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Post by Richard Frost » Mon Mar 29 2021 10:10am

LEMON CHIFFON CAKE DAY
Lemon Chiffon Cake Day on March 29th offers a bright and zesty celebration.

For a nice refreshing spring dessert, chiffon cake is a very light cake made with vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, and flavourings. The fluffy texture is made by beating egg whites until stiff and folding them into the cake batter before baking. Chiffon cakes tend to be lower in saturated fat than butter cakes, potentially making them healthier than their butter-heavy counterparts.

On this day in history - 29th March

502 King Gundobar of Burgundy delegates royal power
845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving
1461 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Duke Edward of York defeats the Lancastrian army, deposes King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou and proclaims himself as King Edward IV
1549 The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded
1632 Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returns Quebec to the French after the English seized it in 1629
1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions
1792 King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1795 Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist in Vienna
1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
1799 New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state
1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1806 Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway
1809 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1831 Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 Great Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1850 SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
1860 Dion Boucicault's play "Colleen Bawn" premieres in NYC
1864 Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
1865 -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
1865 Battle of Lewis's Farm [alt. Quaker Road, Gravelly Run], in Dinwiddie County, Virginia begins (Union victory)
1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is given Royal Assent
1867 Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial
1871 Royal Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London
1873 English FA Cup Final, Lillie Bridge, London: Wanderers beat Oxford University, 2-0; second consecutive title
1878 40th Grand National: John Jones aboard 7/1 chance Shifnal wins by 2 lengths from Martha
1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin" premieres in Moscow
1879 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Old Etonians beat Clapham Rovers, 1-0; Charles Clerke scores winner
1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1889 51st Grand National: Jockey Tommy Beasley wins his third GN aboard Irish 2-time runner-up Frigate at 8/1
1895 57th Grand National: Joe Widger aboard 10/1 chance Wild Man From Borneo wins by 1.5 lengths from Cathal
1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard
1901 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first parliamentary election
1901 63rd Grand National: Jockey Arthur Nightingall wins his 3rd GN aboard 9/1 shot Grudon in a howling snowstorm
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1912 74th Grand National: Ernie Piggott wins aboard 4/1 co-favourite Jerry M
1924 Bavaria & Vatican reach accord
1927 Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
1929 Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden: Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers, 2-1 for a 2-0 series sweep; Boston's first Championship
1930 Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1930 89h Grand National: 10-year-old 100/8 shot Shaun Goilin, ridden by jockey Tommy Cullinan, wins by a neck from Melleray's Belle
1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York interview program
1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist workers' movement bankrupt
1935 94th Grand National: Frank Furlong wins aboard Reynoldstown at 22/1; stallion repeats with back-to-back victory the following year
1936 10,000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Requiem Symphony"
1941 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State, 39-34; Badgers' forward John Kotz is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1941 WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1942 German submarine U-585 sinks
1942 Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city
1943 Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
1945 World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England
1945 Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years
1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ
1946 Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
1947 "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 performances
1947 101st Grand National: 100/1 Irish outsider Caughoo ridden by 35-year-old jockey Eddie Dempsey wins by 20 lengths from Lough Conn
1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1948 Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
1949 Turkey recognizes Israel
1951 American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union
1951 "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1951 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Judy Holliday and José Ferrer win
1958 112th Grand National: Arthur Freeman aboard 18/1 bet Mr. What wins by 30 lengths from Tiberetta
1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
1959 "Some Like It Hot", directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, is released in NYC
1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1961 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, allowing Washington, D.C. residents to vote in presidential elections
1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria
1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 Economist John Kenneth Galbraith is appointed US Ambassador to India
1962 Argentine President Arturo Frondizi flees from the army
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1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "The Tonight Show"
1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1966 "It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 performances
1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Students seize building at Bowie (Maryland) State College
1969 Communist New People's Army founded in the Philippines
1969 123rd Grand National: Eddie P. Harty Sr. aboard 100/9 chance Highland Wedding wins by 12 lengths from Steel Bridge
1969 14th Eurovision Song Contest: Salome for Spain ("Vivo cantando"), Lulu of United Kingdom ("Boom Bang-a-Bang"), Lenny Kuhr of Netherlands ("De troubadour"), and Frida Boccara of France ("Un jour, un enfant") all win in Madrid
1970 "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
1970 Manchester City of England win 10th European Cup Winner's Cup against Górnik Zabrze of Poland 2-1 in Vienna
1971 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1971 Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1971 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP
1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang
1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1976 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan, 86-68; first time 2 teams from same conference (Big Ten) play in title game
1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1976 48th Academy Awards: "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher wins
1978 "The Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS in the US, having won 25 Emmy Awards
1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA
1979 Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London
1979 Delhi beats Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1979 Last day of Test cricket for Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad
1980 134th Grand National: American amateur rider Charlie Fenwick wins aboard 40/1 outsider Ben Nevis; only 4 from 30 starters finish race
1981 Peter Stone's musical "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 AIAW Women's Basketball Championship, Louisiana Tech beat Tennessee 79-59 in Eugene
1982 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: "Mommie Dearest" wins
1982 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown, 63-62; Tar Heels' future Hall of Fame small forward James Worthy named Tournament Most Outstanding Player
1982 54th Academy Awards: "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win
1982 Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44; Lady Vols guard
1987 WrestleMania III: Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI (93,173): Hulk Hogan successfully defends WWF Heavyweight title against André the Giant
1987 Yitzḥak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Likud Party
1987 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Howard the Duck" wins
1987 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Sandy Lyle of Scotland defeats Jeff Sluman on the 3rd hole of a sudden-death playoff to become the first international player to win title
1988 "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
1988 US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989 1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
1989 61st Academy Awards: "Rain Man" - Best Picture, Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Director (Barry Levinson) and Screenwriting; and Jodie Foster win
1989 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Cocktail" wins
1989 I. M. Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
1992 "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
1992 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Hudson Hawk" wins
1992 Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father" premieres in NYC
1992 Ice Dance Championship at Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
1992 Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
1992 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1992 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
1992 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Davis Love III wins by 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Ian Baker-Finch, Phil Blackmar, Nick Faldo, and Tom Watson.
1992 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Dottie Pepper (Mochrie) wins the first of her 2 major titles in a sudden-death playoff with Juli Inkster with par on the 1st extra hole
1993 65th Academy Awards: "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
1993 Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
1993 Actress Elizabeth Taylor presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her AIDS/HIV activism at 65th Academy Awards
1994 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
1994 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border
1994 Serbs & Croats sign a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
1996 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win
1996 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1996 NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
1997 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yanks 2-0 (exhibition)
1997 PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech, 93-75; Volunteers' 3-peat, completing undefeated season (39–0)
1998 Vasco da Gama Road bridge opens in Lisbon, Portugal as the longest bridge in Europe
1998 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Justin Leonard recovers from 5 strokes back to finish 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Glen Day and Tom Lehman
1998 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Pat Hurst wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Helen Dobson after sinking a 5-foot birdie putt at the final green
1998 WrestleMania XIV, FleetCenter, Boston, MA: 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin's wins his first WWF Heavyweight tile against Shawn Michaels
1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Duke, 77-74; Huskies' first title in first title game
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10,000 mark for the first time
2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members
2004 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants
2005 "We Belong Together" single is released by Mariah Carey (Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2006, Billboard Song of the Year 2005)
2007 Rihanna releases her hit single "Umbrella" featuring Jay-Z - stays 7 weeks at No.1 on US Billboard Hot 100
2010 Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40
2013 10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan
2013 23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on Shiite mosques in Iraq
2013 36 people are killed after a 16-floor building collapses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2013 UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea, Iran, and Syria
2013 Soyuz TMA-08M sets a new record of 6 hours in orbit before docking with the International Space Station
2013 American horse, Animal Kingdom, wins the 2013 Dubai World Cup
2014 Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia
2014 First same-sex couples marry in the UK as a result of the passing of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
2015 Cricket World Cup, Melbourne (MCG): Australia defeats fellow host New Zealand by 7 wickets to win their 5th title; Player of Series: Mitchel Starc
2015 Nigerian General Election - voting is extended to a 2nd day. death toll from Boko Haram attacks at 43
2015 WrestleMania XXXI, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA (76,976): Seth Rollins beats Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns in impromptu triple threat match to capture WWE Heavyweight title
2017 Ivanka Trump assumes an unpaid position as Advisor to the President, Donald Trump
2017 UK Prime Minister Theresa May sends a letter to the EU invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, formally triggering Brexit
2017 Man's body found inside a 7m long reticulated python in Sulawesi, Indonesia
2019 Joe Biden accused of an inappropriate kiss by fellow Democrat Lucy Flores
2019 Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish releases her debut studio album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"
2020 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari orders a lockdown in the cities of Lagos and Abuja after the country records 97 COVID-19 cases and
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Post by Richard Frost » Tue Mar 30 2021 9:49am

30th March

DOCTORS DAY
On March 30th each year, Doctors Day honours the professionals for their dedication and contributions to society and the community. Their dedication puts the patient first time and again. On Doctors Day, we say “thank you” to our physicians for all that they do for us and our loved ones.

