci Segal, who was studying creativity in 1977 at the International Center for Studies in Creativity.

ADAR MAH PARAB Zoroastrian (Shenshai - Parsi)
On the ninth day of Adar, the 9th month, Zoroastrians celebrate the birthday of fire. They pay visits to the fire temple to make offerings of sandalwood or incense, and to thank the holy fire for the warmth and light it has given throughout the year. Traditionally on this day food is not cooked in the house as the fire is given a rest and the Atash Niyayeesh or litany to the fire is recited in honour of the house fire or the ceremonial oil lamp.

RAMA NAVAMI Hindu
The birthday of Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu, is celebrated at noon in the aarti ceremony, performed in front of a doll or of a picture depicting Rama swinging in a cradle.

On this day in history

43 BC Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
753 BC Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date)
953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
1420 Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike
1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1521 Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards
1526 First Battle of Panipat: Central Asian conqueror Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, establishing the Mughal Empire in India
1536 Thomas Cromwell begins to plot Anne Boleyn's downfall while feigning illness
1572 France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant
1600 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed in the American colony, allowing freedom of worship for Christians but sentencing to death anyone who rejected the divinity of Jesus
1654 England & Sweden sign trade agreement
1689 William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed King & Queen of England
1739 Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord
1785 Catherine II of Russia confers on the nobility the "Charter to the Nobility", increasing further the power of the landed oligarchs
1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (9 days before Washington)
1792 Brazilian revolutionary Tiradentes, is hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro
1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publicly owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1796 Napoleon and the French defeat the Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
1818 Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho" premieres in Vienna
1820 Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted is the first to identify electromagnetism, when he observes a compass needle
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, Texas wins independence from Mexico
1855 1st train crosses Mississippi River's 1st bridge, from Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport, Iowa
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorodo
1862 Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne" premieres in Boston
1863 Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, enters garden of Rivden near Baghdad. He makes his declaration as a Messenger of God during the 12 days spent there
1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1878 NY installs 1st firehouse pole
1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili
1878 Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1884 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
1892 Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis, Missouri
1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man" premieres in London
1898 Spanish–American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain
1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor in 2:43:12
1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
1905 The elective assembly of Crete proclaims union with Greece
1908 American polar explorer Frederick Cook claims to have been the 1st person reach North Pole on this date (disputed)
1913 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson in 2:25:14.8
1913 German passenger ship Imperator runs aground
1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz, a major Mexican port; they will stay for 6 months
1916 Ulster Protestant and Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement lands at Tralee Bay, Ireland from a German submarine; discovered at McKenna's Fort and arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary
1916 The Aud, carrying a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans in staging what would become the 1916 Rising, is captured by the British Navy and forced to sail towards Cork Harbour
1918 World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron", shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France, Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown credited with the kill
1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder in 2:29:13.4
1920 John Galsworthy's "Skin Game" premieres in London
1922 The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the previous year
1924 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar for the third consecutive year in 2:29:40.2; 4th race victory
1925 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
1925 Noël Coward's "Fallen Angels" premieres in London
1928 "The Passion of Joan of Arc", directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti and Eugène Silvain, is released in Denmark
1930 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:34:48.2; his 7th victory in the event
1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid" premieres in Moscow
1930 "All Quiet on the Western Front" based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Outstanding Production 1930)
1933 German philosopher Martin Heidegger elected rector of University of Freiburg
1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1941 Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany
1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945 He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
1945 Ivor Novello's "Perchance to Dream" premieres in London
1945 Soviet army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 US 7th Army reaches Nuremberg
1946 Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1947 51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39; world best time
1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1954 Georgi Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1955 J Lawrence & R E Lee's "Inherit the Wind" premieres in NYC
1955 Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalić of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
1959 Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" great white shark off the coast of Ceduna, Australia
1960 Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil
1960 Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
1961 Dirk Stikker chosen as secretary general of NATO
1961 French army revolts in Algeria
1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m
1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington
1962 9th National Film Awards (India): "Bhagini Nivedita" wins the Golden Lotus
1963 Beatles meet The Rolling Stones for the 1st time
1963 The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time
1964 Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
1965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie visits Kingston, Jamaica
1967 Evangelical Broadcasting begins in Netherlands
