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In The News:
102-year-old Calif. woman hits hole-in-1
Border cops recover 1,000 stolen wedding gowns
"Birdman" in hospital after test flight
Creators fight over cartoon imp's right to wed
Fans seek Florida pardon for Doors' Morrison
Sheriff gives himself a ticket It must be an election year.
Mammoth on sale at Christie's in Paris
Woman tries to sell it all on eBay
NYC couple hail cab for 2,400-mile ride. Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don't drive, and they don't want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold.
German army drafts four-week-old baby. The German army sent a draft notice to a four-week-old baby named Lucio, ordering him to report for duty within the next 10 days, before realising it had blundered.
'Fifth Beatle' quits. The reclusive, hard-nosed businessman who oversaw the Beatles' complex financial interests has left their organization after more than 40 years.
Today in History:
1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1689 - William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity). Did you know, his first marriage went worse than expected. Finally, he told his wife that he had written something that would win him the nobel prize one day. If she'd grant him a divorce and pay for it, he would repay her when he won the nobel prize. He won the nobel prize in 1921 and she collected the divorce payment. (according to National Pubic Radio)
1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp.
1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.
1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1951 - The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which English monarchs are traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its traditional (to the British government) location in Westminster Abbey.
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing debut in New York City.
1965 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin.
1970 - Apollo 13 is launched. Yeah, yeah, with astronauts Tom Hanks, Gary Senise, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton. It's cool that astronauts get to make movies too.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
2007 - The "forever" stamp goes on sale in the United States for 41 cents. Huh? That's today.
Happy Birthday:
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824) as in Parkinsons Disease.
1928 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy. My cousins had a car they named Ethel.
1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
Border cops recover 1,000 stolen wedding gowns
"Birdman" in hospital after test flight
Creators fight over cartoon imp's right to wed
Fans seek Florida pardon for Doors' Morrison
Sheriff gives himself a ticket It must be an election year.
Mammoth on sale at Christie's in Paris
Woman tries to sell it all on eBay
NYC couple hail cab for 2,400-mile ride. Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don't drive, and they don't want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold.
German army drafts four-week-old baby. The German army sent a draft notice to a four-week-old baby named Lucio, ordering him to report for duty within the next 10 days, before realising it had blundered.
'Fifth Beatle' quits. The reclusive, hard-nosed businessman who oversaw the Beatles' complex financial interests has left their organization after more than 40 years.
Today in History:
1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1689 - William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity). Did you know, his first marriage went worse than expected. Finally, he told his wife that he had written something that would win him the nobel prize one day. If she'd grant him a divorce and pay for it, he would repay her when he won the nobel prize. He won the nobel prize in 1921 and she collected the divorce payment. (according to National Pubic Radio)
1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp.
1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.
1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1951 - The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which English monarchs are traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its traditional (to the British government) location in Westminster Abbey.
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing debut in New York City.
1965 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin.
1970 - Apollo 13 is launched. Yeah, yeah, with astronauts Tom Hanks, Gary Senise, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton. It's cool that astronauts get to make movies too.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
2007 - The "forever" stamp goes on sale in the United States for 41 cents. Huh? That's today.
Happy Birthday:
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824) as in Parkinsons Disease.
1928 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy. My cousins had a car they named Ethel.
1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
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