On this day in history - 30th March

240 BC 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
804 Ludger becomes 1st Bishop of Münster in the Holy Roman Empire
988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers
1296 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England
1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected Bishop of Liege
1474 Duke Sigismund of Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1796 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the heptadecagon
1814 Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1814 Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification
1822 Congress combines East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Georgia)
1856 Russia signs the Treaty of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
1865 -4] Battle at 5 Forks, Virginia
1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride) premieres
1867 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre
1870 15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 Florida territorial government established
1883 45th Grand National: Austrian breeder, owner Count Karel Kinsky rides Zoedone to 10 length win; only 10 starters, the smallest GN field in history; first winning jockey from outside Britain and Ireland
1885 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire
1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" premieres at Theatre Royal, South Shields, England
1894 56th Grand National: Jockey Arthur Nightingall wins his second GN aboard 5/1 joint favourite Why Not
1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford and Cambridge boat race
1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1900 62nd Grand National: Algy Anthony wins aboard Ambush II; owner is Prince Of Wales (King Edward VII)
1906 68th Grand National: Aubrey Hastings wins aboard 20/1 shot Ascetic's Silver
1909 New York's Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1910 Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi
1911 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
1916 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec:: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-2 series victory
1918 Stanley Cup, Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, ON: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-2 series victory; first series contested by the new NHL
1919 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf
1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" premieres in Paris
1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority formed at Howard U in 1920 incorporates
1925 Stanley Cup Final, Patrick Arena, Victoria, BC: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 6-1 for a 3-1 series win; last non-NHL team to win trophy
1928 87th Grand National: Mr. William Dutton aboard 100/1 long-shot Tipperary Tim wins as all of the 41 other starters fall during the race
1930 Babberich-H soccer team forms
1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
1939 Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph
1939 First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway military aircraft
1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas, 60-42; Hoosiers' forward Marvin Huffman is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1941 German counter offensive in North Africa
1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki concentration camp
1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wyoming beats Georgetown, 46-34; Cowboys' point guard Ken Sailors is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1944 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg
1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 USSR invades Austria
1945 World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans
1946 "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 Australia beats NZ in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day
1946 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1946 3rd Golden Globes: "The Lost Weekend", Ray Milland, & Ingrid Bergman win
1947 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins her first of 3 Titleholders titles by 5 strokes ahead of Dorothy Kirby
1949 Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, New Jersey
1951 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony commissioned to mark the University of Minnesota's centennial, debuts by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti conducting
1952 6th Tony Awards: "The Fourposter" and "The King & I" win
1953 Albert Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1954 Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers v England at Kingston
1955 27th Academy Awards: "On the Waterfront", Marlon Brando & Grace Kelly win
1956 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 111th Grand National: Fred Winter aboard 20/1 bet Sundew wins by 8 lengths from Wyndburgh
1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Dalai Lama flees China and is granted political asylum in India
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m)
1961 The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 117th Grand National: 19-year old jockey Pat Buckley aboard 66/1 outsider Ayala wins by 3/4 of a length from Carrickbeg
1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1965 Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others
1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album is photographed by Michael Cooper
1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1968 122nd Grand National: 20-year old Brian Fletcher aboard 100/7 chance Red Alligator rides the first of 3 GN victories
1969 Loyalists bomb water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland in the hope that the attacks would be blamed on the IRA and on elements of the civil rights movement, which was demanding an end to discrimination against Catholics
1970 Miles Davis's influential double album "Bitches Brew" released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres in NYC, runs for 900 performances
1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
1972 North Vietnam launches a major conventional offensive against South Vietnam
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 Northern Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is introduced
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1974 128th Grand National: Brian Fletcher aboard Red Rum wins for the 2nd consecutive year; horse goes on to win 1977 race for 3 GN victories; Fletcher's record 3rd GN win
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
1979 Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in NYC
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina, 63-50; Hoosiers' future Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas is named Tournament Most Outstanding Player
1981 US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, three others are also wounded
1981 "Chariots of Fire" directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Cross and Ian Charleson premieres at a Royal Command Film Performance (Best Picture 1982)
1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in NYC
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) begins trading in crude oil future
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1984 World's most valuable tip - New York police detective Robert Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of $1 lottery ticket, next day they win $6 million
1985 139th Grand National: Welsh jockey Hywel Davies aboard 11-year old 50/1 outsider Last Suspect wins by 1½ lengths from Mr. Snugfit
1985 Ireland beats England, 13-10 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch it's 10th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 6th triple Crown
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
1986 5th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas beats USC, 97-81; Longhorns' Clarissa Davis MOP award; complete first undefeated season (34-0)
1986 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: John Mahaffey wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize
1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for a record 22.5 million pounds ($39.7 million)
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston win
1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 Jack Nicklaus makes his debut on the Senior PGA Tour with a 71 (-1) in the first round of The Tradition at Desert Mountain; wins the event by 4 strokes from Gary Player
1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances
1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1991 Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 64th Academy Awards: "The Silence of the Lambs", Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster win
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 Man accidentally backs into Oakland A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (NYC)
1993 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres in NYC
1993 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs NZ at Port-Of-Spain
1996 NY Mets beats NY Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie visited Graystoke Castle
1996 149th Grand National: 7/1 favourite Rough Quest, ridden by Irish jockey Mick Fitzgerald wins by 1¼ lengths from Encore Un Peu
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Old Dominion, 68-59; Volunteers 5th national title
1997 Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK
1997 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Steve Elkington of Australia leads wire-to-wire to win his 2nd PC title, a record 7 strokes ahead of runner-up Scott Hoch.
1997 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: 41-year old Betsy King wins her 3rd title in this event, 2 strokes ahead of Kris Tschetter and Amy Fruhwirth; last of her 6 major titles
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Utah, 78-69; Wildcats' 2nd title in 3 seasons and 7th overall
2000 Richard Branson is knighted by Charles, Prince of Wales for "services to entrepreneurship" at Buckingham Palace, London
2001 At 15 years, 9 months American swimmer Michael Phelps breaks 200m butterfly world record at the US World Championship trials at Austin, Texas; becomes youngest male to set a world mark
2003 In a final match decider, England beats Ireland 42-6 in Dublin to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; Jonny Wilkinson kicks 3 conversions, a penalty and 2 dropped goals for England
2003 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Davis Love III shoots a final round 64 to win his 2nd Players title, 6 strokes ahead of runners-up Jay Haas and Pádraig Harrington
2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Patricia Meunier-Lebouc of France wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of the 2-time defending champion Annika Sörenstam of Sweden
2003 WrestleMania XIX, Safeco Field, Seattle, WA (54,097): Brock Lesnar wins WWE Heavyweight Championship against Kurt Angle
2006 Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space
2006 UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
2008 WrestleMania XXIV, Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL: Kane defeats Chavo Guerrero; Randy Orton beats Triple H and John Cena in a title Triple Threat match; The Undertaker downs Edge
2011 Global credit information group Experian report that economic recovery in Wales slower than the rest of the UK, forecasting growth of 1.6% vs 2.2% for the rest of the UK
2012 Spanish Government cuts 27 billion Euros from its budget in a tough austerity measure
2012 Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers
2012 American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
2013 North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea
2013 Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court
2017 North Carolina repeals its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use
2017 Venezuela Supreme Court takes over legislative powers of the National Assembly, opposition calls it a coup
2017 Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption investigation
2018 Palestinians begin a "Great March of Return", 6 weeks of protests on the Gaza Strip demanding Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to Israel. 19 Palestinians killed, 1,416 injured on the first day.
2018 Country singer songwriter Kacey Musgraves releases her fourth album "Golden Hour" (Grammy Album of the Year 2019)
2019 Zuzana Caputova elected President of Slovakia, the country's first female head of state
2019 Pope Francis arrives in Rabat, Morocco, on his first-ever visit to the Magreb region of Northern Africa
2019 Swedish gamer and YouTuber PewDiePie overtaken by Indian channel T-Series as YouTube channel with most subscribers (both on 92 million)
2020 Russian city Moscow begins a city-wide lockdown after 4 hours notice due to COVID-19
2020 Three out of four Americans now ordered to stay home due to COVID-19 as states of Virginia, Maryland, Arizona and Florida issue lockdowns
2020 International Olympic Committee announces postponed 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be held July 23-August 8 in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Post by Richard Frost » Wed Mar 31 2021 10:44am

31st March

MANATEE APPRECIATION DAY
Manatee Appreciation Day on the Last Wednesday in March focuses the world’s attention on an herbivore with no known natural enemy. Also known as the sea cow, manatees are a vulnerable species due to their contact with humans. Boating and pollution, as well as other external forces, threaten the manatee.

These slow-moving herbivores inhabit slow rivers, canals, saltwater bays, estuaries, and coastal areas around the world. All three species of manatees are considered gentle giants, spending most of their time eating, sleeping, and traveling.

Amazonian – Inhabiting the Amazon River Basin in northern South America, this species lives exclusively in freshwater.

West Indian – This species includes two subspecies – the Florida Manatee and the Antillean manatee. The Florida manatee ranges from the Caribbean and up the coast of Florida toward North Carolina. They have also been spotted near Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. The West Indian manatee prefers slow-moving freshwater but is also found in saltwater, too.

African Manatee – Inhabiting both salt and freshwater, the West African manatee travels all along the West African coastline. While mostly a herbivore, the West African manatee also occasionally eats fish.

Manatees weigh between 300-540 kg (600-1200 lbs) and live up to 60 years. Spending most of their time underwater, unpolluted habitats are vital to their survival. While they do surface occasionally to replenish their oxygen, manatees can remain submerged for about 20 minutes at a time. When they do surface, they are capable of replenishing 90 percent of the air in their lungs. By comparison, humans only replace about 10 percent.