1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilueva arrives in New York City after defecting to the US
1968 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win
1969 73rd Boston Marathon: Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan wins in 2:13:49; American Sara Mae Berman 1st woman in 3:22:46 (unsanctioned)
1969 The Ministry of Defence in London announces that British troops would be used in Northern Ireland to guard key public installations following a series of bombings
1970 The Principality of Hutt River (previously Hutt River Province) secedes from Australia - it remains unrecognised by Australia or other nations
1970 The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) is formed; it attempts to appeal to Catholics and Protestant to unite in support of moderate policies
1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explores the Moon as part of mission Apollo 16
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1974 28th Tony Awards: River Niger & Raisin win
1975 79th Boston Marathon: American Bill Rodgers wins men's section in race record 2:09:55; Liane Winter of West Germany women's champion in 2:42:24 (female world record)
1975 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 C Strouse & M Charnin's musical "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances
1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh
1979 "Carmelina" closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances
1980 84th Boston Marathon: Bill Rodgers wins 3rd straight event and 4th overall title in 2:12:11; Jacqueline Gareau of Canada women's winner in 2:34:28; Rosie Ruiz disqualified for not running the entire course
1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1982 Dr Michael E Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
1982 Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress
1983 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom
1984 After 37 weeks Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by movie soundtrack for "Footloose"
1984 Centers for Disease Cont says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
1984 Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game
1985 Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
1985 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway wins London Marathon in race record 2:21:06
1986 90th Boston Marathon: Rob de Castella first Australian winner in 2:07:51; Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway claims women's title in 2:24:55
1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)
1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live TV and finds nothing, except great ratings for his spectacle
1987 Dow Jones Average soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
1987 Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka)
1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
1988 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence
1988 Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"
1989 George W. Bush and Edward W. Rose become joint CEOs of the Texas Rangers
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1991 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 4th of 8 Champions Tour majors by 6 strokes from Bruce Crampton of Australia
1991 Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17)
1991 Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)
1991 French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovers the San Diego, Dutch galleon sunk in 1600 off Fortune Island in the Philippines
1992 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill (a tidal strait separating Staten Island, New York City from mainland New Jersey, USA)
1992 Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the California Gas Chamber for 3 murders
1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 30 performances
1993 Brazil votes against a monarchy
1994 "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1994 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan
1995 FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh and charge him with the Oklahoma City bombing
1995 British sitcom "Father Ted" written by Arthur Mathews & Graham Linehan, starring Dermot Morgan premieres on Channel 4
1996 "Delicate Balance" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
1996 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Hale Irwin beats Japan’s Isao Aoki by 2 strokes for his first of 4 Senior PGA Championships
1997 101st Boston Marathon: Lameck Aguta of Kenya wins men's event in 2:10:34; Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia women's champion in 2:26:23
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
1997 I. K. Gujral sworn in as Prime Minister of India
2002 48th British Academy Television Awards: "The Sketch Show" Best Comedy, "Cold Feet" Best Drama
2003 107th Boston Marathon: Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya men's champion in 2:10:11; Svetlana Zakharova of Russia women's winner in 2:25:19
2004 38th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Toby Keith, Shania Twain & Kenny Chesney win
2008 The United States Air Force retires the F-117 Nighthawk.
2008 112th Boston Marathon: 3rd straight men's title for Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya in 2:07:45; Dire Tune of Ethiopia women's winner in 2:25:25
2010 "Shrek Forever After" directed by Mike Mitchell with voices by Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival
2012 Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision
2013 185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military
2013 Horacio Cartes is elected President of Paraguay
2013 Tsegaye Kebede and Priscah Jeptoo win the 2013 London Marathon
2014 118th Boston Marathon: American Meb Keflezighi men's champion in 2:08:37; Rita Jeptoo of Kenya wins her 2nd women's title in 2:18:57
2016 US President Barack Obama begins a 4 day visit to the UK with Michelle Obama
2017 Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100
2018 Oakland A's left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox
2019 Terror attacks on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in three Sri Lankan cities, Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa kill at least 253 and injure hundreds
2019 Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky wins the country's presidential election in a landslide
2019 Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a Extinction Rebellion protest in London amid city-wide climate protests where Waterloo Bridge was occupied over four days
2020 US President Donald Trump announces new 60-day ban on most green cards for the US
2020 At least 25,000 extra people across 11 countries have died during COVID-19 pandemic that were not previously counted according to new mortality figures
2020 South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa announces $26 billion aid package and plans for gradual reopening of economy as cases reach 3,465 with 58 deaths
2020 Health Secretary Matt Hancock and UK government come under criticism for lack of personal protective equipment and testing for COVID-19 (despite pledge to test 100,000 a day only 19,000 done April 20th)
2020 Mexico says it is entering stage three of its COVID-19 outbreak, with rapid spread and hospitalizations from 8,772 infections and 712 deaths
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Post by Richard Frost » Thu Apr 22 2021 10:49am

