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 On this day.....Also on this day, FDR (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) who was elected as the US president for a record four times, died in office in 1945, in the year after his last election. |
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On this day April 20... Born on this day: Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III (1808-73), Napoleon's nephew and emperor of France 1852-70; Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the German Dictator, the Spanish painter Joan Miro (1893-1983). |
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On this day ...April 22 Also born Henry Fielding (1707-54), the english novelist and creator of Tom Jones, the German phillosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804); J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67), the american scientist known as "the father of the atomic bomb", British architect Sir James Stirling (1926-92), and Sir Yehudi Menuhin (1916-) the american violinist who made his proffesional debut at the age of 7. In 1915 the second battle of Ypres began and the germans first used poison gas agaisnt the British troops. |
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On this day ...April 23 Also born on this day: the landscape Painter William Turner (1775-1851), Max Planck(1858-1947) the German scientist who originated the quantum theory, and Russian-born novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). |
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On this day.....May 1 Born on thid day: Joseph Heller (1923-), the American author who coined the expression "Catch 22" in his novel the name, based on his experiences as a serviceman in World War II. |
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on this day...May 2nd Tony Long Email 05.02.07 | 2:00 AM 1952: A de Havilland Comet, flying for British Overseas Airways Corporation, becomes the first jet aircraft to enter commercial service, carrying passengers from London to Johannesburg, South Africa. The early Comet was a four-engine aircraft, roughly the size of a small Boeing 737. It carried between 36 and 44 passengers, depending on its cabin configuration. Regardless of configuration, most early commercial jets were roomy and passenger comfort was a much higher priority than it is today. The Comet, built by de Havilland, a British firm, was the backbone of the British commercial fleet. Other countries also turned to domestic aircraft manufacturers to populate their fleets: Boeing and Douglas (United States), Tupolev (Soviet Union), Caravelle (France). Despite the line's overall success and longevity, the first Comets suffered from structural problems and the plane was involved in a number of accidents during the early and mid-'50s. The plane that made that first London-Johannesburg flight, designated G-ALYP by BOAC (a forerunner of British Airways), was also among the first passenger jets to be lost. G-ALYP crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the Italian island of Elba on Jan. 10, 1954, killing everyone on board. |
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On this day...May 7 Also born on this day: The English poet Robert Browning(1812-89); Marshal Tito (1892-1980),the Yugoslav leader from 1945 until his death and American film actor Gary Cooper (1901-61). In 1945 all the remaining German forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. |
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On this day .....May 20 Born on this day: French Novelist Honore Balzac (1799-1850), the English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-73). Christopher Columbus died in poverty in 1506,still thinking that he had discoverd the coast of Asia. |
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On this day ......June 4 Born on this day: George III (1738-1820), whose reign was the longest of any King of Great Britain. |
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On this day....June 5th he was campaigning for the democratic presidential nomination. (He died the next day). Born on this day: Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca(1899-1936), who was murderred by Franco's suporters at the beggining of the Civil war. Also born is Scottish economist Adam Smith ((1732-90). |
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on this day...June 7th 1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties. |
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On this day...June 12th 1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one. |
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migchess20 13-Jun-07, 13:24 |
On this day ....June 13th 1943 - German spies landed on Long Island, New York. They were soon captured. 1944 - Germany launched 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from a position near the Channel coast. Of the 10 rockets only 5 landed in Britain and only one managed to kill (6 people in London). |
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migchess20 15-Jun-07, 11:20 |
On this day ....Jun 15th 1968 - The Beatles' announced the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a public mistake at a press conference in New York. 1974 - Paul McCartney and Wings announced the addition of Geoff Britton, who replaced Denny Seiwell. 1993 - FOX-TV aired "Paul McCartney Live In The New World." It was McCartney's first live concert to be televised. |
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On this day ......June 15th |
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On this day....August 5 Born on this day: Guy de Maupassant (1850-93), the French novelist and short story writer; and Neil Armstrong (1930-), the American astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon. |
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August 14th 1945 - It was announced by U.S. President Truman that Japan had surrendered unconditionally. The surrender ended World War II. |
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On this day.....August 17th On this day...in 1812 Napoleon's army defeated the Russians at the battle of Smolensk, on the retreat to Moscow. |
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On this day....May 25th born on this day: The American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82),Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943), the Dutch physicist and recipient of the Nobel prize for physics who gave his name to the Zeeman effect, concerning optics; Igor Sikorsky(1889-1972), the Russian-born aeronautical engineer who designed the first successful helicopter used the the US forces in World War II; the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis(1926-91) and sir Ian McKellen (1939-), the British actor. |
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On this day....June 5th In 1968 US Senator Robert Kennedy, was shot by a Jordanian-born immigrant in Los Angeles, as he was campaigning for the democratic presidential nomination. (He died the next day). Born on this day: The Scottish economist Adam Smith (1723-90), who wrote the first serious work on political economy, "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the wealth of Nations." Also born on this day was: The Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca(1899-1936), who was murdered by Franco's supporters at the start of the Civil War. |
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