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Post by Richard Frost » Wed Apr 07 2021 9:42am

7th April

World Health Day

It is celebrated annually and each year draws attention to a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world.

The date of 7 April marks the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948.

On this day in history

30 Scholars' estimate for Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem [or April 3]
451 Attila's Huns plunder Metz
529 First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (fundamental work in jurisprudence) issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 Prague University, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1509 France declares war on Venice
1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reaches Cebu
1541 Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies
1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1712 Slave revolt in New York kills 6 white men, 21 African Americans executed
1724 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1776 Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward
1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1794 English chemist and theologian Joseph Priestley departs England for America on board Sansom at Gravesend
1795 France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length
1805 Premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Eroica", in Vienna, conducted by the composer
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves Fort Maden beginning their journey to the Pacific Ocean
1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks, Florida from Seminole indians
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1863 Battle of Charleston, South Carolina failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1865 Battle of Farmville, Virginia
1868 Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and only federal politician
1890 Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal, Japan
1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1895 Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen reaches record 86°13.6′N latitude north, expedition closest to the North pole
1896 American athlete Robert Garrett wins the throwing double at the Athens Olympics by taking out the shot putt (11.22m); wins the discus the previous day
1896 Australian athlete Edwin Flack wins gold in the first Olympic 1500m final at inaugural modern Games in Athens; goes on to win 800m two days later
1901 SDAP demands general voting right, abolishing First Chamber
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1917 De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos" premieres in Madrid
1917 James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her" premieres in London
1921 Revolutionary leader, Sun Yat-sen is elected President of China at Canton, though China remains divided into north and south and subject to rivalries of warlords
1922 Warren G. Harding's Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion the Teapot Dome scandals
1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
1926 Mussolini is shot at 3 times by Violet Gibson in Rome, she only hits him once in the nose
1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington, D.C. to NYC
1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
1939 Italy invades Albania
1940 7th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jimmy Demaret wins the first of his 3 Masters titles, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Lloyd Mangrum
1940 US Post Office issues first postage stamp of African American educator Booker T. Washington
1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1943 British and US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
1944 World War II: General Montgomery speaks to generals at St. Paul's School about his vision for the upcoming D-Day landings
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan after the US invasion of Okinawa; he is replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1945 Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island
1945 Sonderkommando Elbe, special Luftwaffe units designed to destroy Allied planes by ramming them mid-air, are sent on their first and only mission of World War II
1945 Battle of Okinawa: US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, super battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
1946 10th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: American Herman Keiser wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of tour money-leader Ben Hogan; first Masters in 4 years because of World War II
1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 World Health Organization formed by the United Nations
1948 A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1949 "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
1951 15th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ben Hogan wins the first of his 2 Masters titles, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Skee Riegel
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1951 105th Grand National: John Bullock wins aboard 40/1 shot Nickel Coin; of 36 runners, only 3 complete the course
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 UN General Assembly begins session that will elect Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden as Secretary-General
1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
1954 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in news conference is first to voice fear of a "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China
1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1957 21st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Doug Ford wins his only Masters, 3 strokes ahead of 3-time champion Sam Snead
1957 Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 27th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 23 year old Jack Nicklaus wins the first of his record 6 Green Jackets with a 3-foot par putt on the final hole to finish 1 stroke ahead of Tony Lema
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1964 IBM announces the System/360.
1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan
1966 US recovers a lost hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean sea floor (whoops)
1967 Israeli Syrian border fights
1968 Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
1970 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
1970 42nd Academy Awards: "Midnight Cowboy" - Best Picture, John Wayne (True Grit), and Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jane Brody) win
1971 US President Richard Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
1972 Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast
1973 Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1973 18th Eurovision Song Contest: Anne-Marie David for Luxembourg wins singing "Tu te reconnaitras" in Luxembourg
1974 Herb Gardner's "Thieves" premieres in NYC
1975 Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1977 German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 Guttenberg bible sells for $2,000,000 in New York City
1978 US President Jimmy Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
1981 "Street Songs" 5th studio album by Rick James is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1981)
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1985 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (−5) to win her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia
1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade in New York
1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
1987 National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington, D.C.
1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
1988 Murderer of Gerrit Jan Heijns, Ferdi Elsas, arrested in the Netherland
1988 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1989 NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1990 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1990 Farm Aid IV concert at Hoosier Dome (Indianapolis, Indiana features Bonnie Raitt, John Mellencamp, John Hiatt, Carl Perkins, Arlo Guthrie, Garth Brooks, Bruce Hornsby, Elton John, Lou Reed, Taj Mahal, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop, and others
1990 John Poindexter (National Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1990 144th Grand National: Marcus Armytage aboard 16/1 bet Mr Frisk wins in race record 8m 47.8s; 2 equine fatalities during the race
1991 "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1991 "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 performances
1991 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Jack Nicklaus wins his second of 4 event titles by 1 stroke from Jim Colbert, Jim Dent & Phil Rodgers
1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1992 Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.
1994 "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 Vatican commemorates The Holocaust for the first time with an orchestral concert in the Sala Nervi
1994 Beginning of the Rwandan Genocide; the Presidential Guard begins killing moderate politicians and public figures in Kigali, including Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana
1996 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Defending champion Jack Nicklaus wins his 4th event title by 3 strokes from Hale Irwint
1996 Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls v Pakistan, Singapore
1996 Cricket: Pakistan beats Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
1997 150th Grand National: Tony Dobbin aboard New Zealand bred Lord Gyllene wins at 14/1 by 25 lengths; race postponed 2 days because of IRA bomb threat
1999 The World Trade Organisation rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
2000 South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is charged by Delhi police with fixing One Day International matches against India
2001 Mars Odyssey is launched
2001 154th Grand National: Richard Guest wins aboard Red Marauder; trainer Martin Pipe saddles 10 of 40-strong field, Blowing Wind best at 3rd place
2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2003 37th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Toby Keith & Martina McBride win
2005 The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress.
2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces
2012 Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
2012 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
2013 15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force
2013 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Inbee Park wins her 2nd major title, 4 strokes ahead of fellow South Korean So Yeon Ryu; first of Park's 3 straight major victories in 2013
2016 Longest-ever captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft/8m)
2017 Truck driven into a department store in Stockholm, killing 4 in a terror attack
2017 US President Donald Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun
2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Baez, Yes, Tupac Shakur, Journey, and Pearl Jam inducted
2018 Suspected gas attack on Douma by Syrian government airforce kills more than 40 people and injuries more than 500
2018 Vegas Golden Knights suffer a 7-1 end of regular season defeat at Calgary but finish with an NHL expansion team record 51 victories; previous record 33 by Anaheim Ducks & Florida Panthers 1993-94
2019 ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Ko Jin-young wins her first major title by 3 strokes over fellow South Koran Lee Mi-hyang
2019 Rwanda marks 25 years and the beginning of 100 days of mourning since the genocide that killed 800,000 people
2019 Rebel force the Libyan National Army under General Khalifa Haftar begins advancing on Tripoli with 21 killed and 27 injured over next few days as they try to take the capital
2020 China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
2020 Australia's highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell
2020 US Acting-Secretary of the US Navy Thomas Modly resigns after calling USN Capt. Brett Crozier of aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) "too naive and too stupid", in an address to the ship's crew
2020 Wisconsin holds its Democratic primary with in-person voting in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, after a mail-in voting rejected by the Wisconsin Legislature
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Thu Apr 08 2021 9:50am

8th April

HANAMATSURI Buddhist (Japanese)
Mahayana flower festival to celebrate the Buddha Shakyamuni’s birthday. Shrines are erected and an image of the infant Buddha is bathed. Theravadins celebrate Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing away later in the year, at the full moon in May.

YOM HA-SHOAH (Holocaust Day) Jewish
A day of remembrance for the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Memorial candles are lit and special services are held.