22 April

International Mother Earth Day
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2019. The Day recognises the Earth and its ecosystems as humanity's common home and the need to protect her to enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity.

On this day in history

296 St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
536 St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
1073 Pope Alexander II buried and Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1164 Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
1370 Building begins on the Bastille fortress in Paris
1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal
1521 French King Francois I declares war on Spain
1526 1st slave revolt in the American colonies occurs in South Carolina
1529 Treaty of Saragosa: Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere
1648 English army claims King Charles I responsible for bloodshed
1659 Lord Protector Richard Cromwell disbands English parliament
1671 King Charles II sits in on English parliament
1674 Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty
1676 Battle of Etna - Netherlands and Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
1677 Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet
1692 Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
1722 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
1728 Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus" premieres in Paris
1745 Austria & Bavaria sign Peace Treaty of Füssen, ending Bavaria's participation (on the French side) in the War of the Austrian Succession
1769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
1793 President Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
1804 Gioachino Rossini (12) performs in Imola
1809 Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria Archduke Charles
1817 Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
1823 Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1823 R J Tyers patents roller skates
1838 English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after crossing the Atlantic, first transatlantic steam passenger service
1864 US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1871 All German Jews emancipated after the German Constitution adopted by its last state Bavaria
1876 1st official National League baseball game is played; Boston Red Stockings beat Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia
1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet "Swan Lake"
1876 Philadelphia Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run
1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mths)
1884 US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 A 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for white colonial settlement in Oklahoma officially starts at 12pm
1893 Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
1893 Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for 3rd time
1897 NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)
1898 1st Spanish–American War action sees the USS Nashville capture a Spanish ship
1898 Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1898 US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
1905 Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
1906 Intercalated Games opens in Athens
1908 Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
1913 Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1915 The Second Battle of Ypres begins on the Western Front in WW I
1916 France battles at Fort Douaumont
1916 Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunt's Rock, to prevent its cargo of 20,000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands
1916 Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers Eóin MacNeill issues the Countermanding order in Dublin to try to stop what would become the Easter Rising
1922 South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR
1924 Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
1926 Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
1927 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
1930 US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1930 British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong, Bengal province, British India, 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries killed
1931 Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
1933 Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
1934 US Division of Investigation (later the FBI) under Melvin Purvis botch an operation to capture the John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin. with 2 dead and 4 injured
1937 NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1940 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable
1943 German counter attack in North Tunisia
1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
1944 Allies land near Hollandia, New Guinea
1944 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet at Salzburg
1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated
1945 Battle of Berlin: Upon being informed that a planned counter-attack never happened, Adolf Hitler flies into a rage, denounces the German Army and concedes World War II is lost
1945 SS chief Heinrich Himmler secretly meets with Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, asking him to act as an intermediary for a surrender offer to the Western Allies. The Allies do not take the offer seriously.
1946 SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
1951 Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC
1952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
1952 Eugene Ionesco's "Les Chaises" premieres in NYC
1954 Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government
1954 US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
1954 USSR joins UNESCO
1961 Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan and Challe in Algeria
1963 Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada
1964 World's Fair at Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY opens
1966 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1967 Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
1969 1st human eye transplant performed
1969 American Joe Frazier KOs American Dave Zyglewick in 1st round to retain heavyweight boxing title, in Houston, Texas
1969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
1969 Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in Northern Ireland
1970 "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1970 First Earth Day celebrated, founded by Gaylord Nelson
1971 Soyuz 10 launches as the world's first mission to the first-ever space station (the Salyut 1) however the docking was unsuccessful and the cosmonauts returned to Earth
1972 Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on the Moon
1972 An 11-year-old boy killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army in Belfast; he was the first to die from a rubber bullet impact
1976 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
1977 Shimon Peres becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Israel
1978 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
1978 23rd Eurovision Song Contest: Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta for Israel wins singing "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" in Paris
1979 The Rolling Stones play two benefit concerts for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, in Oshawa, Ontario; performance part of guitarist Keith Richards’ sentence for heroin conviction on heroin charges
1981 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers go on strike
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 More than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the then largest US bank robbery in history
1982 Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23]
1983 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
1983 Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1983 Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1984 CBS premiere of TV film "Pope John Paul II", starring Albert Finney in title role
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
1988 Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)
1989 "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 performances
1990 "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
1990 Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
1991 Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95
1991 Intel releases 486SX chip
1992 "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes NYC 14 performances
1992 6.0 earthquake in California
1992 Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara, Mexico
1992 Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
1993 "The Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
1993 Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1993 The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
1994 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
1994 Borge Ousland is the 1st person on a solo and unsupported journey to reach the North Pole
1994 In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
1994 Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 Schelto Patijn appointed Mayor of Amsterdam
1995 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
1995 George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas
1997 Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria - 93 villagers killed.
1997 The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
1998 Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1998 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and George Strait win
1999 Luis Garavito [The Beast, Tribilín], Colombian serial killer described as "the world's worst serial killer" (138-300+ victims) apprehended
2000 In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
2000 The Big Telephone Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom
2004 Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
2006 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
2006 Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War
2012 30 year old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon
2013 6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia
2013 Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim the 2012/2013 English Premier League
2014 David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United
2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
2017 Ilie Năstase thrown off tennis court for insulting British female players during Fed Cup play-off against Romania in Constanta
2018 Bus crash in North Korea kills 36, with most Chinese tourists
2018 Saudi-led coalition airstrike kills more than 20 at a wedding in northwestern Yemen
2018 Liverpool's Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah is named Professional Footballers' Association
2018 Monte Carlo Tennis Masters: Rafael Nadal beats Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-2 to extend his Open-era record for most wins at the same event (11)
2018 Gunman opens fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, killing four before James Shaw Jr. wrestled the rifle from the gunman's hands
2019 Marvel film "Avengers: Endgame" directed by Anthony and Joe Russo starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and an ensemble cast, premieres in Los Angeles
2020 Sudan bans female genital mutation and makes it a criminal offense
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Post by Richard Frost » Fri Apr 23 2021 10:35am

23 April

St George's Day
St George is the patron saint of England. He lived and died in the Middle East, but his popularity grew after the Crusades, when his red cross on a white background became the symbol of the English Crusaders.

Saint George's Day, also called the Feast of Saint George, is the feast day of Saint George as celebrated by various Christian Churches and by the several nations, kingdoms, countries and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint including Bulgaria, England, Georgia, Portugal, Spain (Catalonia and Aragon).

Saint George's Day is normally celebrated on 23 April. However, Church of England rules denote that no saints' day should be celebrated between Palm Sunday and the Sunday after Easter Day so if 23 April falls in that period the celebrations are transferred to after it. 23 April is the traditionally accepted date of the saint's death in the Diocletianic Persecution of AD 303.

