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April 21st In History: It Happened Today.

April 19, 2011 By
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history: April 21st. This day in history is marked by the death of Mark Twain on April 21, 1910 at the age of 74. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), and its sequel, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885), the latter often called “the Great American Novel.”


BORN APRIL 21ST:
April 21, 1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
April 21, 1651 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
April 21, 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
April 21, 1671 – John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
April 21, 1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742)
April 21, 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
April 21, 1729 – Catherine II of Russia, known as ‘Catherine the Great’ (d. 1796)
April 21, 1767 – Elisabeth of Württemberg, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1790)
April 21, 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (d. 1862)
April 21, 1775 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (d. 1870)
April 21, 1810 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
April 21, 1811 – Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
April 21, 1814 – Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906)
April 21, 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
April 21, 1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922)
April 21, 1838 – John Muir, Scottish environmentalist (d. 1914)
April 21, 1851 – Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
April 21, 1854 – William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
April 21, 1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
April 21, 1870 – Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
April 21, 1879 – Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904)
April 21, 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
April 21, 1887 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
April 21, 1889 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
April 21, 1898 – Maurice Wilson, Everest climber, Yorkshire hero (d. 1934)
April 21, 1904 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi (d. 1945)
April 21, 1905 – Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, Governor of California (d. 1996)
April 21, 1907 – Wade Mainer, American singer and banjoist
April 21, 1911 – Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)


April 21, 1912 – Marcel Camus, French film director (d. 1982)
April 21, 1914 – Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
April 21, 1915 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001)
April 21, 1915 – Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (d. 2003)
April 21, 1918 – Eddy Christiani, Dutch singer and guitarist
April 21, 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
April 21, 1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
April 21, 1920 – Ronald Magill, British actor (d. 2007)
April 21, 1923 – John Mortimer, English barrister and writer (d. 2009)
April 21, 1924 – Ira Louvin, Country music singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1965)
April 21, 1925 – Sir Anthony Mason, former Chief Justice of Australia
April 21, 1926 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
April 21, 1926 – Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
April 21, 1927 – Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
April 21, 1930 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 21, 1932 – Elaine May, American comedian
April 21, 1935 – Charles Grodin, American actor
April 21, 1935 – Thomas Kean, American politician
April 21, 1936 – James Dobson, American evangelist
April 21, 1939 – Helen Prejean, American author and activist
April 21, 1944 – Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach
April 21, 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
April 21, 1947 – Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
April 21, 1947 – John Weider, British rock musician (Eric Burdon and the Animals, Family)
April 21, 1948 – Gary Condit, American politician
April 21, 1948 – Paul Davis, American singer (d. 2008)
April 21, 1949 – Patti LuPone, American singer and actress
April 21, 1951 – Tony Danza, American actor and comedian
April 21, 1951 – Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
April 21, 1951 – Steve Vickers, Canadian hockey player
April 21, 1954 – James Morrison, American actor
April 21, 1954 – Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer
April 21, 1956 – Phillip Longman, American demographer
April 21, 1957 – Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler
April 21, 1958 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
April 21, 1958 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
April 21, 1958 – Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist
April 21, 1959 – Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits)
April 21, 1959 – Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
April 21, 1959 – Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
April 21, 1959 – Tim Jacobus, American artist (Goosebumps)
April 21, 1960 – Michel Goulet, Canadian ice hockey player
April 21, 1962 – Les Lancaster, American baseball player
April 21, 1963 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (d. 2004)
April 21, 1963 – Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
April 21, 1963 – John Cameron Mitchell, American film director
April 21, 1964 – Alex Baumann, Canadian Olympic swimmer
April 21, 1964 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete
April 21, 1965 – Ed Belfour, Canadian ice hockey player
April 21, 1965 – Karen Foster, American model (Playboy)
April 21, 1965 – Gary Grant, American basketball player
April 21, 1965 – Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic
April 21, 1966 – Michael Franti, American musician
April 21, 1969 – Toby Stephens, British actor
April 21, 1969 – Robin Meade, American news anchor
April 21, 1970 – Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor
April 21, 1970 – Rob Riggle, American comedian
April 21, 1970 – Nicole Sullivan, American actress
April 21, 1971 – Alexander Kravchenko, Russian poker player
April 21, 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist (d. 2008)
April 21, 1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
April 21, 1972 – Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
April 21, 1972 – Severina Vučković, Croatian singer
April 21, 1973 – Jonathan Nsenga, Belgian athlete
April 21, 1975 – Tha Trademarc, American hip hop artist
April 21, 1976 – Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
April 21, 1977 – Doseone, American rapper
April 21, 1977 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
April 21, 1978 – Jacob Burns, Australian footballer
April 21, 1978 – Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
April 21, 1978 – Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid, The Used)
April 21, 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
April 21, 1979 – Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer
April 21, 1980 – Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player
April 21, 1980 – Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
April 21, 1980 – Tony Romo, American football player
April 21, 1980 – Martin Rosete, Spanish film director and publicist
April 21, 1981 – Stephanie Larimore, American model
April 21, 1982 – Carnell Williams, American football player
April 21, 1983 – Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
April 21, 1983 – Tarvaris Jackson, American football player
April 21, 1984 – Shayna Fox, American voice actress
April 21, 1986 – Audra Cohen, American tennis player
April 21, 1986 – Alexander Edler, Swedish hockey player
April 21, 1986 – Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player
April 21, 1986 – Mirko Valdifiori, Italian footballer
April 21, 1987 – Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
April 21, 1987 – Eric Devendorf, American basketball player
April 21, 1988 – Robbie Amell, Canadian actor
April 21, 1988 – Pedro Mosquera Parada, Spanish footballer
April 21, 2007 – Princess Isabella of Denmark