On this day in history

217 Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
1093 The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by bishop Walkelin in Winchester, England
1139 Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated
1149 Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum
1195 Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor
1341 Petrarch crowned a poet on the Capitoline Hill in Rome
1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1530 Holy Roman Emperor convenes Imperial Diet in German city of Augsburg to address Protestant tensions
1730 Congregation Shearith Israel opens the 1st North American synagogue in New York City on Mill Street in Lower Manhattan
1759 British troops chase French out of Masulipatam, India
1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1767 Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders
1781 Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1783 Catherine II of Russia annexes the Crimea
1796 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, proves the quadratic reciprocity law (the ability to determine the solvability of any quadratic equation in modular arithmetic)
1801 Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
1808 Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore promoted to an archdiocese by Pope Pius VII, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville)
1820 The famous ancient Greek statue, Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos
1838 Steamship "Great Western" makes her maiden voyage from Bristol, England, to New York
1848 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1861 US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, seized by Confederacy (US Civil War)
1862 John D. Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
1864 Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana; Federals routed by General Richard Taylor
1866 Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
1869 American Museum of Natural History opens in New York City
1876 Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda" premieres in Milan
1879 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French and British ministers
1879 Milk sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1886 William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1893 The Critic reports that ice cream soda is America's national drink
1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1902 Russia and China sign the Convention of Evacuation under which Russia agrees to evacuate Manchuria within 18 months
1902 Demonstration organised by socialists in Belgium as people demand better education, living conditions, the right to strike and universal male suffrage result in a riot and some deaths
1904 Great Britain and France establish their Entente Cordiale, a technical treaty settling long-standing disagreements over Morocco, Egypt, Africa, and the Pacific
1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law
1904 Entente Cordiale between Britain and France
1908 H. H. Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British Prime Minister
1912 Steamers collide on the Nile, drowning 200
1913 Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1913 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by Congress, providing for election of senators by popular vote
1914 US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
1916 Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1924 South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: provides for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, prohibited registration of black trade unions
1929 Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest
1931 "White Horse Inn" (The musical) opens in London
1931 Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet "The Arrow" premieres
1933 Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
1935 2nd Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf: Gene Sarazen wins Monday playoff with Craig Wood by 5 strokes
1935 Béla Bartok's 5th String quartet premieres in Washington, D.C.
1935 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
1938 Walter Piston's 1st Symphony in E, premieres in Boston, by the Boston Symphony, conducted by the composer
1939 King Zog I of Albania flees after Italy invades
1940 German battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1941 In his 4th title defence in 9 weeks Joe Louis beats Tony Musto by TKO in the 9th round at the Arena, Saint Louis, Missouri to retain NYSAC heavyweight boxing crown
1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1943 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.
1945 Dutch Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 League of Nations assembles for the last time
1947 Largest recorded sunspot ever observed at 40 times the diameter of Earth
1948 Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in San Francisco
1952 US President Harry Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
1953 Jomo Kenyatta convicted of involvement with the Mau Mau rebellion and sentenced to 7 years jail in Kenya
1956 20th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Burke Jr. wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of amateur Ken Venturi; final Masters played without a 36-hole cut
1956 6 marine recruits drown during an exercise at Paradise Island, South Carolina
1960 Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1960 US Senate passes Civil Rights Bill with measures against discriminatory voting practices
1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1962 Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1963 35th Academy Awards: "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win
1964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1965 India & Pakistan forces engage in a border fight
1966 OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
1966 Time publishes its "Is God Dead" issue - its first issue without an image
1967 121st Grand National: John Buckingham aboard rank 100/1 outsider Foinavon avoids famous carnage to win by 15 lengths from favourite Honey End
1967 12th Eurovision Song Contest: Sandie Shaw for United Kingdom wins singing "Puppet on a String" in Vienna
1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King
1968 Major League Baseball decides to postpone Opening Day because of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr
1968 Czechoslovakia Oldřich Černík government forms
1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968 Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000
1970 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to US Supreme Court
1972 Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ
1972 126th Grand National: Graham Thorner aboard 14/1 bet Well To Do wins from 1970 winner Gay Trip; Black Secret & General Symons dead heat for 3rd
1973 Thirty-two terrorist bombings in Cyprus
1974 Discovery Island opens at Walt Disney World, Florida
1975 47th Academy Awards: "The Godfather Part II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1977 Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1979 205th & final episode of "All in the Family"; followed by "Archie Bunker's Place" for 4 seasons
1979 People's Republic of China joins IOC
1981 Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
1982 Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th US swimming title
1983 In front of a live audience of 20 tourists, David Copperfield makes the Statue of Liberty disappear
1984 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Lonely Lady" wins
1984 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Juli Inkster wins the first of her 7 major titles in a sudden-death playoff with Pat Bradley, with a par on the 1st extra hole
1985 Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California. Makes his day.
1989 143rd Grand National: Irish 12-year-old Little Polveir, ridden by jockey Jimmy Frost wins by 7 lengths from West Tip
1990 "Twin Peaks" created by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan premieres on ABC-TV
1990 54th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Nick Faldo of England goes back-to-back with a par on the 2nd sudden-death playoff hole with Raymond Floyd
1990 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
1990 Norwegian ferry Scandinavian Star catches fire; 159 people die
1990 New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
1991 Jockey Bill Shoemaker paralyzed in a car accident
1991 Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1991 Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of the pancreas
1991 Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena in USA to ban smoking
1992 After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" publishes its final issue
1993 Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
1993 STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
1994 Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1995 Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 American Bruce Seldon defeats by RTD over Tony Tucker in 7 rounds to win vacated WBA boxing title
1995 148th Grand National: Irish rider Jason Titley wins aboard 40/1 outsider Royal Athlete; trainer Jenny Pitman's second GN victory
1997 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4 Beta
1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22) lands
1999 Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
2000 Nineteen US Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana, Arizona
2000 153rd Grand National: Irish 10/1 shot Papillon, ridden by jockey Ruby Walsh and trained by his father Ted Walsh wins by 1¼ lengths from Mely Moss
2001 65th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his 2nd Masters and 6th major title, 2 strokes ahead of David Duval
2004 Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups
2004 U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission
2006 Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
2006 159th Grand National: 11–1 Irish shot Numbersixvalverde, ridden by Niall Madden wins by 6 lengths from defending champion Hedgehunter
2007 71st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Zach Johnson wins his first major title, 2 strokes ahead of Retief Goosen, Rory Sabbatini and Tiger Woods
2008 The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines completes, in Bahrain.
2012 Günter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai
2012 Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message
2012 76th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bubba Watson wins on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with South African Louis Oosthuizen
2013 15 people are killed and 53 are wounded by a car bombing in Damascus
2013 163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan
2013 Filip Vujanović’s election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission
2017 Fifth day of protests by thousands in Caracas, Venezuela against the government
2017 170th Grand National: Derek Fox wins aboard 14/1 One For Arthur; second ever Scottish-trained winner of the event
2018 Hungarian parliamentary election won by right-wing Fidesz–KDNP alliance with Viktor Orbán remaining Prime Minister
2018 82nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Patrick Reed wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of fellow American Rickie Fowler
2019 1 in 4 Japanese adults a virgin aged 18-39 according to new research by Tokyo University
2019 600 million birds die each year in the US after striking tall buildings with Chicago the worst city, according to Cornell Lab of Ornithology
2019 14 tons of black market Pangolin scales from 36,000 animals discovered in Singapore, one of largest ever found worldwide
2019 Record 17ft (5.2M) invasive Burmese python pregnant with 73 eggs captured in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve
2019 Actress Allison Mack pleads guilty to sex-trafficking charges for her involvement in sex cult NXIVM
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2019 Protests in Sudan against the government of Omar al-Bashir continue with seven killed and 2,500 arrested in Khartoum
2020 Bernie Sanders drops out of the Democratic race for US president
2020 Saudi-backed coalition fighting Houthi fighters in Yemen calls for a ceasefire after five years to stop the spread of COVID-19
2020 World Trade organization predicts a drop in global trade greater than the 2008 financial crisis, between 13% and 32% for 2020
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What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Fri Apr 09 2021 10:37am

WINSTON CHURCHILL DAY
Winston Churchill Day on April 9th commemorates the day he was made an honorary citizen of the United States.

Well known for his leadership as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, Winston Churchill earned his reputation through experience both in politics and the military.

On this day in 1963, a ceremony for honorary citizenship presided over by President John F. Kennedy, took place for Winston Churchill. While Churchill was not present at the ceremony, his son and grandson attended.

Honorary though his citizenship may be, Churchill can uniquely trace his roots back to Virginia by way of Brooklyn, New York. His mother was American, Jennie Jerome. Her marriage to Lord Randolph Churchill produced two children: John Spencer and Winston.

It was the first occasion in U.S. history an honorary citizenship was granted. Since then, only seven other honorary citizenships have been granted. Of those, six have been posthumous honours. In 1996, the U.S. granted Mother Teresa the only other honorary citizenship during a person’s lifetime.

Quite the rare honour, even for a man who had received many throughout his lifetime.

WINSTON CHURCHILL FACTS:
Born in 1874
Elected to the British Parliament in 1900
First Lord of the Admiralty
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Secretary of State for War and Air
1953 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
Soldier, Legislator, Historian, Writer, Artist and Orator
Strong Relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt
Died 1965

On this day in History

193 Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum
475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
817 Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, barely survives when wooden gallery collapses in Aachen, prompts him to later name his succession
1241 Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1388 Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1413 Henry V is crowned King of England.
1440 Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark (1440-48)
1454 Milan and Venice sign peace of Lodi
1474 Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon and Italians
1483 Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England. He is never crowned, and disappears presumed murdered, after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard (the "Princes in the Tower")
1538 Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1609 Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
1621 Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1667 1st public art exhibition at the Palais-Royale in Paris
1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1691 French troops occupy Mons
1731 British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, later catalyst for war between Britain & Spain
1768 John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
1772 Philosopher and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert becomes permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
1783 Tippu Sahib drives out British from Bednore, India
1784 Great Britain ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War
1808 Mayor Wolters offers French King Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
1814 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance of the Netherlands
1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Philadelphia)
1829 Danzig (Gdańsk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1833 1st US tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire
1838 UK National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square, London
1860 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville uses his phonautograph to make a 10-second recording of "Au Clair de la Lune"
1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, Confederate assault repulsed by Union side with high cost of estimated 3,100 causalities
1864 Union surgeon Mary Edwards Walker is captured by Confederate troops and arrested as a spy during US Civil War
1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War in North Virginia
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
1870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1880 British Open Men's Golf, Musselburgh Links: Scotsman Bob Ferguson wins first of 3 straight titles; beats Peter Paxton by 5 strokes
1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1896 Australian athlete Edwin Flack claims the middle distance double at the Athens Olympics winning the 800m final in 2:11.0; his 2nd victory of the Games after success in the 1500m
1896 Greek shooter Pantelis Karasevdas scores a perfect 40 hits to win the military rifle event at the Athens Olympics; Greek 1-2-3 with Pavlos Pavlidis and Nicolaos Trikupis taking out the minor placings
1909 The US Congress pass the Payne-Aldrich bill, raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States
1914 "World, the Flesh & the Devil", 1st colour film, shown in London
1914 Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
1914 US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people
1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection
1917 Battle of Arras begins
1917 Vimy Ridge in France stormed by Canadian troops
1923 Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman" premieres in Dublin
1928 Turkey passes separation of church & state
1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940 Nazi Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle
1941 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Dorothy Kirby wins comfortably by 16 strokes ahead of Helen Sigel
1942 Battle of Bataan; US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1945 World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends.
1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1947 Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin.
1949 UN International Court of Justice holds Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages
1950 14th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jimmy Demaret becomes the first 3-time Masters champion by 2 strokes ahead of Australian Jim Ferrier
1950 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1952 Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1954 7th Cannes Film Festival: "Gate of Hell" directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
1960 South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd survives an assassination attempt by David Pratt despite being twice shot in the face
1962 26th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Arnold Palmer wins the 3rd of his 4 Masters titles in an 18 hole Monday playoff with Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald; tournament's first 3-way playoff
1962 34th Academy Awards: "West Side Story" (Best Picture, Director, and 8 others), Sophia Loren (Two Women) & Maximillian Schell (Judgement At Nuremburg) win
1962 JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
1965 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK
1967 31st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Gay Brewer wins his only major title by 1 stroke over runner-up Bobby Nichols
1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down
1967 1st Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight
1968 German DR adopts constitution
1968 Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta
1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1971 Ringo Starr releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK
1972 "Sugar", a musical adaptation of 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", opens at Majestic Theater, NYC for 506 performances
1972 36th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire to win the 4th of his 6 Masters titles, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton, Tom Weiskopf and Bobby Mitchell
1972 Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand v WI
1972 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1973 37th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Due to weather delays final round is played on Monday with Tommy Aaron winning his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of J. C. Snead
1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1973 Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
1975 24 OECD members sign an agreement to establish a $25 billion lending facility to provide assistance to industrial nations hurt by high oil prices
1976 US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1976 "All the President's Men", directed by Alan J. Pakula, based on the non-fiction book by journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, is released
1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1978 42nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 42 year old Gary Player shoots a record-tying final round 64 (−8) to win by 1 stroke from Rod Funseth, Tom Watson and Hubert Green
1979 51st Academy Awards: "The Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
1980 Belgium's Marten's government resigns
1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
1981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
1983 137th Grand National: Ben de Haan wins aboard 13/1 bet Corbiere; Jenny Pittman first female GN winning trainer
1984 56th Academy Awards: "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley MacLaine win
1986 "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka
1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
1988 142nd Grand National: Irish jockey Brendan Powell wins aboard 10/1 shot Rhyme 'n' Reason by 4 lengths from Durham Edition
1989 53rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Englishman Nick Faldo wins the first of his 3 Masters titles after a final round 65 (−7) and a birdie on the 2nd hole of a sudden-death playoff with Scott Hoch
1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
1989 Washington, D.C. march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
1990 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
1992 John Major elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his Conservative Party wins the most votes in British electoral history
1992 Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
1992 US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of 8 out of 10 drug and racketeering charges
1992 William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA
1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 147th Grand National: Jockey Richard Dunwoody wins his second GN aboard Irish 16/1 shot Miinnehoma by 1¼ lengths from Just So
1995 59th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ben Crenshaw wins his 2nd Masters title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Davis Love III
1999 Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated at the airport in Niamey, Niger
2000 64th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Fijian Vijay Singh wins by 3 strokes from Ernie Els of South Africa
2000 53rd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "American Beauty" Best Film, Pedro Almodovar
2002 Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets
2003 Baghdad falls to U.S. forces, ending the invasion of Iraq, but resulting in widespread looting
2005 158th Grand National: 9-year-old 7/1 favourite Hedgehunter, ridden by Ruby Walsh and trained by Willie Mullins, win by 14 lengths from 40/1 shot Royal Auclair
2006 70th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Phil Mickelson wins his 2nd green jacket by 2 shots from South African Tim Clark
2011 Gunman murders five people, injures eleven, and commits suicide in a mall in the Netherlands
2011 164th Grand National: Jason Maguire wins aboard Irish 14/1 shot Ballabriggs; first GN win for trainer Donald McCain Jr., son of 4-time winning trainer Ginger McCain
2012 "The Lion King" becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking "The Phantom of the Opera"
2013 12 civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush in Jonglei, Sudan
2013 37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran
2013 13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia
2013 The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
2014 Stuart Parkin is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for his work on magnetic storage
2016 169th Grand National: David Mullins victorious aboard 33/1 Rule The World; wins by 6 lengths from race favourite The Last Samuri
2017 Two Egyptian coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria attacked by suicide bombers leaving at least 44 dead
2017 Suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 17, Al-Shabaab group claim responsibility
2017 81st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Spaniard Sergio García beats Justin Rose of England in a sudden-death playoff, after they completed 72 holes at -9; Garcia's 1st major title in his 74th attempt
2017 Twitter footage of passenger forcibly removed from United Airlines flight in Chicago after flight overbooked causes outrage
2018 Fleetwood Mac announce new members Neil Finn and Mike Campbell after firing long-standing member Lindsey Buckingham
2019 Wolves have returned to the Netherlands after 140 years claim ecologists
2019 Nine prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters found guilty on public nuisance charges for their part in 2014 "Umbrella Movement"
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat Apr 10 2021 10:18am

