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03/29/2006 10:41:32 AM · #76
March 29
1865: Union General Grant began his offensive at Petersburg, Virginia. Petersburg fell on April 3. This was the last campaign of the war. (Appomattox Campaign)

1984: The 100th episode of "Knots Landing" aired.

1992: Bill Clinton said "I didn't inhale" in reference to when he had used marijuana.


03/31/2006 02:15:25 AM · #77
March 30
1967:U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.

1980: President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry.

1998: 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio
03/31/2006 11:44:00 AM · #78
March 31
1889:Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower's designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers.

1923:The nation's marathon-dance craze begins in New York City as Alma Cummings sets a world record of 27 hours of non-stop dancing.

1943:Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "Oklahoma!" debuts on Broadway. Top tickets cost less than $$5.


04/03/2006 08:53:58 PM · #79
April 3
1860: The Pony Express gallops into existence as Henry Wallace leaves St. Joseph, MO, riding west, and John Roff leaves Sacramento, CA, heading east. The riders changed horses a dozen times during the 1,800-mile journey.

1948: Forging a model for the post–WWII global power structure, US President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which would provide Europe with more than $13 billion in aid during the next 3 years.

1973: Inventor Martin Cooper makes the first portable phone call on a contraption that is 10 inches high, 3 inches deep, and an inch and a half wide.

04/04/2006 09:57:53 PM · #80
April 4
1928: Poet Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, MO. The author of 12 books, she went on to become the second poet in US history to write and recite an original work at a presidential inauguration.

1932: After 5 years of research, professor C. Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh isolates vitamin C, making it possible to prevent scurvy.

1949: Twelve Western nations form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as self-defense against Soviet aggression.

04/05/2006 10:00:34 PM · #81
April 5
1806: The apple cider mill is patented by Isaac Quintard of Stanfield, CT. The device extracts juice from apples and came to be known as sweet apple cider.

1896: The first modern Olympics open in Athens, Greece.

1923: Production of balloon tires begins at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, OH. The tire innovation provided better handling and a smoother ride.



04/06/2006 10:19:07 AM · #82
April 6
648 BC: The Greeks observe the earliest total solar eclipse to be recorded.

1869: The governor of New York signs a bill to create the American Museum of National History in New York City. The museum opened in 1871 in the Central Park Arsenal on the eastern side of the park.

1930: With his endearing folksy charm, Will Rogers begins his show on CBS radio. He had already starred in the Ziegfeld Follies and was a top box office draw after the start of talking pictures.

04/06/2006 09:03:08 PM · #83
On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.
04/08/2006 01:34:07 AM · #84
April 7
1805: Lewis and Clark resume their westward trek after staying the winter in Fort Mandan, north of present-day Bismarck, ND.

1827: English pharmacist John Walker sparks the first sale of friction matches, which he accidentally discovered while working with a mixture of potash and antimony.

1927: The first simultaneous telecast of sound and images took place in a transmission from Washington, DC, to New York City, when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover read a speech.

1959: The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory generates the first electricity from atomic energy. This initial experiment produced only enough power for a lightbulb.

04/10/2006 09:50:56 PM · #85
April 10
1633: Bananas were sold for the first time in Britain as they are displayed in the shop window of Thomas Johnson of Snow Hill, London.

1849: Walter Hunt of New York City receives the first US patent for a safety pin. However, because he was short of cash, he sold the rights for $400.

1953: The first color three-dimensional movie, The House of Wax starring Vincent Price, opens in New York's Paramount Theater. To view the movie, the audience dons special glasses.

1970: Paul McCartney announces the Beatles breakup; the album Let It Be is released during this time.



04/11/2006 04:27:20 PM · #86
April 11
1803: John Stevens receives a patent for a twin-screw propeller engine, which powered a 25-foot-long steamboat in New York Harbor in 1804.

1915: The Tramp, starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. With the bowler hat and baggy pants, the 'tramp' became his most popular character.

1970: Apollo 13 launches for the moon with astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise. Two days later, an oxygen tank explodes, and the ground crew scrambles to bring the astronauts home alive.

Message edited by author 2006-04-11 22:13:53.
04/12/2006 10:57:43 PM · #87
April 12
1914: With room for 3,000 and including a second-floor balcony, the first movie palace, the Strand, opens in New York City.

1954: Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock"; however it didn't become a hit until a year later when it became the theme song for the movie Blackboard Jungle.

1981: Columbia launches from Cape Canaveral, FL, to become the first reusable manned spacecraft in space. The craft made 36 orbits during its 54-hour flight, which ended with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, CA.

1994: Laurence Canter, an Arizona attorney, unleashes the first Internet mass mail program, sending Usenet message boards advertising for his law firm.



04/12/2006 11:05:44 PM · #88
Don't forget about the firing on Fort Sumpter. The beginning of the Civil War.
04/12/2006 11:53:27 PM · #89
Originally posted by American_Horse:

1994: Laurence Canter, an Arizona attorney, unleashes the first Internet mass mail program, sending Usenet message boards advertising for his law firm.