On this day in history - 31st March

1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine are present and join the Crusade
1492 Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon issue the Alhambra Decree which expels Jews from their kingdoms
1504 France & Spain sign truce
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus, Philippines
1521 The first Mass in the Philippines is generally believed to have been held on the Island of Limasawa, but may also have taken place on Masao in Butuan
1547 Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France
1644 Pope Urbanus VIII and Duke of Parma sign Peace of Ferrara
1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco, Peru
1657 Parliament invites Oliver Cromwell to become king, in what was known as the Humble Petition. He declines the crown and remains Lord Protector.
1667 France & England sign anti-Dutch military accord
1683 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and King John III Sobieski of Poland sign a covenant against Turkey, beginning of the Holy League
1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy
1736 Bellevue Hospital founded in a New York City almshouse - 1st public hospital in the US
1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
1770 Immanuel Kant is appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Egmont" premieres in Weimar
1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
1822 Massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, (later depicted by artist Eugène Delacroix)
1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Quebec & Montreal incorporated
1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco
1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans (US Civil War)
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1863 Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi and Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia
1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
1865 General Pickett moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Petersburg
1866 The Spanish navy bombards the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile
1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey is the first African American to vote in the US under provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, in a local election on town's charter [1]
1877 British High Commissioner Sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
1877 Test Cricket debut of feared Australian fast bowler Fred "The Demon" Spofforth; Australia loses 2nd Test by 4 wickets vs England at Melbourne Cricket Ground
1877 The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
1880 1st town to claim to be completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana)
1883 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1889 Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris. Built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300m high it retains the record for the tallest man made structure for 41 years.
1900 At " Surprise of Sanna’s Post" in the Second Boer War 150 troops under Brigadier General Robert Broadwood are killed
1903 Richard Pearse flies a monoplane several hundred yards in New Zealand
1905 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany visits Tangier, Morocco and proclaims Germany's support of Moroccan independence and equal opportunity for all powers to trade there
1905 67th Grand National: Frank Mason won aboard Kirkland; first Welsh-trained horse to win the event
1906 GB Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin
1906 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is founded to set rules in amateur sports; becomes the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910
1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
1909 National Baseball Commission rules players who jump contracts to be suspended for 5 years; players joining outlaw organizations suspended for 3 years
1909 Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
1909 In a diplomatic note to Austria, Serbia recognizes the Bosnian annexation and promises to maintain friendly relations with Austria
1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
1917 The Danish West Indies are officially ceded to the US for $25 million and renamed the Virgin Islands
1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
1920 British parliament accepts Irish Home Rule law
1921 British coal miners goes on strike
1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
1923 First dance marathon in New York City; Alma Cummings record 27 hours with 6 different partners
1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1923 Stanley Cup Final, Denman Arena, Vancouver, BC: Ottawa Senators (NHL) edge Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL), 1-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
1924 Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established
1924 London public transport strike ends
1925 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
1930 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next 38 years
1931 Brilliant Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne (43) is killed with 7 others when light plane crashes on trip from Kansas City to Los Angeles; record 105-12-5 @ .881 remains best ever
1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1939 "The Hound of Baskervilles" first of 14 films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson is released
1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco
1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" premieres in NYC
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in NYC
1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1946 Belgian government of Spaak resigns - shortest ever Belgian government
1946 Belgian government of Acker forms
1946 First election is held in Greece after World War II
1948 US Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
1951 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea
1953 US Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld for Secretary-General
1954 USSR offers to join NATO
1955 Merger of Chase National Bank (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) forms Chase Manhattan
1955 West Indies cricket all-rounder Collie Smith scores 104 in his Test debut in a 9 wicket 1st Test defeat to Australia in Kingston, Jamaica
1958 US Navy forms atomic submarine division
1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man" premieres in NYC
1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
1961 8th National Film Awards (India): "Anuradha" wins the Golden Lotus
1962 116th Grand National: Fred Winter aboard 28/1 shot Kilmore wins by 10 lengths from Wyndburgh
1963 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
1965 Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants
1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
1966 Labour Party under Harold Wilson win British parliamentary election
1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (The Astoria, London)
1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces in an address to the nation that he will not seek re-election
1968 Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
1968 Seattle's AL club is named Pilots
1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam, bringing the total number of US soldiers to a peak of 549,500
1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
1969 "The New York Times" reviews "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut on its publication saying ""you'll either love it, or push it back in the science-fiction corner"
1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit
1970 Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities
1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
1972 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy
1973 Philadelphia Flyers score an NHL record tying 8 goals from an astounding 60 shots in the 2nd period of a 10-2 win over New York Islanders
1973 Muhammad Ali suffers a broken jaw in a shock split-points decision loss to Ken Norton over 12 rounds in San Diego; Ali wins rematch in another controversial split decision
1973 127th Grand National: Brian Fletcher wins aboard 9/1 co-favourite Red Rum; recovers from 15 lengths behind at final fence; first of Red Rum's record 3 GN victories
1973 Boston Bruins defenceman Bobby Orr scores his 3rd career hat trick in a 7-3 loss at Toronto to become the first player in NHL history to score 100 points for 4 straight seasons
1973 American tennis star Billie Jean King ends Australian Margaret Court's 57-match winning streak 6-7, 7-6, 6-3 in semi finals of the WTA event in Indianapolis, IN
1974 American golfer Lee Trevino goes bogey-free for the full 4 rounds as he wins the Greater New Orleans Open by 8 strokes from Bobby Cole and Ben Crenshaw
1975 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky, 92-85; 10th title under coach John Wooden who had announced his retirement 2 days earlier
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Jazz, 110-101 in New Orleans to clinch club's first ever NBA playoff berth
1976 NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
1977 Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box" premieres in NYC
1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
1978 Wings release "London Town" album
1979 Montreal Canadiens beat visiting Pittsburgh Penguins, 5-3 to become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 50 (or more) games for 4 straight years
1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1979 133rd Grand National: Maurice Barnes won on Rubstic; first Scottish-trained horse to win the event
1979 24th Eurovision Song Contest: Gali Atari and Milk and Honey for Israel wins singing "Hallelujah" in Jerusalem
1980 Almost concurrent heavyweight boxing championship fights: Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for WBC title in Las Vegas, NV whilst Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for WBA belt in Knoxville, TN
1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: "Can't Stop the Music" wins
1981 53rd Academy Awards: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro & Sissy Spacek win
1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1982 American rock group The Doobie Brothers split up
1982 NBA and Players Association reach a 4-year agreement that includes a 53% revenue-sharing plan in return for minimum & maximum payrolls; first of its kind in team sports
1983 Popayán Earthquake (5.5 Mw Depth) in Colombia kills 267 people, injuring some 7,500
1983 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" premieres in NYC
1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," is released in the US
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 138th Grand National: Neale Doughty wins aboard 13/1 Hallo Dandy; 23 complete the course, breaking record for most finishers
1984 Mike Bossy becomes first player in NHL history to record 7 straight 50 goal seasons; scores 50th and 51st of the year in a 3-1 New York Islanders' win at Washington
1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
1985 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia, 70-65; Monarchs' Tracy Claxton, MOP
1985 El Salvador's President José Napoleón Duarte' Christian Democratic Party wins election
1985 WrestleMania I, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Hulk Hogan & Mr T beat Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorf
1985 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Calvin Peete shoots final round 66 to win by 3 strokes from D. A. Weibring; Peete only player to break par in all 4 rounds
1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
1986 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke, 72-69; first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
1986 English Hampton Court palace badly damaged by fire, 1 dead
1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1987 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse, 74-73; Hoosiers' guard Keith Smart hits game-winner in final seconds, intercepts full court pass at the last second
1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
1988 New York Islanders celebrate defenseman Denis Potvin's 1,000 points and 1,000 NHL games at tribute night at Nassau Coliseum
1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for her novel "Beloved"
1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
1990 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV
1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
1990 Major riots occur in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws
1990 20-year old Quebec Nordiques' center Joe Sakic scores a goal in a 3-2 loss to Hartford to become the youngest player in NHL history to score 100 points in a season
1991 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia, 70-67; first overtime win in the NCAA's 10-year history
1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix, Arizona
1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
1991 Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
1991 St. Louis Blues' future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Brett Hull scores his 86th goal of the season in a 2-1 win over Minnesota North Stars; 3rd best total in NHL history
1991 The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
1991 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Steve Elkington birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller
1991 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Amy Alcott breaks her own scoring record to win her 3rd DS by 8 strokes over Dottie Pepper; her 5th major title, and 29th & final LPGA Tour win
1992 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi (Ajay Sharma 175 in 532) beats Tamil Nadu (449) on 1st innings
1992 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
1992 Phoenix coach Cotton Fitzsimmons guides the Suns to a 128-111 home win over Portland to become the 6th coach in NBA history to record 800 career wins
1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
1994 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
1994 The Journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull
1994 Chicago White Sox assigns former NBA superstar Michael Jordan to the Birmingham Barons of Class AA Southern League; returns to NBA after one season
1995 Second time in tennis history, world #1 and #2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team; Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo
1995 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay: Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6/690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings
1995 Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances
1996 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 performances
1996 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia, 83-65; 3 Volunteers in All-Tournament team: Michelle Marciniak, Chamique Holdsclaw, Tiffani Johnson
1996 First time in MLB history, the regular season opens in March with Seattle Mariners beating Chicago White Sox, 3-2 in 12 innings at the Kingdome, Seattle
1996 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras: Karnataka (Vijay Bharadwaj 146 of 8/620) beats Tamil Nadu (370) on 1st innings
1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
1996 WrestleMania XII, Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, CA - Shawn Michaels beats Bret Hart for WWF Heavyweight title
1996 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Fred Couples shoots a final round 64 to win his 2nd PC title, 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Colin Montgomerie and Tommy Tolles
1996 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Patty Sheehan wIns by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Meg Mallon, Kelly Robbins and Annika Sörenstam
1997 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
1997 NASA's Pioneer 10 ends its mission
1997 59th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Arizona beats Kentucky, 84-79 (OT); Wildcats' first title in first title game
1997 West Indies cricketers win 3rd Test at Bridgetown, Barbados by 38 runs after setting India a modest 120 run target; tourists dismissed for 81 in Brian Lara's debut as Windies' captain
1998 Expansion clubs, Tampa Bay and Arizona both suffer bad losses in their MLB debuts; Devil Rays lose, 11-6 to the Detroit Tigers and the Diamondbacks fall, 9-2 to Colorado Rockies
1998 Milwaukee becomes first team since the inception of the American League in 1901 to switch MLB leagues; Brewers lose first NL game, 2-1 to the Braves in Atlanta
1999 "10 Things I Hate About You", a modernization of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, is released
2001 German brothers Michael and Ralf Schumacher become first siblings to share front row of the grid in a Formula 1 World Championship event; qualify 1st and 2nd respectively for Brazilian GP in São Paulo
2002 21st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Oklahoma, 82-70; Huskies conclude perfect season (39-0)
2002 Andre Agassi wins his 700th career match and captures his second straight Key Biscayne title with a 6–3, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4 win over Roger Federer at the Nasdaq-100 Open in Florida
2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Defending champion Annika Sörenstam of Sweden shoots a final round 68 to win, 1 stroke ahead of compatriot Liselotte Neumann
2003 Cincinnati Reds open their new home, The Great American Ball Park, with a 10-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates; former President George H. W. Bush throws first ceremonial pitch
2004 In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
2004 Australian swimmer Lisbeth Lenton breaks Inge de Bruijn's 4-year old 100m freestyle women's world record in 53.66s at the Australian Olympic trials in Sydney
2004 With a 12-1 defeat of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in Tokyo, NY Yankees starter Kevin Brown becomes only the 2nd pitcher in MLB history to have beaten all 30 teams
2007 In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
2008 Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service
2009 "Boom Boom Pow" single released by The Black Eyed Peas (Grammy Award for Best Music Video 2010, Billboard Song of the Year 2009)
2012 Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated
2013 14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid
2013 11 people are killed in flooding at Port Louis, Mauritius
2013 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
2017 Mudslides caused by heavy rains sweep through Mocoa, Colombia killing more than 200
2019 Elton John joins George Clooney's call to boycott hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei after Brunei plans new anti-gay laws to make homosexual sex punishable by death
2019 Rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle fatally shot outside his clothing store in Los Angeles
2020 British pensioner Robert Weighton becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years
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Post by Sarah » Wed Mar 31 2021 12:06pm

Richard Frost wrote:
Wed Mar 31 2021 10:44am
2020 British pensioner Robert Weighton becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years
In this article, it says he died 2 months later:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... e-52840535

It seems his date of birth was actually 29 March and he was already the world's oldest man following the death of the previous holder one month earlier, so not sure what "becomes" means here... perhaps it took a couple of days to be (re)certified after he turned 112!
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Post by Richard Frost » Thu Apr 01 2021 10:02am

1st April

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY
April Fools’ Day on April 1st has long been a day when practical jokes and tricks are played on the unaware. It’s a time when children convince their parents they’ve broken a bone. Parents get in on the planning, too. Classic April Fools’ jokes include caramel covered onions or fake doggy doo-doo in inconvenient places. Businesses launch impractical or unbelievable products for the fun of the day and newspapers print incredible headlines catching readers off guard.

Of course, the trick to a good April Fools’ prank is planning. And you also need to be the first to pull it off. There’s no point in pursuing your prank if someone else beats you to it. Once the foolery has been triggered, everyone else will be on high alert and the element of surprise will be lost.