DIED APRIL 21ST:
April 21, 866 – Bardas, Byzantine noble and minister (b. unknown)
April 21, 1073 – Pope Alexander II
April 21, 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1033)
April 21, 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
April 21, 1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
April 21, 1509 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
April 21, 1551 – Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
April 21, 1557 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
April 21, 1574 – Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
April 21, 1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
April 21, 1701 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
April 21, 1719 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
April 21, 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
April 21, 1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
April 21, 1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
April 21, 1815 – Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
April 21, 1825 – Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (b. 1765)
April 21, 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
April 21, 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (b. 1782)
April 21, 1868 – Henry James O’Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
April 21, 1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
April 21, 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
April 21, 1922 – Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
April 21, 1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
April 21, 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
April 21, 1938 – Allama Iqbal, Urdu philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
April 21, 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
April 21, 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
April 21, 1948 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
April 21, 1956 – Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
April 21, 1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
April 21, 1971 – François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)
April 21, 1973 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
April 21, 1974 – Charles “Chic” Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
April 21, 1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
April 21, 1977 – Issy Bonn, British actor and musician (b. 1893)
April 21, 1978 – Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947)
April 21, 1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (b. 1877)
April 21, 1980 – Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
April 21, 1980 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
April 21, 1983 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
April 21, 1984 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
April 21, 1985 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922)
April 21, 1985 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
April 21, 1985 – Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (b. 1910)
April 21, 1986 – Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b. 1930)
April 21, 1989 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
April 21, 1990 – Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
April 21, 1991 – Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
April 21, 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (b. 1944)
April 21, 1996 – Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, American bookie and sports broadcaster (b. 1919)
April 21, 1998 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
April 21, 1999 – Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
April 21, 2000 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
April 21, 2003 – Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
April 21, 2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
April 21, 2005 – Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
April 21, 2006 – T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
April 21, 2006 – Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (b. 1931)
April 21, 2007 – Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
April 21, 2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
April 21, 2010 – Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
April 21, 2010 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, International Olympic Committee president (b. 1920)

APRIL 21ST MEMORABLE EVENTS:
* 753 BC – Romulus and Remus founded Rome (traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
* 900 AD – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: the Honourable Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon from all their debts by the Commander and Chief of Tundun, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah. Luzon, Philippines.
* 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
* 1519 – Hernán Cortés lands in Veracruz, Veracruz
* 1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil’s independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
* 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
* 1863 – Bahá’u'lláh, considered the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, declares his mission as “He whom God shall make manifest”.
* 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
* 1898 – Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
* 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.
* 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A&M graduates who had died in the previous year.
* 1941 – Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece.
* 1942 – World War II: The most famous (and first international) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore (with 25 fellow Texas A&M graduates who are under his command), while 1.8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.
* 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
* 1952 – Secretary’s Day (now Administrative Professionals’ Day) is first celebrated.
* 1960 – Brasília, Brazil’s capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
* 1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Bahá’í Faith in Washington, D.C.
* 1962 – The Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World’s Fair in the United States since World War II.
* 1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá’í Faith is elected for the first time.
* 1964 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
* 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair opens for its second and final season.
* 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
* 1967 – Greek military junta of 1967–1974: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d’état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
* 1970 – The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
* 1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
* 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
* 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
* 1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
* 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
* 2004 – Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.

MEMORABLE QUOTE:

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” (Albert Camus)

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5 Things To Do If Your Hip Implant Has Been Recalled

April 18, 2011 By
Hip Replacement Recall

Hip Replacement Recall

“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy”, is what many who have endured the grueling agony of a hip implant surgery/rehab have said about the experience.

Earlier in 2008, there was a Zimmer Durom Cup/ Stryker Trident hip recall. Then things got worse. In August 2010, the DePuy ASR Acetabular metal-on-metal implants were recalled. The company said an estimated 12,000-14,000 hip implant recipients would be affected by failing hip implant mechanisms. Now, an alarming new scientific study says the number will likely be more like 50,000. That is 50,000 people who will likely have to undergo a second revision surgery to replace defective hip implants that were supposed to make their hips pain free for 15 years.

Moreover, other metal-on-metal hip implants, such as DePuy Pinnacle Ulta/Metal Liner are displaying the same alarming failure rates as the recalled DePuy ASR, and could very well be the subject of a future recall.

What To Do If Your Hip Implant Has Been Recalled?

1. Confirm exactly what brand and model hip implant you received. Check your medical records or ask your orthopedist or your hospital for your records.

2. Determine Your Symptoms. Symptoms of a failed hip implant: Ongoing dislocating socket, cracking, pain and swelling, instability, inability to walk, grinding noises, are some of the symptoms, especially those that last for longer than 6 months to a year after surgery.

3. Consult With Your Doctor: Have your doctor review your condition, including x-rays, MRI, Ultrasounds, blood test and other procedures necessary to ascertain the condition of your device.

4. Keep Careful Records: Keep records of the problems and pain you endure, procedures, tests, lost days at work, etc.

5. Retain an Attorney: You should consult with an experienced attorney to find out what your rights are and protect yourself. There are time limits for filing claims, which might affect your right to recovery. You can received a free, no obligation case review by simply filling out the form below or by calling 1-888-736-4248:

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April 20th In History: It Happened Today.