10th April

FARM ANIMALS DAY
Each year on April 10th, Farm Animals Day focuses attention on the humane care of farm animals. The day also aims to find homes for abandoned and abused farm animals.

A variety of animals have been domesticated and raised on farms for food. They provide eggs, milk, cheese, meat, wool, leather, and other products. Most farmers raise their livestock responsibly. Providing a quality environment for them to grow benefits not only the animal but the farmer, too. Farmers invest in their livestock from the time they’re born, providing nutritious food, and ensuring robust and healthy development. They also provide ideal conditions for their breed. Farmers are continually educating themselves about the livestock they raise so they can provide them with the best care possible.

However, some people do abuse and neglect their animals. When poor conditions are discovered, and animals are malnourished, it’s essential to report the case to a vet for review.

On this day in history

837 Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth
847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
879 Louis III becomes King of West Francia
1407 Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma
1500 France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area
1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz
1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1607 The British colonial expedition that would found Jamestown departs Puerto Rico for the American mainland
1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1694 Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1710 The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain
1741 War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz
1790 US Patent system forms
1815 Austria declares war on Kingdom of Naples
1815 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter
1816 Samuel Taylor Coleridge recites his poem "Kubla Khan" to fellow poet Lord Byron, who persuades him to publish it
1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate, his body thrown into the Bosphorus
1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon
1826 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1827 George Canning becomes British Prime Minister upon the resignation of Robert Jenkinson, lives to serve only 119 days
1841 New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400
1856 The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University, Vermont
1858 "Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
1863 Confederate General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico
1865 At Appomattox, Confederate General Robert E. Lee issues General Order #9, his last
1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1868 1st performance of Johannes Brahms' "A German Requiem"
1868 British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1869 José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1874 British Open Men's Golf, Musselburgh Links: Mungo Park wins first title by 2 strokes from Tom Morris Jr
1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC
1878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co starts service
1882 Captain William Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1887 US President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois
1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1896 Spyridon Louis of Greece wins inaugural Olympic marathon (2:58:50) in Athens; runs last lap accompanied by Constantine I
1896 High jumper Ellery Clark leads an American sweep of the placings with a leap of 1.81m at the Athens Olympics; his 2nd victory of the Games after taking out the long jump
1896 American athlete Thomas Burke claims the sprint double at the Athens Olympics winning the 100m final in 12.0s; his 2nd victory of the Games after success in the 400m
1898 First Navy Law is passed by the German Reichstag
1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage
1913 During the Montenegrin siege of Scutari, the Montenegrin coastline is blockaded
1916 1st professional golf tournament held
1916 The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is founded in New York City.
1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone, Pennsylvania, kills 133 workers
1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos
1923 Adolf Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
1924 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
1925 Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1925 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley scores patient 223 in drawn 4th Test against England at Kingston, Jamaica
1930 Thiokol synthetic rubber 1st produced in Yardley, New Jersey
1932 Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected President of Germany in a runoff election against Adolf Hitler
1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1938 Second government of Blum replaced by Édouard Daladier's government in France
1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
1938 NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1939 Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1941 Independent State of Croatia led by Ante Pavelić established as fascist German puppet state
1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazis
1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax, Tunisia
1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1946 1st election for Japanese Parliament
1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1949 13th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his first of 3 green jackets by 3 strokes over Johnny Bulla and Lloyd Mangrum
1953 Dag Hammarskjöld becomes the 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations
1954 108th Grand National: Bryan Marshall wins aboard Royal Tan at 8/1; second consecutive GN victory for both Marshall and trainer Vincent O'Brien
1954 Wales beats Scotland, 15-3 at the St. Helen's Ground, Swansea to share Five Nations Rugby Championship with France and England; France's first title
1955 19th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Cary Middlecoff wins by a record 7 strokes ahead of Ben Hogan
1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely (last woman to be executed in the UK)
1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1957 John Osborne's "Entertainer" premieres in London
1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1957 "12 Angry Men", directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb, is released
1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1960 24th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 1958 champion Arnold Palmer birdies the final 2 holes to win by 1 stroke over runner-up Ken Venturi
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1961 25th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: South African Gary Player beats defending champion Arnold Palmer and amateur Charles Coe by 1 stroke to become first international champion; Monday finish because of rain
1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
1963 USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston killing 129 men, including 17 civilians
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1967 39th Academy Awards: "A Man For All Seasons," Best Picture, Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor
1968 Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed)
1968 40th Academy Awards: "In the Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger & Katherine Hepburn win
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles
1971 US table tennis team arrives in People's Republic of China
1971 The Republican commemorations is held in Belfast of the Easter Rising (in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army
1972 44th Academy Awards: "The French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win
1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1972 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas
1972 Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry
1973 BEA flight to Basel Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
1974 Golda Meir resigns as Israel's Prime Minister
1974 American Boccaccio Association forms
1977 41st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tom Watson wins the first of his 2 green jackets, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus
1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1979 Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1981 France performs nuclear test
1981 Imprisoned Provisional IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament for Northern Ireland county of Fermanagh and South Tyrone
1983 Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
1983 Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 52nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Scotsman Sandy Lyle claims his second major title with a birdie on the 72nd hole to win by 1 stroke over Mark Calcavecchia
1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, George Strait, and K.T. Oslin win
1989 Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip
1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma, Japan
1990 Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991 Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
1991 Rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; first to be documented by satellites
1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at The Hague, Netherlands
1994 "Les Miserables" opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
1994 58th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: José María Olazábal wins the first of 2 Masters titles, 2 strokes ahead of Tom Lehman; 6th winner from Europe in the past 7 years
1996 Fastest wind speed ever recorded (not a tornado) 408 km/h (220 kn; 253 mph; 113 m/s) during tropical cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia
1998 The Good Friday Agreement [Belfast Agreement] for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments
1999 152nd Grand National: Irish 10/1 shot Bobbyjo, ridden by jockey Paul Carberry wins by 10 lengths from Blue Charm
2005 69th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his 4th green jacket on the 1st hole of a playoff with Chris DiMarco
2005 Cricket Women's World Cup: Australia defeats India by 98 runs
2006 Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in the United States.
2006 40th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & Kenny Chesney win
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński
2010 163rd Grand National: Tony McCoy wins aboard 10/1 joint-favourite Don't Push It by 5 lengths ahead of Black Apalachi
2011 75th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Charl Schwartzel of South Africa birdies the final 4 holes to win his first major title, 2 strokes ahead of Australian pair Adam Scott and Jason Day
2012 United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues
2012 Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world
2012 Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the overwhelming favourite
2013 Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands
2014 88 civilians are killed by barrel bombs from Syrian war planes in Aleppo, Syria
2014 The Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote
2014 "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone premieres in London
2016 80th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: England's Danny Willett wins his first major title, 3 strokes ahead of Lee Westwood and defending champion Jordan Spieth
2016 Explosions and a fire caused by fireworks at Puttingal Temple in Kerala, India, kills more than 100 and injures nearly 400
2016 Hong Kong pro-democracy political party Demosistō established by Nathan Law, Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow
2017 Edward Enninful is announced the new Editor of "British Vogue" its first male and black editor
2017 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley resigns over relationship with an aide and possible misuse of state funds to cover it up
2017 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" directed by James Gunn and starring Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana premieres in Toyko
2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins testifying before US Congress about data use and security
2019 China announces move to cull more than 1 million pigs in effort to eliminate African swine fever
2019 First-ever photo of a black hole announced, taken by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration in
2017 in galaxy M87, 6.5 billion times the mass of earth, 55 million light-years away
2019 New species of human announced named Homo luzonensis, 3ft tall, remains dated 50-60,000 years old found in cave on island of Luzon, Philippines
2019 Four tiny sweat bees removed alive from a woman's eye in world's first operation of its kind at Fooyin University Hospital, Taiwan
2019 First home delivery service by drone begins in Canberra, Australia by Wing, part of Google's Alphabet company
2019 New York declares a public health emergency and compulsory vaccinations after a measles outbreak in Brooklyn with 285 cases
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun Apr 11 2021 9:37am

11th April

BARBERSHOP QUARTET DAY
On April 11th, toes start tapping to four-part harmony thanks to Barbershop Quartet Day. Barbershop quartets have a way of making the heart flutter. Very often, they transport us back to a simpler time or at the least make it standstill.