Some practical jokers go to great lengths to pull off their ruse. The more people involved the greater the risk of being discovered before the great plan can be deployed.
April Fools’ Day, also called All Fools’ Day, in most countries the first day of April. It received its name from the custom of playing practical jokes on this day—for example, telling friends that their shoelaces are untied or sending them on so-called fools’ errands. Although the day has been observed for centuries, its true origins are unknown and effectively unknowable. It resembles festivals such as the Hilaria of ancient Rome, held on March 25, and the Holi celebration in India, which ends on March 31.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/April-Fools-Day

On this day in history - 1st April

374 Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth
527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne
705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
1340 Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control
1515 Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque captures the Persian fortress of Ormuz, renaming it the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception
1572 Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, during the Eighty Years' War, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1581 Portuguese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
1663 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
1693 Cotton Mather's four-day-old son dies, and witchcraft is blamed
1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
1776 Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang" premieres in Leipzig
1778 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol
1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1803 French law rules the use of intention
1826 Samuel Morey is issued the first U.S. patent for an internal-combustion engine, which he calls a “Gas or Vapour Engine"
1850 San Francisco County government established
1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to employ fulltime professional firefighters
1854 "Hard Times" begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, "Household Words"
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1857 Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man
1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA
1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
1865 -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia: Union forces defeat Confederates and capture important railway supply line for General Robert E. Lee's army
1866 US Congress rejects presidential veto giving all equal rights in US
1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris
1867 Singapore, Penang & Malacca become British crown colonies
1868 Hampton Institute opens
1871 New Constitution adopted by the German Empire
1872 1st edition of The Standard
1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1873 Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1888 Students from Rotterdam, Netherlands establish a cricket club called Rotterdamsche Cricket & Football Club Sparta which evolves into Sparta Rotterdam
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
1891 French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1899 NC Mutual opens doors for business
1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government
1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC
1918 United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps.
1919 Stanley Cup Final, Seattle Ice Arena, Seattle, WA: With Montreal Canadiens (NHL) & Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) tied at 2-2-1, trophy not awarded due to worldwide flu epidemic
1920 The (Anglican) Church in Wales disestablished
1920 Stanley Cup Final, Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, ON: Jack Darragh scores a hat-trick as Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA), 6-1 for a 3-2 series win
1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor for "Beer Hall Putsch" but General Ludendorff acquitted
1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio
1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
1926 Montreal Maroons' Clint Benedict becomes first NHL goalie to record 3 straight playoff shutouts, in a 3-0 win against the visiting Victoria Cougars in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Championship series
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
1929 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1929 Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou" 24-minute film
1929 Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
1930 "The Blue Angel" starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role premieres in Germany
1930 Chicago Cubs catcher Leo Hartnett breaks the altitude record for a catch by gloving a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, California
1930 American golfer Bobby Jones starts his Grand Slam season by winning the Southeastern Open by 13 strokes over Horton Smith at the Forest Hills-Ricker Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia
1931 Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1931 Jackie Mitchell becomes the second female (after Lizzie Arlington 1898) in organised baseball when she signs with the Chattanooga Lookouts Baseball Club
1933 England cricket batsman Wally Hammond smashes 34 fours, 10 sixes in a Test record unbeaten 336 in the drawn 2nd Test against New Zealand in Auckland
1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses
1933 Scotland beats Ireland, 8-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
1934 Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker's role in the murders helps turn public perception against the gang for good
1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India
1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano" is arrested in Arkansas on a criminal warrant from New York
1937 Aden becomes a British crown colony
1938 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5th round of their title bout in Chicago; 3rd defence by Louis
1938 Nescafé introduces their flagship brand in Switzerland
1939 US recognizes Francisco Franco's government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war. Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1940 Filipino President Quezon officially authorizes the printing and publication of the grammar and dictionary prepared by the Institute of the National Language.
1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" premieres in NYC
1941 US Navy takes over Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1941 Nazis forbid Jews access to cafés
1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.
1942 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
1943 Jan Dieters, Dutch politician and resistance fighter who was the head of the Communist Party of the Netherlands, is arrested by the Nazis
1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, Eastern India
1945 World War II: Canadian troops free the Dutch cities of Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen
1945 World War II: The Ruhr Pocket of German forces are encircled by the US Ninth Army and US First Army, eventually leading to the capture of 317,000 German troops
1945 Battle of Okinawa: US ground forces invade Okinawa during World War II in the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre
1946 400,000 US mine workers strike
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii
1946 Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP)
1946 The Malayan Union is formed as a federation of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca
1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1947 Shin Takarajima (New Treasure Island) by Osamu Tezuka published, first manga cartoon in tankōbon form
1948 Fast bowler Hines Johnson has match figures of 10-96 on debut in West Indies 4th cricket Test win v England in Kingston, Jamaica; first fast bowler to take 10 wickets in a single Test for West Indies
1948 Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark
1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 West Indian cricket batsmen Frank Worrell (237), Clyde Walcott (118) and Everton Weekes (109) all make centuries in 1st innings of drawn 5th Test v India in Kingston, Jamaica
1954 US Air Force Academy established
1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954 1st US Army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Detroit Red Wings right wing Gordie Howe scores 2 goals and an assist, and sets a Stanley Cup playoff record for fastest goal from the start of a game (:09) in a 4-3 2OT win over Toronto in Game 5 of the Semi-Finals
1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win
1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 World's biggest glass oven used
1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Marshal Nikolai Bulganin becomes director of Soviet State Bank
1960 Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 179,245,000
1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
1960 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1960 1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
1963 NY Mets purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Duke Snider from the LA Dodgers for $40,000; Snider had starred for the Brooklyn Dodgers 1947-57
1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 American television soap opera premieres: "General Hospital" (ABC) & "Doctors" (NBC)
1964 10°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno" premieres in NYC
1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control
1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966 Loyalist led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee to challenge the civil rights movement; it set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers
1966 "Hold On, I'm Comin'" single released by Sam & Dave
1967 1st British ombudsman Sir Edward Compton begins work
1967 The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corporation
1969 Seattle Pilots trade little-known minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to KC Royals for 2 prospects; hits .282 with 11 HRs & 68 RBI to win AL Rookie of the Year; becomes leading MLB manager
1969 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vertical take-off fighter) enters service with the RAF.
1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1970 Federal Bankruptcy Referee Sidney Volinn declares MLB's Seattle Pilots bankrupt; car dealer Bud Selig buys franchise for $10.8 million and moves club to Milwaukee (Brewers)
1970 US President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements from 1st Jan 1971
1970 Serious riots continue in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast between Catholic residents and the British Army
1971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1972 MLB players stage first ever collective strike; play resumes (13/4/72) when owners and players agree to $500,000 increase in pension fund payments
1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1973 John Lennon and Yoko Ono form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1973 OPEC increases price of petroleum by 5.7 percent
1973 Boston Celtics captain John Havlicek scores career high 54 points in 134-109 rout of Atlanta Hawks in Game 1 of 1st round Eastern Conference playoffs; hits NBA playoff record 24-of-36 field-goal attempts
1973 Despite a final round, 5-3 loss to Montreal, Boston Bruins center Phil Esposito wins his third consecutive NHL scoring title with 130 points from 55 goals and 75 assists in the 78-game season
1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1974 Pioneer Hall opens at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, Florida
1974 Yourdon Inc consulting formed by Edward Yourdon
1974 In the England the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California
1976 Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..
1976 Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore.
1976 "Helter Skelter", detailing Charles Manson's cult "family", their capture, trial, conviction and aftermath, premieres on CBS
1977 Attempt for Muslim state in Chad fails
1978 "The Bob Newhart Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1978 Philippine College of Commerce becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines by presidential decree
1978 132nd Grand National: Bob Davies on 14/1 chance Lucius wins by half a length from Sebastian V
1978 New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy becomes first NHL rookie to score 50 goals in a season after scoring #50 and #51 in the closing moments in a 3-2 win over Washington
1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days.
1981 CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1981 Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.
1981 Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky has an assist (his 103rd) in the Oilers 4-4 tie with Colorado Rockies to break Bobby Orr's 10-year mark for most assists in a single NHL season
1982 Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1982 NHL Quebec center Peter Stastny scores 4th career hat trick and 4 assists, and his brother Marian adds 5 assists to lead the Nordiques to an 8-5 win at Boston
1983 Anti-nuclear demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1983 Iraq increases missile attacks on Iran
1984 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1984 3rd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: USC goes back-to-back; beats Tennessee, 72-61; Cheryl Miller 2nd consecutive MOP award
1984 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: 24-year old Fred Couples finishes at 277 (-11), 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Lee Trevino
1985 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Villanova beats Georgetown, 84-75; Wildcats lowest-seeded team to win tournament (8)
1986 Ranji Trophy Men's Cricket, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi beats Haryana by innings & 141; Manoj Prabhakar 113, Kirti Azad 107, Mohinder Amarnath 194, Ajay Sharma 110
1986 US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti replaces Peter Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of Major League Baseball; dies suddenly of a heart attack 5 months later
1990 "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Jack Nicklaus wins his first start on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes from Gary Player
1990 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn, 88-81; Cardinal point guard Jennifer Azzi MOP
1990 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2 feet of nude dancers
1990 WrestleMania VI, Skydome, Toronto, ON (67,678): Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan for WWF Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles
1990 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Betsy King wIns the second of her 3 DS events, 2 strokes ahead of Shirley Furlong and Kathy Postlewait
1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991 US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race
1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1991 53rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Kansas, 72-65; Blue Devils' first title; power forward Christian Laettner MOP
1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned
1992 Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs probation
1992 NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history; 10 day action earns large playoff bonus increase, more control over licensing of their likenesses and changes to free agency system
1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1992 Sheffield Shield Men's Cricket Final, Perth: West Australia beats NSW by 44 runs; Justin Langer 149
1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
1993 Alan Bennett's play "The Madness of George III" premieres in London
1993 Reigning NASCAR Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki perishes in a private plane crash en route to Bristol for the Food City 500
1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
1995 New York Islanders retire Swedish right wing Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1995 Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 12.94 seconds in 2-1 win at Everton
1996 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse, 76-67; Wildcats' 6th national championship
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morn)
1996 Veteran American MLB umpire John McSheery dies of heart attack while umpiring on Opening Day at the Cincinnati Reds' Riverfront Stadium; he was 51
1996 The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created.
1997 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1997 Shell Oil confirms it will declare force majeure at its Nigerian Bonny terminal due to local protests which disrupted 210 million barrels per day of the company's oil production
1999 Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
1999 Detroit Pistons guard Joe Dumars becomes 10th player in NBA history to play 1,000 games with the same team and one of 8 to play 1,000 games with his only team; scores 18 points in 107-75 rout of Chicago Bulls
1999 Philadelphia 76ers head coach Larry Brown wins his 900th pro game with an 88-84 win over Miami Heat; Brown record: 671-547 NBA, 229-107 ABA, combined 900-654
2000 American boxer Chris Byrd wins WBO Heavyweight title when Ukrainian champion Vitali Klitschko retires with a shoulder injury at the end of the 9th round in Berlin, Germany
2000 Michelle Kwan pushes through all 7 triple jumps at the Palais des Exposition in Nice, France to become the first American since Peggy Flemming to win 3 world figure skating titles
2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Notre Dame beats Purdue, 68-66; Fighting Irish forward Ruth Riley is named Most Outstanding Player
2001 Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal
2001 Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
2001 WrestleMania XVII, Astrodome, Houston, TX: 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin beats The Rock in a no disqualification match for the WWF Championship