World Book and Copyright Day
World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing, and copyright. The first World Book Day was celebrated on 23 April in 1995, and continues to be recognized on that day

The original idea was of the Spanish writer Vicente Clavel Andrés as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes, first on 7 October, his birth date, then on 23 April, his death date. In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors.[1] (In a historical coincidence, Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same date — 23 April 1616 — but not on the same day, as at the time, Spain used the Gregorian calendar and England used the Julian calendar; Shakespeare actually died 10 days after Cervantes died, on 3 May of the Gregorian calendar).

English Language Day
English Language Day is a United Nations (UN) observance that people celebrate on April 23 each year. It coincides with William Shakespeare’s birthday and World Book and Copyright Day . English is one of the most popular languages used worldwide.

Spanish Language Day
UN Spanish Language Day is observed annually on 23 April. The event was established by UN's Department of Public Information in 2010 to seeking "to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six of its official working languages throughout the organization". The day was firstly observed on 12 October to celebrate the Dia de la Hispanidad in some Spanish-speaking countries for the discovery of American continent. Later the day was changed to 23 April to pay tribute to Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who died on the same day in 1616.

International Girls in ICT Day
International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated across the world on the fourth Thursday of April. Initiated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), it aims to contribute to the empowerment of girls and young women in terms of education and career in the field of information and communications technology.