Barbershop quartets are a style of a cappella or unaccompanied vocal music. Their music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies.

Between 1900 and 1919, barbershop music found its popularity. In the 1920s, it began to fade into obscurity. However, the barbershop quartet saw a revival when the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America was founded. This tongue twister of a men’s organization quickly grew, as did other similar organizations promoting barbershop music as an art form.

But men aren’t the only ones singing four-part harmony. Across the country, organizations like the Sweet Adelines bring women of all ages together, melding their voices together and making crowds swoon to fun tunes. Much like the men’s organizations, the women also compete. They tune their voices and rehearse while also performing locally.

On this day in history

491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, as Anastasius I - often called the first Byzantine Emperor
672 Deusdedit II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland
1471 Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI
1512 Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars
1551 English premier John Dudley appointed Duke of Northumberland
1564 England & France sign Peace of Troyes
1564 Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns
1567 Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
1579 Venlo joins Union of Utrecht
1580 Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht
1677 Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III
1689 King William III and Queen Mary II crowned as joint rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland
1713 Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Prussia, Savoy, Portugal & France agree the Treaty of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces in North America to Britain
1750 Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title, beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston, England; acknowledged as first international prize fight
1783 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War
1801 Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" premieres in Leipzig
1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean
1828 Foundation of Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1830 Robert Schumann hears the violinist Paganini play in Frankfurt
1831 The 12th century Lewis chess pieces are exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shortly after their rediscovery in a sand bank on the Scottish Isle of Lewis
1848 Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under King Ferdinand of Austria
1856 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats William Walker's invading Nicaraguans
1862 Confederates surrender at Fort Pulaski, Georgia
1863 Battle of Suffolk, Virginia (Norfleet House)
1865 Battle of Mobile, Alamaba evacuated by Confederates
1865 Abraham Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan
1876 Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
1881 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River, Ontario, 180 die
1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated
1890 Ellis Island, New York, designated as an immigration station
1891 8-year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system
1896 Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós beats Otto Herschmann of Austria by 0.6s to win the inaugural Olympic 100m freestyle final in 1:22.2 at the Athens Games; also takes out the 1,200m on the same day
1896 Irish tennis player John Boland, representing Great Britain wins both the men's singles and doubles finals at the Athens Olympics; Dionysios Kasdaglis of Greece loses both matches
1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish–American War declaration
1899 Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy
1902 Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
1909 Establishment of Tel Aviv by Jewish settlers (named 1910)
1912 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY
1912 Cornerstone of Technion laid in Haifa, Palestine
1912 The UK Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill, granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament and be required to send a representative to the British House of Commons; Protestants in Ulster resist
1914 Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US
1919 The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax
1921 Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 The Emirate of Transjordan created
1924 Socialists win Danish parliamentary elections
1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
1926 Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
1927 Chilean general Carlos Ibáñez names himself president
1929 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
1933 Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia
1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations
1941 Germany blitzes Coventry, England
1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
1942 US Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal established
1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
1945 Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
1945 US captures Tsugen Shima
1945 Four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald
1945 US troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen
1948 12th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Claude Harmon shoots a record-tying 279 (−9) to finish 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Cary Middlecoff
1950 Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
1950 US B-29 bomber shot down over Latvia
1951 US President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command in Korea
1952 The Battle of Nanri island takes place.
1955 Gary Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted
1955 Chartered Air India plane the "Kashmir Princess" is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent
1956 French government decides to send 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident
1957 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
1957 Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco
1959 Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes in World War II begins in Jerusalem, Israel
1961 Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1961 Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
1962 New York Mets make a losing debut
1963 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical "Pacem in terris", that peace between all peoples must be based on truth, justice, love and freedom
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 29th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus wins the 2nd of his 6 Masters titles with a tournament record 271 (−17); beats Gary Player and Arnold Palmer by a record 9 strokes
1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
1966 30th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus becomes first back-to-back champion winning an 18-hole Monday playoff with Tommy Jacobs and Gay Brewer
1966 Emmett Ashford becomes first African American major league baseball umpire in Washington Senators’ game against the Cleveland Indians at D.C. Stadium
1966 Frank Sinatra records "Strangers in the Night" single for his album of the same name. Later reaches #1 Billboard charts
1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress and reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
1967 Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead" debuts in London at the Old Vic
1968 Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1968 W Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1970 Beatles' "Let It Be" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 35th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Charles Coody wins his only major title by 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus
1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1976 40th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Raymond Floyd wins his only Masters title, 8 strokes ahead of runner-up Ben Crenshaw
1976 The Apple I computer, created by Steve Wozniak is released
1977 Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
1977 "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" single released by Waylon Jennings (Billboard Song of the Year 1977)
1979 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya
1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
1981 Larry Holmes beats Trevor Berbick in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 Race riot in London area of Brixton
1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1982 46th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Craig Stadler wins his only major title by defeating Dan Pohl on the 1st hole of a sudden-death playoff
1983 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: "Inchon!" wins
1983 47th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Seve Ballesteros of Spain wins his 2nd Masters and 3rd major title, 4 strokes ahead of Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite; Monday finish because of torrential rain
1983 55th Academy Awards: "Gandhi", Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win
1983 NASA launches RCA-F
1983 In the first 'supergrass' trial in Northern Ireland, fourteen Ulster Volunteer Force members are jailed for a total of two hundred years
1984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1984 Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1984 General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko named President of the Soviet Union
1984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
1986 A 1921 Canadian 50 cent coin is auctioned in New York for $22,000
1986 Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1987 Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
1988 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
1988 60th Academy Awards: "The Last Emperor", Michael Douglas & Cher win
1990 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1991 Musical "Miss Saigon" created by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil opens at Broadway Theater NYC
1991 NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1992 BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
1992 Indians set team record for long game loss to Red Sox (19 inn - 6½ hr)
1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1993 57th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bernhard Langer of Germany wins his second green jacket by 4 strokes from Chip Beck
1993 Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
1993 Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
1993 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
1999 63rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: José María Olazábal of Spain wins his second Masters title, 2 strokes ahead of Davis Love III and 3 from of Greg Norman
1999 52nd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Shakespeare in Love" Best Film, Peter Weir Best Director
1999 Neil Jenkins converts a Scott Gibbs try to give Wales a famous, 32-31 win over England at Wembley Stadium; allows Scotland to win final Five Nations Rugby Championship; reverts to 6 teams in 2000
2000 South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is sacked after admitting dishonesty following match-fixing allegations in India
2001 Detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter are released
2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia
2002 An attempted coup d'état takes place in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez.
2004 68th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Phil Mickelson claims his first major title with a birdie on the final hole to win by 1 stroke over Ernie Els of South Africa
2005 39th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson & Kenny Chesney wins
2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium
2007 Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wounds a further 222
2010 74th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Phil Mickelson wins his 3rd green jacket by 3 strokes from England's Lee Westwood
2010 "The night of Sora Aoi", Japanese porn actress Sora Aoi joins twitter prompting many Chinese fans to try and circumnavigate Chinese censorship
2011 Minsk Metro bombing in Belarus kills at least 15 and injures over 200
2012 8.6 magnitude earthquake and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
2012 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
2012 South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance
2012 Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6
2012 Billionaire Warren Buffett is diagnosed with prostate cancer
2013 14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico
2013 57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria
2013 Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
2013 Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China
2015 Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
2015 168th Grand National: Jockey Leighton Aspell wins his second consecutive GN aboard 25/1 shot Many Clouds; owner Trevor Hemmings' 3rd GN victory
2015 Amy Schumer hosts the 2015 MTV Movie Awards
2016 UN-backed ceasefire comes into effect in Yemen conflict between Iranian-backed Houthis rebels and government forces
2016 Updated "Tree of Life" published in "Nature Microbiology" by scientists from Berkeley University in California
2019 First day of voting in Indian general elections, the world's largest democracy with 900 million eligible voters in the world's largest-ever election (till 23rd May)
2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London by police and arrested on failure to appear in court on US extradition charges
2019 Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, the first privately-funded mission to the moon, crashes on the moon
2019 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power
2019 EU leaders agree to a six-month extension to Brexit after UK parliament fails to reach any consensus
2019 Ex-Pope Benedict XVI claims Catholic sexual abuse caused in part by 1960s sexual revolution
2020 Brazil is the 1st country in the southern hemisphere to report more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, with 1,056 deaths and 19,638 cases
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Post by Richard Frost » Mon Apr 12 2021 10:29am

12th April

International Day of Human Space Flight
The United Nations (UN) celebrates the International Day of Human Space Flight on April 12 each year. The day remembers the first human space flight on April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin, the world's first cosmonaut to have travelled in outer space.

