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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:47:54 -0500
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Only 248 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Arbor Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... April 27th
1296 - The English under Edward I heavily defeated a Scottish army
under the Earl of Athol at the battle of Dunbar.
1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan died in battle in the
Philippines. Usually considered the first person to circumnavigate the
globe, he died before completing his trip. Magellan had set sail from
Spain, more than 18 months earlier, with five ships and 270 men.
1865 - The worst steamship disaster in United States history happened
today. The "Sultana", carrying nearly 2,300 passengers, the majority
of which were freed Union Prisoners of War from the Civil War,
exploded en route to Cairo, Illinois. The cause of the explosion, and
the number of those killed (it was estimated between 1,450 and 2,000)
were never determined. The "Sultana" disaster still remains the worst
of its kind.
1865 - Actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was
shot and killed in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia, by federal
cavalrymen after they set the barn on fire.
1880 - The electrical hearing aid was patented by Francis Clarke and
M.G. Foster.
1909 - A group known as the "Young Turks" deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid
three days after a liberation army had taken then-Constantinople.
1932 - Writer Hart Crane jumped over the side of a ship and drowned
while traveling from Mexico to the United States. He was wearing his
pajamas only, and jumped that morning in front of many passengers in
the Orizaba. Crane, racked with self-doubt about his ability to write
good poetry, and agonizing over his binges in homosexuality, had been
mental unstable for some time. Life preservers were thrown to him, but
he made no effort to reach them. The ship halted in the water, ten
miles off the Florida coast, but never recovered his body.
1941 - German tanks rolled into Athens in World War II.
1945 - Allies rejected peace offers by German SS chief Heinrich
Himmler, insisting on unconditional surrender.
1946 - The first commercial, carrier ship equipped with a radar, the
"SS African Star", was put in use.
1950 - Britain recognized the state of Israel.
1960 - The submarine, "Tullibee", launched from Groton, Connecticut,
making it the first sub equipped with closed-circuit television.
1960 - The French-administered United Nations Trust Territory of
Togoland gained independence as the Republic of Togo.
1961 - Sierra Leone gained independence within the Commonwealth from
Great Britain and parliament held its first session with Sir Milton
Margai as prime minister.
1978 - Afghanistan's armed forces seized power, establishing a
government based on Islamic principles. President Daoud was killed and
new President Nur Mohammed Taraki proclaimed the Democratic Republic
of Afghanistan.
1986 - By overriding a Home Box Office broadcast, an unknown "video
pirate" announced that he would not pay for his cable service. HBO,
the F.C.C., and commercial users were unsettled that someone could
override HBO's satellite transmission.
1992 - Russia and most of the other former Soviet republics were
welcomed into the free-market fold as the International Monetary Fund
and World Bank approved them for membership.
1993 - Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia after 30 years of
civil war following a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 - China and Taiwan opened two days of talks in Singapore, their
highest-level negotiations since the end of the Chinese civil war in
1949.
1997 - Hong Kong officially opened the world's longest road-rail
suspension bridge, linking the colony to its new offshore airport.
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