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 klc53*  Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
March 27, 1998 FDA approves Viagra On this day in 1998, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves use of the drug Viagra, an oral medication that treats impotence. ID: 879796 ·  |
Matthew Love  Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 
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Permanent United States Navy Established (1794) The establishment of a permanent US Navy came with the authorization to build six frigates in 1794. Three of these were welcomed into service soon thereafter and distinguished themselves in the War of 1812 by unexpectedly defeating British Royal Navy forces several times. The US Navy currently has nearly 500,000 personnel on active duty or in the Navy Reserve and operates 279 ships in active service and more than 4,000 aircraft.   LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 879813 · |
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klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
March 29, 1973 U.S. withdraws from Vietnam Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam. U.S. WITHDRAWS FROM VIETNAM ID: 880510 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage (1951) In 1951, the Rosenbergs were prosecuted for conspiracy to transmit classified military information to the Soviet Union. During the Rosenbergs' trial, the government charged that they had persuaded Ethel's brother, an employee at the Los Alamos atomic bomb project, to provide them with top-secret data on nuclear weapons. They were convicted and executed via the electric chair, becoming the first US civilians to suffer the death penalty in an espionage trial. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 880512 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Thomas Cranmer Becomes Archbishop of Canterbury (1533) Thomas Cranmer was the archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He promoted and proclaimed Henry's various marriages and divorces according to the king's will, and he endorsed the translation of the Bible into English. During Edward VI's reign, he shaped the doctrinal and liturgical transformation of the Church of England and was responsible for much of the first Book of Common Prayer. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 880875 · |
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klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
March 31, 1889 Eiffel Tower opens On March 31, 1889, the 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. In 1889, to honor of the centenary of the French Revolution, the French government planned an international exposition and announced a design competition for a monument to be built on the Champ-de-Mars in central Paris. Out of more than 100 designs submitted, the Centennial Committee chose Eiffel's plan of an open-lattice wrought-iron tower that would reach almost 1,000 feet above Paris and be the world's tallest man-made structure. EIFFEL TOWER ID: 880990 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Internal Combustion Engine Patented by Morey (1826) In an internal combustion engine, fuel combusts within a confined space, causing gasses to expand and increase pressure within the chamber. This pressure is, in turn, converted to mechanical power. American inventor Sam Morey's patent for his internal combustion engine helped pave the way for the first car ride in the US, which took place in the late 1820s, and the invention of the modern, gas-powered automobile in the 1890s. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 881257 · |
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klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
April 1, 1700 April Fools tradition popularized On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Although the day, also called All Fools' Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes. These included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as "poisson d'avril" (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person. APRIL FOOLS DAY ID: 881291 · |
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HAL Send message Joined: 28 Mar 03 Posts: 704 Credit: 870,617 RAC: 0
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is this representitive of his concept of the strig theory1879   Classic WU= 7,237 Classic Hours= 42,079 ID: 881524 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Ponce de León Sets Foot on Florida (1513) In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León set out from Puerto Rico, sailing northeast through the Bahamas. He soon sighted the Florida peninsula, which he believed was actually an island, and in early April, he became the first European to reach it. His discovery coincided with the Easter feast, Pascua Florida, and is perhaps the reason why he named the land he claimed for Spain "La Florida." LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 881872 · |
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klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
April 3, 1860 Pony Express debuts On this day in 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet's arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery. Although ultimately short-lived and unprofitable, the Pony Express captivated America's imagination and helped win federal aid for a more economical overland postal system. PONY EXPRESS ID: 882063 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Hostess Twinkies Are Invented (1930) The Twinkie was invented by bakery manager James Dewar, who noticed that the shop's shortcake pans were only used during the strawberry season and otherwise sat idle. His thrifty idea to use the pans during the off-season led to the development of the banana-filled Twinkie snack cake. During a World War II banana shortage, vanilla filling replaced the original banana. Today, 500 million Twinkies are produced each year. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 882694 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Toronto Blue Jays Play First Game (1977) The Toronto Blue Jays are a major league baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario. In 1992, "the Jays" became the first team based outside of the US to win the World Series, a feat they repeated in 1993. Originally owned by Labatt Breweries, Imperial Trust, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the Blue Jays came into existence in 1976 as one of two teams slated to join the American League for the next season. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 883074 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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The Notre-Dame Affair (1950) The Notre-Dame Affair was an anti-Catholic intervention performed by radical members of the Lettrist movement on Easter Sunday, 1950. During a quiet moment in the Easter High Mass, Michel Mourre, disguised as a Dominican monk, climbed to the rostrum and declaimed a blasphemous anti-sermon on the death of God. The proclamation was heard not only by the thousands of faithful present at the mass but also by hundreds of thousands of TV viewers LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 883659 · |
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klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
April 10, 1866 ASPCA is founded On April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by philanthropist and diplomat Henry Bergh, 54. In 1863, Bergh had been appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to a diplomatic post at the Russian court of Czar Alexander II. It was there that he was horrified to witness work horses beaten by their peasant drivers. En route back to America, a June 1865 visit to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in London awakened his determination to secure a charter not only to incorporate the ASPCA but to exercise the power to arrest and prosecute violators of the law. ID: 883926 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Belfast Agreement Signed (1998) The Belfast Agreement, also known as the Good Friday Agreement, was a major step in the Northern Ireland (NI) peace process. Signed by the British and Irish governments and endorsed by most of NI's political parties, it secured the commitment of all parties to "exclusively peaceful and democratic means" and affirmed that the constitutional future of NI should be determined by a majority vote of its citizens. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 884110 · |
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klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
Napoleon exiled to Elba - April 11, 1814 On this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. NAPOLEON ID: 884260 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Brixton Riot (1981) In the early 1980s, south London's Brixton neighborhood was plagued by severe social and economic problems, including high rates of unemployment and crime and poor housing conditions. In 1981, in an effort to reduce street crime, police began stopping and searching anyone they deemed suspiciousâ€â€a policy that many residents of the predominantly black community found discriminatory and heavy-handed. Eventually, the angry residents rioted LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 884286 · |
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Albireo380 Send message Joined: 21 Mar 08 Posts: 119 Credit: 1,570,025 RAC: 0 
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1970 Launch of Apollo 13. Nearly ended in disaster as on the outward journey to the Moon, an explosion in the Command Module put the main motors out of action. They got home safely due to a combination of courage, skill, improvisation (and luck), touching down on April 17. I remember it well, it felt like the whole World held its breath until they got home safely. Tom ID: 884368 · |
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klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0 |
April 12, 1861 The Civil War begins The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort. On April 13, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort. Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern "insurrection." CIVIL WAR ID: 884560 · |
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