On this day in history

215 BC A temple, built on the Capitoline Hill, is dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene
1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control
1154 Damascus surrenders to Sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1229 Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres
1343 St. George's Night Uprising in Estonia
1348 The Order of Garter founded by English King Edward III, Britain's highest civic or military honor
1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria
1516 Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses "The German Beer Purity Law" (Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer in Bavaria, ensuring beer is only brewed from three ingredients – water, malt and hops
1597 William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I in attendance
1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1633 Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1660 Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland
1661 English king Charles II crowned in London
1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1702 Queen Anne is crowned at Westminster Abbey, London
1705 Richard Steele's play "Tender Husband" premieres in London
1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1775 Opera "Il Ré Pastore" (The Shepherd King) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is first produced in Salzburg
1789 President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York
1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1826 Missolonghi, Greece captured by Turks
1827 Irish mathematician/astronomer William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of Systems of Rays
1838 English steamship "Great Western" crosses the Atlantic docks in NYC
1849 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and members of the Petrashevsky Circle are arrested in St. Petersburg
1851 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1860 Democratic convention in Charleston, South Carolina divided over slavery
1861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces (US Civil War)
1861 Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith on the Arkansas River
1864 Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1881 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" premieres at The Opera Comique, London
1883 John Heemskerk Abrahamszoon forms Dutch government
1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st shown at Koster & Bial's Music Hall, New York City
1900 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1908 Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Netherlands & Sweden sign North Sea accord
1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels, Belgium
1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1916 Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn" premieres in NYC
1918 Raid of Zeebrugge; the British navy attempts to block German vessels from leaving port by sinking obsolete ships - mostly fails
1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets in Ankara, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution
1921 Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs)
1923 Inauguration ceremonies take place at Gdynia, Poland to mark its new status as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter
1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley, London
1925 1st London performance of Franz Lehár’s operetta "Frasquita" staged
1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO)
1925 Having badly defeated Spain and driven her out of Spanish Morocco, the native Riffi, led by Abd-el-Krim, turn on the French in French Morocco
1931 US gangster film "The Public Enemy" starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow premieres
1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon, England
1932 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands, burns down
1933 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
1935 Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted
1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1939 1st performance of Béla Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin
1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 in Natchez, Mississippi
1941 Greek Army surrenders to Germany; British RAF evacuates the Greek King George II to Egypt
1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
1942 1st night Exeter bombed by German Luftwaffe
1943 British & US offensive directed at Tunis and Bizerta
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po
1949 Chinese Red army conquers Nanjing
1949 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1952 Crude oil pipeline from Kirkuk (Iraq) to Banias (Syria) completed
1953 General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA
1953 "Shane", directed by George Stevens and based on the 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur, is released
1955 Robert Wright and George Forrest's musical "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances
1958 Robert Kurka's "The Good Soldier Schweik", with libretto written by Abe Meeropol, premieres at the New York City Opera
1959 "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 performances
1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
1961 "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances
1961 Algiers putsch by French generals
1962 Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's musical "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 performances
1964 James Baldwin's play "Blues for Mr Charlie" premieres in NYC
1964 New York State Theater opens
1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1965 "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" single released by the Four Tops (Billboard Song of the Year 1965)
1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
1968 "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances
1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces)
1968 United Methodist Church forms
1969 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province, China
1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy (later computed to life sentence)