On this day in history

467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
1065 Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
1204 4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople
1229 Queen Blanche of Castile & Earl Raymond VII of Toulouse sign peace
1545 French King Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed
1557 Cuenca is founded in Ecuador
1606 England adopts the Union Flag, replaced in 1801 by current Union Flag the Union Jack
1648 University of Harderwijk Neth solemn opens
1654 Ordinance of Union between England and Scotland passed by the Council of State
1713 Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Netherlands loses Orange Princedom
1770 British parliament repeals the Townshend Revenue Acts, which had fueled opposition to British rule in colonial America
1776 Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
1782 Battle at Les Saintes: British fleet under Admiral George Rodney defeats the French fleet under Comte de Grasse off Dominica in the West Indies. Prevents a planned French and Spanish invasion of Jamaica.
1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
1811 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington
1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1826 Weber's opera "Oberon" premieres in London
1844 Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
1857 Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary" published
1861 Fort Sumter in South Carolina is attacked by the Confederacy, beginning the American Civil War
1862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia
1862 Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski, Georgia
1863 -14] Gunboat battle at Bayou Teche, Louisiana
1864 Battle of Blair's Landing, Louisiana
1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan Law
1872 Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)
1877 British annex Transvaal, South Africa
1877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1883 French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1887 Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm" premieres in Oslo
1892 George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
1893 Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi
1894 British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central Africa
1896 Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
1898 US Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy
1900 The US Congress passes the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory (effective 1 May)
1905 French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1907 Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer resigns
1907 In Switzerland, parliament passes a new army bill reorganizing the nation's forces into a standing militia, with training required for all males
1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea, Massachusetts
1909 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens; Athletics win 81 against Boston Red Sox
1911 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
1916 Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement boards submarine U-19 at Wilmshaven, Germany, bound for a rendezvous with the Aud at Tralee
1917 Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982)
1917 Domenico Scarlatti & Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome
1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1927 Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai
1930 4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
1930 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
1931 Spanish voters reject the monarchy
1932 Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
1932 "Grand Hotel" directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Greta Garbo and John Barrymore premieres in New York, includes the line "I want to be alone" (Best Picture/Production 1932)
1933 Moffatt Field air station commissioned
1934 Second highest ever wind speed of 372 km/h (231 mph) recorded on Mt Washington
1934 The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1935 Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
1935 Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim
1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.
1938 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)
1940 Italy annexes Albania
1941 Vichy-France's head of government Admiral François Darlan consults with Adolf Hitler
1942 Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1943 Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa
1943 Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed
1944 Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind" premieres in NYC
1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands
1945 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President
1945 Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosen"
1946 Syria gains independence from France
1946 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her first major title by 2 strokes from Eileen Stulb
1951 Israeli Knesset officially designates April 13 as Holocaust Day
1952 Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government
1953 17th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ben Hogan shatters the Masters scoring record by 5 strokes with a 274 (−14) to finish 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Ed Oliver; Hogan's second Masters
1953 Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston
1954 18th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his 3rd and final Masters by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Ben Hogan
1954 Belgian Van Houtte government resigns
1954 Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around Clock"
1954 Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle & Roll"
1955 Polio vaccine tested by Jonas Salk announced to be 'safe and effective' and is given full approval by the US Food and Drug Administration
1956 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike's government takes office in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
1959 13th Tony Awards: J B & Redhead win
1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
1960 Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass"
1961 3rd Grammy Awards: Theme From a Summer Place, Ray Charles wins 4
1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
1963 Beatles third single, "From Me To You" is released in UK
1963 Police in Birmingham, Alabama, use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
1964 28th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Arnold Palmer wins by 6 shots from Dave Marr and Jack Nicklaus to become the first 4-time winner of the Masters; his 7th and final major victory
1966 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his Corvette into a parked truck, an accident which leaves him with long-lasting health issues
1969 Simon & Garfunkel releases "Boxer"
1969 Wales beats England, 30-9 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 16th Five Nations Rugby Championship and 11th Triple Crown
1973 France recognizes North Vietnam
1973 Sudan adopts constitution
1973 Swaziland suspends constitution
1975 Six Catholic civilians are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force gun and grenade attack on Strand Bar in Belfast, North Ireland
1976 India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare
1976 Anne Rice's debut novel "Interview with a Vampire" is published by Knopf
1978 Gyorgy Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
1978 13th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle win
1979 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
1980 BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms
1980 US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Olympic games
1980 Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
1980 Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland
1981 45th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tom Watson wins his second green jacket and 5th major title by 2 strokes over Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller
1981 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
1982 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot
1983 Harold Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
1986 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
1987 51st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Larry Mize chips-in from 140 feet for an improbable birdie 3 on the 2nd playoff hole to beat Greg Norman for his only major title
1987 Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55)
1987 Texaco files for bankruptcy
1987 CBS' premiere of fact-based World War II drama "Escape from Sobibor"
1988 Harvard University patents a genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life)
1989 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker, Bobby Brown win
1989 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
1990 H. J. Heinz, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldn't buy tuna caught in nets that trap dolphins
1990 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
1990 James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months for weapon and drug related convictions
1990 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for the Holocaust and asks for forgiveness
1990 Anime TV series "Moomin", based on Moomin children's books by Tove Jansson 1st appears on Tokyo TV
1991 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
1991 US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
1992 "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore NYC for 137 performances
1992 56th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Fred Couples wins his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of 1976 champion Raymond Floyd
1992 Earthquake rocks Germany
1992 Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France
1992 Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
1992 Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
1993 American Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec) at Sheffield, England
1994 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
1998 62nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Mark O'Meara claims his first major title with a 20-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win by 1 stroke from David Duval and Fred Couples
1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2002 Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chávez.
2002 Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
2009 U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth
2009 President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue
2009 73rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ángel Cabrera wins his 2nd major title in a playoff with Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry; Cabrera, first Masters champion from Argentina and South America
2010 A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
2012 A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
2012 Bodleian, Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient texts will be made available across the internet
2012 Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
2013 11 people are killed and 30 are injured in mosque attacks across Iraq
2013 A man-made 32-foot and 60 tonne monument that is dates around 2000 BC is discovered in the Sea of Galilee
2014 The new drug, ABT-450, with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C, is announced
2015 Hillary Clinton announces she will run for the Democratic nominee for US President for the 2nd time
2015 79th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jordan Spieth leads wire-to-wire to win his 1st major title by 4 strokes from Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose
2016 Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
2019 Melbourne captain Cameron Smith becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history; 49th minute penalty in Storm's 18-12 win over North Queensland in Townsville takes him to 2,420; Hazem El Masri, 2,418
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Post by Richard Frost » Tue Apr 13 2021 9:54am

13 April (Tuesday) to 15 April (Thursday) SONGKRAN Buddhist
Traditional New Year’s Day festival in Thailand. Containers of water are thrown as a symbol of washing away all that is evil. Fragrant herbs are often placed in the water jug or bucket.

13 April (Tuesday) VAISAKHI/BAISAKHI – Sikh
In 1699, on Vaisakhi, the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, founded the Order of the Khalsa. Five men (Five Beloved Ones), offered their lives when the Guru asked for volunteers. The ‘Five Ks’, the outward signs of Sikhism, were made obligatory and Sikh men took the name ‘Singh’ (lion) and women ‘Kaur’ (princess). The initiation ceremony, amrit, was introduced.

13 April (Tuesday) to 12 May (Wednesday) RAMADAN Muslim
Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic Calendar, when the Prophet received the first revelation of verses of the Qur’an. It is the holiest month for Muslims, and they dedicate themselves to spiritual renewal, prayer and intensive devotional reading of the Qur’an. During the month of Ramadan Muslims are required to fast from daybreak until after sunset. No food or drink may be consumed during the hours of fasting, and those fasting must also abstain from smoking and from sexual relations. After the custom of the Prophet, the fast is traditionally broken each evening by taking dates and water.

SCRABBLE DAY
Each year on Scrabble Day April 13th recognizes a game played around the world. Originally named Lexiko and then Criss-Cross Words, Alfred Mosher Butts eventually settled on the name Scrabble. The amateur artist and unemployed architect developed the word game in the midst of the depression. Still, it wasn’t until 1948, a final name change and a trademark that Butts finally began to produce the game.

