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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:42:58 -0500
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Only 246 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
National Puppetry Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... April 29th
1429 - Joan of Arc entered Orleans with supplies seven months into the
siege of the city in the Hundred Years War; the siege was lifted a
week later.
1628 - Sweden and Denmark signed a treaty for the defense of
Stralsund, bringing Sweden into the Thirty Years War.
1813 - J.F. Hummel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania patented rubber.
1879 - In Cleveland, Ohio, electric arc lights were used for the first
time.
1913 - The improved version of the zipper was patented by Swedish
engineer Gideon Sundback as a "separable fastener."
1916 - After a siege of 143 days, the British surrendered Kut-el-Amara
to the Turks.
1927 - Construction of the "Spirit of St. Louis" was completed. Flown
by Charles Lindbergh in the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight,
the plane was completed in two months at a cost of $10,580. It was
named in honor of Lindbergh's financial supporters in St. Louis,
Missouri.
1930 - The first person to be interviewed on television anywhere in
the world was the Irish actress Peggy O'Neil. She appeared on a
"televisor," as the sets were then known, at Britain's Ideal Home
Exhibition in Southampton.
1942 - The Japanese army captured the town of Lashio, cutting off the
Burma Road between China and India.
1944 - United States forces attacked Truk in the Caroline Islands,
dropping more than 800 tons of bombs.
1945 - The 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, part of the most honored
regiment in United States military history (the 442nd regimental
combat team), had another first when they freed the remaining
prisoners of the Nazi death camp, Dachau. The 522nd consisted entirely
of second generation Japanese-Americans (Nisei).
1945 - The terms of surrender of the German armies in Italy were
signed; Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies; in Berlin,
Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun, but also made his will naming Admiral
Doenitz as his successor.
1959 - UNIVAC, the electronic computer the size of a house, picked
four of six winners at Churchill Downs race track in Louisville,
Kentucky. The electronic brain set a record for having the right
choices in horse races, but the winners all paid 2-1 or even odds, so
it there was no fortune to be made.
1960 - Dick Clark told a House of Representatives investigating
committee checking into the payola scandal that he, host of "American
Bandstand", never took payola to feature certain records on his daily
television show. Clark did give up the rights to music publishing he
owned, however. Thirty years later, Clark said those rights amounted
to about $80 million.
1961 - A Saturday afternoon sports show started what would be a long
run on ABC-TV. The show, "ABC's Wide World of Sports", featured Jim
McKay as host, along with Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, Al Michaels,
Jack Whitaker, Heywood Hale Brun and others, but was not an immediate
popular programs.
1965 - The Australian government announced it had decided to send
troops to Vietnam.
1968 - The Broadway musical "Hair" left Greenwich Village for
Broadway. The show opened eyes, as it marked the first time actors
appeared naked in a Broadway musical. On and off-Broadway, "Hair" ran
for 1,844 shows, and was even more successful in its later London run.
Popular songs from the show: "Hair" (The Cowsills) and "Aquarius/Let
the Sunshine In" (The 5th Dimension).
1969 - Sir Duke, Duke Ellington, turned 70 today. He was presentated
civilian honor.
1975 - In the closing hours of the Vietnam War, the last United States
troops were evacuated from Saigon.
1980 - The master of horror/suspense films, director Alfred Hitchcock
died at 80 of kidney slow-down, liver failure and a worn-out enlarged
heart. Considered by many to be a genius, Hitchcock developed his own
macabre film style, which was always precise in detail to elicit the
fear or horror he wanted his audiences to experience. Despite his
talent, or because of it, Hitchcock was a severely repressed, troubled
man who used his own neurosis to shape his films, his television
series, and several actresses who appeared in his films. He dominated
and remade actress Tippi Hedren into his new "cool blonde." She
suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of a vicious bird attack
sequence in The Birds. Rebecca was his only film to receive an Academy
Award nomination for Best Picture, and it won the Oscar. Hitchcock
never received an Oscar for Best Director, although he was nominated
several times - a sensitive issue with him. His estate at the time of
his death was worth more than $20 million.
1981 - In England, Peter Sutcliffe admitted he was the Yorkshire
Ripper, murderer of 13 women.
1981 - In a whites-only election, the National Party was returned to
power in South Africa but with a reduced majority.
1989 - 14 Liverpool football supporters were sentenced to jail terms
for their part in the 1985 Heysel stadium tragedy in Belgium.
1992 - A jury acquitted four Los Angeles, California police officers
accused of beating motorist Rodney King. The verdict sparked rioting
and looting.
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