1969 The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement
1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1972 26th Tony Awards: Sticks & Bones & 2 Gentlemen of Verona win
1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
1972 The Sunday Times Insight Team publish their account of the events of 'Bloody Sunday'
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1975 Harold Pinter's play "No Man's Land" premieres in London
1977 ADO Den Haag soccer team forms in The Hague, Netherlands
1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1977 Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
1977 Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach.
1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1982 Conch Republic is established - secession of the Florida Keys from the United States of America
1982 The 8-bit personal home computer the Sinclair ZX Spectrum is released (goes on to sell 5 million worldwide)
1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
1983 28th Eurovision Song Contest: Corinne Hermes for Luxembourg wins singing "Si la vie est cadeau" in Munich
1984 AIDS-virus identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
1985 New Coke debuts; Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1986 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
1986 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut
1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less
1988 Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06)
1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
1989 CBS' premiere of fact based "The Littlest Victims", based on Newark, N.J. physician James Oleske as the first doctor to discover AIDS in children
1989 Wine merchant William Sokolin breaks a bottle of 1787 Château Margaux, possibly belonging to Thomas Jefferson, worth $500,000 at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York
1991 Björn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after an 8 year lay off without practising or playing any exhibition matches
1991 Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home
1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1992 Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington, D.C.) let out of prison
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
1993 Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy" premieres in NYC
1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives, Haiti
1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
1995 President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
1996 Sotheby's begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1996 49th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Sense and Sensibility" Best Film, Michael Radford Best Director
1996 42nd British Academy Television Awards: "Father Ted" Best Comedy, "Cracker" Best Drama
1997 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Brooks & Dunn, George Strait, and Patty Loveless win
1997 Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.
2001 Fatboy Slim releases single "Weapon of Choice", music video directed by Spike Jonze starring Christopher Walken dancing
2002 Pope John Paul II meets with U.S. Catholic Church leaders at Vatican regarding sexual abuse of minors
2003 Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus
2009 Gamma ray burst (GRB) 090423 is observed for 10 seconds, the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe
2011 Zach Daniels defeated Rick Michaels to become the new TNT Heavyweight Champion.
2012 Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
2012 Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
2012 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach
2013 28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq
2013 21 people are killed during violent unrest in Xinjiang, China
2013 A 1% flash crash hits the US stock market after a news agency was hacked and claimed injury to President Obama
2013 The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage
2013 West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls)
2013 "Star Trek Into Darkness" directed by J. J. Abrams starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto premieres in Sydney
2014 60 people are killed & 80 are injured after a train crashes in The Democratic Republic of the Congo
2015 Loretta Lynch is confirmed as the first African-American woman as US Attorney-General, succeeding Eric Holder
2016 Beyoncé releases her 6th album "Lemonade" with a 1 hour film on HBO
2018 Marvel's "Avengers: Infinity War" directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr and large ensemble cast premieres in Los Angeles
2018 Van deliberately driven into pedestrians in Toronto, Canada, killing 10 and injuring 13
2018 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan resigns after 10 years in office after mass protests against him beginning an unconstitutional third term
2018 Mario Abdo Benítez is elected President of Paraguay
2019 At least 54 jade miners buried by a mudslide in Kachin state, Myanmar
2019 Southampton striker Shane Long scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 7.69 seconds in 1-1 draw at Watford
2019 Second of two major earthquakes strikes island of Samar, Philippines, magnitude 6.3, a day after magnitude 6.1 hits Luzon Island killing at least 16 people
2019 World's first malaria vaccine, giving partial protection to children, begins in Malawi by the WHO
2020 First findings of a frog fossil 40 million years old, found on Seymour Island, Antarctica (2015) published in "Scientific Reports"
2020 Ecuador's COVID-19 death toll is then one of world's highest per capita after 7,600 more deaths than usual (503 official toll), in report by "The New York Times"
2020 German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns this is "not the end phase but still just the beginning" of the COVID-19 pandemic
2020 US President Donald Trump suggests COVID-19 might be treated by injecting disinfectant or UV lights into a human body at a White House press briefing. Government officials and disinfectant companies quickly state doing so is not only extremely dangerous but potentially deadly.
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Post by Sarah » Fri Apr 23 2021 11:30am