Actor and Professional Wrestler Dwayne Johnson
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2002 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Maryland beats Indiana, 64-52; Terrapins' first title in first title game
2002 The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
2002 "Stop to Love" compilation album by Luther Vandross is released
2004 Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with skepticism on account of the launch date
2006 The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom.
2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Morgan Pressel wins by 1 from Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew & Suzann Pettersen; youngest-ever winner of an LPGA major at 18 years, 313 days
2007 WrestleMania XXIII, Ford Field, Detroit, MI: John Cena beats Shawn Michaels; The Undertaker defeats Batista; Bobby Lashley downs Umaga
2007 American super swimmer Michael Phelps smashes his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:06.22) to win his record 7th gold medal at the World Championships in Melbourne, Australia
2008 New York Yankees set a MLB record by winning their 11th straight home opener, 3-2 against Toronto Blue Jays
2009 Croatia and Albania join NATO
2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
2011 Alan Rickman's last performance in "Seminar" on Broadway
2012 Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people (UTair Aviation ATR-72)
2012 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Jack and Jill wins
2012 47th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, and Miranda Lambert win
2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Sun-Young Yoo wins sudden-death playoff on 1st extra hole after I.K. Kim misses a one-foot putt on the 72nd hole for the win
2012 WrestleMania XXVIII, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL: The Rock defeats John Cena, titled "Once in a Lifetime"
2013 9 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Tikrit, Iraq
2013 The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan
2014 NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia
2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens
2015 56 people are killed after the Russian trawler Dalniy Vostok sinks off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
2016 The Golden State Warriors NBA record winning home run ends at 54 games with a 109-106 defeat to the Boston Celtics; the loss at Oracle Arena was the Warriors’ first since January 2015
2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm
2017 Chinese leaders announce plans to build city in Xiongan New Area, 3x size of New York
2018 37th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Notre Dame beats Mississippi State, 61-58; Fighting Irish forward Jessica Shepard, 19 points
2019 China announces new laws against fentanyl-related substances to come into effect 1 May
2019 Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco revealed to be world's most profitable company when its earnings released - $111.1 billion in the last year
2019 Japanese government announces the name of a new era 'Reiwa' for the next Emperor, Crown Prince Naruhito
2019 Major archaeological site announced discovered on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in Andes, dated 8th and 10th centuries AD from Tiwanaku state
2019 Methane, a gas usually made by living things, detected on Mars in 2013 by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in "Nature Geoscience"
2019 US online sales overtake retail sales for the first time, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores
2020 All England Lawn Tennis Club cancels Wimbledon for the first time since World War II because of the COVID-19 pandemic; entire grass-court season abandoned
2020 US President Donald Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight COVID-19
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Post by Richard Frost » Fri Apr 02 2021 10:33am

2nd April

International Children's Book day:
Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, 2 April, International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books.

Each year a different National Section of International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has the opportunity to be the international sponsor of ICBD. It decides upon a theme and invites a prominent author from the host country to write a message to the children of the world and a well-known illustrator to design a poster. These materials are used in different ways to promote books and reading. Many IBBY Sections promote ICBD through the media and organize activities in schools and public libraries. Often ICBD is linked to celebrations around children's books and other special events that may include encounters with authors and illustrators, writing competitions or announcements of book awards.

IBBY United States is the sponsor for International Children's Book Day 2021.

World Autism Awareness Day
World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD), on April 2nd each year shines a bright light on a growing global health crisis.

According to the National Autism Association, Autism affects 1 in 59 children. The bio-neurological developmental disability usually presents itself by the age of three, and it is more prevalent in boys than girls.

As children with autism grow older, they face all sorts of obstacles. Because many don’t speak or use social cues as you or I do, they become targets for bullies or are excluded altogether. Children with autism are also vulnerable to drowning because they wander from their homes and schools. Due to their inability to communicate, they cannot tell someone their name or where they live, either. Additionally, as adults, they are more likely to unemployed or underemployed.

However, resources are available for families and schools to help keep children safe and to support them lead happy and healthy lives. Visit the National Autism Association website for resources, guides and tips for families and schools.

GOOD FRIDAY Christian (Western Churches)
This day commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus. Meditative services are held in church to mark the time that Jesus spent on the cross.

On this day in history - 2nd April

999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
1453 Turkish forces under Sultan Mehmed II begin siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which falls May 29
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach Florida
1550 Jewish physician Joseph Hacohen expelled from city of Genoa, all Jews soon after
1559 England & France sign 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1590 States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1745 Austria & Bavaria sign peace
1755 Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India
1783 William Cavendish-Bentinck becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain after an opposition coalition of Henry Fox and Frederick North forces William Petty to resign
1792 The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1800 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
1801 Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen
1804 Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.
1819 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") first publishes
1827 US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils
1845 H L Fizeau & Leon Foucault take 1st photo of the Sun
1860 1st Italian Parliament meets at Turin
1863 Bread revolt in Richmond, Virginia
1864 Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
1864 Skirmish at Spoonville, Antoine, Arkansas
1865 Battle of Petersburg ends as the Army of Northern Virginia is forced to retreat under heavy fire from a general Union offensive
1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia (US Civil War)
1865 Battle of Fort Blakely Alabama, last major battle of the US Civil War
1865 Battle of Selma, Alabama, Union forces break Confederates defenses to secure the town
1866 US President Andrew Johnson ends civil war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia
1872 US engineer George Brayton patents an internal combustion engine (Brayton Cycle)
1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1877 1st human cannonball act performed by 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter known as Zazel at the Royal Aquarium in London
1878 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1883 Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1884 London prison for debtors closed
1900 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
1902 Dutch football club Maatschappelijke Voetbal Vereniging (MVV) is established in Maastricht, Netherlands
1902 Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg
1902 "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California
1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1906 Dave Nourse takes 4 wickets and Reggie Schwarz 3 as South Africa wins the 5th cricket Test in Cape Town to complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; known as 'the Doubleday myth'
1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang Party in China
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1916 German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1916 57 armed New Zealand police invade the remote Ngāi Tūhoe settlement of Maungapōhatu in the Urewera Ranges to arrest the Māori prophet Rua Kēnana
1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) begins her term as 1st woman member of US House of Reps
1917 US President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new "Theory of Relativity"
1926 Riots between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
1930 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1931 17-year old girl Jackie Mitchell strikes out New York Yankees stars Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition baseball game at Engel Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for his kidnapped son
1935 Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt receives a British patents for RADAR
1939 6th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ralph Guldahl wins his only Masters title with a tournament record 279 (−9), 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Sam Snead
1941 German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association
1942 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco
1942 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Dorothy Kirby retains title by 5 strokes ahead of Eileen Stulb
1944 Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party returns to Italy from the Soviet Union
1944 Dmitri Shostakovich's 8th Symphony premieres in NY
1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established
1947 Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta" premieres in Rome
1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26]
1956 Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff & Juliet" premieres in Manchester
1956 Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premiere on TV
1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
1958 Wind speed reaches a record 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas
1960 Mabry Harper catches a world record 25lb Walleye at Cedar Bluff on the Cumberland River in Tennessee
1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1962 The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.
1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1964 Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1965 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy
1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd
1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Wisconsin
1968 "2001 A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
1969 Toronto centre Forbes Kennedy sets a Stanley Cup playoff record for most penalties in one game with 8 as the Maple Leafs crash 10-0 to the Bruins at Boston; Boston’s first NHL playoff victory in 10 years
1970 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state
1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
1971 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, concludes an almost 5 year run
1971 Libya concludes 5 weeks of negotiations with Western oil companies in Tripoli
1972 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo
1972 Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings" premieres in NYC
1972 New York Mets manager Gil Hodges collapses just minutes after completing a round of golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, and dies of a heart attack
1973 CBS radio begins on the hour news, 24 hours a day
1973 ITT admits to asking CIA to influence Chilean presidential election
1973 Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
1974 46th Academy Awards: "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win
1974 Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1974 England cricket fast bowler Tony Greig takes 8-86 in West Indies' 1st innings in tourists' 26 run 5th Test win in Port-of-Spain; Greig also captures 5-70 in 2nd innings
1975 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
1976 Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds Prince Sihanouk as Premier
1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
1976 Oakland Athletics trade 2 key members from recent World Series C'ship team, sending outfielder Reggie Jackson and pitcher Ken Holtzman to Baltimore Orioles in exchange for outfielder Don Baylor and pitchers Mike Torrez and Paul Mitchell
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to No. 1 & stays atop charts for 31 weeks
1977 Montreal Canadiens rout the Washington Capitals, 11-0 at the Montreal Forum to set an NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
1977 131st Grand National: Tommy Stack wins aboard 9/1 Red Rum; record third GN victory (1973-74); Charlotte Brew first female to ride in the race
1978 Jamaican batsman Basil Williams scores 100 on debut for the West Indies in Australia's 3 wicket 3rd Test victory in Georgetown, Guyana
1978 TV soap show "Dallas" starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Bel Geddes premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1978 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova wins her first WTA Tour Championship; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 7-6, 6-4 at Oakland Coliseum Arena
1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo
1980 In his first full season in the NHL, Wayne Gretzky scores for Edmonton in a 1-1 tie with Minnesota North Stars to become the youngest player to reach 50 goals at 19 years and 2 months of age
1980 Montreal right wing Guy Lafleur scores twice to become the first player in NHL history to record 6 straight 50-goal seasons, as the Canadiens beat the Red Wings, 7-2 at Detroit
1981 Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns
1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain
1983 New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy scores in a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins to become the first player in NHL history to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons
1984 46th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston, 84-75; Hoyas center Patrick Ewing tournament MOP; John Thompson first African-American head coach to lead his team to any NCAA Division I title
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky sets an NHL record with his 34th career hat trick as the Oilers beat the Kings 6-4 in Los Angeles
1985 Quebec's Czech center Peter Stastny scores his 100th NHL point of the season for the 5th straight year, with an assist for the Nordiques in a 6-4 win over the Boston Bruins in Quebec City
1985 The NCAA Rules Committee adopts a 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season in an effort to eliminate stalling
1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
1986 George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
1986 NCAA Basketball Rules Committee votes to adopt the 3-point shot beginning the 1986-87 season; sets college distance at 19 feet, 9 inches, compared to 21 feet in the NBA
1986 NYC Mayor Ed Koch signs & brings the Gay Rights Bill into effect
1986 Paul Coffey of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 47th and 48th goals of the season in an 8-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks to break Bobby Orr's NHL record for most goals by a defense
1987 "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
1988 West Indies cricket fast bowling great Curtly Ambrose makes his debut in 9 wicket 1st Test defeat to Pakistan in Georgetown, Guyana; low key debut with 2-108
1989 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Juli Inkster leads wire-to-wire to win her second DS event, 5 strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner and Tammie Green
1989 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn, 76-60; Lady Vols forward
1989 WrestleMania V, Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall, NJ: Hulk Hogan beats Randy "Macho Man" Savage for WWF Heavyweight title
1989 Calgary Flames right wing Joe Mullen sets new NHL record for most points in a season by a American-born player, with a goal and 2 assists in a 4-2 win over Edmonton Oilers gives him 110 points
1990 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke, 103-73; record largest margin of victory in a championship game; Runnin' Rebels' first title
1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1992 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1992 Mafia boss John Gotti is found guilty of 5 murders (Paul Castellano, Thomas Bilotti, Robert DiBernardo, Liborio Milito and Louis Dibono), plus conspiracy to murder, loansharking, illegal gambling, obstruction of justice, bribery and tax evasioni
1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1993 Cleveland Cavaliers guard Mark Price has his consecutive free throw streak end at 77, during a 114-113 loss at Charlotte; falls 1 short of Calvin Murphy’s NBA record of 78 straight free throws
1995 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Tennessee, 70-64; Huskies' first NCAA title, completing first undefeated season since 1986 Texas
1995 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: 2-time champion Jack Nicklaus wins with birdie on 3rd playoff hole against Isao Aoki
1995 NY Police Department & NY Transit Police merge into one organization
1995 North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 Longest strike in American major league sports history (232 days) ends as MLB owners accept players’ offer to return to work without a contract; MLB is first major pro sports league to lose an entire postseason due to labor struggles
1995 Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1995 WrestleMania XI, Hartford Civic Centre, CT: NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1996 Detroit Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game, a 10-6 win at Minnesota Twins; longest duration in MLB history without a stolen base
1996 Sri Lankan cricket batsman Sanath Jayasuriya hits century in 48 balls (134 off 65), in 34 run win over Pakistan in Singapore; world ODI record
1996 Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves, 105-103 at General Motors Place Arena to end their NBA single-season record 23-game consecutive loss streak
1997 "Doll's House" opens at Belasco Theater NYC
2000 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Tennessee, 71-52; Huskies' point guard Shea Ralph is named the Most Outstanding Player
2000 WrestleMania XVI, Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, CA: Triple H beats The Rock, Mick Foley and The Big Show in a 4-way elimination match for the WWF Heavyweight tile
2000 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Tom Kite wins his lone Champions Tour major with birdie on 6th playoff hole with Tom Watson & Larry Nelson
2000 Atlanta center Ray Ferraro scores a goal and added 2 assists as the Thrashers end an NHL record 17-game home winless streak (0-15-2) with a 5-4 win against the visiting New York Islanders
2000 Adam Gilchrist takes his 10th catch in the 3rd cricket Test against New Zealand in Hamilton to create an Australian record for dismissals by a wicketkeeper; Australia wins by 6 wickets for 3-0 series sweep
2001 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Arizona, 82-72; Blue Devils' 3rd title; forward Shane Battier MOP
2001 New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens becomes American League all-time strikeout leader, recording his 3,509th K in a 7-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals; Walter Johnson previous record 3,508 Ks
2001 Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has 2 hits and becomes first Japanese position player to play in a regular season MLB game as Mariners beat Oakland A's, 5-4 at Safeco Field
2002 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
2003 At 27 years, 249 days Texas Rangers infielder Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest MLB player to hit 300 home runs; homers off Ramon Ortiz in 5th inning of an 11-5 loss to the Angels in Anaheim
2004 Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
2005 Bubba Stewart becomes first African-American to win a major motor sports event when he takes out the Monster Energy AMA Supercross C'ship event in Irving, Texas
2005 Newcastle United teammates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer are sent off for fighting each other in a 3-0 home defeat to EPL rivals Aston Villa at St. James’ Park
2006 Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Australian Karrie Webb beats Lorena Ochoa of Mexico with a birdie on the 1st playoff hole; earlier eagles same hole to force the playoff
2006 WrestleMania XXII, Allstate Arena, Chicago, IL: John Cena beats Triple H; Rey Mysterio defeats Kurt Angle and Randy Orton in a Triple Threat title match
2007 69th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Florida beats Ohio State, 84-75; Gators' back-to-back titles; forward Corey Brewer named Most Outstanding Player
2007 Laureus World Sports Awards, Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain: Sportsman: Roger Federer; Sportswoman: Yelena Isinbayeva; Team: Italy Men's National Football team
2010 Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant signs a three-year contract extension with the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers worth $87 million
2011 Cricket World Cup, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai: India beats Sri Lanka by 6 wickets; first country to win on home soil; MS Dhoni Man of the Match, Yuvraj Singh, Player of Series
2012 Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3
2012 74th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky defeats Kansas, 67-59; Wildcats guard Doron Lamb, 22 points
2013 9 mutilated bodies are found in an SUV in Tamaulipas, Mexico
2013 7 people are killed in an attack on a power plant in Peshawar, Pakistan
2013 Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12%
2013 13 children are killed in a fire in a mosque in Yangon, Burma
2013 13 people are killed in a quarry accident, in Arusha, Tanzania
2013 4 more critical cases of bird flu (H7N9) are reported in China
2013 The UN General Assembly approves the first Arms Trade Treaty
2013 Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage
2015 140 people are killed after gunmen attack Garissa University College, Kenya
2017 Attack on visitors to Muslim shrine by a custodian and others in Sargodha, Pakistan leaves 20 dead
2017 ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Ryu So-yeon of South Korea wins 2nd major in a playoff with Lexi Thompson who had earlier been penalised 4 strokes
2017 36th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: South Carolina defeats Mississippi State, 67-55; Gamecocks power forward A'ja Wilson, 23 points
2017 WrestleMania XXXIII, Camping World Stadium, Orlando, FL: Roman Reigns defeats The Undertaker; Brock Lesnar beats Goldberg, first wrestler to win both WWE and Universal Championships
2018 ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden gains her first pro win in a sudden-death playoff against Inbee Park and Jennifer Song that extends to 8 holes
2018 80th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Villanova defeats Michigan, 79–62; Wildcats guard Donte DiVincenzo 31 points
2019 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (82) resigns after 20 years in office after widespread protests over running for another term
2019 Canada is warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world, according to a federal report, increasing 2.3% in northern Canada
2019 70 villages evacuated in Khuzesta province, Iran, after at least 45 killed in flooding after unprecedented rainfall
2019 Lori Lightfoot elected first female African American Mayor of Chicago
2019 NASA states it wants to send astronauts to Mars by 2033, and land on the Moon again in 2024
2019 OKC guard Russell Westbrook becomes 2nd player in NBA history to have 20+ points, rebounds and assists in a game; records 20-20-21 in 119-103 win over LA Lakers
2020 Record 6.6 million Americans filed claims for unemployment in last week according to the US Department of Labor, 10 million over 2 weeks
2020 Number of COVID-19 cases worldwide passes 1 million, with 1,002,159 cases and 51,485 deaths reported, according to Johns Hopkins University
2020 Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro downplays the COVID-19 pandemic saying "its not all its being made out to be"
2020 Spain's death toll passes 10,000 (10003), as it posts a record single-day rise of 950 deaths
2020 New study shows western Antarctica once swampy with temperate forests 93-83 million years ago during Cretaceous period, according to Alfred Wegener Institute
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat Apr 03 2021 9:19am