April 18, 2011 By
Apollo 16 Crew

Apollo 16 Crew

The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history: April 20th. This day in history is marked by the landing of Apollo 16 on the moon (April 20, 1972). Apollo 16, the tenth manned mission in American Apollo space program, was the fifth mission to land on the Moon and the first to land in a highlands area. Launched on April 16, 1972, it was a J-class mission, featuring a Lunar Rover; and brought back 94.7 kg of lunar samples.

Commander John W. Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke spent nearly three days on the lunar surface while Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly orbited the Moon.


BORN APRIL 20TH:
April 20, 702 – Jafar Sadiq, Shi’a Imam and Muslim scholar (d. 765)
April 20, 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
April 20, 1586 – Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
April 20, 1633 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
April 20, 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
April 20, 1650 – William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
April 20, 1668 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
April 20, 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
April 20, 1723 – Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congress delegate (d. 1781)
April 20, 1727 – Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
April 20, 1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
April 20, 1808 – Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
April 20, 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
April 20, 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
April 20, 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)
April 20, 1851 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
April 20, 1870 – Maulvi Abdul Haq, Pakistani scholar (d. 1961)
April 20, 1871 – Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
April 20, 1879 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
April 20, 1882 – Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
April 20, 1884 – Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
April 20, 1889 – Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and activist (d. 1996)
April 20, 1889 – Adolf Hitler, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, (d. 1945)
April 20, 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
April 20, 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
April 20, 1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
April 20, 1893 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (d. 2008)
April 20, 1895 – Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
April 20, 1896 – Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
April 20, 1896 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
April 20, 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
April 20, 1904 – George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
April 20, 1907 – Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek Orthodox bishop of Florina (d. 2010)
April 20, 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American musician (d. 2002)
April 20, 1913 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1986)
April 20, 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
April 20, 1915 – Joseph Wolpe, South African–born psychotherapist (d. 1997)
April 20, 1918 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002)
April 20, 1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
April 20, 1919 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (d. 1943)
April 20, 1920 – Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
April 20, 1920 – John Paul Stevens, American jurist
April 20, 1921 – Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
April 20, 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
April 20, 1923 – Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter (d. 2008)
April 20, 1923 – Tito Puente, American musician (d. 2000)
April 20, 1924 – Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008)
April 20, 1924 – Leslie Phillips, English actor
April 20, 1925 – Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)
April 20, 1927 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
April 20, 1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 20, 1928 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
April 20, 1928 – Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
April 20, 1929 – Harry Agganis, Greek-American baseball and football player (d. 1955)
April 20, 1931 – John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, British businessman and peer
April 20, 1936 – Pat Roberts, American politician
April 20, 1937 – Antonios Kounadis, Greek discus thrower
April 20, 1937 – George Takei, American actor
April 20, 1938 – Tamási Eszter, Hungarian TV announcer and actress (d. 1991)
April 20, 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author
April 20, 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway
April 20, 1939 – Johnny Tillotson, American singer
April 20, 1940 – James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)


April 20, 1941 – Ryan O’Neal, American actor
April 20, 1942 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer
April 20, 1943 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
April 20, 1943 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
April 20, 1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor
April 20, 1945 – Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
April 20, 1946 – Julien Poulin, French Canadian actor
April 20, 1946 – Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver (d. 1982)
April 20, 1947 – David Leland, British actor, director and screenwriter
April 20, 1947 – Ken Scott, English record producer and recording engineer
April 20, 1947 – Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
April 20, 1947 – Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
April 20, 1948 – Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger)
April 20, 1948 – Gregory Itzin, American actor
April 20, 1948 – Rémy Trudel, French Canadian politician
April 20, 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, American actress
April 20, 1949 – Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist
April 20, 1949 – Massimo D’Alema, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
April 20, 1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress
April 20, 1950 – Steve Erickson, American novelist
April 20, 1950 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
April 20, 1950 – Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
April 20, 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
April 20, 1952 – Louka Katseli, Greek Minister for Labour and Social Security
April 20, 1952 – Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
April 20, 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
April 20, 1954 – Gilles Lupien, French-Canadian ice hockey player
April 20, 1955 – Don Pettit, American astronaut and inventor
April 20, 1956 – Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
April 20, 1957 – Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-born Canadian actor
April 20, 1958 – Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
April 20, 1959 – Clint Howard, American actor
April 20, 1961 – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
April 20, 1961 – Don Mattingly, American baseball player
April 20, 1961 – Barry Smolin, American radio host, writer, and musician
April 20, 1961 – Nicholas Lyndhurst, British actor
April 20, 1962 – Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (AKA: Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), American radio personality (d. 2001)
April 20, 1963 – Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
April 20, 1963 – Maurício Gugelmin, Brazilian racing driver
April 20, 1964 – Crispin Glover, American actor
April 20, 1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor
April 20, 1964 – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
April 20, 1965 – Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver
April 20, 1965 – Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
April 20, 1965 – April March, American musician
April 20, 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
April 20, 1967 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
April 20, 1967 – Lara Jill Miller, American actress
April 20, 1967 – Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold)
April 20, 1968 – J. D. Roth, American game show host and television personality
April 20, 1968 – Yelena Välbe, Russian cross-country skier
April 20, 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
April 20, 1970 – Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
April 20, 1970 – Saraa, Mongolian singer
April 20, 1971 – Tina Cousins, English singer
April 20, 1971 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
April 20, 1971 – Allan Houston, American basketball player
April 20, 1971 – Nikos Kyzeridis, Greek footballer
April 20, 1972 – Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer
April 20, 1972 – Carmen Electra, American actress
April 20, 1972 – Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer, songwriter and producer
April 20, 1972 – Marko Kon, Serbian singer, composer, songwriter and producer
April 20, 1972 – Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
April 20, 1973 – Geoff Lloyd, British radio presenter
April 20, 1973 – Lamond Murray, American basketball player
April 20, 1976 – Shay Given, Irish footballer
April 20, 1976 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
April 20, 1976 – Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
April 20, 1977 – Johnny “The Bull” Stamboli, professional wrestler
April 20, 1978 – Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
April 20, 1979 – Nathan Marquardt, American mixed martial artist
April 20, 1979 – Quinn Weng, Taiwanese singer (Seraphim)
April 20, 1980 – Chris Duffy, American baseball player
April 20, 1980 – Arin Paul, Indian Film Director
April 20, 1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German singer
April 20, 1983 – Danny Granger, American basketball player
April 20, 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel
April 20, 1983 – Joanne King, Irish/English actress
April 20, 1983 – Fabio Staibano, Italian rugby player
April 20, 1984 – Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
April 20, 1985 – Ehsan Jami, Dutch-Iranian politician and activist.
April 20, 1986 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
April 20, 1987 – John Patrick Amedori, American actor