Richard Frost wrote:
Fri Apr 23 2021 10:35am
2020 US President Donald Trump suggests COVID-19 might be treated by injecting disinfectant or UV lights into a human body at a White House press briefing. Government officials and disinfectant companies quickly state doing so is not only extremely dangerous but potentially deadly.
What a difference a year can make. In their first 100 days in office, the Biden administration have facilitated over 200 million doses of a highly effective vaccine, invited all adults (ages 16+) in the country to get the jab and are now even starting to consider the 12-15 age group! :thumbup:

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Post by blythburgh » Sat Apr 24 2021 7:45am

Sarah wrote:
Fri Apr 23 2021 11:30am
Richard Frost wrote:
Fri Apr 23 2021 10:35am
2020 US President Donald Trump suggests COVID-19 might be treated by injecting disinfectant or UV lights into a human body at a White House press briefing. Government officials and disinfectant companies quickly state doing so is not only extremely dangerous but potentially deadly.
What a difference a year can make. In their first 100 days in office, the Biden administration have facilitated over 200 million doses of a highly effective vaccine, invited all adults (ages 16+) in the country to get the jab and are now even starting to consider the 12-15 age group! :thumbup:
And now some states are closing the vaccine centres early as so many are not bothering to get the vaccine. The sensible went early and the idiots are staying away
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat Apr 24 2021 9:07am

24th Aprill

International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace

The International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace was established on 12 December, 2018 through resolution A/RES/73/127 and was first observed on April 24, 2019.

Preserving the values of multilateralism and international cooperation, which underpin the UN Charter and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is fundamental to promote and support the three pillars of the UN - peace and security, development and human rights.

The international norms and rules-based system that have steered nations through seven decades must rise to meet the mounting challenges of protectionism and isolationism. Global issues such as climate change, geopolitical tensions, humanitarian and migratory crises are cross-cutting, implicating the values and interests of nations and necessitate collective attention and action. Technological advancement has also impacted the political and socio-economic landscape and inter-state relations.

As emphasized in the resolution, the International Day is a reaffirmation of the UN Charter and its principles of resolving disputes among countries through peaceful means. It acknowledges the use of multilateral decision-making and diplomacy in achieving peaceful resolutions to conflicts among nations.