3rd April

WORLD PARTY DAY
World Party Day on April 3rd encourages a coordinated effort of joyful human celebration around the globe.

The world gathers to celebrate for many reasons. Forming a party often includes food, beverages, music, games, and other festivities. Hosts often create a theme or the theme generates the party. Several common modern-day party themes include bachelor and bachelorette, birthday, retirement, anniversary, graduation and welcome home. Many other party themes focus on specific foods.

In our modern world, parties can also be virtual. We don’t always have to gather in the same location to celebrate a specific event or day. Technology brings us together through video and the internet allowing us to connect long-distance and celebrate all our favorite ways.

The novel Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel, by Vanna Bonta published in 1995, which concludes with a synchronized worldwide celebration that occurs on April 3, 2000, is the inspiration for World Party Day. Gatherings can be small or large organized festivals.


HOLY SATURDAY (Easter Eve) Christian

This is the last day of Lent. Special services involving the lighting of the Paschal Candle and the renewal of baptismal vows take place in the evening in preparation for Easter.

On this day in history - 3rd April

419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1043 Edward the Confessor crowned King of England
1077 The first Parliament of Friuli is created
1312 2nd council of Vienna, Knights Templars suppressed
1367 Battle of Navarrete [Nájera], La Rioja, Castile: alliance of King Peter of Castile and the English defeats Count Henry of Castile
1559 Spain & France sign 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1582 Francis of Valois, Duke of Anjou honored as Duke of Gelre, Earl of Zutphen
1645 English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army
1657 English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell refuses crown
1679 Edmond Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1721 Robert Walpole becomes Britain's 1st Lord of the Treasury - effective Prime Minister, although that term was never officially used (indeed, it was considered an insult) until much later
1764 Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II
1776 George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1834 The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st public teacher in San Francisco
1848 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River in Australia
1856 Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes badly damaged by gunpowder explosion, kills 4,000 on island of Rhodes
1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph, Missouri & Sacramento, California
1864 Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
1865 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond & Petersberg, Virginia
1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1882 American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph
1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia
1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men
1911 Harry James Smith's "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh" premieres in NYC
1913 British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1917 Vladimir Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16]
1918 US House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers
1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin
1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1925 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
1926 Second flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1927 Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
1929 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1930 2nd Academy Awards: "The Broadway Melody", Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win. First time Academy Awards are broadcast on the radio.
1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent
1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
1941 Walton's overture "Scapino" premieres in Chicago
1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1944 US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
1945 World War II: Dutch city of Hengelo freed from Nazi control by the Canadian Army
1946 Netherlands-German postal relations resume
1948 US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1949 WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners" premieres in Oxford
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1954 "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
1955 Fire in cinema in Sclessin, Belgium, kills 39
1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges
1956 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen, Ruhl, Siebens and Viebahn freed
1956 Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado
1957 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" premieres in London
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1960 Earthquake at Havre, Belgium
1960 Elvis Presley records ‘It's Now Or Never’, ‘Fever’ and ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ at RCA studios in Nashville, Tennessee
1962 American jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1964 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
1964 US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1966 Soviet Luna 10 completes its first orbit of the Moon
1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1968 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1968 "Planet of the Apes", starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell premiers nationally in United States
1969 Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start a policy of "Vietnamization", reducing American involvement
1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th attempt
1970 As part of a new 'get tough' policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead
1971 125th Grand National: John Cook aboard 28/1 chance Specify wins a close finish between the leading 5 in the final furlong
1971 16th Eurovision Song Contest: Severine for Monaco wins singing "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" in Dublin
1971 The Temptations score their second US No. 1 with "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)"
1973 1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
1974 The Super Outbreak: 2nd largest tornado outbreak over 24hr period with 148 confirmed tornadoes in 13 US states, killing approximately 315 people and injuring nearly 5,500
1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1976 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
1976 130th Grand National: John Burke wins aboard Rag Trade; equal record 4th winner trained by Fred Rimell and 2nd winner owned by Pierre Raymond Bessone
1976 21st Eurovision Song Contest: Brotherhood of Man for United Kingdom wins singing "Save Your Kisses for Me" in The Hague
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter
1977 Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg adopt summer time
1978 50th Academy Awards: "Annie Hall", Richard Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win
1978 European market & China signs trade agreement
1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington, D.C.
1979 Belgium's Martens government forms
1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area, England
1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1982 136th Grand National: 48 year old Dick Saunders wins aboard 7/1 favourite Grittar; oldest jockey to win the event
1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
1985 Vic Elliot pockets 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1986 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of "A Current Affair") is raped
1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1987 Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
1991 UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1993 147th Grand National: race declared void, after 30 of 39 runners carried on racing despite a false start; bookmakers forced to refund estimated £75 million in bets staked
1995 Radio shock jock Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical" opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
1997 Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas
2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves
2004 157th Grand National: Graham Lee wins aboard Amberleigh House; trainer Ginger McCain's equal record 4th GN victory
2007 Conventional train world speed record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2007 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards denies saying he smoked his father's ashes in an interview with NME
2008 Mariah Carey overtakes Elvis Presley's record of 17 No. 1 US hits with her 18th ‘Touch My Body’, only The Beatles have more with 20
2009 Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
2010 Matt Smith's first appearance as the 11th Doctor in BBC program "Doctor Who" during "The Eleventh Hour" episode
2012 Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
2012 Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers
2012 US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
2013 46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan
2013 50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
2013 24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papua New Guinea
2014 Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta
2016 Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak
2017 Bomb on St Petersburg metro kills 11, 2nd bomb defused
2019 Brunei brings into force new Sharia laws punishing gay sex and adultery with death by stoning, prompting widespread condemnation
2019 Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak goes on trial for the 1MDB corruption scandal in Kuala Lumpur, pleads not guilty
2020 US aircraft carrier captain Brett Crozier cheered off his ship after being fired for a letter demanding more help for his sailors infected with COVID-19
2020 London's Nightingale hospital opened by Prince Charles (remotely) after nine days with 4,000 beds to treat COVID-19 patients at the ExCeL Centre
2020 27 people swept off a ferry and feared dead in the Solomon Islands during Cyclone Harold
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun Apr 04 2021 9:38am

4th April

4 April EASTER DAY Christian (Western Churches)

Easter Day is the most important festival of the Christian year, as it is when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Many Easter traditions, such as the giving of chocolate Easter eggs symbolise the gift of new life.