DIED APRIL 20TH:
April 20, 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English military leader (b. 1130)
April 20, 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
April 20, 1521 – Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)
April 20, 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)
April 20, 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
April 20, 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
April 20, 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
April 20, 1769 – Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa (b. 1720)
April 20, 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
April 20, 1873 – William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
April 20, 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
April 20, 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
April 20, 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
April 20, 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet who designed the flag of the State of Maranhão (b. 1833)
April 20, 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
April 20, 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
April 20, 1929 – Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia (b. 1862)
April 20, 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
April 20, 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, one of two Major League Baseball fatal casualties during World War II.
April 20, 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
April 20, 1947 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
April 20, 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
April 20, 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (b. 1899)
April 20, 1977 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
April 20, 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
April 20, 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
April 20, 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b. 1945)
April 20, 1991 – Steve Marriott, British singer and songwriter (Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
April 20, 1991 – Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
April 20, 1992 – Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
April 20, 1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
April 20, 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
April 20, 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920)
April 20, 1999 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
April 20, 1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
April 20, 1999 – Eric David Harris, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
April 20, 1999 – Dylan Klebold, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
April 20, 1999 – Cassie Bernall, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
April 20, 1999 – Rachel Joy Scott, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
April 20, 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
April 20, 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
April 20, 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
April 20, 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
April 20, 2003 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
April 20, 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
April 20, 2005 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
April 20, 2007 – Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
April 20, 2007 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
April 20, 2007 – Fred Fish, a computer programmer on the GNU Debugger and “Fish disks” (b. 1952)
April 20, 2008 – VL Mike, American rapper (b. 1976)
April 20, 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
April 20, 2009 – Beata Asimakopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1932)
April 20, 2010 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)

APRIL 20TH MEMORABLE EVENTS:
April 20, 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
April 20, 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
April 20, 1526 – The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi was defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
April 20, 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
April 20, 1535 – The Sun Dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting “Vädersolstavlan”
April 20, 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
April 20, 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
April 20, 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
April 20, 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
April 20, 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
April 20, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
April 20, 1792 – France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
April 20, 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign which ended in a French victory.
April 20, 1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
April 20, 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton was concluded, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle was upheld.
April 20, 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
April 20, 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
April 20, 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
April 20, 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
April 20, 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX’s yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
April 20, 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
April 20, 1876 – The April Uprising – a key point in the new Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from ottoman slavery, as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
April 20, 1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
April 20, 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
April 20, 1908 – Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
April 20, 1912 – Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
April 20, 1914 – 19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner’s strike.
April 20, 1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings
April 20, 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
April 20, 1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
April 20, 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
April 20, 1939 – Adolf Hitler‘s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany
April 20, 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song “Strange Fruit”.
April 20, 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
April 20, 1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
April 20, 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
April 20, 1964 – BBC Two launches with the power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
April 20, 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
April 20, 1972 – Apollo 16 landed on the moon commanded by John Young.
April 20, 1978 – Korean Air Flight 902 is shot down by Soviets.
April 20, 1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
April 20, 1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
April 20, 1985 – ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
April 20, 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
April 20, 1998 – German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
April 20, 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
April 20, 2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
April 20, 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
April 20, 2010 – Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico.

MEMORABLE QUOTE:

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.” (Adolf Hitler)

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April 19th In History: It Happened Today.

April 18, 2011 By
Grace Kelly Wedding

Grace Kelly Wedding

The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history: April 19th. One of the many highlights of this day in history is the marriage between Hollywood actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress of Irish and German heritage and Princess consort of Monaco. In April 1956, Kelly married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and became styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and was commonly referred to as Princess Grace.


BORN THIS DAY:
April 19, 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
April 19, 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
April 19, 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
April 19, 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
April 19, 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
April 19, 1772 – David Ricardo, English political economist (d. 1823)
April 19, 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
April 19, 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
April 19, 1793 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
April 19, 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
April 19, 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
April 19, 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
April 19, 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
April 19, 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
April 19, 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
April 19, 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
April 19, 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
April 19, 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
April 19, 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian
April 19, 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
April 19, 1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
April 19, 1899 – George O’Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
April 19, 1900 – Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
April 19, 1900 – Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
April 19, 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
April 19, 1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
April 19, 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
April 19, 1920 – Gene Leis, American Jazz guitarist and educator (d. 1993)
April 19, 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (d. 2006)
April 19, 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
April 19, 1925 – Hugh O’Brian, American actor
April 19, 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
April 19, 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
April 19, 1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
April 19, 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor
April 19, 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
April 19, 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
April 19, 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire


April 19, 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
April 19, 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
April 19, 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
April 19, 1935 – Justin Rigali, American Roman Catholic cardinal
April 19, 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
April 19, 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
April 19, 1937 – Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
April 19, 1938 – Stanley Fish, American literary theorist and legal scholar
April 19, 1940 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
April 19, 1940 – Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
April 19, 1941 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
April 19, 1941 – Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
April 19, 1941 – Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
April 19, 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975)
April 19, 1942 – Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
April 19, 1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
April 19, 1944 – Keith Erickson, American basketball player
April 19, 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
April 19, 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
April 19, 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
April 19, 1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
April 19, 1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
April 19, 1947 – Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles, The Mothers Of Invention)
April 19, 1948 – Rick Miller, American baseball player
April 19, 1949 – Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
April 19, 1949 – Larry Walters, American “lawn chair” pilot (d. 1993)
April 19, 1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
April 19, 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
April 19, 1952 – Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009)
April 19, 1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
April 19, 1953 – Ruby Wax, British television personality
April 19, 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer
April 19, 1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas)
April 19, 1956 – Sue Barker, BBC Sports Presenter & former Tennis Professional.
April 19, 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
April 19, 1957 – Tony Martin, English musician
April 19, 1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian educator, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
April 19, 1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
April 19, 1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
April 19, 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
April 19, 1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player
April 19, 1962 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
April 19, 1963 – Valerie Plame Wilson, American former C.I.A. agent
April 19, 1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer
April 19, 1965 – Natalie Dessay, French soprano
April 19, 1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer
April 19, 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano
April 19, 1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor
April 19, 1966 – Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler
April 19, 1966 – Julia Neigel, German singer, songwriter, producer, author and entertainer
April 19, 1967 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
April 19, 1967 – Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
April 19, 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
April 19, 1968 – Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
April 19, 1968 – Mswati III, King of Swaziland
April 19, 1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
April 19, 1969 – Andrew Carnie, Linguistics Professor at the University of Arizona
April 19, 1969 – Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder
April 19, 1969 – Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player
April 19, 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete
April 19, 1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican pop-singer
April 19, 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
April 19, 1972 – Jeff Wilkins, American football player
April 19, 1973 – Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
April 19, 1974 – Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
April 19, 1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
April 19, 1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
April 19, 1976 – Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
April 19, 1976 – Scott Padgett, American basketball player
April 19, 1977 – Joe Beimel, American baseball player
April 19, 1977 – Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
April 19, 1977 – Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
April 19, 1978 – James Franco, American actor
April 19, 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
April 19, 1978 – Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
April 19, 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
April 19, 1979 – Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
April 19, 1979 – Matthew Pace, American entrepreneur
April 19, 1980 – Alexis Thorpe, American actress
April 19, 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
April 19, 1981 – Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
April 19, 1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
April 19, 1981 – James Hibberd, British cricketer
April 19, 1981 – Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai film actress
April 19, 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player
April 19, 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
April 19, 1982 – Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand All Black rugby player
April 19, 1982 – Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
April 19, 1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
April 19, 1983 – Zack Duke, American baseball player
April 19, 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
April 19, 1983 – Patrick Platins, German footballer
April 19, 1983 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
April 19, 1984 – Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
April 19, 1984 – Christopher Pearce, British cricketer
April 19, 1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer
April 19, 1985 – Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper
April 19, 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
April 19, 1986 – Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
April 19, 1986 – Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
April 19, 1986 – Will Thursfield, British footballer
April 19, 1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
April 19, 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
April 19, 1987 – Courtland Mead, American actor
April 19, 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer
April 19, 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian-born professional tennis player
April 19, 1988 – Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer
April 19, 1989 – Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
April 19, 1989 – Dominik Mader, German football player
April 19, 1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
April 19, 1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
April 19, 1990 – Damien Le Tallec, French football player
April 19, 1991 – Steve Cook, British footballer
April 19, 1992 – Paul-Jose M’Poku, Belgian professional footballer

DIED THIS DAY:
April 19, 1012 – Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
April 19, 1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
April 19, 1321 – Gerasimus I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. unknown)
April 19, 1390 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
April 19, 1560 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
April 19, 1567 – Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
April 19, 1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
April 19, 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
April 19, 1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
April 19, 1618 – Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist
April 19, 1627 – John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
April 19, 1629 – Sigismondo d’India, Italian composer
April 19, 1684 – Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
April 19, 1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
April 19, 1689 – Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
April 19, 1733 – Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1655)
April 19, 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
April 19, 1751 – Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
April 19, 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
April 19, 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
April 19, 1813 – Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)
April 19, 1824 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
April 19, 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
April 19, 1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (b. 1756)
April 19, 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
April 19, 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
April 19, 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
April 19, 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
April 19, 1892 – T. Pelham Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
April 19, 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
April 19, 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
April 19, 1906 – Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
April 19, 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
April 19, 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
April 19, 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
April 19, 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
April 19, 1937 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
April 19, 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878)
April 19, 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
April 19, 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
April 19, 1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
April 19, 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
April 19, 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b.1899)
April 19, 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
April 19, 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
April 19, 1991 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
April 19, 1992 – Bryan Castiglione, born on this day. socom release also on said day.
April 19, 1993 – David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
April 19, 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
April 19, 1993 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938)
April 19, 1997 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
April 19, 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
April 19, 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
April 19, 1999 – David Sanes, US Navy employee (b. 1954)
April 19, 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
April 19, 2004 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
April 19, 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
April 19, 2005 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
April 19, 2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
April 19, 2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
April 19, 2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
April 19, 2006 – Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
April 19, 2006 – Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
April 19, 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
April 19, 2007 – Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
April 19, 2008 – John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
April 19, 2008 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
April 19, 2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
April 19, 2009 – J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
April 19, 2010 – Keith “Guru” Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
April 19, 2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
April 19, 2010 – Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
April 19, 2010 – Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (b. 1944)

