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On This Day In History, April 22nd

1997 The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends after 126 days
The hero status of the Peruvian troops involved in the successful raid was later called into question when evidence of summary executions of captured insurgents emerged.

1992 A series of massive explosions destroy parts of Guadalajara
The disaster in the downtown district of Analco occurred after gasoline had leaked into the sewer system. At least 206 people died, nearly 500 were injured, and about 15,000 were left homeless.

1977 Optical fiber is used for telephone transmissions for the first time
Fiber-optic technology allows sending information over long distances by means of light pulses. It has played an important role in the development of modern-day global communications.

1945 Adolf Hitler admits defeat
The German dictator announced in the underground Führerbunker that he plans to commit suicide after learning that Soviet forces had entered Berlin.

1906 The 1906 Olympic Games begin in Athens
While the meet in practice was the second Olympic Games of the modern era, it is not recognized as such by the International Olympic Committee.
 

Births On This Day, April 22nd 🎂

1916 Yehudi Menuhin
American/Swiss violinist, conductor

1899 Vladimir Nabokov
Russian/American author

1891 Nicola Sacco
Italian/American criminal

1870 Vladimir Lenin
Russian politician

1724 Immanuel Kant
Russian/German philosopher

Deaths On This Day, April 22nd 🪦

1999 Munir Ahmad Khan
Austrian/Pakistani scientist, engineer

1994 Richard Nixon
American politician, 37th President of the United States

1986 Mircea Eliade
Romanian historian, author

1983 Earl Hines
American pianist

1616 Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish author
 
1838
1st Trans Atlantic steam passenger service begins when English steamship'Sirus' docks in NYC after crossing the Atlantic Ocean
1915
during WWI the 1st use of poison gas,chlorine by Germany
1970
the 1st worldwide 'Earth Day' was observed,the 'brain child' of Sen Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. It is to increase awareness of hazardous pollutants which harms world's natural resources. The U.S. gov't created
EPA{Environmental Protection Agency} to control pollution levels across the country
1993
The Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated in Washington,DC Its to help leaders/ citizens of the world to prevent genocide,promote human dignity. It has over 12,750 artifacts,9,000 oral history survivors,200,000 survivors&their families
 

April 22nd Birthdays:
1906
Eddie Albert- actor best known TV role' Oliver Douglas' in 60's CBS sitcom' Green Acres'
1926
Charlotte Rae- character actress, best known TV role' Mrs Garrett' on NBC sitcom' Facts of Life'
1936
Glen Campbell- Grammy winning pop/country singer/ guitarist. His biggest hits were written by songwriter, Jimmy Webb 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Galveston, Witchita Lineman, Within the Sound of My Voice
1944
Steve Fossett- U.S adventurer, 1st person to fly solo non stop around the world in a balloon
1951
Paul Carrack- British singer with bands Ace'How Long', Mike&The Mechanics' The Living Years' Squeeze Tempted'
Deaths:
1616
Miguel de Cervantes- Spanish novelist' Don Quixote 68
1933
Henry Royce- British automobile founder Rolls-Royce 70
1984
Ansel Adams- U.S. landscape photographer 82
1996
Erma Bombeck -humorist/ novelist' "Life is a Bowl of Cherries' The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank' 69
2022
Guy LaFleur- Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right winger with Montreal Canadiens won 5 Stanley Cups also played for NY Rangers, 70{lung cancer}
 
On This Day In History, April 23rd

2005 The first YouTube video is posted
The 18-second clip “Me at the Zoo” shows co-founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo. It has been viewed more than 13 million times (2014).

1988 Kanellos Kanellopoulos flies across the Aegean Sea in a human-powered aircraft
The Greek Olympic cyclist flew a record-breaking 115 km (71 mi) from Crete to Santorini in the MIT Daedalus aircraft, which was named after the mythological inventor of aviation.

1985 Coca-Cola releases New Coke
The new formula was so unpopular that the original Coke was re-introduced as Coca-Cola Classic soon afterward.