International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action

United Nations' Mine Awareness Day The United Nations' International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action is observed on April 4 each year. This day aims to raise awareness about landmines and progress toward their eradication.

On this day in history 4th April

1081 Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits
1552 Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
1558 Tsar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford
1588 Christian IV succeeds Frederick II as king of Denmark
1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates
1655 The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach
1660 English King Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
1686 English King James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
1687 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in English churches
1737 Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington's presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ending 1791)
1794 Battle of Racławice, part of the Polish-Lithuanian uprising led by Tadeusz Kościuszko with a tactical Polish victory
1814 Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son
1818 Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1832 Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
1841 Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison
1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
1859 Opera "Dinorah" is produced in Paris
1859 Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show
1862 Peninsular Campaign, launched in southeastern Virginia, aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War)
1866 Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg
1870 Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1887 Susanna Madora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor in Argonia, Kansas
1896 Announcement of gold discovery in Yukon
1900 Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war
1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields in Siberia
1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1913 Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes
1913 75th Grand National: Percy Woodland wins aboard 100/9 chance Covertcoat; owner Sir Charles Assheton-Smith's 2nd straight GN victory and 3rd overall
1914 Film serial "Perils of Pauline" shown for the first time in Los Angeles
1915 Germany protests vigorously to the US, claiming it must insist that Britain lifts its blockade and assert American neutrality
1917 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI
1918 Food riot in Amsterdam
1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
1926 Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos elected president
1929 "New Moon" musical opens in London
1930 England cricket batsman Andy Sandham ends Day 2 of 4th Test against West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica unbeaten on 309; 1st triple century in Test history; out for 325
1930 Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
1930 The Communist Party of Panama is founded
1932 George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good" premieres in NYC
1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die
1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Higher & Higher" premieres in NYC
1941 German troops conquer Benghazi, Libya
1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1944 Allied Bucharest bombings targeting railroads kills 5,000
1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Hungary from German occupation, establishing their own communist satellite state. This was celebrated as Liberation Day until 1989.
1945 The Holocaust: US forces liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, the first such camp to be liberated by the US Army
1945 World War II: US Army occupies Bielefeld in north-eastern Germany
1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
1947 Largest group of sunspots on record
1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms
1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.
1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Argentine President Juan & Eva Perón in Buenos Aires
1955 British government signs military treaty with Iraq
1956 Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden" premieres in London
1957 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony premieres French Radio National Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Paris
1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston, England)
1958 Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt
1958 The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London
1958 Cheryl Crane aged 14, daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabs to death organized crime figure Johnny Stompanato, her mother's boyfriend, in self-defence. The crime was later ruled a "justifiable homicide"
1959 Mali Federation founded, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1959 France beats Wales, 11-3 at Stade Colombes to win the Five Nations Rugby Championship outright for the first time
1960 32nd Academy Awards: "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win
1960 Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra
1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1960 Senegal declares independence from France
1964 "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1965 The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Amsterdam Marines chase "Nozems" or rebellious youth out of Central Station
1967 Dutch De Young government forms
1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee
1968 Riots break out in over 100 cities in the United States following the assassination of African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr
1969 Haskell Karp receives the 1st temporary artificial heart, implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley at Texas Heart Institute in Houston
1970 124th Grand National: 15/1 chance Gay Trip wins by 20 lengths, giving Irish jockey Pat Taaffe his second GN winner
1971 Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances, then most expensive broadway musical
1971 Marine clay under houses liquefies in St-Jean-Vianney, Quebec, 31 die
1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.
1975 138 killed as a USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes on approach during an emergency landing at Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base in South Vietnam
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
1975 British sitcom "The Good Life" starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith debuts on BBC One
1976 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
1979 Ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 135th Grand National: Bob Champion aboard 10/1 hope Aldaniti wins by 4 lengths from 8/1 favourite Spartan Missile
1981 26th Eurovision Song Contest: Bucks Fizz for United Kingdom wins singing "Making Your Mind Up" in Dublin
1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1984 Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" begins his secret diary in defiance of the totalitarian government of Oceania
1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
1987 141st Grand National: Jockey Steve Knight wins his second GN aboard 28/1 shot Maori Venture by 5 lengths from The Tsarevich
1987 "Always & Forever" 2nd studio album by Randy Travis (Billboard Album of the Year 1988)
1988 Eddie Hill becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds
1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
1990 Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1991 "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
1991 Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1992 Jury deliberations begin in the case of Panamanian General and Dictator Manuel Noriega
1992 Sali Berisha becomes president and Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1992 146th Grand National: 14/1 shot Party Politics, ridden by Welsh jockey Carl Llewellyn wins by 2½ lengths from Romany King
1994 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
1994 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
1996 "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances
1998 151st Grand National: Carl Llewellyn wins aboard Earth Summit; first GN winner who was also successful in both Scottish and Welsh Grand Nationals
1999 Jack Ma founds Chinese internet company Alibaba
2002 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War
2007 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
2008 Raid on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints owned YFZ Ranch in Texas; 401 children and 133 women taken into state custody
2009 162nd Grand National: French-bred 100/1 outsider Mon Mome, ridden by Liam Treadwell, wins by 12 lengths from defending champion Comply or Die
2009 Eminem Inducts Run-DMC Into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
2010 Africa's tallest monument, the African Renaissance Monument, dedicated outside Dakar, Senegal, designed by Pierre Goudiaby to commemorate Senegal's 50th anniversary of independence
2012 German Nobel Laureate, Günter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out Iran
2012 Somalia's National Theater is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation
2012 Boris Tadić, President of Serbia, resigns
2013 74 people are killed after an illegally constructed building collapses in Thane, India
2013 9 people have been killed on an axe-murdering rampage in Chhattisgarh state, India
2013 Poecilotheria rajaei, a giant tarantula with a 20cm leg span, is discovered in Sri Lanka
2014 President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years
2017 Chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun, Syria by Syrian government forces kills more than 80 civilians
2017 Pink Star diamond sets world record price of $71 million for a gem at an action in Hong Kong
2017 Alibaba becomes the world's largest retailer according to US Securities and Exchange Commission
2018 21st Commonwealth Games open in the Gold Coast, Australia
2019 Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel apologises for the kidnapping of thousands of mixed-race children during colonial period in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda
2019 US Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pledges to roll back anti-LGBT policies, including not baptizing children of gay parents
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Post by Richard Frost » Mon Apr 05 2021 9:35am

5th April

International Day of Conscience

The International Day of Conscience is a global day of awareness celebrated on April 5, commemorating the importance of the human conscience. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly on July 25, 2019 with the adoption of UN resolution 73/329. The first International Day of Conscience was celebrated on April 5, 2020.

First Contact Day

First Contact Day on April 5th commemorates a fictional date in the future when an alien species visits Earth and makes contact with Earthlings for the first time.

While the fictional date of 2063 is less than half a generation away, mere humans contemplate the possibilities the further we explore space. Not only do the modern explorers keep our interests piqued, but the science fiction genre continues to pour out stories that thrill and excite us.

One of science fiction’s common themes depicts the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials. Conspiracy theories surround Area 51, but a popular one speculates that first contact was made there. UFOs often stir up theories about the first contact, too. The earliest documented sighting of a UFO took place in 1639 and was recorded by the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.

While celebrating the first contact could mean many things, this celebration focuses on one kind – the Vulcan/humankind meeting. That’s right. It’s a “final frontier” kind of celebration.