APRIL 19TH MEMORABLE EVENTS:
April 19, 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and the conspirators were all arrested.
April 19, 1012 – Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
April 19, 1529 – At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
April 19, 1587 – Francis Drake’s expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
April 19, 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
April 19, 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of Australia.
April 19, 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
April 19, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
April 19, 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
April 19, 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign which ended in a French victory.
April 19, 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
April 19, 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
April 19, 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
April 19, 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
April 19, 1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
April 19, 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
April 19, 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
April 19, 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
April 19, 1936 – First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
April 19, 1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
April 19, 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
April 19, 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
April 19, 1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
April 19, 1948 – Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
April 19, 1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
April 19, 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
April 19, 1954 – Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan.
April 19, 1955 – The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
April 19, 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
April 19, 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
April 19, 1961 – The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
April 19, 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
April 19, 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
April 19, 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
April 19, 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
April 19, 1975 – India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
April 19, 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 19, 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
April 19, 1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
April 19, 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
April 19, 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
April 19, 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
April 19, 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
April 19, 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
April 19, 1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
April 19, 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

MEMORABLE QUOTE:

“The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.” (Grace Kelly)

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April 18th In History: It Happened Today.

April 15, 2011 By
Albert Einstein Dies

Albert Einstein Dies

The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history: April 18th. This day in history is marked by the death of Albert Einstein on April 18, 1955. On April 17, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Dr. Rudolph Nissen in 1948.  He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel’s seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it.


BORN APRIL 18TH:
April 18, 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
April 18, 1580 – Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627)
April 18, 1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
April 18, 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
April 18, 1771 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
April 18, 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French statesman (d. 1877)
April 18, 1813 – James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
April 18, 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
April 18, 1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
April 18, 1838 – Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
April 18, 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)
April 18, 1863 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942)
April 18, 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American author (d. 1916)
April 18, 1874 – Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
April 18, 1874 – Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
April 18, 1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
April 18, 1880 – Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
April 18, 1882 – Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)
April 18, 1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
April 18, 1889 – Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 1970)
April 18, 1893 – Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
April 18, 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
April 18, 1901 – Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
April 18, 1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
April 18, 1902 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
April 18, 1904 – Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
April 18, 1905 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
April 18, 1907 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995)
April 18, 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-born American physicist
April 18, 1915 – Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
April 18, 1917 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
April 18, 1917 – Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981)
April 18, 1918 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
April 18, 1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004)
April 18, 1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish film director
April 18, 1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter
April 18, 1919 – Virginia O’Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
April 18, 1921 – Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
April 18, 1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress
April 18, 1924 – Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American musician (d. 2005)
April 18, 1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
April 18, 1925 – Bob Hastings, American actor
April 18, 1925 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005)
April 18, 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
April 18, 1930 – Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor
April 18, 1934 – George Shirley, American tenor


April 18, 1935 – Costas Ferris, Greek director
April 18, 1936 – Tommy Ivo, American race car driver
April 18, 1937 – Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
April 18, 1939 – Thomas J. Moyer, American judge
April 18, 1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate
April 18, 1940 – Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann)
April 18, 1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (d. 1970)
April 18, 1942 – Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
April 18, 1942 – Robert Christgau, American music critic
April 18, 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American spy
April 18, 1945 – Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
April 18, 1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress
April 18, 1946 – Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1999)
April 18, 1947 – Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
April 18, 1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress
April 18, 1947 – Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
April 18, 1947 – Cindy Pickett, American actress
April 18, 1947 – James Woods, American actor
April 18, 1947 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish film director and actor
April 18, 1949 – Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
April 18, 1950 – Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer
April 18, 1950 – Paul Callery, football player
April 18, 1951 – Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
April 18, 1951 – Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
April 18, 1953 – Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian
April 18, 1956 – Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
April 18, 1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor
April 18, 1956 – Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
April 18, 1956 – Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
April 18, 1958 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1999)
April 18, 1961 – Jane Leeves, British actress
April 18, 1961 – Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
April 18, 1961 – John Podhoretz, American columnist and political pundit
April 18, 1962 – Jeff Dunham, American comedian
April 18, 1963 – Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
April 18, 1963 – Conan O’Brien, American comedian
April 18, 1964 – Niall Ferguson, British historian
April 18, 1964 – Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director
April 18, 1964 – Jim Ellison, musician
April 18, 1964 – Mark Berry, aka Bez, dancer in Happy Mondays
April 18, 1965 – Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey
April 18, 1966 – Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
April 18, 1966 – Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
April 18, 1967 – Maria Bello, American actress
April 18, 1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress
April 18, 1968 – David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
April 18, 1969 – Princess Sayako of Japan
April 18, 1969 – Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author
April 18, 1970 – Rico Brogna, American baseball player
April 18, 1970 – Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon
April 18, 1970 – Greg Eklund, American musician
April 18, 1970 – Esther Schweins, German actress and comedienne
April 18, 1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek television host
April 18, 1971 – Tamara Braun, American actress
April 18, 1971 – Russell Payne, English writer
April 18, 1971 – Samantha Cameron, business executive; wife of UK Prime Minister David Cameron
April 18, 1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
April 18, 1971 – Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
April 18, 1971 – Fredro Starr, American rapper (Onyx)
April 18, 1972 – Rosa Clemente, American activist and hip-hop artist
April 18, 1972 – Eli Roth, American film director
April 18, 1973 – Derrick Brooks, American football player
April 18, 1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete
April 18, 1973 – Brady Clark, American baseball player
April 18, 1973 – Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer
April 18, 1974 – Mark Tremonti, American musician
April 18, 1974 – Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
April 18, 1974 – Edgar Wright, British director
April 18, 1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
April 18, 1976 – Fayray, Japanese singer
April 18, 1976 – Jo Gibb, Scottish Actress
April 18, 1976 – Justin Ross, American politician
April 18, 1977 – Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
April 18, 1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player
April 18, 1979 – Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
April 18, 1979 – Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
April 18, 1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer
April 18, 1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
April 18, 1980 – Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
April 18, 1981 – Brian Buscher, American baseball player
April 18, 1982 – Simone Farina, Italian footballer
April 18, 1982 – Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
April 18, 1982 – Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)
April 18, 1982 – Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
April 18, 1983 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
April 18, 1983 – Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
April 18, 1984 – America Ferrera, American actress
April 18, 1985 – Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
April 18, 1985 – Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
April 18, 1985 – Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
April 18, 1986 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player
April 18, 1986 – Billy Butler, American baseball player
April 18, 1986 – Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
April 18, 1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian Rules Football player
April 18, 1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
April 18, 1987 – Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
April 18, 1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model
April 18, 1988 – Alexander Hauck, South African-born German rugby player
April 18, 1989 – Alia Shawkat, American actress
April 18, 1989 – Jessica (Jessica Jung), American-born South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
April 18, 1989 – Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
April 18, 1994 – Moises Arias, American actor
April 18, 2007 – Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan

DIED APRIL 18TH:
April 18, 1161 – Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
April 18, 1552 – John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)
April 18, 1556 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
April 18, 1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
April 18, 1558 – Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
April 18, 1636 – Julius Caesar, English judge
April 18, 1650 – Simonds d’Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
April 18, 1674 – John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
April 18, 1689 – George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (b. 1648)
April 18, 1732 – Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
April 18, 1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
April 18, 1796 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
April 18, 1802 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
April 18, 1859 – Tantya Tope, Indian Revolutionary & General (b. 1814)
April 18, 1873 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
April 18, 1898 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
April 18, 1906 – Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
April 18, 1917 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
April 18, 1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
April 18, 1936 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)
April 18, 1942 – Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
April 18, 1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
April 18, 1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
April 18, 1945 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
April 18, 1945 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
April 18, 1945 – Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
April 18, 1947 – Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler
April 18, 1949 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
April 18, 1951 – António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
April 18, 1955 – Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
April 18, 1958 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
April 18, 1963 – Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
April 18, 1964 – Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)
April 18, 1965 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
April 18, 1967 – Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
April 18, 1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (b. 1895)
April 18, 1976 – Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer (b. 1911)
April 18, 1986 – Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (b.1892)
April 18, 1988 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
April 18, 1990 – Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
April 18, 1990 – Victoria O’Keefe, British actress (b. 1969)
April 18, 1992 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian and comic actor (b. 1917)
April 18, 1993 – Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
April 18, 1995 – Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
April 18, 1995 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (b. 1927)
April 18, 1996 – Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
April 18, 1996 – Bernard Edwards, American record producer (b. 1952)
April 18, 1998 – Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
April 18, 2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
April 18, 2002 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
April 18, 2003 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
April 18, 2004 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
April 18, 2005 – Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
April 18, 2007 – Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
April 18, 2009 – Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987)

APRIL 18TH MEMORABLE EVENTS:
April 18, 1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
April 18, 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid.
April 18, 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
April 18, 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) founded in Madrid.
April 18, 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
April 18, 1783 – Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
April 18, 1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
April 18, 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
April 18, 1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
April 18, 1857 – Released “The Spirits Book”, which marked the birth of Spiritualism in France, by Allan Kardec.
April 18, 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
April 18, 1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
April 18, 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
April 18, 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
April 18, 1899 – The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
April 18, 1902 – Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by earthquake.
April 18, 1906 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco, California.
April 18, 1906 – The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
April 18, 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
April 18, 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
April 18, 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
April 18, 1923 – Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built,” opens.
April 18, 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first Crossword puzzle book.
April 18, 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
April 18, 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
April 18, 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya bombed.
April 18, 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
April 18, 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
April 18, 1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
April 18, 1949 – The aircraft carrier USS United States (CVA-58) is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, the United States is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
April 18, 1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
April 18, 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
April 18, 1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
April 18, 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
April 18, 1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port.
April 18, 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency of Zimbabwe.
April 18, 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game was suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
April 18, 1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
April 18, 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
April 18, 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
April 18, 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
April 18, 2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
April 18, 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.

MEMORABLE QUOTE:
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough”. (Albert Einstein)

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Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino

April 14, 2011 By
Barona Casino San Diego

Barona Casino San Diego

While many people still prefer to travel to Vegas to enjoy the excitement of gaming, there are a multitude of local gaming options to people living in San Diego County, the most notable of which may be the Barona Resort and Casino. The Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino is an Indian casino on the Barona Indian Reservation located in Lakeside, in northeastern San Diego County in California.

The Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Kumeyaay Indians, who are sometimes known as Mission Indians.

