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04/26/2006 01:35:47 AM · #101 |
April 25
1719: Daniel Defoe's book, The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is published. The book was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who was stranded on a small South American island in the early 1700s.
1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt. The 101-mile artificial waterway connects the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
1901: License plates become mandatory on vehicles in New York. For a registration fee of $1, each owner received a plate that bore the owner's initials. During the year, the state collected $954 in vehicle registration fees.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope begins a low orbit around Earth after being released by the space shuttle Discovery. After a repair mission in 1993, the telescope sent back amazing images of the universe.
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04/26/2006 02:08:06 AM · #102 |
April 26
1865 - Death of John Wilkes Booth
1937 - Nazis test Luftwaffe on Guernica
1954 - Geneva Conference begins
1986 - Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
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04/27/2006 01:42:47 AM · #103 |
April 26
1921: Station WEW in St. Louis makes the first weather broadcast in the United States.
1941: Launching a baseball tradition, the first organ at a baseball stadium plays at Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs.
1954: Mass testing of the Salk polio vaccine begins with about 1.8 million children.
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04/27/2006 09:10:19 PM · #104 |
April 27
1880: Francis D. Clarke and M.G. Foster receive the patent for the first US hearing aid using bone conduction, which passes sound through vibration of the skull bone.
1887: Saving the life of a 26-year-old man, George Morton performs the first appendectomy in the United States.
1954: With stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, the movie White Christmas debuts at Radio City Music Hall and also becomes Paramount's first wide-screen film.
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04/27/2006 09:15:08 PM · #105 |
April 27
2006: Freedom Tower work begins at WTC site.
Ground finally broken on what will be tallest building in New York City. |
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04/28/2006 10:30:39 AM · #106 |
April 28
1919: In a leap of faith, Leslie LeRoy Irvin takes the first plunge with a manually operated parachute over McCook Field in Dayton, OH. Unlike other chutes of the time, the operator pulls a ripcord. He broke his ankle while landing.
1958: Singer and songwriter Ross Bagdasarian, who's also known as the creator of the Chipmunks, tops the charts with "The Witch Doctor."
1990: After a run of 6,237 performances, the Broadway musical A Chorus Line closes as the longest-running musical. During its 8 years, more than 6.5 million people saw the Pulitzer and Tony award–winning musical.
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04/28/2006 10:35:32 AM · #107 |
Stories From 28 Apr
1986: Soviets admit nuclear accident
1996: Gunman runs amok in Tasmania
1945: Italian partisans kill Mussolini
1969: President Charles de Gaulle resigns
1994: CIA double agent jailed for life
2001: First space tourist blasts off
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04/28/2006 10:43:55 AM · #108 |
357 Constantius II visits Rome for the first time.
1758 U.S. President James Monroe was born.
1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution.
1932 A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced.
1937 Saddam Hussein was born.
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05/01/2006 10:14:56 AM · #109 |
May 1st 1931 The Empire State building was opend during Americas hardes time, the great depression, and it only too 13 months to build
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05/01/2006 03:41:30 PM · #110 |
May 1
1543: Tossing the old, supposed order of the universe out the window, Copernicus begins circulating his thesis "The Little Commentary," that shows the sun is at the center of the solar system.
1931: Towering 102 stories and 1,454 feet from 34th Street to the top of the lightning rod, the Empire State Building is dedicated as President Herbert Hoover pushes a button that illuminates the edifice.
1963: James Whittaker from Redmond, WA, summits Mt. Everest to become the first American to attain the feat.
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05/02/2006 01:54:39 PM · #111 |
May 2
1932: Popular comedian Jack Benny debuts his radio show, which was on the air for more than 20 years and eventually became the TV show.
1933: The Loch Ness Monster is supposedly sighted, and reports are published in a Scottish newspaper.
1952: The first passenger jet airliner, the Comet, takes off from London to Johannesburg on its maiden flight. The fare is �175 for the trip there and �315 for the return (about $300 and $555).
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05/03/2006 05:36:18 PM · #112 |
May 3
1952: The first aircraft lands on the North Pole when Lt. Col. Joseph Fletcher pilots a ski-modified US Air Force C-47 to the earth's most northern point. Fletcher climbed out of the plane and walked to the exact geographic pole, perhaps the first person to do so.