On this day in history - 5th April

456 Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
823 Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I as co-emperor of France
1058 Bishop Giovanni "Minchus" ["the thin"] elected as Anti-Pope Benedict X
1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice
1424 Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court
1566 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
1603 New English King James I (James VI of Scotland) departs Edinburgh for LondonI
1609 Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa
1614 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1648 Spanish troops and feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1722 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the southeastern Pacific
1739 French and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI sign secret treaty
1751 Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
1764 British Parliament passes the Sugar Tax on the American colonies, introduced by Prime Minister George Grenville
1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)
1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
1803 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D, conducted by the him, in Vienna
1804 High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1812 British storm Badajoz fortress in Extremadura, Spain, held by French & Spanish
1814 Netherlands Bank issues its 1st banknotes
1815 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies, has its first violent eruption after several centuries of dormancy
1818 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1847 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton
1861 Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Texas
1862 Siege of Yorktown, fought in York County and Newport News, Virginia ends (Yorktown campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1865 Battle at Amelia Springs, Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1874 Johann Strauss Jr's opera "Die Fledermaus" premieres in Vienna
1879 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
1897 The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1900 Attempted assassination of Edward Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
1901 Under threats from the Ottoman Turkish Government, Bulgaria is forced to arrest the leaders of the Macedonian Committee
1902 Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte" premieres in Paris
1902 In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses killing 25 and injuring 517
1904 The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1905 James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire" premieres in London
1906 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates towns in the Naples province, killing more than 100 people
1908 British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1911 MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie
1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
1915 French begin Woëvre-offensive
1915 Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
1919 Eamon de Valera becomes President of Dail Eireann
1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
1919 Antwerp is officially declared the host city for the Games of the 7th Olympiad to be conducted in 1920; first post WWI Olympics
1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires
1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
1930 England cricketers dismissed for then record 849 v West Indies in 4th Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Andy Sandham out for 325
1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
1932 Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government
1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
1936 Tupelo, Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa, Poland
1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
1940 99th Grand National: 25/1 shot Bogskar ridden by Royal Air Force sergeant Mervyn Jones wins by 4 lengths from MacMoffat; last true Aintree GN before a 5-year break due to World War II
1941 San Francisco Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1943 Allies bomb Mortsel, Belgium's worse lose of life during WWII (936 civilians)
1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat
1944 140 Lancasters bomb aircraft factory in Toulouse
1944 World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans
1945 World War II: Dutch city of Almelo is freed by the Second Canadian Corps
1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
1946 100th Grand National: Capt. Robert Petre wins aboard 25/1 shot Lovely Cottage; first true GN since 1940 due to World War II; last on a Friday
1949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital n Effingham, Illinois, catches fire, 77 people killed
1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1952 106th Grand National: Jockey Arthur Thompson and trainer Neville Crump combine for their second GN with Teal winning at odds of 100/7 [1]
1955 Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1956 Ceylon's Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), led by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike wins the general elections in a landslide
1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
1959 23rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Art Wall Jr wins by 1 stroke from Cary Middlecoff for his only PGA Tour major victory
1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
1961 Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1962 Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns" premieres in NYC
1962 Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
1965 37th Academy Awards: "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win awards
1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1969 Massive anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities
1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily
1971 US Lt William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre
1971 Sri Lanka's communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike
1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1975 129th Grand National: Irish combination of jockey Tommy Carberry aboard L'Escargot wins by 15 lengths from 7/2 favourite and 1973-74 winner Red Rum
1975 American tennis #1 Chris Evert wins her 3rd WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-2
1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1976 Tom Stoppard's play "Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land" premieres in London
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1982 Aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes with escort vessels left Portsmouth for the Falkland Islands
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign secretary resigns due to Falklands war
1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1984 "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1986 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
1986 140th Grand National: Richard Dunwoody aboard 9-year-old 15/2 second favourite West Tip wins by 2 lengths from Young Driver
1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
1991 US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
1992 "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
1992 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Lee Trevino win his second Champions Tour major by 1 stroke from Jack Nicklaus
1992 Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori suspends the constitution and dissolves Congress
1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
1992 Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which would become the longest siege in modern warfare
1992 Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
1993 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
1997 Steve Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" debuts
1998 France thrashes Wales, 51-0 at Wembley Stadium, London for it's second straight Five Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam; fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 5 conversions and 2 penalties
1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2003 18th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
2003 156th Grand National: 10-year-old 16/1 shot Monty's Pass, ridden by Barry Geraghty wins by 12 lengths from 2001 Welsh National winner Supreme Glory
ft after the 1971 season
2008 161st Grand National: 7/1 joint favourite Comply or Die wins in Irish jockey Timmy Murphy's 11th attempt, 4 lengths ahead of King John's Castle
2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks
2009 44th Academy of Country Music Awards: Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley win
2012 Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people
2012 77-year old pensioner's suicide outside Greek parliament prompts further protests in Athens
2012 International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship
2013 Japan’s Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years
2013 60 people are killed in Nigeria after a bus collides with an oil tanker
2014 167th Grand National: Leighton Aspell wins aboard Pineau de Re; sixth French-bred horse to win the GN
2015 Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its "Rape on Campus" story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited
2016 Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns after the Panama Papers leak show a conflict of interest
2016 San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave
2016 PayPal announces it is cancelling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation
2016 "One Dance" single Released by Drake (Billboard Song of the Year 2016)
2017 Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner pulled after criticized for trivializing demonstrations
2020 British monarch Queen Elizabeth II makes an address to the nation “we will meet again”, for only the 5th time in her 66-year reign
2020 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital suffering from COVID-19
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Post by Richard Frost » Tue Apr 06 2021 9:30am

6th April

International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

What is the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace? The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) is an annual celebration of the power of sport to drive social change, community development and to foster peace and understanding.

SAAM Day Of Action

SAAM Day Of Action is observed on the first Tuesday in April and is used as a day to raise awareness about sexual violence prevention. The acronym SAAM stands for Sexual Assault Awareness Month and is a day that’s observed as a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

On this day in history - 6th April

46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
402 Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
774 Charles the Great (Charlemagne) confirmed the gift to the Pope of the territories belonging to Ravenna made by his father Pepin the Short at Quiercy-sur-Loire in 753
1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath
1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1362 Tard-Venus robber bands strike at Brignais, France
1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made King John I of Portugal
1516 A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
1634 Heeren XIX (the directors of the Dutch West India Company) ask "to secure Eylands Curacao"
1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
1663 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1664 France & Saxony sign alliance
1667 An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state
1672 France declares war on Netherlands
1722 Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards
1724 Thomas Pelham-Holles becomes British Minister of Foreign Affairs
1727 Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1757 British King George II dismisses minister William Pitt the Elder, Secretary of State for the Southern Department
1782 Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'état
1815 British militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1830 Joseph Smith and 5 others officially organize the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York
1843 William Wordsworth is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria
1848 Jews of Prussia granted equality
1859 US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
1860 Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee
1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), 1/4 of General Robert E. Lee's army cut off, Union victory (US Civil War)
1865 Battle of High Bridge, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1866 Grand Army of the Republic forms in Decatur, Illinois, by Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson
1877 British Open Men's Golf, Musselburgh Links: Jamie Anderson wins his first of 3 consecutive Championships; beats fellow Scot Bob Pringle by 2 shots
1886 City of Vancouver BC incorporated
1886 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1889 George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time
1890 French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1896 1st modern Summer Olympic Games open in Athens, Greece; American athlete James Connolly Olympic becomes first modern Olympic champion when he wins the triple jump (then 2 hops and a jump); later 3rd in the long jump, 2nd in the high jump
1900 James J. Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Bessarabia begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
1903 In Holland, railroad and dock workers go out on strike, but the government passes anti-strike bills, calls out troops, and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April
1905 Germany receives invitation from Sultan of Morocco to an international conference to discuss matters relating to Morocco
1906 World's 1st animated cartoon is released, "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" by J. Stuart Blackton
1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1916 German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1919 Bavaria proclaims itself a soviet republic
1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike
1920 To force German evacuation of the Ruhr area, the French occupy Frankfurt, Darmstadt, and Hanau
1923 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia
1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1924 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1924 Völkische Block (Nazis) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria
1925 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1931 1st Scottsboro (Alabama) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1931 "A Connecticut Yankee" film based on novel by Mark Twain, directed by David Butler, starring Will Rogers is released
1934 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1936 ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
1936 Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1938 Teflon invented by Roy J. Plunkett
1939 Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1939 US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
1941 8th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Craig Wood wins his first major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson; Masters' first wire-to-wire champion
1941 Beginning of operation Bestrafung - German bombers attack Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 British major general Michael Gambier-Parry captured in North Africa
1941 German bombardment of Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1941 Italian forces holding Addis Ababa surrender to British & Ethiopian forces
1943 British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II
1943 British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South Tunisia
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain, France, overrun by Nazis
1945 The Holocaust: Nazis begin evacuating prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp
1945 World War II: Dutch city of Coevorden freed from German occupation by Canadian forces
1945 Battle of Okinawa: Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa with orders to beach herself and be destroyed defending the island
1947 11th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jimmy Demaret wins his 2nd Masters by 2 strokes over Byron Nelson and amateur Frank Stranahan
1947 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements
1950 John Foster Dulles becomes advisor to US Secretary of State Acheson
1952 16th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his second green jacket by 4 strokes over Jack Burke Jr
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1957 NYC ends trolley car service
1957 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
1958 22nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Arnold Palmer wins the first of his 4 Masters titles, 1 stroke ahead of Doug Ford and Fred Hawkins; first of his 7 major titles
1959 31st Academy Awards: "Gigi", Susan Hayward & David Niven win
1964 Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations
1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st commercial geosynchronous communications satellite launched
1966 Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1967 Premier Georges Pompidou forms new French government
1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 Gas and gunpowder explosions at sporting goods store, downtown Richmond, Indiana, kills 41 and injures more than 150
1968 13th Eurovision Song Contest: Massiel for Spain wins singing "La, la, la" in London
1971 During a debate at Westminster on Northern Ireland, Harold Wilson of the Labour Party claims that a draft Bill for the imposition of direct rule exists
1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1972 The Scarman Tribunal Report, an inquiry into the causes of violence during the summer of 1969 in N Ireland, is published, finding that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had been seriously at fault
1973 Dock strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
1973 Indian troops invade Sikkim
1973 America launches the Pioneer 11 (Pioneer G) probe to study Jupiter & Saturn
1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1974 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" in Ontario
1974 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
1974 19th Eurovision Song Contest: ABBA for Sweden wins singing "Waterloo" in Brighton
1975 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colorado
1976 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen The Rolling Stones"
1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1980 Post It Notes introduced
1981 Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
1981 Belgian government of Mark Eyskens forms
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1984 1st time 11 people in space
1984 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Randy Travis, and Reba McEntire win
1987 Middleweight World Boxing Championship bout: Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler at Caesars Palace in Paradise, Nevada
1988 African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington National Cemetery
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
1991 145th Grand National: In Canadian distillery Seagram's final year of race sponsorship, New Zealand-bred chestnut gelding Seagram wins, ridden by Nigel Hawke
1992 British Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
1992 Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
1992 US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1992 A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.
1993 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1994 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into beauty queen Marla Maples' home
1994 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
1994 Plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations and sparking the Rwandan Genocide. Those responsible have never been identified.
1996 American actor Marlon Brando makes anti-Semitic remarks about Hollywood on "Larry King Live", stating that the 'Jews control Hollywood'
1996 American baseball player Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
1997 Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
2002 155th Grand National: 8-year-old 20/1 shot Bindaree, ridden by Jim Culloty and trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies wins by 1¾ lengths from What's Up Boys
2002 France beats Ireland 44-5 at Stade de France, Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; their 13th title
2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day
2006 NZSL (New Zealand sign language) is made an official language of New Zealand
2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at least 253.
2009 "Star Trek" film reboot directed by J.J. Abrams, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto premieres in Austin, Texas
2012 US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities
2013 22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq
2013 11 people are killed in an attack on a village in Midlu, Nigeria
2013 48th Academy of Country Music Awards: Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert & Jason Aldean win
2013 166th Grand National: Ryan Mania wins aboard 66/1 Auroras Encore for trainer Sue Smith
2014 Viktor Orbán's Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary
2014 49th Academy of Country Music Awards: George Strait, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert win
2014 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Dhaka: captain Meg Lanning's 44 from 30 balls leads Australia to 106/4; beat England 105/8 to win by 6 wickets (with 29 balls remaining); 3rd consecutive T20 WC
2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: 19 year old Lexi Thompson shoots a bogey-free final round 68 to win her first major title, 3 strokes ahead of Michelle Wie
2016 US primary elections: Wisconsin won by Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Ted Cruz
2016 France passes legislation making it illegal to pay for sex
2016 Protests in Lima, Peru by 30,000 against presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on 24th anniversary of her father Alberto Fujimori's coup
2016 First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump
2018 Canadian Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team involved in a bus crash outside Tisdale, Saskatchewan that kills 16
2019 First ever "Marsquake" seismic event on planet Mars detected by NASA's InSight lander
2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces state of emergency in seven prefectures and a nearly $1 trillion stimulus package as COVID-19 cases climb
2020 Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo (New York City), tests positive for COVID-19, 1st known case of human-to-cat transmission
2020 US COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000 in six weeks, with more than 356,000 American infected, New York death toll reaches 4,758
2020 149th British Open Men's Golf Championship is cancelled for the first time since WWII due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Royal St George's GC to host event in 2021
2020 Cyclone Harold makes landfall in Vanuatu, leaving thousands of houses destroyed and 2 dead
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