On this day in history

837 Best view of Halley's Comet in 2,000 years
989 Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
1055 Bishop Gebhard van Eichstattt named Pope Victor II
1111 After months of controversy Pope Paschal II crowns Henry V, the King of Germany and Italy, as the Holy Roman Emperor
1180 Diet of Gelnhausen; Henry the Lion deprived of the Duchy of Saxony
1204 Crusaders occupy Constantinople
1241 Battle of Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV
1250 The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France captured
1256 The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae
1346 Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
1517 Ottoman army occupies Cairo
1520 Raphaels' final influential masterpiece "The Transfiguration" is put on display a week after the artist's death
1556 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
1560 Giovanni, son of Italian mathematician Girolamo Cardano is executed for poisoning his wife, despite his father's efforts to save him
1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
1640 English Short Parliament forms (- May 5)
1668 John Dryden (36) appointed first English poet laureate by Charles II
1741 Dutch people protest poor quality of bread
1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich, England
1742 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" performed for the 1st time at New Music Hall in Dublin
1759 French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
1796 First elephant arrives in US from India
1796 Battle of Millesimo, Italy: Napoleon's forces defeat allied armies of Austria and of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont.
1829 The Roman Catholic Relief Act passed by the British Parliament; it was the culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout the UK.
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia
1840 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance
1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California
1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates (US Civil War)
1863 Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Fort Bisland)
1863 Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled is incorporated in the State of New York
1865 Raleigh, North Carolina, captured by Union forces
1868 Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC
1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish, Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
1882 Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
1883 US prospector Alfred Packer convicted of manslaughter though accused of cannibalism
1896 John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
1904 Battle of Oviumbo (in modern Namibia): Herero tribesmen rise up against German colonists
1904 US Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1904 A squadron of the Russian fleet is decoyed out of Port Arthur by Japanese maneuvers, when they realize they are sailing into a trap; their battleship Petropavlovsk hits a mine and sinks, with a loss of 700 men
1906 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama
1908 Groundbreaking for Philadelphia's Shibe Park, home of MLB Athletics (AL), 1909-54, MLB Phillies (NL), 1938-70, and NFL Eagles, 1940-57
1909 In Constantinople the primarily Albanian First Army Corps seizes the parliament building and telegraphs offices, forcing the Ottoman statesman Hilmi Pasha to resign
1911 The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later Royal Air Force)
1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
1919 British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India, killing 350
1919 Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
1921 Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
1924 Greek plebiscite for a republic
1926 Cyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Köhl)
1933 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
1934 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
1934 US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
1936 Ioannis Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
1938 Clifford Goldsmith's play "What a Life" premieres at The Biltmore Theater, NYC
1939 W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands" premieres in NYC
1939 The Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
1940 Second battle of Narvik; 3 German destroyers and one U-boat sunk by the Royal Navy, 5 more German destroyers scuttled.
1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1941 Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1942 9th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Byron Nelson wins an 18-hole playoff by 1 stroke over runner-up Ben Hogan
1943 Catholic University Nijegen closes
1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1943 Nazis discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1944 South Carolina rejects black suffrage
1944 Transport #71 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
1944 Diplomatic relations are established between New Zealand and the Soviet Union
1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen, Netherlands, from Nazis
1945 Red Army occupies Vienna
1945 US Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1945 Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly liberates Dutch town of Zwolle by fooling Germans into thinking a raid had begun
1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over
1948 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus
1949 Philip S. Hench at Mayo Clinc announces discovery of cortisone to treat rheumatoid arthritis
1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1957 Musical "Shinbone Alley", starring Eartha Kitt, opens at Broadway Theater NYC; runs for 49 performances
1957 11th Tony Awards: "Long Days Journey into the Night" & "My Fair Lady" win
1957 Saturday postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
1958 12th Tony Awards: "Sunrise at Campobello" and "Music Man" win
1958 Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Chaikovsky Compettion in Moscow.
1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists
1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding an atomic bomb in the Sahara
1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1961 "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances
1961 UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid
1962 US steel industry forced to give up price increases
1964 36th Academy Awards: "Tom Jones" (Best Film), Patricia Neal (Hud) and Sidney Poitier (Lilies Of The Field) win; Poitier first Black actor in a leading role to win a competitive Oscar
1964 Ian Smith becomes Prime Minister of Rhodesia
1964 New Zealander Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1965 The Beatles record their single "Help"
1965 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits
1965 7th Grammy Awards: "The Girl From Ipanema", The Beatles win
1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
1969 33rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: George Archer wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Billy Casper, George Knudson, and Tom Weiskopf
1969 Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.
1970 34th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Billy Casper defeats Gene Littler, 69 to 74 in a Monday 18-hole playoff to win his 3rd major title; last 18-hole playoff at the Masters
1970 Greek composer and counter-revolutionist Mikis Theordorakis freed from Oropos concentration camp, and allowed to be exiled to France
1970 Apollo 13 announces "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here", as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
1970 5th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Tammy Wynette win
1975 39th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 5th Masters title, 1 stroke ahead of Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf; Lee Elder, first African-American to compete in the tournament
1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar
1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1976 US Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
1979 Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
1980 Musical "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
1980 "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
1980 44th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 23 year old Spaniard Seve Ballesteros wins his first Masters, 4 strokes ahead of Jack Newton and Gibby Gilbert
1980 US and its allies boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest against Russia's invasion of Afghanistan
1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
1981 Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1984 India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
1984 Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get 4,000 hits in a career
1985 "TASS" denounces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1985 Space Shuttle Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1985 Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1986 50th Masters Golf Tournament: Jack Nicklaus wins his record 18th major with a 1-stroke victory over Greg Norman and Tom Kite; shoots final round 65 (−7); at 46 the oldest Masters winner
1986 Pope John Paul II meets Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
1987 Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
1988 Italian government of De Mita forms
1989 "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 performances
1992 "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 performances
1992 Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
1992 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" premieres in London directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Rufus Sewell, Felicity Kendal and Bill Nighy
1994 Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1994 Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
1994 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
1994 Asteroid 7373 Takei discovered and named after Star Trek actor George Takei
1997 "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 88 performances
1997 61st US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his first major title, a record 12 strokes ahead of Tom Kite; 4-round total 270 (−18) is tournament record
2000 "When Louis Met..." documentary by Louis Theroux premieres on BBC2 in the UK featuring Jimmy Saville
2002 Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office
2003 67th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Mike Weir wins his only major title in a 1-hole playoff over Len Mattiace; only Canadian to win a major and first left-handed Masters champion
2003 49th British Academy Television Awards: "Alistair McGowan's Big Impression" Best Comedy, "Spooks"
2006 Powerful tornadoes rip through Iowa City, Iowa.
2008 72nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Trevor Immelman of South Africa wins his first major title, 3 strokes ahead of Tiger Woods; Immelman leads, or ties for the lead after every round
2012 North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch
2013 8 people are killed after a bomb explodes on a bus in Peshawar, Pakistan
2013 20 civilians are killed by the government bombing of Saraqib, Idlib
2014 Kenyan Wilson Kipsang wins the London Marathon
2014 78th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bubba Watson wins his 2nd Masters, 3 shots ahead of runners-up Jonas Blixt and Jordan Spieth
2014 Manny Pacquiao defeats Timothy Bradley to regain his WBO welterweight boxing title
2015 Migrant ship carrying around 550 sinks off the Libyan coast, about 400 drown
2015 "Avengers: Age of Ultron", directed by Joss Whedon, starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner, premieres in Los Angeles
2019 Body of 38-year-old Filipino woman discovered in abandoned mine starts the hunt for Cyprus's first serial killer, at least 5 other bodies later discovered
2019 Australian super-horse Winx ends extraordinary career with a 3rd Queen Elizabeth Stakes win in Sydney; 33 consecutive race wins, a world record 25 Group One victories and $26.4 million prize money
2019 BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV show "Saturday Night Live"
2019 World's largest plane by wingspan at 117m (385 ft), the Stratolaunch, built as a flying launch pad for satellites, takes its first flight from Mojave, California
2020 Bernie Sanders endorses former rival Joe Biden for president
2020 Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sings a special Easter concert in the deserted Milan cathedral, accompanied by an organist
2020 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says “I believe the worst is over if we continue to be smart,” about the COVID-19 pandemic in New York as death toll passes 10,000
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Post by Richard Frost » Wed Apr 14 2021 10:52am

14 April

World Chagas Disease Day
World Chagas Disease Day is a United Nations observance held annually on April 14. Initiated by the International Federation of Associations of People Affected by Chagas Disease and endorsed by the World Health Assembly (the decision-making body of the World Health Organization), it was first observed on April 14, 2020.

Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is a tropical disease caused by parasitic euglenoids spread by the so-called kissing bugs, also known as conenose bugs or vampire bugs (Triatominae). In addition to bug bites, the disease may be spread through eating contaminated food, blood transfusion, organ transplantation, and from a mother to her baby (vertical transmission).

LOOK UP AT THE SKY DAY
On April 14, Look Up At The Sky Day encourages us to admire the beauty above us. On this day we all hope for good weather and an opportunity to fill our eyes with the sky from horizon to horizon.

There are many things that you can see as you sit back, relax and look up. The sky’s beautiful blue colour, the clouds, and their many shapes. Perhaps the sun (maybe peeking through the clouds), and many different birds flying around captures our attention. At night, the skies many stars, the moon, and even the clouds drifting across the sky.

On this day in history

43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
193 Lucius Septimus Severus crowned Emperor of Rome
754 Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte
966 Christianisation of Poland
972 Notger becomes bishop of Liege
979 Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
1028 German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
1191 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1341 Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1361 Henry of Grosmont, the richest peer in England, is buried at the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of Newarke, Leicester, with the royal family in attendance
1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid
1471 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Barnet - Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians and kill the Earl of Warwick
1536 English King Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries
1544 Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1570 Polish Calvinists, Lutherans and Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1574 Battle of Mookerhei - D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi
1629 England and France sign Peace of Susa
1671 Cossacks capture Russian peasant leader Stenka Razin
1699 Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar
1756 Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians
1775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Philadelphia
1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1818 US Medical Corps forms
1828 British 18-gun sloop HMS Acorn sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1828 First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication
1831 Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
1836 US Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 1st detective story published, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue" (April 1841)
1847 Persia & Ottoman Turkey sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1849 Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader
1858 Abolitionist John Brown meets Harriet Tubman at a Constitutional Convention convened in Chatham, Ontario
1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St Joseph, Missouri
1861 Formal Union surrender of Fort Sumter (US Civil War)
1862 Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1863 William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 Mobile, Alabama is captured
1865 U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell as part of the same conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington; he dies a day later
1868 SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1871 Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed: Canada's Homestead Act
1872 San Francisco organizes Bar Association
1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight in El Paso, Texas.
1883 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" premieres in Paris
1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington, D.C.)
1894 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1900 Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms
1902 J. C. Penney opens his first store, The Golden Rule Store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers a vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press, taken from John Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress
1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1910 Pan American Union forms
1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland
1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1914 Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1915 Turkey invades Armenia.
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1921 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1922 Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin
1923 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
1930 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC
1931 Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1932 Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants" premieres in Monte Carlo
1935 Black Sunday: Severe dust storm ravages the US Midwest, led to the region being named "the Dust
1936 French singer Édith Piaf questioned after nightclub owner and her patron Louis Leplée murdered in Paris
1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1940 Allied troops land in Norway
1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1941 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1941 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson in 2:30:38; his third victory in the event
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1943 Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunisr
1943 James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World" premieres in NYC
1943 A JN-25 decrypt by American intelligence detailing a forthcoming visit by Marshal Admiral Yamamoto to Balalae Island results in his plane shot down 4 days later
1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1944 General Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
1945 American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
1945 World War II: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 US Marines attack Yae-Take, the tallest mountain on Okinawa's Motobu Peninsula
1946 "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 performances
1948 A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1949 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment
1950 1st edition of British comic "Eagle"
1950 Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1953 Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
1956 "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 performances
1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1958 Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard burns up during reentry into Earth's atmosphere
1959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1959 KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's musical "Bye Bye Birdie", starring Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, and Dick Gautier, opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC; runs for 607 performances
1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1960 American record company Motown, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., is incorporated as Motown Record Corporation
1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1961 US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New Guinea in Amsterdam
1962 Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France after the resignation of Michel Debré
1962 France retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 11-0 win over Ireland at Stade Colombes, Paris
1963 George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 General Gnassingbé Eyadéma becomes President of Togo
1968 32nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bob Goalby shoots a final round 66 (-6) to win his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of Roberto De Vicenzo who has his card famously marked incorrectly
1969 First regular-season MLB game played outside the United States; Montreal Expos beat St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7 at Parc Jarry, Montreal
1969 41st Academy Awards: "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand win (1st ever tie for best actress)
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1970 "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1971 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site
1971 President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
1972 "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1973 Ireland edges France, 6-4 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to create a 5-way tie for the Five Nations Rugby Championship; each nation wins their 2 home matches
1974 38th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Gary Player wins the 2nd of his 3 Masters titles, 2 strokes ahead of Dave Stockton and Tom Weiskopf
1977 US Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1978 David Hare's "Plenty" premieres in London
1978 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1978 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1978 Thousands of Georgians demonstrate in the capital Tbilisi against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language
1979 Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 52nd Academy Awards: "Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win
1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1981 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth
1983 US President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1984 Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
1985 "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1985 49th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bernhard Langer wins by 2 strokes from Seve Ballesteros, Curtis Strange & Raymond Floyd; first German champion
1985 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
1985 Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
1986 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, George Strait, and Reba McEntire win
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican Archbishop of Capetown
1986 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1987 Turkey asks to join European market
1988 "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1988 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1989 In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1991 "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 performances
1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1991 55th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Welshman Ian Woosnam wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of José María Olazábal; 4th straight year the Masters champion is from the UK
1992 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
1992 "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1994 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
1995 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
1996 60th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Englishman Nick Faldo wins his 3rd Masters and 6th and final major title, 5 strokes ahead of Greg Norman of Australia
1999 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
1999 A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2000 Metallica file a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This lawsuit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
2002 66th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods becomes the 3rd player to claim back-to-back Masters, 3 strokes ahead of Retief Goosen of South Africa
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
2003 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985
2005 The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2007 160th Grand National: 33–1 shot Silver Birch, ridden by Robbie Power, edges out McKelvey to win by three-quarters of a length
2008 42nd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift and Trace Adkins win
2010 Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of the glacier
2012 J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website "Pottermore"
2012 165th Grand National: Daryl Jacob wins aboard Neptune Collonges; beats Sunnyhillboy in a photo finish and the closest ever GN finish
2012 Beastie Boys inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Adam Yauch too ill to attend
2013 20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru
2013 11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China
2013 77th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Adam Scott wins his first major title and becomes first Australian Masters champion with a 2nd hole sudden death playoff win against Ángel
2013 Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
2013 Comedian Kevin Hart is arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in California
2015 Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans
2017 Meethotamulla rubbish dump collapses onto houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 26
2017 "The Fate of the Furious" directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Vin Diesel and The Rock opens worldwide - highest-grossing weekend at $532 million
2017 Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album "Damn" (2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
2018 National Gardening Day, since 2018 and according to the National Day Calendar
2018 Beyoncé is the first black woman to headline the Coachella Music Festival, her performance on this day the most-watched performance ever on YouTube
2018 US, UK and French forces carry out airstrikes on sites associated with Syria's chemical weapons program, in response to Douma gas attack
2018 171st Grand National: Davey Russell wins aboard 10/1 Tiger Roll in a photo finish from Pleasant Company
2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Nina Simone; Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Bon Jovi; The Cars; Dire Straits; and Moody Blues
2019 83rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his 5th Masters title by 1 stroke from Xander Schauffele, Dustin Johnson & Brooks Koepka; Woods' 15th major and first in 11 years
2019 South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg officially announces his presidential campaign in Indiana, first openly gay candidate to run for US president
2019 Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at center of controversy over comments about 9/11 at speech to Council on American-Islamic Relations after tweet by Donald Trump, defended by Nancy Pelosi
2019 Seychelles President Danny Faure makes first-ever live speech from a submersible pleading for better marine protection
2019 11 tornadoes hit US southern states killing eight in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana
2020 Former President Barack Obama endorses his former Vice President Joe Biden for president
2020 PM Narendra Modi extends India's COVID-19 lockdown until May 3
2020 Parts of Europe begin to ease lockdown restrictions after 5-6 weeks with some shops opening in Austria and parts of Italy
2020 IMF warns the global economy expected to contract by 3% in 2020 due to COVID-19 "Great Lockdown", steepest downturn since the Great Depression
2020 US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review, for mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric", prompting international criticism
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Post by Richard Frost » Thu Apr 15 2021 9:34am

