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Today in History:
1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. I hope they brought soap.

1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.

1616 - Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings.

1815 - After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published..... pissing people off for over a century. Have you read it?

1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.

1914 - In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.

1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1942 - Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, the German SS murder 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto.

1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.

1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar.

1999 - Legoland California opens in Carlsbad, California.



Happy Birthday:
1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)

1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (d. 1915)

1922 - Carl Reiner, American film director

1928 - Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003)

1937 - Jerry Reed, American singer and actor

1945 - Rick Berman, American TV and film producer

1948 - John de Lancie, American actor

1950 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist.

1958 - Holly Hunter, American actress


Deaths on this day:
1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)

1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)

1991 - Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton (b. 1986)