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Post by nocky2 on Apr 14, 2011 10:54:08 GMT
On this day April 14th 1865...... ...... John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathiser, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War...  |
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 14, 2011 11:55:11 GMT
On this day 14 April
1955 - Fats Domino's "Ain't That A Shame" was released.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 14, 2011 14:45:27 GMT
14th April 1912
The British built luxury liner Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic shortly before midnight, and sank in the early hours of the next morning. 1500 passengers and crew were killed.
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 15, 2011 8:45:23 GMT
15th April 1989
The FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, turned to tragedy when at least 200 people were injured and 96 crushed to death, many of them teenagers and children. The problems were caused by too many Liverpool fans being allowed in to the back of an already full stand at the Leppings Lane end of the ground, as more fans were allowed in those already there were pushed forward and crushed against the high, wired-topped safety fences.
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 15, 2011 18:33:00 GMT
On this day 15 April
1958 - Buddy Holly's Fender Stratocaster guitar was stolen at a St. Louis concert.
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Post by marcus on Apr 15, 2011 20:31:16 GMT
On this day
15th April 1802
William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'.
Marcus
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 16, 2011 18:22:31 GMT
On this day 16 April
1956 - Buddy Holly released his first single, "Blue Days, Black Nights."
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Post by marcus on Apr 17, 2011 15:24:47 GMT
On this day .....
17 April 1951
Submarine Lost
The crew of the British submarine "Affray" feared dead after going missing off the south coast of England. Two months later, the Affray was found in 300ft of water 46 miles south of Portland.
Marcus
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 17, 2011 16:16:55 GMT
17th April 1969
The age at which a person was eligible to vote in Britain was lowered from 21 to 18
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 17, 2011 18:06:48 GMT
On this day 17 April
1960 - Eddie Cochran died in Bath, England, from severe brain injuries sustained in a car crash near Chippenham, Wiltshire. Gene Vincent was seriously injured in the accident.
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 17, 2011 21:18:12 GMT
17 April 1970 : Apollo 13 returns to Earth
On this day in 1970, with the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth.
On 11 April, the third manned lunar landing mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise. The mission was headed for a landing on the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon. However, two days into the mission, disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blew up in the spacecraft. Mission commander Lovell reported to mission control on Earth: "Houston, we've had a problem here," and it was discovered that the normal supply of oxygen, electricity, light, and water had been disrupted. The landing mission was aborted, and the astronauts and controllers on Earth scrambled to come up with emergency procedures. The crippled spacecraft continued to the moon, circled it, and began a long, cold journey back to Earth.
The astronauts and mission control were faced with enormous logistical problems in stabilising the spacecraft and its air supply, as well as providing enough energy to the damaged fuel cells to allow successful re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. Navigation was another problem, and Apollo 13's course was repeatedly corrected with dramatic and untested manoeuvres. On 17 April, tragedy turned to triumph as the Apollo 13 astronauts touched down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
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Post by marcus on Apr 18, 2011 6:32:53 GMT
On this day .....
18th April 1930
BBC Radio announced that there is no news on this day.
Marcus
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 18, 2011 13:10:04 GMT
On this day 18 April
1971 - The Jackson 5, Danny Thomas and Bill Cosby were guests on Diana Ross' solo TV special "diana."
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 18, 2011 21:09:39 GMT
18th April 1955: Celebrated physicist and Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein died today at the age of 76.  |
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Post by marcus on Apr 19, 2011 7:13:22 GMT
On this day ......
19 April 1956
US actress, Grace Kelly, married Monaco's Prince Rainer III
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 19, 2011 18:20:19 GMT
On this day 19 April
2000 - Britain's Daily Express won the right from the Court of Appeal to keep their source a secret. Elton John had sued for the name of the source that had leaked information about his forthcoming action against PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
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Post by marcus on Apr 20, 2011 6:28:05 GMT
On this day ......
20th April 1968
The Conservative right winger, Enoch Powell, ( MP for Wolverhampton South West )makes a hard-hitting speech saying Britain had to be mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants each year and calling for an immediate reduction in immigration attacking the government's immigration policy at a Conservative association meeting in Birmingham.
Enoch Powell's so-called "Rivers of Blood" speech led to him being sacked from the shadow cabinet, but made him very popular with tabloids and thousands of workers who staged strikes and marches in support of his views and touched a nerve ending for many who thought the current Immigration laws should be tightened up.
Source : wikipedia
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 20, 2011 11:49:42 GMT
On this day 20th April 1957 :
A replica of the original Mayflower which transported Pilgrims to the New World Mayflower II recreating the original voyage sets sail from from Brixton, England, across the Atlantic arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts on 13th June 1957. The Mayflower II was an exact copy of the original with no engine which took 55 days to complete the journey.
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 20, 2011 13:57:59 GMT
On this day 20 April
1960 - Elvis Presley's returned to Hollywood to film "G.I. Blues."
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Post by marcus on Apr 21, 2011 7:26:10 GMT
On this day ......
21 April 754 BC
Rome is founded
According to tradition, on 21 April 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, founded Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. Actually, the Romulus and Remus myth originated sometime in the fourth century B.C., and the exact date of Rome's founding was set by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in the first century B.C...
Source : wikipedia
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 21, 2011 10:07:17 GMT
On this day, 21st April 1918 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.  |
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 21, 2011 13:17:15 GMT
On this day 21 April
1965 - The Beach Boys appeared on ABC-TV's "Shindig!" and performed "Do You Wanna Dance?"
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Post by marcus on Apr 22, 2011 6:52:24 GMT
On this day .....
22 April 1994
USA Ex- President, Richard M. Nixon ,died of a stroke at the age of 81.
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 22, 2011 13:41:32 GMT
On this day 22 April
1966 - "Wild Thing" by the British band the Troggs was released in the U.S.
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Post by marcus on Apr 23, 2011 7:56:12 GMT
On this day ....
23 April 1564
According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare
was born in Stratford-on-Avon .
Source : wikipedia.
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 23, 2011 12:17:23 GMT
On this day 23 April 1954
I, the man, the very good looking man  was created today 
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Post by marcus on Apr 24, 2011 13:58:13 GMT
On this day .....
24 April 1916
The Easter Rebellion begins
On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organisation of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule.
Source : wikipedia
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 25, 2011 13:26:44 GMT
On this day 25 April
1961 - Elvis Presley made his last stage appearance for nearly eight years at Bloch Arena.
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Post by marcus on Apr 25, 2011 15:01:52 GMT
On this day .....
25th April 1995
Ginger Rogers died.
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and is noted for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She also achieved great success in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). She ranks number 14 on the AFI's 100 Years…100 Stars list of actress screen legends.
Source : wikipedia
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 25, 2011 19:07:41 GMT
25th April 1953 :
Two Cambridge University scientists "James D Watson and Francis Crick" publish an article in Nature Magazine explaining the structure of DNA and that DNA is the material that makes up genes which pass hereditary characteristics in all life from one parent to another. They conclude that it consists of a double helix of two strands coiled around each other and could even be considered the "secret of life".
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was created today 