15 April

YOM HA'ATZMA'UT Jewish
Israeli Independence Day, commemorating the declaration of independence of Israel in 1948.

World Art Day
World Art Day is an international celebration of the fine arts, that annually takes place on April 15. The holiday is observed since 2012.

World Art Day was created by the International Association of Art. The idea was proposed at the 17th General Assembly in Guadalajara and the committee unanimously approved it. The date of the holiday became the birthday of the great Italian painter, sculptor, writer, thinker, philosopher, mathematician and scientific innovator Leonardo da Vinci.

World Art Day aims to promote the values, that art has brought to the world since the beginning of time. It raises public awareness about the importance of creative activity worldwide.

The first World Art Day was observed on April 15, 2012. Celebration was supported by national committees of the International Association of Art. National committees of Sweden, France, South Africa, Slovakia and Venezuela organized outdoor exhibitions with sculpture, paintings, prints and cooking demonstration in honour of Leonardo da Vinci.

On this day in history

69 Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1205 Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 Pope Innocent IV refuses Jews of Cordova, Spain their request to build a synagogue
1250 Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a Mongol Great Council
1450 French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 -20/4] Columbus meets with the Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II in Barcelona
1528 Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians
1534 Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII of England
1581 Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1621 Hugo Grotius arrives in France after escaping prison in a book chest
1632 Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1654 England & Netherlands sign peace treaty
1689 French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1716 Great Northern War: Prussian troops occupy Swedish controlled German port of Wismar
1729 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 Premiere in London of "Serse", an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel
1755 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London
1776 Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1788 Britain, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 Bank of England issues first £5 note
1802 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".h
1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford, Connecticut)
1850 City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Abraham Lincoln (US Civil War)
1862 American poet Emily Dickinson first corresponds with author and future literary mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a relationship that lasts the rest of her life
1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1865 Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen
1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington
1870 Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1874 First 'Impressionist' exhibition opens in Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot
1877 Boston-Somerville installs the world's 1st telephone in Massachusetts
1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 General Electric Company formed by merger of Thomas Edison's General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company, arranged by J. P. Morgan and incorporated in NY
1895 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 1st modern Summer Olympic Games close in Athens, Greece; USA wins gold medal count, 11; Greece wins total medal count, 46; IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver & bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event
1900 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris opens (till 12th Nov)
1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1901 1st British motorized burial
1901 Pope Leo XIII issues an allocution deploring hostile actions against the Roman Catholic Church throughout Europe
1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1902 Rioting and arson continue in Russia with peasants plundering estates to find food.
1902 Russian minister of interior and head of secret police, Sipyengin, is assassinated by the 'Terror Brigade' of the Socialist Revolutionaries
1906 The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Tom Longboat in race record 2:24:24
1911 Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people
1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan in race record 2:21:18.2
1915 Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo" premieres in Madrid
1918 Georges Clémenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1918 22nd Boston Marathon won by Camp Devens relay team; race run as relay for 10-man military teams
1920 New Canadian small cent coin is released
1920 Sacco & Vanzetti Trial: paymaster shot and killed along with his guard
1921 Black Friday in Britain: leaders of transport and rail unions announce a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners; despite widespread feeling decision a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners
1922 The legendary Poodle Dog Restaurant closes in San Francisco
1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain, Belgium, 1 dead
1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (San Francisco) forms
1929 33rd Boston Marathon won by Canadian Johnny Miles in 2:33:08.6; his second win in the event
1931 1st backwards walk across American begins
1935 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley in 2:32:07.4
1939 Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1940 British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1940 44th Boston Marathon won by Gérard Côté of Canada in 2:28:28.6; first of 4 wins in the event
1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1942 George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1943 Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen
1945 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt buried in grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical "Communium Interpretes Dolorum"
1945 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1946 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27; first and only Cypriot athlete to win the event
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1948 Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1949 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress prototype
1953 Malans National Party wins South African elections
1955 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 Saturday mail delivery restored in the US after Congress gives the Post Office $41 million
1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley in 2:20:05; course length changed
1958 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win
1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1960 Guy Carawan sings "We Shall Overcome" to a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh - popularising the song as a protest anthem
1961 "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1961 France wins it’s 2nd outright Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 15-3 victory over Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Dublin
1962 US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1963 Steve Allen's musical "Sophie"based on the life of Sophie Tucker, opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 8 performances
1963 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurèle Vandendriessche of Belgium in race record 2:18:58
1964 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
1965 James Baldwin's play "The Amen Corner" premieres in NYC
1966 The Rolling Stones release "Aftermath", their fourth studio albumin UK, 6th in US
1967 "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 performances
1967 France wins it’s 4th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 11-6 win over Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Dublin
1968 72nd Boston Marathon: Amby Burfoot wins in 2:22:17; Bobbi Gibb 1st woman for 3rd straight year in 3:30:00 (unsanctioned)
1969 North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1970 Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1971 "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
1971 43rd Academy Awards: "Patton", George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1972 Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President
1972 A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home
1972 A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast.
1974 78th Boston Marathon: Neil Cusack of Ireland takes men's race in 2:13:39; American Miki Gorman women's winner in 2:47:11
1974 Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
1975 Gabon amends constitution
1978 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 43rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Fuzzy Zoeller wins his only Masters with a birdie on the 2nd hole of a playoff with Ed Sneed and Tom Watson
1979 A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award-winning story about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1982 Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
1983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 48th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ben Crenshaw wins the first of his 2 green jackets, 2 strokes ahead of 1977 & 1981 champion Tom Watson
1984 Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 89th Boston Marathon: Englishman Geoff Smith repeats as men's champion in 2:14:05; American Lisa Larsen Weidenbach takes women's title in 2:34:06
1985 Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1986 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
1986 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
1987 "Barbara Cook: A Concert" opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
1987 Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" premieres in NYC
1988 Meteorite explodes above Indonesia
1988 Wendy Wasserstein's play "Heidi Chronicles" premieres in NYC
1989 96 crushed to death and 766 injured at Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield, England, during FA semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
1989 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1989 Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois
1990 "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
1990 Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v England), combination best
1990 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: South African Gary Player wins his third event title by 2 strokes from Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1991 95th Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins his 2nd men's title in 2:11:06; Wanda Panfil of Poland woman's champion in 2:24:18
1991 East-Europe Bank forms in London
1991 Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich (Eight Is Enough) charged with burglary
1991 New York State raises maximum unemployment benefits to $280 per week
1991 Dutch checker Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 Lincoln Hospital in Bronx. New York loses its accreditation
1992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1992 The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1996 100th Boston Marathon: Moses Tanui of Kenya takes centenary men's title in 2:09:15.9; 3-peat for Uta Pippig of Germany in women's race in 2:27:12
1997 America On Line begins service in Japan
1997 Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
1997 The disaster film "Volcano" directed by Mick Jackson starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche premieres in South Korea
2001 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Doug Tewell wins his second & final Champions Tour major by 9 strokes from Mike McCullough
2002 An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
2002 106th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Rodgers Rop claims men's event in 2:09:02; Margaret Okayo women's winner in 2:20:43
2009 Even though official government sources state that Argentina's GDP will actually grow this year, private consulting firms state that Argentine economy has actually been in recession since October 2008
2010 Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.
2011 "Black Friday" for online poker in the US: indictment United States v. Scheinberg shuts down sites, accusing companies of fraud and money laundering
2012 400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
2012 China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar
2012 US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated
2012 Hologram of late rapper Tupac features on stage with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at Coachella music festival
2012 TV comedy drama "Girls" created by and starring Lena Dunham premieres on HBO
2013 33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
2013 Nicolás Maduro is narrowly elected President of Venezuela
2013 Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line
2013 117th Boston Marathon: Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia men's winner in 2:10:22; Rita Jeptoo of Kenya wins women's section in 2:26:25
2015 Laureus World Sports Awards, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai, China: Sportsman: Novak Đoković; Sportswoman: Genzebe Dibaba; Team: German Men's National Football team
2017 Suicide car bomb targets buses carrying Syrian evacuees at Rashidin, 126 killed including 70 children
2019 123rd Boston Marathon: Lawrence Cherono of Kenya wins in 2:07:58, just 0.1s ahead of Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa; Worknesh Degefa of Ethiopia is women's champion in 2:23.31
2019 Measles cases jump 300% in first three months of 2019, according to World Health Organization, largest rise in Africa (700%) with 800 deaths in Madagascar
2019 Aretha Franklin posthumously receives the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor, first individual woman to win it since 1930
2019 Paris cathedral Notre Dame catches fire, toppling its spire and destroying its roof
2020 South Korea is 1st country to hold a general election under COVID-19, President Moon Jae-in's ruling Democratic party wins in a landslide
2020 Revised death count for New York taking into account assumed COVID-19 deaths makes the city's per-capita death rate higher than Italy at 10,367 at this date
2020 US's deadliest day during COVID-19 pandemic with 2,752 deaths reported
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Post by Richard Frost » Fri Apr 16 2021 9:17am

