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"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
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> Today In History
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> On The Way To Today... April 19th
>
> 1587 - English admiral Sir Francis Drake entered Cadiz harbor and sank
> the Spanish fleet, an action he referred to "as singeing the king of
> Spain's beard."
>
> 1775 - The first battle of the American Revolutionary War started when
> British and American soldiers exchanged fire in Lexington and Concord
> (Massachusetts). More than 650 British soldiers were sent to suppress
> rebellious colonists who had taken up on arms against the Crown. This
> was the first revolutionary battle in which British soldiers were
> killed.
>
> 1824 - George Gordon Lord Byron, the talented English romantic poet
> who penned the satirical masterpiece "Don Juan", died at age 36 in
> Missolonghi, Greece. Byron's writings included long romances and
> stories in verse. His many love affairs before and after his ill-fated
> marriage to Anne Isabella Milbanke made him all the more celebrated.
>
> 1839 - The Treaty of London was signed, establishing recognition of
> the Kingdom of Belgium by all the states of Europe.
>
> 1848 - The Associated Press, the worldwide news-gathering agency
> dedicated to the ideals of objectivity and "truth in news," was
> established.
>
> 1850 - The Clayton-Bulwer agreement was signed under which Britain and
> the United States agreed not to obtain exclusive control of a proposed
> Panama canal.
>
> 1853 - Russia claimed protectorate over Turkey in a prelude to the
> Crimean War.
>
> 1892 - In the United States, the Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced.
>
> 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation removing
> the United States from the gold standard.
>
> 1943 - Polish Jews rose up in the Warsaw ghetto in a failed rebellion
> against the Nazis.
>
> 1945 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical-fantasy, Carousel, opened on
> Broadway.
>
> 1951 - General Douglas MacArthur gave his "Old Soldiers" speech to the
> United States Congress. The highlight of this address was MacArthur's
> statement that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
>
> 1951 - Shigeki Tanaka, a survivor of the atomic bomb dropped on
> Hiroshima, Japan during World War II, won the Boston Marathon.
>
> 1960 - A student uprising toppled the authoritarian government of
> South Korean President Syngman Rhee.
>
> 1966 - An advance party of 4,500 Australian troops left Sydney to
> fight alongside United States troops in Vietnam.
>
> 1967 - The unmanned United States spacecraft Surveyor 3 landed on the
> moon.
>
> 1971 - Russia launched its space station Salyut into earth's orbit.
>
> 1989 - Forty-seven crewmen died in an explosion on the United States
> battleship USS Iowa during Atlantic maneuvers.
>
> ground in the anticlimax of a 51-day standoff between the cult led by
> David Koresh and United States federal agents from the Bureau of
> Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms. In the fire, 86 people died including 17
> children. Koresh and his followers refused to surrender themselves or
> the children, instead choosing to exchanging gun fire. Nine members of
> the cult did manage to escape.
>
> 1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City,
> Oklahoma was decimated by an estimated 5,000 pound bomb place in a
> car. Charged with the murders of 169 people including 19 children and
> a nurse injured in rescue efforts, in this the worst bombing on United
> States soil, was Timothy McVeigh. On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was found
> guilty on 11 different counts, including several first degree murder
> charges for the deaths of federal officers. Terry L. Nicholls, an Army
> friend of McVeigh, was also charged. In 2001, McVeigh was executed by
> lethal injection for his crimes.
>
>
You forgot that on this day Pierre and Marie Curie refined radium
chloride in 1902.
Mercury.
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