Did anyone sue him for that?
04/13/2006 03:30:50 PM · #90
April 13
1625: Johannes Faber of Bamberg, Germany, coins the word "microscope" in a letter to Federigo Cesi, founder of Italy's Accademia dei Lincei.

1796: Arriving from Bengal, India, the first elephant to be brought to the United States makes its appearance in New York City, performing stunts such as pulling a cork from a bottle with its trunk.

1997: With a record 12-stroke win, 21-year-old Tiger Woods wins his first major championship in Augusta, GA.



04/14/2006 09:59:49 AM · #91
April 14:

1986 U.S. bombs Libya
1918 U.S. fliers in first dogfight over western front
1912 RMS Titanic hits iceberg
1865 President Lincoln is shot
04/14/2006 11:04:09 AM · #92
April 14
1818: The American Dictionary of the English Language is published. Noah Webster, a lawyer with an interest in language, worked on the tome for 2 decades and included more than 10,000 "Americanisms."

1865: On the very day of his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln approves the proposal to establish the Secret Service. However, the agency was designed to fight the rise of counterfeit currency rather than protect the president. In 1901, the service began protecting the president.

1956: The first video camera that records both sound and images is simultaneously demonstrated in Chicago and Redwood City, CA. Afterward, CBS purchased three of the recorders for $75,000 each.

04/17/2006 07:55:34 PM · #93
April 17
1869: The first pro baseball game is played. The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Cincinnati Amateurs, 24-15.

1875: Sir Neville Chamberlain invents snooker, a variation of pool.

1937: Daffy Duck quacks his way onto the silver screen in a Warner Bros. short called Porky's Duck Hunt.

1964: Jerrie Mock of Columbus, OH, becomes the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world.

04/18/2006 10:25:23 AM · #94
April 18
1775: After British troops leave Boston en route to Concord, Paul Revere and William Dawes ride on horseback to alert the minutemen and warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock of their intended capture.

1906: Known as the Great San Francisco Earthquake, a quake close to 8.0 on the Richter scale shakes the bay area, with tremors felt as far away as southern Oregon.

1956: In an opulent ceremony, US actress Grace Kelly weds Prince Rainier of Monaco.

04/18/2006 10:43:54 AM · #95
April 18, 1942
THE COMEBACK LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs pull off the greatest comeback in NHL playoff history with their fourth straight win, a 3-1 victory over Detroit Red Wings, winning the Stanley Cup 4 games to 3. Maple Leafs goalie Turk Broda lets in just seven goals in the final four games.
how times have changed :(

1977
Boston Massachusetts - Jerome Drayton 1945- the eighth Canadian to win the Boston Marathon.

1963
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
WOOT!

1946
Jersey City NJ - Jackie Robinson has four hits, including a three-run homer, as the Montreal Royals beat Jersey 14-1; first black man to play in professional baseball's all-white leagues.
Pats Canada on the back. Good show!

04/19/2006 10:56:17 AM · #96
April 19
1775: As fighting breaks out between the British and Americans at the battles of Lexington and Concord, the American Revolution begins.

1892: After nearly a year of planning and building, Charles E. Duryea of Springfield, MA, drove his Duryea automobile, which became the model for the first car available for purchase in the United States.

1938: Even though there are few televisions to receive the programs, RCA-NBC telecasts its first regular shows from the Empire State Building for 5 hours a week.

04/19/2006 11:16:04 AM · #97
1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building explodes

1809 Jefferson sells servant to newly sworn-in President James Madison (isnt that lovely)

1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins

What an interesting day! Rather violent though :(
04/20/2006 11:28:53 AM · #98
April 20
1832: Congress created Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas with 911 acres and 46 hot springs. Although Hot Springs is the nation's oldest park, it isn't the first to carry the "national park" designation—the title of the first national park goes to Yellowstone.

1841: Sparking the genre of detective stories, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is published in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine.

1902: In their Paris laboratory, Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive radium salts from mineral pitchblende. A year later, they would share the Nobel Prize in physics.

04/21/2006 10:19:13 AM · #99
April 21
753 BC: Roman tradition cites today as the founding of Rome, when Romulus and twin brother, Remus, create the foundation of a city on the site where they were saved by a she-wolf after being orphaned.

1956: Elvis Presley's first number one hit, "Heartbreak Hotel" tops the charts.

1962: The Top of the Needle in Seattle, WA, turns around and around and around to become the first revolving restaurant in the US.

04/24/2006 08:12:15 PM · #100
April 24
1800: With the signature of President John Adams, the legislation is approved to create the Library of Congress, which was initially housed in the US Capitol. The first catalog contained 964 volumes and nine maps.

1886: Petroleum is discovered in the Middle East, and the first well to come in was on the Egyptian shore of the Red Sea.

1934: Laurens Hammond patents the first pipeless organ, which has a manual console and pedals.

1962: With signals bounced off an experimental satellite Echo I, the first coast-to-coast satellite telecast is sent from California to Massachusetts.

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