Today in History

1667
English poet, John Milton who was blind impoverish sold the copywright of 'Paradise Lost for 10 pounds. In U.S. dollars that would be $12
1937
The 1st U.S. Social Security payment was given in a lump sum of 17 cents to Ernest Ackerman
1965
RC Duncan patents 'Pampers' disposable diaper
1967
Expo '67 opens in Montreal, Canada, featuring a giant biosphere designed by Bucksmiller Fuller
2018
N. Korea's leader, Kim Jung-Un,S Korea Pres, Moon Jae-In agree to offically end the Korean War
 

April 27th Birthdays:
1791
Samuel Morse- inventor of telegraph,Morse Code
1900
Walter Lantz- cartoonist, creator of 'Woodywoodpecker'
1922
Jack Klugman- actor, 2 best known TV roles "Oscar Madison' In 'Odd Couple', 'Quincy' in 'Quincy,MD"
1932
Casey Kasem- U.S disc jockey/radio personality who created 'America's Top 40'
1945
August Wilson -playwright' Fences'
1951
Paul'Ace' Frehly- rock guitarist with band 'KISS"
Deaths:
1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson-essayist/philosopher 78
1915
John Labatt- Canadian businessman/ beer brewer 'Labatt Brewing Company' 76
1965
Edward R.Murrow- U.S. journalist, host of TV show 'Person to Person' 57
1999
Al Hirt- jazz trumpeter 76
2018
Paul Junger Witt- TV/film producer- 'Brian's Song, 'Soap,Golden Girls, Dead Poet's Society 77
 
On this day in History, April 28th

2004 The first Abu Ghraib torture pictures are published
The images aired in a 60 Minutes II report showed gross human rights violations, including torture and murder, committed by U.S. soldiers and CIA personnel in the Baghdad prison.

2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist in history
A Russian rocket transported the Californian billionaire to the International Space Station (ISS).

1994 Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union
Ames was sentenced to life imprisonment for his activities which amounted to one of the most damaging spy cases in U.S. history.

1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France
De Gaulle founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and became its first President a year later.

1947 Thor Heyerdahl begins his legendary journey on Kon-Tiki
The Norwegian explorer and his crew set out on the 101-day journey on the self-built raft to prove that South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
 

Births On This Day, April 28th 🎂

1974 Penélope Cruz
Spanish/American actress

1948 Terry Pratchett
English author

1937 Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician, 5th President of Iraq

1916 Ferruccio Lamborghini
Italian businessman created Lamborghini

1908 Oskar Schindler
Czech/German businessman

Deaths On This Day, April 28th 🪦

1992 Francis Bacon
Irish painter

1949 Aurora Quezon
Filipino wife of Manuel L. Quezon, 2nd First Lady of the Philippines

1946 Louis Bachelier
French mathematician

1945 Benito Mussolini
Italian politician, Dictator of Italy

1716 Louis de Montfort
French priest, saint
 
28th April

1603 Queen Elizabeth I's funeral took place at Westminster Abbey.

1770 English navigator Captain James Cook and his crew, including the botanist Joseph Banks, landed in Australia, at Stingray Bay, which was later named Botany Bay.

1789 The crew of the Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied against the harsh life at sea under Captain Bligh. They were on the return journey from Tahiti where they had spent six months gathering breadfruit trees. Bligh and 17 others were cast adrift in a small boat without a chart. While the mutineers eventually colonized Pitcairn Island, Bligh managed to sail the small craft 3,618 miles to Timor, near Java, arriving there on 14th June.

1910 Frenchman Louis Paulhan won the London to Manchester air race and the £10,000 prize. It was the first long-distance aeroplane race in England and was first proposed by the Daily Mail newspaper in 1906.

1923 The first FA Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium. 200,000 people arrived at a stadium which was only designed to hold 125,000 and when 60,000 irate fans rushed the turnstiles a human torrent swept onto the pitch. Players were engulfed by the crowd and 1,000 men, women and children were injured. Finals were made 'all ticket' after that. The game began one hour late and Bolton beat West Ham 2-0.
 
1789
Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against the captain, William Bligh in the South Pacific.This event is the basis for 2 movie versions "Mutiny on The Bounty', 1935 starring Charles Laughton,Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, 1962, starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard,Richard Harris,Hugh Griffith
1944
in a D-Day rehearsal,750 U.S. soldiers were killed off Slapton Sands in Devon,England. Their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1994
Aldrich Ames,ex CIA agent who worked for the agency for 31 yrs ,his wife Rosario plead guilty for spying for Russia. He was sentenced to life in prison,she served 63 months then was released
 
April 28th Birthdays:
1878
Lionel Barrymore- actor 'Its a Wonderful Life,Key Largo'
1908
Oskar Schindler- Austrian businessman who saved more than 1,000 Polish Jews during Nazi Germany's reign, by putting them to work in his factory.The story of his life made into 1993 movie' Schindler's List' starring Liam Neeson in lead role, directed by Stephen Speilberg movie won 7 Oscars inc Best Picture
1926
Harper Lee- novelist' To Kill A Mockingbird' she won Pultizer Prize, made into movie of the same name, starring Gregory Peck as 'Atticus Finch'
1950
Jay Leno- comedian/TV talk show host
1960 Ian Rankin-Scottish novelist 'Inspector Rebus' crime novels
Deaths:
1945
Benito Mussolini-Italian dictator 61
1970
Ed Begley- actor '12 Angry Men,The Unsinkable Molly Brown' 69
1993
Jim Valvano- U.S. college basketball coach at N.Carolina State 47{cancer}
2007
Dabbs Greer- actor best known TV role' Rev Alden' "Little House on the Prairie' 90
 
On this day in History April 29th

1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention becomes effective
The arms control treaty prohibits the production, storage, and use of chemical weapons. It has so far been ratified by some 190 countries.

1992 Deadly riots erupt in Los Angeles
53 people died in the riots, which started after the acquittal of the 4 Los Angeles police officers accused of the brutal beating of Rodney King.

1975 Hubert van Es takes the famous picture of a helicopter airlift from a Saigon rooftop
The image shows South Vietnamese civilians employed by the U.S. trying to escape Saigon on the day before the city's fall. It came to symbolize the American defeat in Vietnam.

1968 The musical Hair goes to Broadway
As a portrait of the 1960s hippie counterculture and the sexual revolution, it was highly controversial at the time. Some of the musical's songs became anthems of the peace movement during the Vietnam War.

1945 A day before committing suicide, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marry
On the same day, U.S. troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp near Munich.
 
Births On This Day, April 29th 🎂

1974 Anggun
Indonesian/French singer-songwriter, producer

1958 Michelle Pfeiffer
American actress, singer

1901 Hirohito
Japanese Emperor

1899 Duke Ellington
American pianist, composer, bandleader

1854 Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist, engineer


Deaths On This Day, April 29th 🪦

2006 John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian/American economist

1980 Alfred Hitchcock :cry:
English director, producer

1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian/English philosopher

1937 William Gillette
American actor, author

1921 Arthur Mold
English cricketer
 
1813
Jacob F. Hummel granted 1st U.S. rubber patent
1852
The 1st editon of lexiographer, Peter Roget's 'Thesaurus' published in England
1943
German pastor/anti- Nazi dissisdent, Dietrich Bonhoffer arrested by the Gestapo
1967
Aretha Franklin releases her single' Respect' written by Otis Redding
1986
a fire at the Los Angeles Central Library destroys over 400,000 books,caused $22 million in damage
Susan Orlean wrote a terrific book about the fire'The Library Book'
2004
Oldsmobile ends 107 yrs of production with last car produced "Alero'
2021
world's longest pedstrian bridge at 516 meters{1,700ft} opens inside North Portugal's Arouca Geopark
 
April 29th Birthdays
1893
William Randolph Hearst- U.S. newspaper publisher
1879
Thomas Beecham- English conductor, co-founder of London Philharmonic
1899
Duke Ellington- jazz bandleader/composer/ pianist 'Take The A Train, It Don't Mean a Thing"
1917
Celeste Holm-actress 'All About Eve,Gentlemen's Agreement-won Best Actress Oscar for her role
1933
Willie Nelson -country singer/songwriter 'Crazy,On The Road Again'
1957
Daniel Day Lewis- Irish actor 'My Left Foot, The Last of the Mohicans,Gangs of New York'
He has won 3 Best Actor Oscars 'My Left Foot,There Will Be Blood, Lincoln,he retired from acting in 2017
Deaths:
1937
William Carothers- U.S. chemist who invented nylon 41
1980
Alfred Hitchcock- film director 'The Birds,Psycho, Rear Window' 80
2014
Bob Hoskins- actor "The Long Good Friday,Who Framed Roger Rabbit' 71
2019
John Singleton- film director/screenwriter,'Boyz in The Hood' 51{stroke}
 
On this day in History, April 30th

1993 CERN announces that World Wide Web protocols will remain free
By offering the software required to operate a web server with an open license, the European organization ensured its dissemination, and the WWW flourished.

1993 Tennis ace Monica Seles is stabbed by an obsessed fan
Although the stab wound proved to be relatively harmless, the psychological ramifications meant that Seles did not play any tournaments for over two years.

1975 The fall of Saigon marks the end of the Vietnam War
As Communist forces gained control of Saigon, South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh, who had only been in office for 2 days, surrendered unconditionally.

1916 Germany and its World War I allies become the first countries to use daylight saving time (DST)
The rationale was to save energy to aid the war effort. Other European countries, such as the United Kingdom, first introduced DST later that year.

1789 George Washington becomes the first U.S. President
Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City. In the United States, he is venerated as one of the country's founding fathers.
 
Births On This Day, April 30th 🎂

1982 Kirsten Dunst
American actress, singer

1959 Stephen Harper
Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

1956 Lars von Trier
Danish director, screenwriter

1933 Willie Nelson
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor

1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician

Deaths On This Day, April 30th 🪦

1983 Muddy Waters :cry:
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1980 Luis Muñoz Marín
Puerto Rican poet, politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

1945 Adolf Hitler
Austrian/German politician, Chancellor of Germany

1883 Édouard Manet
French painter

1030 Mahmud of Ghazni
 
30th April

1943 The body of a mystery man (planted with false invasion plans) was used by Britain to fool Nazi Germany into defending the 'wrong' regions of the Mediterranean, aiding a successful invasion of Sicily. Operation Mincemeat was a deception conceived by British Intelligence to fool the Germans regarding the true target for the Allied invasion of Sicily. A dead body would be ‘planted’ off the coast of Spain carrying secret documents which purported to reveal that the targets for the forthcoming invasion would be Greece and Sardinia, with Sicily only intended as a feint. To ensure that the Germans swallowed the deception, it was necessary to create a detailed false identity for the body, which was that of a homeless labourer who had died after swallowing rat poison.

1945 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Before beginning his assault on Europe, Hitler had assured his followers that the Third Reich would last for 1,000 years. His mistress, Eva Braun, whom he'd married the day before, died alongside him after taking a cyanide pill.

1980 Armed terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London taking 20 hostages and threatening to blow up the building.

1988 Queen Elizabeth II officially opened World Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia. The fair was the largest event of the Bicentennial celebrations of the European settlement of Australia and attracted almost 16,000,000 visitors.

1999 Two people were killed and at least 30 injured in the third nail-bomb attack in London in two weeks. The bomb went off in a public house in the heart of London's gay community.
 
1864
NYS becomes the 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1904
ice cream cone makes its debut at St. Louis Fair
1952
'Mr Potato Head' is 1st toy to be advertised on television
1989
WWW{World Wide Web} is 1st launched to public domain by computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee
2013
Hannah Warren who was born without a trachea becomes the youngest patient age 2 to receive a stem cell bio-engineered organ.sadly she died on July 8th of complications
 
April 30th Birthdays:
1908
Eve Arden- actress 'Stage Door, Grease, TV show 'Our Miss Brooks
1916
Robert Shaw- U.S choral conductor with Robert Shaw Chorale
1923
Al Lewis- actor best known TV role 'Grampa' in TV show 'The Munsters'
1926
Cloris Leachman- actress, 'Last Picture Show',she won best supp actress Oscar, Mel Brook's parody' Young Frankenstein,TV show 'Mary Tyler Moore Show'
1954
Jane Campion- film director' The Piano,The Power of the Dog'
1975
Johnny Galecki- actor TV shows 'Roseanne, "Big Bang Theory'
Deaths:
1879
Sara Josepha Hale- writer of 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' 90
1883
Edouard Manet- French impressionist painter 'Olympia, The Luncheon on The Grass' 51
1970
Inger Stevens actress best known TV role' Katy' on Farmer's Daughter' 35
2015
Ben E.King- singer' Stand By Me' 76
2019
Peter Mayhew- British actor best known role as 'Chewbacca' in Star Wars movies 74
 
On this day in History, May 1st

1978 Naomi Uemura becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone
The Japanese adventurer is also credited with the first solo ascent of Mount McKinley and the first solo rafting of the Amazon river. He disappeared in 1984 during a winter ascent of Mount McKinley.

1961 Fidel Castro declares Cuba a socialist nation and banned elections
A month after Cuban troops had fought off a U.S.-backed military invasion at the Bay of Pigs, Castro announces that “The revolution has no time for elections.”

1945 Adolf Hitler's death is announced on German radio
As the Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, the German people are informed that “our leader, Adolf Hitler, has fallen for Germany, fighting to his last breath against Bolshevism.”

1925 The world's largest trade union is founded
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions has more than 300 million members.

1840 The world's first adhesive postage stamp is issued in the United Kingdom
The Penny Black shows a portrait of Queen Victoria. Despite its historical significance, the stamp can be bought for around £25 as over 68 million copies were distributed.
 
Births On This Day, May 1st 🎂

1987 Shahar Pe'er
Israeli tennis player

1967 Tim McGraw
American singer-songwriter, actor

1924 Terry Southern
American author, screenwriter

1923 Joseph Heller
American author, playwright

1769 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Irish/English field marshal, politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, May 1st 🪦

1994 Ayrton Senna
Brazilian race car driver

1990 Sergio Franchi
Italian/American singer, actor

1960 Charles Holden
English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library

1904 Antonín Dvořák
Czech composer

1873 David Livingstone
Scottish missionary, explorer
 
1st May

1517 In 'Evil May Day' riots in London, London apprentices attacked foreign residents. Crowds in their hundreds attacked the homes and shops of immigrants, threatening their lives and destroying their possessions. The disorder was so alarming to the government that at least fifteen of the rioters were hanged for treason soon after.

1759 Josiah Wedgwood founded the Wedgwood pottery company in Burslem, Staffordshire. Wedgewood was a prominent abolitionist of slavery. He mass produced cameos depicting the seal for the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and had them widely distributed. He was also the grandfather of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.

1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London. Over 10,000 exhibitors set up eight miles of tables. Although technological wonders from around the world were on display, the exposition was dominated by Britain, which was the premier industrialized nation and workshop of the world.

2014 It was revealed that OCR (optical character recognition) scanners would confuse arms and anus in old text, leading to some unusual romantic translations.
 
1786
Wolfgang Mozart's opera 'Marriage of Figaro' debuts in Vienna with Mozart directing
1840
world's 1st adhesive postage stamp 'The Penny Black' featuring Queen Victoria issued in Great Britain
1931
Empire State Building in NYC opens at the time it was the tallest art deco skyscraper with 102 stories .The building has been featured in over 250 TV shows/movies,annually 4 million tourists from around the world come visit. In 1986 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places
1941
General Mills introduces 'Cheeri Oats' a oat based ready to eat cereal.In 1945 the name was changed to 'Cheerios'
1961
Harper Lee,author of book'To Kill A Mockingbird' receives Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2019
at the interesection of West 63rd St &Broadway, NYC offically names a street,'Sesame Street " in honor of the children's program 50th anniv
 
May 1st Birthdays:
1852
Calamity Jane- U.S frontierswoman
1916
Glenn Fords- actor "Midway, Blackboard Jungle, 3:10 To Yuma,The Big Heat, Superman
1918
Jack Paar-comedian,host of 'The Tonight Show '57-'62
1939
Judy Collins- singer/ songwriter "Both Sides Now, Send in The Clowns"
1954
Ray Parker,Jr singer/songwriter'Ghostbusters
Deaths:
1904
Anton Dvorak-Czech composer 'Slavinic Dances' 62
1984
Gordon Jenkins- arranger/orchestra leader known for working with singers ,Nat king Cole, Frank Sinatra 73
1989
Douglass Watson-actor best known TV role'Mac' on soap opera,'Another World' 68
1994
Ayrton Senna- Brazilian Grand Prix driver,killed in Grand Prix car crash 34
 
On This Day in History, May 2nd

2011 Osama bin Laden is killed by a U.S. commando
Bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, a militant group that claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist attacks on U.S. targets on September 11, 2001.

1997 Tony Blair becomes British Prime Minister, ending 18 years of Conservative Party reign
Blair's Labor Party achieved a landslide victory in the general elections. Many of his early fans were bitterly disappointed when he supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

1989 The Iron Curtain begins to crumble as Hungary dismantles its border fence
By gradually opening its border to Austria, Hungary facilitated the escape of hundreds of East Germans in the months before the Berlin Wall fell.

1982 The British Royal Navy sinks the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano
323 lives were lost in the attack, more than half of the total number of Argentinian casualties during the Falklands War. The British Sun tabloid newspaper commented on the controversial attack with one of its most notorious headlines: “Gotcha”.

1952 The jet age begins with the first scheduled flight of the De Havilland Comet 1
Precisely one year after the maiden flight from London to Johannesburg, a Comet 1 crashed due to structural problems, killing 43 people. A series of similar accidents soon led to the grounding of the entire Comet fleet.
 
Births On This Day, May 2nd 🎂

1985 Lily Allen
English singer-songwriter

1975 David Beckham
English footballer, coach, model

1921 Satyajit Ray
Indian director, producer, screenwriter

1808 Emma Darwin
English wife of Charles Darwin

1729 Catherine the Great
Russian wife of Peter III of Russia

Deaths On This Day, May 2nd 🪦

2011 Osama bin Laden
Saudi Arabian terrorists founded al-Qaeda

1972 J. Edgar Hoover
American 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

1957 Joseph McCarthy
American politician

1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer
German composer

1519 Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, architect
 

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