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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Only 252 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Peppercorn Day in Bermuda
Today In History
On The Way To Today... April 23rd
303 - Christian martyr Saint George is believed to have been killed.
According to legend he rescued a Libyan king's daughter after slaying
the dragon that was about to devour her. Although little factual
information is known, it is said that Saint George's defense of
Christianity led to his arrest, torture, and execution.
1014 - Brian Boru, high king of Ireland, was killed repelling Viking
invaders at the battle of Clontarf.
1348 - King Edward III of England established the Order of the Garter.
1564 - The birth of William Shakespeare, England's greatest
playwright, is traditionally celebrated on this date. He died on the
same date in 1616.
1661 - Charles II was crowned king of England.
1772 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote "La Marseillaise", one of
the French citizens.
1872 - Charlotte E. Ray became the first female black lawyer.
1898 - The United States government asked for 125,000 volunteers to
fight against Spain in Cuba.
1900 - The word, hillbilly, was first printed in an article in the
"New York Journal". It was spelled, Hill-Billie, and defined as a
can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it and fires off
1918 - The British Navy under Admiral Keyes raided the German
submarine base at Zeebrugge.
1941 - King George of the Hellenes and the Greek government fled the
Greek mainland from the advancing Germans; the Greek army also
surrendered.
1945 - The Russian army liberated the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrueck
concentration camps.
1951 - The Associated Press began using teletypesetting when they gave
a perforated, paper-tape message to a news bureau in Charlotte, North
Carolina. The message was then fed into a monitor before sending it to
a printer. From there, the newspaper copy was finished.
1965 - More than 200 United States planes struck North Vietnam in one
of the heaviest raids of the Vietnam War.
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life
imprisonment.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, announced it was
the biggest corporate flops in history.
1992 - Fighting erupted in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo just hours
after the warring parties signed a truce amid sniper fire.
1992 - McDonald's opened its first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese
capital of Beijing.
1997 - The presidents of Russia and China signed a declaration
opposing the domination of one superpower in the post-Cold War world.
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