On this day in history

1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)
1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
858 Nicholas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
1066 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
1185 Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats the Taira during Japan's Genpei War
1288 Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder
1311 General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1364 Pope Urban V names John V van Virneburg as Bishop of Utrecht
1524 Duke of Bourbon drives Admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1547 Battle of Muhlberg: Catholic forces under Emperor Charles V defeat Protestant princes John Frederick I and Philip I of Hesse
1570 Battles between Spanish troops & followers of Sultan Suleiman
1596 Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1704 1st continuously published newspaper in America - The Boston News-Letter published in Boston by John Campbell
1793 French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris
1800 US Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten" (The Seasons)
1823 Eugene Scribes opera "Le Menteur Veridique" premieres in Paris
1833 Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain
1863 Skirmish at Okolona and Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond, Virginia streetcars
1872 Volcano Mt Vesuvius erupts in Italy
1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from the South (New Orleans)
1877 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1883 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta
1888 Eastman Kodak founded by George Eastman
1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in a world record time of 2:39:18
1894 Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1895 Canadian-American adventurer Joshua Slocum sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts on a solo around-the-world voyage aboard 'Spray', an 11.2-m oyster sloop [1]
1898 US fleet under commodore George Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1898 Spanish–American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1899 Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1904 President Loubet of France visits King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and pointedly ignores the Pope, exacerbating relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church
1905 First-class cricket debut of Sir Jack Hobbs, "The Master" for Surrey v the "Gentlemen of England" (18 & 88)
1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1909 Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1910 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1913 Skyscraper, the Woolworth Building in New York City is opened - world's tallest building at the time
1914 A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland
1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ypres (Leper)
1915 Leaders of the Armenian community in Constantinople (now Istanbul) are arrested by Ottoman authorities, and many later killed, marking the start of the Armenian Genocide
1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
1916 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped ship Endurance
1917 US Congress passes the Liberty Loan Act, authorizing the Treasury to issue a public subscription for 2 billion in bonds for the war
1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine
1921 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1921 Under Allies supervision, a plebiscite in the Tyrol favors merging with Germany; unhappy with the outcome, Allies give the area to Italy
1923 General harbor strike begins in NYC
1925 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942 2nd night Exeter bombed by German Luftwaffe
1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1946 One-act ballet "Symphonic Variations" choreographed by Frederick Ashton with music by César Franck danced by Sandler's Wells Ballet debuts at Covent Garden, London
1949 3rd Tony Awards: "Death of a Salesman" & "Kiss Me Kate" win
1950 Leonard Bernstein's musical "Peter Pan", starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances
1950 Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 US President Harry Truman denies there are communists in the US government
1950 Jordan formally annexes the West Bank
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954 Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism and for self determination, ends
1955 Gaullists lose elections in France
1959 Netherland Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1960 14th Tony Awards: "Miracle Worker" and "Fiorello!" win
1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 17th century Swedish warship Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is salvaged
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: California to Massachusetts
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
1965 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1969 Marshall Lin Biao named Mao's designated successor as the sole Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China
1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead
1969 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1969 Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal
1969 Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern Ireland
1970 People's Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1970 Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
1971 "Frank Merriwell" opens and closes at Longacre Theater NYC (1 performance only)
1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1979 US State of Georgia designates Ray Charles' rendition of "Georgia On My Mind" (written by Hoagy Carmichael) as official state song
1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR
1982 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1982 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1982 27th Eurovision Song Contest: Nicole for Germany wins singing "Ein bißchen Frieden" in Harrogate
1983 "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
1983 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, NYC
1989 10s of thousands of student strikes in Beijing, China
1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1990 Brian Friel's play "Dancing at Lughnasa" premieres in Dublin (Tony Award Best Play)
1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
1990 STS-31 launches, the 35th mission of the US Space Shuttle program, carrying the Hubble space telescope
1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1990 Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1991 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire win
1991 Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
1992 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances
1992 Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1993 The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate, London, killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others
1994 "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
1994 "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1994 Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1995 Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1996 "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 performances
1996 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, and Patty Loveless win
1996 The UN and Iraq end a third round of negotiations over Iraq's possible sale of $1 billion of oil for 90 days for a 180-day trial period
1997 "Steel Peer" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
2004 United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years ago, as reward for cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction
2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2006 King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
2007 Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime
2010 Christy Turlington’s directorial debut, "No Woman, No Cry", is released in the U.S.
2013 33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan
2013 Deadliest structural failure in history when 1,134, mostly garment workers killed and 2,500 injured after the Rana Plaza building collapses in Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
2015 Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire
2018 US President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron
2018 Suffragist Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to have a statue erected in Parliament Square, London, England
2018 Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl the first time according to IFPI
2018 Ed Sheeran's "÷" is the best-selling album of 2017, selling 6.1 million copies, according to IFPI
2018 Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo arrested and charged with eight murders after being identified through genealogy websites
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