1968: Dr. Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute performs the first successful heart transplant in the United States.
1991: Ending a television dynasty, Dallas airs its final episode. With its 356th episode, it was the second-longest-running series, after Gunsmoke.
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05/04/2006 11:13:51 AM · #113 |
May 4
1929: Actress Audrey Hepburn is born near Brussels, Belgium, and may best be known for her 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
1948: Ushering in a flood of post– WWII literature, Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published.
1979: Becoming Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher is sworn in after winning a majority in the general parliamentary elections.
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05/06/2006 12:15:01 AM · #114 |
May 5
1862: Cinco de Mayo is celebrated, which commemorates Mexico's victory at the battle of Puebla and symbolizes the country's defense against the invading French army.
1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space when he reached a height of 116 miles in the Freedom 7 space capsule.
2000: The planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn formed a line in the sky with the Sun and Moon. This stellar show won't happen again until April 2438
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05/08/2006 08:49:43 PM · #115 |
May 8
1879: George Baldwin Selden of Rochester, NY, files the first patent for an automobile. The patent was awarded about 20 years later.
1945: Winston Churchill announces the end of the war with Germany in a broadcast from the cabinet room at Number 10 Downing St.
1973: Ernie Banks becomes baseball's first black manager when he fills in for Cubs manager Whitey Lockman, who was ejected during the game.
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05/09/2006 10:25:08 AM · #116 |
May 9
1882: William Ford receives a patent for the style of stethoscope we still see around doctors' necks today.
1887: With Queen Victoria in the audience, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
1926: Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett become the first men to fly over the North Pole.
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05/10/2006 10:38:34 AM · #117 |
May 10
1869: The ceremonial last spike is driven into the rail line to complete the transcontinental railroad in Promontory Point, UT.
1930: The Adler Planetarium opens in Chicago, becoming the first in the United States.
1994: Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa after spending 27 years as a political prisoner.
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05/11/2006 12:13:25 PM · #118 |
May 11
868: The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture and the first known printed book, is made on a 16-foot scroll with six sheets of text printed from wood blocks.
1811: Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins, are born in Siam (Thailand); they eventually become US citizens and live in Wilkesboro, NC.
1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded in a dinner at the Biltmore Hotel in Hollywood, CA.
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05/11/2006 12:21:20 PM · #119 |
1904: Salvador Dali was born.
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05/12/2006 10:36:16 AM · #120 |
May 12
1874: Prolific African-American inventor Elijah McCoy patents the ironing table. His inventions became so synonymous with usefulness that his name led rise to the phrase "the real McCoy."
1938: Starring Errol Flynn, The Adventures of Robin Hood debuts at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1986: Fred Markham becomes the first person to pedal 65 mph unaided by wind and unpaced on a level course at Big Sand Flat, CA.
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05/15/2006 07:45:53 PM · #121 |
May 15
1501: In Venice, Italy, Ottaviano Petrucci founds the first music publishing house by producing the first book of music made from movable type.
1918: Despite fears of the newfangled contraption overrunning the island, Nantucket, MA, lifts its 12-year ban on automobiles.
1940: Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States in Wilmington DE; 4 million pairs were sold in just a few hours.
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05/17/2006 12:33:56 AM · #122 |
May 16
1770: Heir to the French throne, Louis marries Marie Antoinette at Versailles, France. The pair would become king and queen 4 years later after the death of King Louis XV.
1866: Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer. The root beer float couldn't be far behind.
1886: Congress votes to create the nickel, which originally featured a shield on front and the number "5" on back.
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05/17/2006 12:23:46 PM · #123 |
May 17
1839: Lorenzo Adkins patents the first water wheel.
1954: The US Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision.
1979: The highest voltage ever generated, 321.5 million volts, is produced at the National Electrostatics Corporation in Oak Ridge, TN.
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05/18/2006 09:16:04 PM · #124 |
May 18
1860: Abraham Lincoln receives the nomination for the US presidency during the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1927: To a throng of about 100,000 fans coming to see Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood. The first film: The King of Kings.
1980: Mount St. Helens, on the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington, erupts.
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05/19/2006 10:24:46 AM · #125 |
May 19
1885: The first mass production of shoes begins in Lynn, MA.
1910: The Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet, which is the closest contact the two bodies have had.
1991: Auto racer Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first African-American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
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