April 22nd

GERMANS INTRODUCE POISON GAS: April 22, 1915


(It's 11:36pm PST where I am, so I'll be back in 24 minutes to give you tommorows event lol)

It's getting late, I don't feel like waiting. I'm only cheating by 20 minutes lol From here on, you can only post things from the day you are making the post. We'll grant me this 20 mintues this time to get the thread rolling. lol fair? good.

APRIL 23rd

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BORN: April 23, 1564

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(*According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn.)

I'm surprised you did not mention the secession of the Conch Republic.

lol :rolleyes:

You are too much!

I used to live in Key West, my dad was stationed at NAS Key West. Interesting peice. ;)

April 23rd

April 23rd, 1975 President Gerald Ford, in a speech at Tulane Univerisity, declares the complete end of the Vietnam War for United States Forces.

215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasum.
AD 303 - Saint George is put to death because of his strong faith in Christianity.
1014 - Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George's Day.
1521 - Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1533 - The Church of England annuls the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII of England.
1597 - Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
1660 - Treaty of Oliva between Sweden and Poland.
1661 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
1876 - April Uprising in Perushtitsa, Bulgaria
1920 - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
1923 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport.
1932 - Windmill De Adriaan burns down in Haarlem, the Netherlands
1934 - An FBI raid in northern Wisconsin goes wrong when George Nelson, aka "Baby Face", kills Special Agent H. Carter Baum.
1935 - Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 - A fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi kills 198 people.
1942 - World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Palestinian forces.
1954 - Hank Aaron hits his first major league home run.
1956 - Elvis Presley makes his first appearance in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1967 - Soyuz 1 is launched into orbit, carrying a single cosmonaut, Colonel Vladimir Komarov, who is killed when the spacecraft crashes after returning to earth.
1968 - The United Kingdom produces its first decimalised coins, a 5p and a 10p coin.
1968 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 - The Rolling Stones release the classic album Sticky Fingers.
1974 - A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali, Indonesia, killing 107.
1975 - Vietnam War: At Tulane University, U.S. President Gerald Ford states that the war is over as far as the United States is concerned.
1979 - Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.
1983 - In Munich, Germany, Corinne Hermès wins the twenty-eighth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Si la vie est cadeau" (If life is a gift).
1985 - New Coke, a marketing disaster is introduced.
1990 - Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the British Commonwealth.
1993 - Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1994 - Physicists discover the top quark subatomic particle.
1997 - Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed.
2001 - Intel introduces the Pentium 4 Processor.
2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.

April 23
1348 The first English order of knighthood is founded.
1500 Pedro Cabal claims Brazil for Portugal.
1521 The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1759 British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York.
1826 Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1856 Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.
1865 Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North Carolina and Munsford Station, Alalbama.
1895 Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896 Motion pictures premiere in New York City.
1915 The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1920 The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara.
1924 The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers' Bonus Bill.
1945 The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.
1950 Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1954 The Army-McCarthy hearings begin.
1966 President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy.
1971 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first in Salyut 1 space station.


Born on April 23
1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (Don Quixote).
1564 William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet.
1791 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (1857-1861).
1813 Stephen A. Douglas, American politician.
1897 Lucius D. Clay, U.S. military governor of occupied Berlin.
1902 Halldór Laxness, Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic novelist (The Fish Can Sing, Paradise Reclaimed).
1926 J.P. Donlevey, American-born Irish writer (The Ginger Man).
1926 Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Mercury and Gemini astronaut, died in an accident on Apollo 1.
1928 Shirley Temple Black, child actress, later U.S. ambassador.
1932 Jim Fixx, runner and writer who popularized running as a form of exercise in the 1970s.



Ok, maybe this is too easy after all.... But still very interesting if you have the stamina to check every day. lol

:rolleyes:

wikipedia? i think its intresting enough maybey it could become a forum traditon seeing as its a history orientated forum so maybey we could pin it and do it every day?

Well I learned about 20 things I didn't know before today reading your's and my last posts.

I say go for it, it's fun and very educational. B)

I make it a habit of reading wikipedia's 'today in our history' everyday. :)

If wikipedia had an RSS feed or something similar it would be possible to implement it, if we were using phpBB instead of invisionfree.