16th April

ORCHID DAY
Each year on April 16th, Orchid Day recognizes one of the world’s diverse and widespread flowering plant families. The orchids’ often colourful and fragrant blooms grow in abundance around the world. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species. Not only are they prolific, but they range in size from the 2.1 mm wide Platystele jungermannioides to broad-bloomed Grammatophyllum speciosum.

While some find the orchid challenging to grow, others find pleasure in their pleasant fragrance and uncommon beauty. With so many varieties to choose from, anyone can enjoy the beauty from home or by visiting botanical gardens around the world.

On this day in history

1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account.
1178 BC A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
73 Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt
556 Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy
1346 The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje at an Easter assembly and Stephen Uroš IV Dušan crowned Emperor over much of the Balkans
1395 Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops
1509 French army under Louis XII enters the Alps
1521 Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms assembly
1582 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta in Argentina
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme military commander of the Holy Roman Empire
1705 Queen Anne knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the world’s most influential scientists, he had made great contributions to the fields of optics, mechanics and calculus
1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart
1780 The University of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded
1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1797 Spithead Mutiny begins: British Royal Navy sailors protest over living and working conditions and pay near Portsmouth
1799 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre
1818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1853 1st passenger railway opens in India, from Bori Bunder (Bombay) to Thane (34 km)
1854 Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Mazeppa" premieres at the Court Theatre in Weimar
1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach, NY, 311 die
1858 The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up
1861 US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with Confederate States (US Civil War)
1862 Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1862 American Confederate Congress approves conscription act for all white males (18-35 years)
1865 Battle of Columbus & West Point, Georgia (Ft Tyler), Union forces win one of the last battles of the US Civil War
1866 Nitroglycerine explodes at a Wells Fargo & Co office in San Francisco shattering glass for half a mile
1868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st African American diplomat, begins service as Minister to Haiti
1870 Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London
1874 Dr David Livingstone's body arrives in Southampton
1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
1883 Paul Kruger chosen as President of Transvaal
1888 Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on in the Netherlands
1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1900 4th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Jim Caffrey in race record 2:39:44.4
1906 10th Boston Marathon won by 18-year old Tim Ford in 2:45:45; youngest race winner
1908 Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell, Utah)
1912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to fly across English Channel
1913 Bulgarians and the Turks agree to an armistice that will be accepted by the other nations involved
1917 [OS Apr 3] Lenin arrives back from exile in Russia at Finland Station, Petrograd to join the Russian Revolution
1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy in 2:28:37.2
1917 Vladimir Lenin issues his radical "April Theses" calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4]
1918 The British House of Commons passes a new Military Service Bill, taking men up to 55 years old and extending to Ireland
1921 Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
1922 Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1922 Treaty of Rapallo between the German Republic and Soviet Union a is signed in Italy, normalizing diplomatic relations with each side renouncing their territorial and financial claims against the other
1923 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:23:37.4 for second straight year; 3rd race victory
1924 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion
1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
1925 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 wounded
1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1928 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:37:07.8; back-to-back wins for his 6th race title
1932 Short film "The Music Box" released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)
1934 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8
1938 Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1939 The Soviet Union proposes an alliance with Britain and France to counter Nazi Germany; the Soviets would later sign a secret agreement with the Nazis
1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht" premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1941 Little Theater at Adelphi Strand, London closes
1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1943 40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem, Netherlands (85 killed)
1943 Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
1945 Battle of Okinawa: US Army invades and seizes the Ie Shima Airfield on Ie Shima island near Okinawa
1945 World War II: Dutch town of Arnhem, site of failed Operation Market Garden, is freed by British and Canadian forces
1945 German troops in Groningen surrender
1945 Battle of Berlin: Red Army begins its attack on the capital of Nazi Germany
1945 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany
1945 US troops land on He Shima, Okinawa
1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley in 2:30:40.2; his second event victory
1945 Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, is liberated by American troops
1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, New Mexicao; reaches altitude of 8 km
1946 Dutch Special Court of Justice sentences Frederik Müller, Socialist mayor of Rotterdam, to 10 years in jail for his wartime support of Germany
1947 -17] Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp
1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)
1947 Massive explosion & fire kills 522 in Texas City, Tx
1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
1951 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45
1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
1953 British royal yacht Britannia launched by Queen Elizabeth II
1956 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1956 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in race record 2:14:14
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
1958 French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
1958 5th National Film Awards (India): "Do Aankhen Barah Haath" wins the Golden Lotus
1959 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 performances
1959 Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
1961 15th Tony Awards: Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
1961 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4-1 for a 4-2 series victory
1962 Brazil nationalizes US businesses
1962 66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48; second straight win and 3rd title overall
1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1966 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1967 "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
1970 70 die in a snow crush (France)
1970 Protestant Unionist Ian Paisley wins seat formerly held by Terence O'Neill in the Stormont (North Ireland Parliament)
1972 "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 performances
1972 Two giant pandas arrive in US from China
1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1972 Two British soldiers are shot dead by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry
1973 77th Boston Marathon: American double; Jon Anderson men's champion in 2:16:03; Jacqueline Hansen wins women's title in 3:05:59
1974 "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1978 "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 performances
1978 NBC's premiere of miniseries "Holocaust"
1979 83rd Boston Marathon: American double; Bill Rodgers wins 2nd straight event and 3rd overall title in 2:09:27; Joan Benoit women's champion in 2:35:15
1979 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport, Belgium
1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1980 Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances
1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1984 88th Boston Marathon: Englishman Geoff Smith wins men's event in 2:10:34; Lorraine Moller of New Zealand women's champion in 2:29:28
1984 Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits 3 HRs including a grand slam
1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1985 "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appears on TV
1986 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
1987 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
1987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
1987 Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
1987 British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency
1989 1st The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Don Bies wins his lone career Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Gary Player
1989 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
1989 Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28)
1990 August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson", starring Charles S. Dutton, opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
1990 94th Boston Marathon: Gelindo Bordin is first Italian event winner in race record 2:08:19; Portugal's Rosa Mota wins her 3rd woman's title in 2:25:24
1990 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1991 Leander & Seago's musical "Matador" premieres in London
1992 "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
1992 Afghan president Najibullah resigns
1992 The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in federal case against police officers (two convicted, two acquitted) who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
1994 Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
1995 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Raymond Floyd wins by 5 strokes from fellow Americans John Paul Cain, Larry Gilbert and Lee Trevino
2000 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Doug Tewell wins first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with a convincing 7 stroke margin from the foursome of Hale Irwin, Tom Kite, Larry Nelson and Dana Quigley
2001 105th Boston Marathon: Lee Bong-Ju of South Korea men's winner in 2:09:43; Catherine Ndereba of Kenya wins back-to-back women's titles in 2:23:53
2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union
2004 The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Transatlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.
2007 Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2007 41st CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood & Kenny Chesney wins
2007 "Spider-Man 3" directed by Sam Raimi and starring Toby Maguire and Kristen Dunst premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival
2007 111th Boston Marathon: Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya goes back-to-back for 3rd title in 2:14:13; Lidiya Grigoryeva of Russia wins women's race in 2:29:18
2008 Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States
2009 Laureus World Sports Awards, (ceremony cancelled GFC): Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Yelena Isinbayeva; Team: China Olympic team
2012 At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
2012 For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction
2012 116th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Wesley Korir wins men's section in 2:12:40; Sharon Cherop first woman in 2:31:50
2013 37 people are killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Khash country, Iran
2013 16 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in Kyekyewere, Ghana
2014 Real Madrid defeat Barcelona to win its 19th Copa del Rey trophy
2014 South Korean ferry MV Sewol sinks on route Incheon to Jeju, 304 drown, mostly students. National controversy erupts over rescue efforts and actions of crew and owner.
2015 Elizabeth Holmes, American entrepreneur, inventor, and founder and CEO of Theranos, is named one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People" of 2015
2017 World record for gathering of Charlie Chaplin lookalikes - 662 at Manoir de Ban, Chaplin museum in Vevey, Switzerland
2017 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wins referendum on 18-article constitutional reform package
2018 122nd Boston Marathon: Yuki Kawauchi of Japan wins men's race in 2:15:58; Desiree Linden (2:39:54) first American to win women's title since 1985
2018 Kendrick Lamar is the first rapper and non-classical or jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music with his album "Damn"
2020 New study claims a multi-decade megadrought is already under way in the western US, published in journal "Science"
2020 Nationwide State of Emergency declared in Japan till 6 May due to the worsening COVID-19 outbreak
2020 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment in 4 weeks (5.2 million in the last week), wiping out 9 1/2 years of job gains
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