1984 The discovery of the virus causing AIDS is announced
French virologists Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the HIV virus.

1971 The Rolling Stones release Sticky Fingers
The album is often considered one of the British rock band's best. It includes hits like “Brown Sugar” and ”Wild Horses”.
 
Births On This Day, April 23rd 🎂

1936 Roy Orbison
American singer-songwriter

1928 Shirley Temple
American actress, singer, dancer

1891 Sergei Prokofiev
Russian pianist, composer, conductor

1858 Max Planck
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1791 James Buchanan
American politician, 15th President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, April 23rd 🪦

2007 Boris Yeltsin
Russian politician, 1st President of Russia

1998 Konstantinos Karamanlis
Greek politician, 3rd President of Greece

1993 Cesar Chavez
American activist

1992 Satyajit Ray
Indian director, producer, screenwriter

1616 William Shakespeare
English playwright, actor
 
23rd April

1564 The birth of poet & playwright William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

1661 Charles II was crowned King of England, completing the restoration of the monarchy. His father, Charles I, had been beheaded by Oliver Cromwell following the Civil War.

1879 The first Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opened in Stratford-upon-Avon.

1982 The launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer. The entry level model had 16 kB RAM and an external tape recorder was needed to load the majority of software. It was 'a computer for the masses' and much cheaper than its rivals - the Commodore 64 and the BBC Microcomputer.

1983 Canadian snooker player Cliff Thorburn completed the first televised maximum break of 147 during the World Snooker Championships at the Crucible Theatre, in Sheffield.

2023 The first test of the government's new phone alert system at 3pm. The system has been 10 years in the making and will send an emergency alert to mobile phones when there is an imminent threat to people's lives.
 
On This Day In History, April 24th

2013 1129 people die in Bangladesh in the worst building collapse disaster in modern history
The building was used by clothing factories producing garments for Western markets, highlighting the disastrous working conditions in the industry.

2005 Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as Pope Benedict XVI
The German was considered a particularly conservative Pope - quite unlike his successor, Pope Francis.

1990 The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into Earth's orbit
Unhindered by the impurities and distortions of Earth's atmosphere, the 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) aperture telescope has delivered some of the most spectacular images of the far reaches of the Universe.

1957 The Suez Canal reopens after the Suez Crisis
The conflict between Egypt on the one hand and France, the United Kingdom, and Israel on the other erupted in October 1956 when Egypt announced that the canal will be nationalized.

1915 The Ottoman Empire begins its systematic extermination of Armenians
An estimated 1 million people were killed in the Armenian Massacres during and after World War I. The event is considered one of the first genocides in modern history.
 

Births On This Day, April 24th 🎂

1982 Kelly Clarkson
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1973 Sachin Tendulkar
Indian cricketer

1942 Barbra Streisand
American singer-songwriter, actress, producer

1941 Richard Holbrooke
American journalist, banker, diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations

1897 Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist

Deaths On This Day, April 24th 🪦

2011 Sathya Sai Baba
Indian guru, philosopher

1980 Alejo Carpentier
Swiss/Cuban author

1960 Max von Laue
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1942 Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian author

1731 Daniel Defoe
English journalist, spy
 
1833
Jacob Evertt&George Dully patent 1st soda fountain
1888
Eastman Kodak founded by George Eastman
1908
Mr&Mrs Jacob Eastman& family,their children left Los Angeles in a Packard Thirty,becoming the 1st family to travel across the country.They arrived in NYC in 32 days,5 hrs,& 25 min
1928
the Fathometer which measures under water depth was patent by Herbert Grove Dorsey
1953
Queen Elizabeth II knights British Prime minister, Winston Churchill
1979
Georgia names Ray Charles's version 'Georgia On My Mind{ written by Hoagy Carmichael} as the state's official song
2018
steaming music services overtake worldwide sales CDs&vinyl records for the 1st time
 
April 24th BIrthdays:
1922
J.D. Cannon- actor best known TV role' Police Chief,Clifford' on NBC 70's police drama'McCloud'
1934
Shirley Maclaine- actress Irma La Douce, Terms of Endearment, Postcards From the Edge', sister of actor Warren Beatty
1955
Michael O'Keefe- actor, Caddyshack, Iron Weed, Slugger's Wife, ex husband of singer/ song writer Bonnie Raitt
1982
Kelly Clarkson- singer/songwriter "Since You've Been Gone' 1st winner on American Idol
Deaths:
1731
Daniel Defoe- British author' Robinson Crusoe' 70
1942
Lucy Maud Montgomery- Canadian author' Anne of Green Gables' 67
1974
Budd Abbott- comedian Abbott&Costello' comedy duo 78
1997
Pat Paulsen- comedian, regular on CBS variety show' Smother's Brothers' 69
2016
Billy Paul- soul singer 'Me&Mrs Jones 81
 
24th April

1558 Mary Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, married the French Dauphin at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

1916 In Dublin, Irish nationalists, led by Patrick Pearse, launched the Easter Rebellion against British rule.

1932 A mass trespass by thousands of ramblers, led by Benny Rothman, took place on Kinder Scout in the Peak District. Their aim was to establish public right of access on the moors and mountains that were privately owned for grouse shooting.The mass trespass started at Bowden Bridge Quarry, close to Hayfield and had a far-reaching impact that culminated in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 which gave people 'the right to roam' on mapped access land.

1993 The Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside of 99 Bishopsgate that caused massive damage to London’s financial district, injuring 44 and killing one.
 
On This Day In History, April 26th

2005 Syria ends its military occupation of Lebanon after 29 years
Syria buckled to domestic and international pressure following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14 of the same year.

1994 Germany makes Holocaust denial illegal
The far-right party NPD had sought legitimation by Germany's Federal Constitutional Court for expressing the view that the Nazis' genocide of six million Jews never occurred. The court ruled against them.

1989 The deadliest tornado in history kills about 1300 people
The Daulatpur–Saturia Tornado devastated everything in its 50-mile-long path across central Bangladesh.

1986 The worst nuclear disaster in history occurs in Chernobyl
Large parts of Europe were contaminated when reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Although the number of deaths attributable to the disaster is difficult to determine, experts anticipate tens of thousands of deaths across Europe in the coming decades due to cancer caused by the radioactive fallout.

1925 Franz Kafka publishes his landmark novel The Trial
The text, which was initially published as Der Process, is a nightmarish account of a man being arrested and prosecuted by a faceless authority for an unknown crime.
 

Births On This Day, April 26th 🎂

1932 Israr Ahmed
Indian/Pakistani theologian, philosopher, scholar

1917 I. M. Pei
Chinese/American architects, designed the National Gallery of Art, Bank of China Tower

1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian/English philosopher

1822 Frederick Law Olmsted
American journalist, and landscape designer, co-designed Central Park

121 Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor

Deaths On This Day, April 26th 🪦

1999 Adrian Borland
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1989 Lucille Ball
American actress

1984 Count Basie
American pianist, bandleader, composer

1951 Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist

1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician
 
26th April

1564 Shakespeare's baptism is recorded in the Parish Register at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.

1607 Captain John Smith landed at Cape Henry, in Virginia with the first group of colonists who established a permanent English settlement in America.

1923 The marriage of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later 'the Queen Mother') to the Duke of York (later King George VI) at Westminster Abbey in London. It was the first royal wedding at the abbey since 1383. The newly formed British Broadcasting Company wanted to record and broadcast the event on radio, but the Abbey Chapter vetoed the idea.

1984 The re-opening of the reconstructed Cavern Club in Liverpool.

2014 The last letter to be written on the ill-fated Titanic sold for £119,000 at auction.The letter was written by survivors Esther Hart and her seven-year-old daughter Eva eight hours before the ship hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. The letter only survived because it was in the pocket of her husband's coat which he gave her to keep warm.Meant for her mother in Chadwell Heath, east London, the letter went under the hammer at a Wiltshire auctioneers.
 
On This Day In History, April 27th

2005 The Airbus A380 takes to the skies for the first time
The double-deck airliner is the world's largest commercial jet.

1994 South African citizens of all races are allowed to vote in a general election for the first time
The 1994 general election was held precisely 44 years after Apartheid was formalized by the government with the passing of the Group Areas Act.

1992 For the first time in its 700-year history, the British House of Commons is presided over by a female Speaker
Betty Boothroyd served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000.

1961 Sierra Leone becomes an independent republic
The West African country's first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, ended over 150 years of British colonial rule.

1810 Ludwig van Beethoven composes “Für Elise”
“Bagatelle No. 25” for solo piano is one of the German composer's most popular works and one of the most recognized melodies in the history of music.
 
Births On This Day, April 27th 🎂

1963 Russell T Davies
Welsh screenwriter, producer

1935 Theodoros Angelopoulos
Greek director, producer, screenwriter

1822 Ulysses S. Grant
American general, politician, and 18th President of the United States

1791 Samuel Morse
American painter, and inventor, co-invented the Morse code

1759 Mary Wollstonecraft
English author, philosopher


Deaths On This Day, April 27th 🪦

1992 Olivier Messiaen
French composer, ornithologist

1972 Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana

1938 Edmund Husserl
Austrian mathematician, philosopher

1896 Henry Parkes
English/Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales

1521 Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer
 
1667
blind/improvished English poet, John Milton sold his copyright of' Paradise Lost' for 10 British pounds- U.S currency would be around $12
1875
NY Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children{NYSPCC} world's 1st child protection agency is incorporated
1961
National Football League officially recognizes Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton,Ohio
1987
U.S Gov't bars Austrian Chancellor, Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S due to his aiding Nazi Germany during WWII
1992
Betty Boothroyd becomes 1st female elected as Speaker to British House of Commons in its 700 yr history
 
April 27th Birthdays:
1791
Samuel Morse- U.S inventor of telegraph, Morse Code
1900
Walter Lantz- U,S cartoonist, who created' Woody the Woodpecker'
1922
Jack Klugman- actor best known TV roles' Oscar Madison'{he played the slob} in ABC sitcom' The Odd Couple' "Quincy' in NBC police drama' Quincy, M.E.
1959
Sheena Easton- singer '9 to 5 'Morning Train, For Your Eyes Only'
1969
Corey Booker- U.S. Senator from New Jersey, mayor of Newark, NJ from 2006-2013
Deaths:
1521
Ferdinand Magellan - Portugese explorer 50
1932
Hart Crane- U.S poet' The Bridge' 32
1999
Al Hirt- U.S. jazz trumpeter 76
2015
Suzanne Crough- actress best known TV role' Tracy Partridge in ABC sitcom' The Partridge Family' 52
2018
Paul Junger Witt- TV /film producer "The Golden Girls, TV movie' Brian's Song,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 in London. After her death on 24th March 1603, the body of Queen Elizabeth I was placed inside a lead coffin and carried by night in a torchlit barge along the Thames from Richmond Palace to Whitehall.

1772 The death, in London, of the world's most travelled goat. She had circumnavigated the world twice, first on Dolphin under Captain Wallis, then on Cook's Endeavour. The Lord of the Admiralty even signed a document acknowledging her age and adventures. 🐐

1789 Mutiny on HMS Bounty. Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against the ship's captain, William Bligh. Bligh and 19 sailors are cast adrift in an open launch: the mutineers briefly return to Tahiti before heading for Pitcairn Island.

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.
 
28 April 1968
The Broadway Musical Hair opened in New York for its first performance. The show featured songs that would become Rock and Roll standards like "Hair" and "Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In", along with "Good Morning Starshine" and "Easy to Be Hard". The production ran for 1,729 performances, finally closing on July 1st, 1972.
 

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