1607 - Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet
1707 - An Allied Austrian army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published.
1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 - "La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed.
1831 - The Lion of the West, a play celebrating Davy Crockett, opens in New York City.
1846 - Mexican-American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries.
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 - Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.
1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mark's Mills - Confederate forces seize a Union wagon supply train on its way to Camden, Arkansas forcing Union General Frederick Steele to withdraw his troops to Little Rock, Arkansas.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21.
1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1915 - The ANZAC tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland (lasts until April 29 - the end of the rebellion).
1916 - ANZAC Day commemorated for the first time.
1926 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Reza Pahlavi".
1945 - United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 - The United Nations is organized in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.
1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive - The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.
1975 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1980 - A commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops were killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1988 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused of being a notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible" by survivors.
1989 - James Richardson is freed from a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children.
1990 - Space Shuttle program: STS-31 - Astronauts aboard the Discovery deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
1993 - 300,000 homosexuals march on Washington, DC demanding freedom from discrimination.

Births
32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, statesman (d. 1658) :angry:
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (d. 1893)
1849 - Felix Klein, mathematician (d. 1925)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 (d. 1937)
1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1945 (d. 1958)
1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, mathematician (d. 1987)
1906 - William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1997)
1908 - Edward R. Murrow, journalist (d. 1965)
1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., writer (d. 1948)
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (d. 1996)
1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, astronomer (d. 1995)
1924 - Albert King, musician
1925 - Sammy Drechsel, journalist, film director and cabaretist (d. 1986)
1930 - Paul Mazursky, director, writer
1932 - Meadlowlark Lemon, basketball star, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
1933 - Jerry Leiber, composer
1940 - Al Pacino, actor
1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer, songwriter, ABBA member
1946 - Talia Shire, actress
1947 - Johann Cruyff, Dutch footballer
1952 - Ketil Bj¸rnstad, Norwegian pianist
1964 - Hank Azaria, actor, voice actor
1969 - Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
1969 - Darren Woodson, American football player
1969 - Renée Zellweger, actress
1976 - Tim Duncan, basketball star, two-time NBA MVP
1976 - Rainer Schuettler, German professional tennis player

Deaths
1472 - Leon Battista Alberti, artist (b. 1404)
1566 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
1744 - Anders Celsius, astronomer (b. 1701)
1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, mathematician (b. 1781)
1878 - Anna Sewell, author (b. 1820)
1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1937 - Michaù Drzymaùa, famous Polish peasant fighting with German bureaucracy (b.1857)
1968 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1972 - George Sanders, actor (b. 1906)
1990 - Dexter Gordon, jazz musician (b. 1923)
1995 - Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (b. 1911)
1998 - Morris Wright, American writer (b. 1910)
1999 - Lord Killanin, former IOC president (b. 1914)
2000 - David Merrick, producer (b. 1911)
2001 - Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (b. 1956)
2002 - Indra Devi, yoga teacher to the stars
2002 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, singer (b. 1971)
2003 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. (1966)

Yea, these tid bits are priceless. I dig this thread. :)

Yep, I use to post Today in History posts and keep them updated daily, on other forums, just seems no one really cared that much, so I stopped posting them.

Well it was a good idea mate! :)

We'll have to see how long this one stays afloat. :rolleyes:

(Alot of it we know, but it's always nice to blow the dust off the old filing cabnet upstairs, aint it? :lol: )

At a forum like this, it should stay up for a long time. ;)