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Address:
1932 Wildcat Canyon Road
Lakeside, California 92040-1546

Phone: (888) 722-7662

Number of rooms: 400

Notable restaurants:
Barona Oaks Steakhouse
Sage Café
Ranch House Buffet
Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill
Feisty Kate’s Burgers and Malts
The Pizza Place
Barona Coffee Company
HoWan Noodle Shop
Gameside Dining

Hotel owner:
Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians

Casino amenities:
75 table games including blackjack, poker, Pai gow poker, California-style craps (using playing cards rather than dice, as dice games are not allowed in California casinos), and 2,000 slot and video poker machines.

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Legal age:
The legal age of gambling at Barona Casino is 18, unlike most California and national casinos, where the age is 21.

Barona Resort:
The on-site Barona Creek Golf Club, designed by Gary Roger Baird, is a par 72 18-hole course that measures 7,088 yards in distance.

Blackjack Hall of Fame:
Barona Resort & Casino is home to the only Blackjack Hall of Fame in the gaming industry. In addition to featuring some of the world’s leading blackjack players, the Hall of Fame also features the world’s largest public display of ancient cheating devices.

Barona Tribal History:
In 1875, the federal government established the Capitan Grande Reservation for the native people living in the northern parts of what is today Greater San Diego at that time. About 40 years later, in 1932, the city bought the Capitan Grande Reservation to build a reservoir. In 1932, without a homeland but with money in their pockets, members of that tribe bought the Barona Ranch, the current location of the Barona Indian reservation.

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The First 10 Triple Crown Winners

April 14, 2011 By
Triple Crown Winners

Triple Crown Winners

These horses went down in history for accomplishing the “dream feat” of wining the three most prestigious horse races in the United States: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. Winning all three of these races in the same year is what makes a Triple Crown Winner.

Different nations where thoroughbred racing is popular each have their own Triple Crown series. In recent years, winning a Triple Crown has become a very rare achievement, with most horses specializing on a limited range of distances.

THE FIRST TEN TRIPLE CROWN WINNERS
1. SIR BARTON (1919). Sir Barton, (1916–1937), was a chestnut thoroughbred colt who in 1919 became the first winner of the American Triple Crown. Sir Barton was bred in Kentucky by John E. Madden and Vivian A. Gooch at Hamburg Place Farm near Lexington.


2. GALLANT FOX (1930). Gallant Fox (March 23, 1927 – November 13, 1954) was a United States Thoroughbred horseracing champion. Owned by the Belair Stud of Collington, Maryland, Gallant Fox was ridden by Earl Sande and trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons.

3. OMAHA (1935). Omaha (March 24, 1932–April 24, 1959) was a United States thoroughbred horse racing champion. Omaha was an unlikely champion. Like his father, as a two-year-old he was less than spectacular, winning just once in nine races. In four of the nine races, Omaha finished out of the money. During the winter, however, the horse filled out and began to look like a champion and he won the three Triple Crown races easily.

4. WAR ADMIRAL (1937). War Admiral (1934–1959) was an American thoroughbred racehorse legend, the offspring of the great thoroughbred Man o’ War and the mare Brushup. He inherited his father’s fiery temperament and talent, but did not resemble him physically. He was smaller than Man o’ War at 15 hands, two inches tall (compared to 16 hands for an average racehorse), with a dark brown coat inherited from his dam. The movie “Seabiscuit” inaccurately portrays him at 18 hands.

5. WHIRLAWAY (1941). Whirlaway (April 2, 1938 – April 6, 1953) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse. The chestnut horse was sired by English Derby winner Blenheim II, out of the broodmare Dustwhirl. Whirlaway was bred at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.

6. COUNT FLEET (1943). Count Fleet (March 24, 1940 – December 3, 1973) was born and died at Stoner Creek Stud farm in Paris, Kentucky, United States. He was a Thoroughbred racehorse and Triple Crown champion in 1943.

7. ASSAULT (1946). Assault (March 26, 1943 – September 2, 1971) was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse who won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1946.

8. CITATION (1948). Citation (April 11, 1945–August 8, 1970) was the eighth American Triple Crown winner, and one of three major North American Thoroughbreds (along with Cigar and Zenyatta) to win at least 16 consecutive races in major stakes race competition. He was the first horse in history to win one million dollars.

9. SECRETARIAT (1973). Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years, setting new race records in two of the three events in the Series—the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24)—records that still stand today.

10. SEATTLE SLEW (1977). Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred race horse who won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, the tenth of eleven horses to accomplish the feat. He remains the only horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Seattle Slew is ranked ninth.

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April 17th In History: It Happened Today.

April 14, 2011 By
Remembering Benjamin Franklin

Remembering Benjamin Franklin

The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history: April 17th. This day in history was marked by the death of Benjamin Franklin on April 17, 1790.


BORN APRIL 17TH:
April 17, 1278 – Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320)
April 17, 1573 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
April 17, 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist
April 17, 1598 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
April 17, 1620 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. 1700)
April 17, 1622 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (d. 1695)
April 17, 1710 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767)
April 17, 1734 – Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
April 17, 1741 – Samuel Chase, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1811)
April 17, 1750 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828)
April 17, 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
April 17, 1798 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840)
April 17, 1814 – Josif Pančić, Serbian botanist (d. 1888)
April 17, 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
April 17, 1820 – Alexander Joy Cartwright, Inventor of the Modern Game of Baseball (d. 1892)
April 17, 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900)
April 17, 1837 – J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
April 17, 1842 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911)
April 17, 1849 – William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1923)
April 17, 1863 – Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940)
April 17, 1865 – Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939)
April 17, 1866 – Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927)
April 17, 1877 – Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
April 17, 1878 – Emil Fuchs, German-born American attorney and baseball owner (d. 1961)
April 17, 1882 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
April 17, 1884 – