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cybergran
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2008 05:24
Mellibean has objected to our using the 'growing words' game she started, so I've started this new forum. I was the last to post with 6th April, who's going next?
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2008 08:39 - Edited by: seahorse
April 7,1997 - Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
April 7, 1994 - Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
April 7, 1994 - Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
April 7, 1991 - George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
April 7, 1991 - Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
April 7, 1989 - Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
April 7, 1986 - Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
April 7, 1963 - Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
April 7, 1962 - Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
April 7, 1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
April 7, 1923 - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2008 10:03 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
8th April:
Birthdays --
1614: El Greco, Spanish painter
1884: Harry S.Truman, former American President
1893: Mary Pickford, American actress
1919: Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
1937: Seymour Hersh, American journalist
In history --
1513: The spanish explorer Juan *BLEEP* de Leon discovers Florida in what is now the USA
1789: US House of Representives first meeting
1913: 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1946: United Nations assemble for first time
(NB: I was getting a little confused with all the dates Juan *CENSOR* de Leon is supposed to have discovered Florida on so did a little more research and got this from Wikipedia: *SWEAR* de León equipped three ships at his own expense, and set out on his voyage of discovery and conquest in 1513. On March 27, 1513, he sighted an island, but sailed on without landing. Between April 2-8 he landed on the east coast of the newly "discovered" land at a point which is disputed, but was somewhere on the northeast coast of the present State of Florida.)
The *MISSING* word is P o n c e!
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2008 17:03
9th April
Birthdays...
1898 - Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (d. 1976)
1932 - Cheeta, chimpanzee actor
1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
1957 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
In history...
1867 - Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
1940 - World War II: Germany invades Denmark and Norway
1957 - The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
2002 - The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2008 18:30
10th April
In history......
1912 - RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton on her maiden voyage
1925 - The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is first published
1953 - the first 3D film was released in New York
1963 - USS Thresher submarine is lost (never to be found)
1970 - Paul McCartney announces he is leaving The Beatles
1972 - US B53 Bombers reported to be bombing North Vietnam again
Birthdays
1829 - William Booth founder of The Salvation Army
1929 - Max von Sydow Swedish actor
1932 - Omar Sharif Egyptian actor
1969 - Ekaterini Koffa Greek sprinter
Deaths
1585 Pope Gregory VIII
1962 Stuart Sutcliffe English musician (The Beatles)
1966 Evelyn Waugh English writer
2000 Peter Jones English comedian
2003 Little Eva American singer
2008 funeral of Jane McGrath benefactor of the McGrath Foundation and crusader for women suffering from breast cancer RIP
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2008 20:23
11th April
Birthdays:
1928 Ethel Kennedy, widow of Bobby Kennedy
1974 Alex Corretja, Spanish Tennis Player
In History:
1689 William III and Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
1814 First abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
1906 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity
1960 First Weather satellite launched (Toris 1)
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2008 20:53 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
12th April:
Birthdays --
1823: Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright
1883: Imogen Cunningham, American photographer
1923: Maria Callas, Italian opera singer
1956: Andy Garcia, American actor
In history --
1204: Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople (Instanbul)
1606: England adopts the Union Jack as its flag God save the king
1861: Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting the Civil War
1961: Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes person to orbit Earth UFO theorists start talking about government conspiracies
1981: First space shuttle (Columbia) launched
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# Posted: 26 Jun 2008 04:53
13th April
Birthdays...
1570 - Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)1852 - F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1919 - Howard Keel, American actor, singer, and president of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2004)
1951 - Peter Davison, English actor
In history...
1796 - The first elephant ever seen in the USA arrives from India.
1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1970 - An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
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# Posted: 26 Jun 2008 07:49
14th April:
Birthdays --
1904: John Gielgud, British actor
1907: Francois Duvalier, Dictator of Haiti
1925: Rod Steiger, American film actor
1941: Julie Christie, American actress
In history --
1828: First edition of the Webster dictionary is published
1865: John Wiles Booth murders President Lincoln
1912: The liner 'Titanic' strikes an ice berg at 11.40pm, and begins to sink
1931: Spain becomes a republic with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1981: The first space shuttle (Columbia) returns after orbiting Earth 36 times in the 54.5-hour mission
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# Posted: 26 Jun 2008 21:01
15th April
Birthdays...
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
1843 - Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
1939 - Marty Wilde, British singer
1955 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
In history....
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1912 - The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day
1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated
1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans.
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# Posted: 26 Jun 2008 21:37
16th April
Birthdays:
1867 Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer
1889 Charlie Chaplin, Actor/comedian
1918 Spike Milligan, Actor/comedian, born in India
1924 Henry Mancini, American Composer/conductor
1939 Dusty Springfield, English vocalist
1940 Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark 1972 -
1953 Peter Garrett, Australian Musician and currently politician
In History:
1724 First Easter observed
1924 First radio- transmission of wireless : Matthaus Passion
1942 King George VI awards the George Cross to the island of Malta
1966 Rhodesian PM, Ian Smith, breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict against policeman who beat Rodney King, verdict not read until 17 April
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# Posted: 26 Jun 2008 23:21 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
17th April:
Birthdays --
1837: John Pierpont Morgan, American industrialist
1894: Nikita S Khrushchev, Russian leader
1918: William Holden, American actor
In history --
1524: Giovanni Verrazano discovers New York Harbor
1961: Bay of Pig invasion The US try to start a people's revolution to overthrow Fidel Castro
1970: The Apollo XIII mission makes it back to earth It was the mission which popularized the phrase "Houston, we have a problem" as an on-board explosion threatened to kill the spacemen... "Houston, we HAD a problem"
1975: The government of Cambodia surrends to the Khmer Rouge
1983: India launched its first satellite
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# Posted: 27 Jun 2008 21:53
18th April
Birthdays....
1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1971 - David Tennant, Scottish actor
In History...
1783 - Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1946 - The League of Nations is dissolved.
1958 - A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
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# Posted: 27 Jun 2008 23:01
19th April:
Birthdays --
1903: Eliot Ness, American agent who put Al Capone behind bars
1925: Hugh O'Brien, American actor
1933: Jayne Mansfield, American actress
1935: Dudley Moore, British actor
1946: Tim Curry, American actor
In history --
1587: English captain Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
1775: Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon. A shot is fired and the American revolution begins at the Lexington Common. That was the "shot heard round the world"
1933: FDR announces that the US will leave the gold standard
1939: Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights
1971: The Soviet Union launch the first manned spacelab, Salyut 1
1972: Bangladesh joins the British Commonwealth
1995: A massive bomb explosion destroys much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA
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# Posted: 27 Jun 2008 23:35
20th April
In history:-
1775 - American War of Independence the siege of Boston begins
1862 - the first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur & Claude Bernard
1902 - Pierre & Marie Curie refine radium chloride
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) shoots down his 79th & 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day
1961 - failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba
1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon
1999 - the Columbine High School massacre leaves 15 people (including the two gunmen) dead and 24 wounded
Birthdays:-
570 - Prophet Muhammed, founder of Islam
1808 - Napoleon III Emperor of the French
1889 - Adolf Hitler leader of Nazi Germany
1919 - Richard Hillary Australian Spitfire pilot and author
1941 - Ryan O'Neal American actor
1972 - Stephen Marley Jamaican musician
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# Posted: 28 Jun 2008 09:40
21st April:
Birthdays --
1782: Friedrich Froebel, German educationalist
1816: Charlotte Bronte, British writer
1838: John Muir, American naturalist
1864: Max Weber, German sociologist
1915: Anthony Quinn, American actor
1926: Queen Elizabeth II
1935: Charles Grodin, American actor
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0: Romulus and Remus found Rome
1789: John Adams sworn in as first US Vice President
1898: Spanish-American War begins
1961: French army revolts in Algeria
1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission lands on the Moon.
1989: 100,000 chinese students gather for quiet protest in Tiananmen Square
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# Posted: 28 Jun 2008 21:32
22nd April
Birthdays...
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1707 - Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)
1944 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)
In history...
1509 - Henry VIII accedes to the throne of England after the death of his father.
1889 - At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1915 - The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres
1970 - First Earth Day celebrated.
1993 - The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC is dedicated.
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# Posted: 28 Jun 2008 21:38
23rd April:
Birthdays --
1564: William Shakespeare, English playwright
1775: J.M Turner, English artist
1858: Max Planck, German physicist
1899: Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American writer
1926: James Donleavey, Irish novelist
1928: Shirley Temple, American film star
In history --
1348: English order of knighthood founded
1661: King Charles II crowned the King of Great Britain and Ireland
1965: The USSR launch its first communications satellite
1967: Russian Vladimir Komarov becomes the first man to make two spaceflights
1984: The United States announce the discovery of the AIDS virus
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# Posted: 29 Jun 2008 05:43
24th April
Birthdays...
1815 - Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author
1940 - Sue Grafton, American author
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer and actor
In History...
1558 - Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1967 - Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1975 - The Baader-Meinhof Gang blows up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
1990 - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery
1993 - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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# Posted: 29 Jun 2008 09:49
25th April:
1599: Oliver Cromwell, English civil war leader and Lord Protector
1874: Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of radio
1908: Edward R Murrow, American journalist
1918: Ella Fitzgerald, US jazz singer
1940: Al Pacino, American actor
In history --
1792: Guillotine used for the first time in France on a highwayman
1859: Work begins on the Suez Canal, Egypt
1915: Anzac soldiers land at Gallipoli
1961: Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1982: In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl
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# Posted: 29 Jun 2008 17:26
26th April
Birthdays:
1564 William Shakespeare, English Playwright
1894 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Fuhrer
1916 Morris West, Australian Novelist
1933 Carol Burnett, Comedian/actress
1948 Stevie Nicks, Rocker Fleetwood Mac
In History:
1721 First Russian University opens
1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1986 Worlds worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl explodes, 31 die
1994 First Multi-racial election in South Africa begins
2005 Syria withdraws troops from Lebanon ending its 29 year military occupation
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# Posted: 29 Jun 2008 20:16
27th April
Birthdays...
1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
1963 - Russell T. Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who
1969 - Darcey Bussell, British ballerina
In history...
1667 - The blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1749 - First performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London.
1974 - 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
1992 - Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
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# Posted: 29 Jun 2008 21:54
28th April:
Birthdays --
1442: Edward IV, King of England
1758: James Monroe, American President
1878: Lionel Barrymore, American actor
1906: Kurt Godel, Czech mathematician
1926: Harper Lee, American author
1941: Ann Margret, Swedish actress
1945: Bernito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader
1991: Ken Curtis, American actor
In history --
1788: Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
1789: Mutiny on the Bounty
1855: First veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1945: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini shot by Italian partisans
1952: The United States end their occupation of Japan.
1969: General de Gaulle resigns as President of France
2001: Dennis Tito, a millionaire, becomes the first space tourist.
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# Posted: 30 Jun 2008 11:48
29th April
Birthdays:
1863 William Randolph Hearst, USA, Publisher
1879 Thomas Beecham, England, Composer, founder of London Philarmonic
1899 Duke Ellington, USA, Bandleader
1936 Jacob Rothschild, English Banker and Multi millionaire
1958 Daniel Day-Lewis, English actor; Michelle Pfeiffer, USA, actress
1970 Andre Agassi, born Las Vegas, Tennis player
In History:
1439 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France to victory over England
1852 First edition of Roget's Thesaurus published
1930 Telephone connection England - Australia goes into service
1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire ripper - murdered 13 women
1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh - 139,000 die
1992 Jury acquits Los Angeles Police Officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
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# Posted: 30 Jun 2008 19:28
30th April:
Birthdays --
1777: Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician
1870: Franz Lehar, Hungarian composer
1909: Queen Juliana Of Holland
1926: Cloria Leachman, American actress
In history --
1789: George Washington becomes the first US President
1798: US department of Navy established
1803: Louisiana sold to the United States by France
1970: American troops enter Cambodia, Asia
1975: The Vietnam war ends, with the South surrendering to the North
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# Posted: 30 Jun 2008 19:50
1 May
Birthdays...
1831 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
1937 - Una Stubbs, English actress
1946 - Joanna Lumley, English actress
In history...
1707 - The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1786 - Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
1840 - The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1915 - The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second and final crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
1940 - The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public
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# Posted: 1 Jul 2008 13:16
2nd May:
Birthdays --
1729: Catherine The Great
1904: Bing Crosby, American actor and singer
In history --
1945: Berlin captured by Russian forces at the end of WW2
1986: Radiation released from the Chernobyl accident reaches France, Britain
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# Posted: 1 Jul 2008 18:57
3rd May
Birthdays...
1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (d. 1901)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1934 - Henry Cooper, English boxer
In history...
1916 - The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1951 - The Festival of Britain opens.
1960 - The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States
2007 - British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
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# Posted: 2 Jul 2008 10:17
4th May
Birthdays --
1825: Thomas Huxley, English naturalist
1926: Cloris Leachman, American actress,
1932: Anthony Perkins, American actor
1936: Audrey Hepburn, Dutch-born, American film actress
In history --
1626: Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons
1904: Work begins on the Panama Canal, Central America
1942: Battle of Coral Sea began (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1954: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini
1956: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957: Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1961: Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668m (record) in balloon
1967: Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US
1972: Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
1990: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union
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# Posted: 2 Jul 2008 21:28
5th May
Birthdays...
1747 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
1943 - Michael Palin, British writer, actor, and comedian
1972 - James Cracknell, British rowing champion, double Olympic gold medalist
In history...
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
1821 - Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean
1941 - Chanel No. 5 is released.
1964 - May 5 is declared Europe Day on the 15th anniversary of the Council of Europe.
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