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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:03:00 -0500
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Today In History
On The Way To Today... April 14th
1028 - Henry III, son of Conrad, was elected king of the Germans.
1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the
Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of
Warwick was killed and Edward IV resumed the throne.
1849 - Hungary declared itself independent of Austria with Louis
Kossuth as its leader.
1861 - At the start of the American Civil War, the battle of Fort
Sumter ended after the Confederates under Beuaregard bombarded the
fort with 4,000 shells.
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor, was allowed upstairs at
Ford's Theatre; giving him access to United States President Abraham
Lincoln's private box as Lincoln watched "Our American Cousin". Just
after 10 p.m., Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincoln in the
Which means, "Thus always to tyrants!" the state motto of Virginia. In
the fall, he broke his leg, but managed to escape the Washington, D.C.
theatre, mount a horse, and flee to Virginia. Booth was tracked down
and shot as he hid in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia. The next day,
Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m.
1894 - In New York City, Thomas Edison demonstrated his kinetoscope. A
viewer held 50 feet of film , about 13 seconds worth, that showed
images of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. The demonstration was called
the first peep show, since you had to peep into the device to see the
film. At that time, movies were not projected on a screen.
1912 - The Royal Mail Steamship, "Titanic", from the White Star Line
hit an iceberg at approximately 11:40 p.m. Less then 3 hours later,
the ship, on its maiden voyage, sank, taking the lives of 1,517
passengers with it.
1912 - Frederick Rodman Law, a stunt man, became the first man to
intentionally jump off the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The difference
between Law and other jumpers? He had no intention of taking his own
life.
1922 - As she flew over New York City, soprano voiced Jeanette
Vreeland, sang the first radio concert from an airplane.
1931 - Spain was declared a republic after King Alfonso abdicated and
fled the country.
1932 - In New Zealand, civil service pay cuts caused the country's
worst ever riots with hundreds injured.
1945 - In Germany near the end of World War II, General Franz Von
Papen was captured by allied troops; he was acquitted at the Nuremberg
trials.
1956 - The first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and
picture was demonstrated by the Ampex Corporation of Redwood City,
California. This videotape machine cost $75,000, and was too large to
fit in a small room.
1958 - For the first time, pianist Van Cliburn, was presented on
Got the Whole World in His Hands".
1960 - In New York City, the musical "Bye Bye Birdie" opened at the
Martin Beck Theatre, starring Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke. It ran
for 607 performances.
1962 - In Paris, Prime Minister Michel Debre resigned and was
succeeded by Georges Pompidou.
Milk Today" on the flip side. "Hush" was a top five song, while the
1981 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia made a perfect landing at Edwards
Air Force Base on its maiden flight.
1993 - British archaeologists unearthed a 7,000-year-old seafarers
village on Dalma Island in the United Arab Emirates. They said it was
the first major settlement of the Ubaid period in that area.
1995 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously authorized Iraq
to sell $2 billion worth of oil over six months to pay for
humanitarian supplies.
1997 - Former Nazi SS captain Erich Priebke, accused in Italy's worst
World War II atrocity, went on trial for the second time in a year.
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