April 25th

April 25
1590 The Sultan of Morocco launches a successful attack to capture Timbuktu.
1644 The Ming Chongzhen emperor commits suicide by hanging himself.
1707 At the Battle of Almansa, Franco-Spanish forces defeat the Anglo-Portugese forces.
1719 Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London.
1792 The guillotine is first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier.
1859 Work begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt.
1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 After facing defeat in the Red River Campaign, Union General Nathaniel Bank returns to Alexandria, Louisiana.
1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade.
1882 French commander Henri Riviere seizes the citadel of Hanoi in Indochina.
1898 The United States declares war on Spain.
1915 Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey.
1925 General Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany.
1926 In Iran, Reza Kahn is crowned Shah and chooses the name "Pehlevi."
1926 Puccini's opera Turandot premiers at La Scala in Milan with Arturo Toscanini conducting.
1938 A seeing eye dog is used for the first time.
1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River.
1951 After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.
1953 The magazine Nature publishes an article by biologists Francis Crick and James Watson, describing the "double helix" of DNA.
1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes to number one on the charts.
1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway--linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes--opens to shipping.
1960 The first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth is completed by a Triton submarine.
1962 A U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon.
1971 The country of Bangladesh is established.
1980 President Jimmy Carter tells the American people about the hostage rescue disaster in Iran.
1982 In accordance with the Camp David agreements, Israel completes a withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula.
1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a six year term as Nicaragua's president.


Born on April 25
1214 Louis IX, king of France (1226-1270).
1284 Edward II, king of England (1307-1327).
1599 Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England (1653-1658).
1873 Howard R. Garis, children's writer.
1873 Walther de la Mare, poet and novelist (Memoir of a Midget, Come Hither).
1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist, inventor of the radio.
1892 Maud Hart Lovelace, children's author.
1908 Edward R. Murrow, war correspondent and newscaster.
1912 Gladys L. Presley, mother of Elvis Presley.
1914 Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist (Raintree Country).
1917 Ella Fitzgerald, American singer.

1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
* 1607 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
* 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
* 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.
* 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic. <_<
* 1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. :ph43r
* 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. :ph43r
* 1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria. :angry:
* 1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
* 1954 - Geneva Conference (1954) begins: An international conference is held in Geneva in an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea.
* 1962 - Ranger program: The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
* 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
* 1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The American force level in Vietnam drops to 281,400 men, the lowest number since July 1966.
* 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from the war in May and June, reducing the authorized troop level to 49,000.
* 1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. Thirty-one people are killed directly by the incident and many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material.
* 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado and 17 people will perish (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado).
* 1994 - South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.
* 1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
* 2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.

April 26th

0757 Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
1478 Easter is celebrated for the first time
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1532 Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
1564 William Shakespeare baptized
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry VA
1654 Jews are expelled from Brazil
1655 Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1677 Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
1709 Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Connecticut rallying her father's militia
1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge is established
1828 Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1835 Frédéric Chopins "Grand Polonaise Brillante", premieres in Paris France
1841 "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
1853 Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber
1855 Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
1865 Battle of Durham Station NC (Greensboro)
1865 Battle of Fort Tobacco VA
1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham NC
1887 Huntsville Electric Company is established to sell electricity
1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London
1893 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
1900 American League opener in Cleveland draws 6,500
1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at the plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play
1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1907 Jamestown VA Tercentenary Exposition opens
1912 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
1913 Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1920 H Shapley & H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
1923 English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1926 Karachai Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1943)
1926 Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty
1928 Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1931 Lou Gehrig hits a homerun but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake costs him American League home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
1932 Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine", premieres in Paris France
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1935 Frank Boucher is given the NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
1936 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1941 Potatoes rationed in Holland
1942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 Papandreou government in Greece forms
1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WWII, arrested for treason
1947 "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year
1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Maryland is run
1950 University of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp", kills 176
1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1954 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
1957 Jamestown VA 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1959 Cuba invades Panamá
1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits Chicago White Sox 1-0
1962 US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
1962 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Tanzanian Union Day)
1964 18th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 1
1964 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1965 Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1967 "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 performances
1967 KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1968 US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", 1 megaton device
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
1969 "George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
1969 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
1970 "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hours
1971 San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed
1973 "2 Gentlemen of Verona", musical opens in London
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1974 Nw York Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Cleveland Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
1974 Malta adopts constitution
1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 0-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Islanders win series 4-3
1975 Philadelphia Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 homeruns ties National League record of 11 homeruns in April
1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York-Tokyo
1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1978 France sends troops to Chad
1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1980 Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats St Louis Cardinals)
1980 Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
1981 Beth Solomon wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1981 Largest US bank robbery (Tucson AZ), more than $33 million stolen
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island
1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, the gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1982 CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
1982 Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1983 Boston Bruins 2-New York Islanders 5-Wales Conference Championship-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1983 Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for 1st time
1983 San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
1984 President Ronald Reagan visits China
1986 Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1986 Baseball game between California Angels & Minnesota Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1986 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die
1987 "Barbara Cook A Concert..." closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 performances
1988 1st TNN Viewers Choice Awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
1988 NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in the 1988-89 season
1988 New York Mets' Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)
1989 AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
1990 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
1990 New York court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of the case
1990 Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
1990 "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
1991 "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
1991 23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes
1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession & distribution of illegal narcotics
1992 "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,018 performances
1992 "Growing Pains", final episode on ABC TV
1992 "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 569 performances
1992 "Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances
1992 "Who's The Boss", final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
1992 Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
1992 Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1992 Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
1993 "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 performances
1993 Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1993 NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
1993 STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in New Zealand is 1st black South African to vote
1994 26.9ºC in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
1994 Mad About You actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)
1994 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
1995 Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
1995 Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
1996 Shaun Pollock takes 4 wickets in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H
1996 Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1997 "Life", opens at Barrymore Theater NYC

April 27th

4977 -BC- Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1518 Treaty of St Truiden anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant
1522 Battle at Bicacca Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France
1526 Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1576 Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur
1643 Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez", premieres in Madrid
1646 King Charles I flees Oxford
1650 Scottish General Montrose defeated
1662 Netherlands & France sign military covenant
1694 Frederik August I "the Strong" becomes monarch of Saksen
1746 Battle at Culloden Moor Duke of Cumberland beats "James VIII & III"
1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party on December 16)
1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1828 Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens
1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D T Suzuki, found the awakening
1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
1859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1863 Battle of Streight's raid Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff AL
1865 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" explodes on the Mississippi River
1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1867 The opera "Roméo et Juliette" is produced (Paris France)
1870 Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi
1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
1877 The opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris France)
1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends
1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1890 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Oussébougou West Sudan
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Philadelphia A's win 6-0
1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
1905 World Exposition opens in Luik
1908 4th modern Olympic games open in London
1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands
1918 Brooklyn Dodgers get 1st victory after worst major league start (0-9)
1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
1921 Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
1922 Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin
1923 Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
1924 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
1926 In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance
1931 100º F (38º C), Pahala HI (state record)
1933 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington DC
1935 Yankees pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Philadelphia A's 9-8
1935 Brussel's World Expo opens
1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece
1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
1943 Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0
1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms
1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
1945 US 5th army enters Genua
1946 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed
1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through the US
1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1950 "Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 performances
1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins the term "Pencil neck geek"
1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP
1956 Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1956 Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1959 "Today" show goes abroad for the 1st time (Paris France)
1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected President of People's Rebublic of China
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1960 France grants Togo independence (National Day)
1960 South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns
1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton OH
1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from UK
1962 Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything", premieres in London
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname
1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US
1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
1965 "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 performances
1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
1967 Expo '67 opens in Montréal
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Baltimore Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title
1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 performances
1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark
1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsay appeals that John Lennon not be deported
1973 Kansas City Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 "So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances
1976 Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi
1977 Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa
1977 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
1978 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, New York Yankees beat New York Mets 4-3 in 11
1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV, kills 51
1978 Afghánistán revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1979 George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
1980 Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1981 1st female soccer official is hired by the NASL
1981 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach]
1982 Québec Nordiques 1-New York Islanders 4-Semifinals-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, begins
1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson
1984 Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake MT
1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
1986 "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII
1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1989 "Starmites" opens at Criter Center Theater NYC for 60 performances
1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Michigan)
1990 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
1990 Villanova's women set a 6,000 meter relay world record of 17:18:10
1991 "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 performances
1991 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
1992 "Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 48 performances
1992 New York Jets finish perfect 5-0 pre-season for 1st time
1992 New York Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent
1993 Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
1994 "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
1994 29.0ºC in Genevad Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
1994 7th longest NHL game New Jersey Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 minutes 43 seconds)
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
1994 Minnesota Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
1994 President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
1995 "Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 performances
1995 Coors Field in Colorado opens - Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14
1996 Brunswick World Tournament of Champions won by Dave D'Entremont
1997 "Little Foxes" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 56 performances
1997 "Stanley" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC
1997 Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks
1997 Las Vegas Senior Golf Classic by TruGreen-ChemLawn
1997 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship

It's kind of amazing to see all of the different events that happened on this (or any) day. It makes you think.

Does this mean that he calculated the creation of the universe as April 27?! Or that on April 27th he calculated it? :D I imagine its the latter, but who knows.

Probably the last one. :P

April 28th

0357 Emperor Constantius II visits Rome
0585 War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse
1202 King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France
1253 Utrecht destroyed by fire
1376 English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
1503 Battle at Cerignalo Spanish army under G Córdoba beats France
1521 Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria
1550 Powers of Dutch inquisition extends
1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1655 English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet
1686 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1788 Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
1789 Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Captain William Bligh
1796 Cease fire of Cherasco
1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony
1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
1847 George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar
1848 Free last slaves in French colonies
1855 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1865 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine", premieres in Paris France
1892 1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval"
1901 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherlands (0)
1901 Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as Chicago White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
1910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
1914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1920 Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (1st time)
1922 WOI (Ames IA) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
1924 119 die in Benwood WV coal mine disaster
1925 Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army
1925 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
1930 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
1931 Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field
1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1932 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio
1934 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
1934 FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
1934 Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
1934 Spanish government of Samper forms
1935 Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
1937 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York NY)
1937 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
1940 Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
1941 Last British troops in Greece surrenders
1942 "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
1943 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
1943 German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
1943 US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1944 Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
1945 British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg
1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
1947 Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
1949 Brooklyn's Commish Chandler suspends Durocher but he is absolved on May 3 New York fan charges Leo Durocher with assault after Giants lose 15-2 to
1952 WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1952 St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
1955 WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam
1956 Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 homeruns
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1957 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 "Christine" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 Lieutenant Colonel Georgi Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 meter altitude
1961 Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0
1963 17th Tony Awards Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1964 Japan joins OECO
1965 Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1965 Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
1965 Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA
1965 William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA
1966 20th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music", Julie Christie & L Marvin win
1966 Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
1966 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
1967 Expo 67 opens in Montréal Canada
1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1968 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old Martin Brown
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational
1968 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France
1969 King Crimson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
1971 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black Admiral in US Navy
1971 Dutch social Democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
1972 The courts awarded the Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because the winner was given drugs before the race
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smothers Brothers"
1975 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
1975 South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians
1977 Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart Germany
1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
1980 Reunion Arena in Dallas opens
1983 Boston Bruins 4-New York Islanders 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1
1983 NASA launches Goes-F
1983 Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
1984 "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 performances
1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless innings to start season
1985 Philadelphia Flyers New York Islanders 1-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers win series 4-1
1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1985 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time
1986 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1987 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami FL in 1988 & Minneapolis MN & Orlando FL in 1989
1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1988 Baltimore Orioles lose American League record 21 games in a row
1988 New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
1988 "Chess" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances
1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1990 Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat New York Knicks 157-128
1990 "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances (15 years)
1990 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
1990 Guns & Roses' Axl Rose marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
1990 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) is launched
1991 "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances
1991 "Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 78 performances
1992 Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
1992 Milwaukee Brewers beat Toronto Blue Jays 22-2 with American League record 31 hits in 9 innings
1993 "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
1993 Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1993 New York Islanders beat Washington Capitals 4 to 1 in playoffs, Capitals Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
1994 Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium
1994 Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough
1995 Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
1995 Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
1996 "Big", opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 193 performances
1996 Martin Bryant shoots & kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania
1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1997 "Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC

How about whoever posts the 'This Day in History' do a bit of work and highlight a more few important events?

We don't have to know that in 1994 Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough... :)

Bah, stop your whinning and do it yourself! <_<

:lol:

I don't always have time to pick threw it when I post it...plus this way others may take more time to learn more about History. Something I think we all aspire to do!!! ;)

Yeah, I say post the whole thing. ;)

w00t, Sgt Maj!! :lol:
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Seriously though, mib, you know I'm teasin' ya. But how about who ever sees something they find interesting, just quote it out of the list and start a discussion about it, comment on it, or whatever floats yer boat. :)

You've gotten promoted faster than me. :P

woot the only one i know

April 30th
Saigon Falls to North Vietnam

Hey guys,

Finals in school...work, watching the kid...been slammed this week. I'll be back! B)

1494 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica.
1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.
1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.
1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1912 - The first victims of the RMS Titanic are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
1937 - Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.
1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
1982- Falklands War: The Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile.
1986 - In Bergen, Norway, Sandra Kim wins the thirty-first Eurovision Song Contest for Belgium singing "J'aime la vie" (I love life).
1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1991 - The last episode of the soap opera Dallas aired.
1997 - In Dublin, Ireland, Katrina & the Waves win the forty-second Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".
1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 38 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70. A little under a year later on January 14, 2000 it closed at its highest level to date at 11,722.98.
2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS are posted on Usenet.
2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain mysteriously falls from its perch after 10,000 years
2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.

Births
612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1415 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, master builder (d. 1736)
1761 - August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1835 - Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (d. 1901)
1859 - Andy Adams, author (d. 1935)
1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw (d. 1937)
1867 - J.T. Hearne, English cricket player (d. 1944)
1874 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
1888 - Beulah Bondi, actress (d. 1981)
1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
1895 - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1903 - Bing Crosby, American singer (d. 1977)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, actor (d. 1994)
1906 - Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (d. 1975)
1906 - Mary Astor, actress (d. 1987)
1913 - William Inge, playwright (d. 1973)
1915 - Stu Hart, professional wrestler and wrestling trainer (d. 2003)
1919 - Pete Seeger, American folk singer
1919 - Betty Comden, lyricist
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
1921 - Joe Ames, singer
1923 - Ralph Hall, American politician
1933 - James Brown, singer
1937 - Frankie Valli, American pop singer
1946 - Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
1947 - Doug Henning, magician (d. 2000)
1950 - Howard Ashman, lyricist (d. 1991)
1950 - Mary Hopkin, singer
1951 - Christopher Cross, musician
1952 - Allan Wells, British athlete, Jennifer Broadbridge
1955 - David Hookes, cricketer (d. 2004)
1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
1959 - Uma Bharati, first woman chief minister of Madhya Pradesh
1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, author and actor
1975 - Maksim Mrvica, pianist
1974 - Dulé Hill, actor
1991 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (d. 1998)

Deaths
1616 - William Shakespeare English playright, romantic writer, poet (b. 1564)
1160 - Peter Lombard, scholar and bishop
1622 - Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia (b. 1564)
1679 - Archbishop James Sharp, assassinated (b. 1613)
1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803)
1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1958 - Frank Foster, Warwickshire all-round cricketer (b. 1889)
1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
1988
- Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician
- Milt Caniff, cartoonist (b. 1907)
1989 - Christine Jorgensen, transsexual (b. 1926)
1991 - Jerzy Kosinski, writer (b. 1933)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1992 - Sidney Reso, Exxon executive
2002 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (b. 1910)
2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances
National Teacher Day in America
World Press Freedom Day
Constitution Day in Poland and Japan
Roman Catholicism- Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (often called the Feast of the Invention of the True Cross) (woops missed that one)
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church (and that one)
Saints Eventius, Theodulus, and Alexander (martyrs of 119)
Emily Bicchiere (1238 - 1314)
Antonia and Alexander (martyrs of 313)
Saint Juvenal (d. 376)
Ausfrid (c. 1008)
Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Israeli Independence Day) for 2006: (the observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar).

I wondered what happened to ya. ;)

1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury – Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.
1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1675 - King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1855 - American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chancellorsville – The battle ends with a Union retreat.
1869 - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan.
1871 - The National Association, the first professional baseball league, begins its first season.
1886 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1904 - Construction begins on the Panama Canal.
1910 - The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1912 - Italy occupies the island of Rhodes.
1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1924 - The 1924 Summer Olympics open in Paris, France.
1930 - British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison.
1932 - In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 - World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea – The battle begins with the launch of attack aircraft from American and Japanese aircraft carriers.
1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army.
1945 - World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1946 - In San Francisco Bay, US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine Barracks stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
1948 - Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published.
1949 - The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
1953 - Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
1961 - American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1970 - Vietnam War: Kent State shootings – The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire on students protesting at the United States' invasion of Cambodia. Four students are killed, nine are wounded.
1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changed its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (bloody tatcher)
1985 - In Gothenburg, Sweden, Bobbysocks win the thirtieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway singing "La det swinge" (Let it swing).
1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1990 - Latvia proclaims independence.
1991 - In Rome, Italy, Carola wins the thirty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Fångad av en stormvind" (Trapped in a storm wind).
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1996 - José María Aznar is appointed Prime Minister of Spain, thus ending 13 years of Socialist rule.
1998 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
1999 - Several tornadoes hit the Midwestern part of the United States during the night, killing at least 45 people.
1999 - In California, Manuel Babbitt is executed for the 1980 murder of Leah Schendel. While on death row Babbitt was awarded a Purple Heart for injuries he received in the Vietnam War.
2002 - An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
2003 - The Outbreak of 2003 begins. Ninety-four tornadoes begin the week-long outbreak.

Births
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1781 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
1796 - Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859)
1820 - Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d. 1895)
1826 - Frederic Edwin Church, painter (d. 1900)
1827 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)
1889 - Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (d. 1967)
1903 - Luther Adler, American stage actor (d. 1984)
1918 - Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (d. 1993)
1921 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (d. 2005)
1923 - Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian
1928 - Maynard Ferguson, jazz musician
1928 - Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
1929 - Sidney Lamb, linguist
1930 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
1936 - El Cordobes, bullfighter
1937 - Dick Dale, guitarist
1941 - George Will, writer
1942 - Tammy Wynette, country musician (d. 1998)
1942 - Nickolas Ashford, producer, songwriter, musician (Ashford and Simpson)
1944 - Roger Rees, British-born actor
1945 - Narasinham Ram, journalist
1949 - John Force, NHRA drag racer
1954 - Pia Zadora, actress
1956 - David Guterson, author
1956 - Ulrike Meyfarth, winner of Olympic Games in the high jump
1958 - Keith Haring, graphical artist (d. 1990)
1959 - Randy Travis, country musician
1962 - Oleta Adams, US singer
1967 - Ana Gasteyer, actress
1971 - Mike Dirnt, musician (Green Day)
1979 - Lance Bass, musician (NSYNC)
1994 - Alexander Gould, actor (Finding Nemo)

Deaths
1799 - Tipu Sultan, Muslim Indian military leader (b. c. 1750)
1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1849 - Hokusai, painter and ukiyo-e artist (b. 1760)
1880 - Edward Clark, governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1903 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)
1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
1970 - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder, Kent State victims
1975 - Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (b. 1897)
1980 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
1984 - Bob Clampett, cartoonist, creator of Bugs Bunny (b. 1913)
1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931)
1986 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances
International - World Asthma Day :( bloody asthma
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Saint Monica (d. 387)
Ladislaus of Gielnow
Saint Florian
Saint Gothard
Titianus
Malou
Saint Ethelred
John Houghton, Robert Lawrence (martyr), Augustine Webster, Richard Reynolds (martyr), and John Hale (martyr); all put to death in 1535.
The Netherlands - Remembrance of the dead (1940-1945)
People's Republic of China - Youth Day (青年节, commemorating May Fourth Movement)
Republic of China - Literary Day (文藝節, commemorating May Fourth Movement)

World Asthma Day? Didnt know there was such a thing.

yep funny i havent used my inhalor all day

I havent the need for an inhaler in ovr 3 years. :) I think im done with it. B)

Asthma day? Today's Star Wars Day, dammit! <_<

i once cured an asthma attack using a bong :lol:

:blink: Interesting.

Good to see you all are keeping this thread on the 'high' road while I'm away. :rolleyes:

:lol:

Gotta tell ya'll some of my funny Umpiring stories some time. Working alot right now, and well, funny chit for sure. <_<