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From: "::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org>
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Subject: Re: On The Way To Today... April 19th
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:44:28 -0500
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On 20 Apr 2009 05:10:40 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
>news:csknu4p48031cbvc3oq9ld6a0ucnul6eg7@4ax.com:
>
>>
>>
>> Today In History
>>
>>
>> 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.
Must have been trying to make some home-made hooch.
lol,
darkshadows
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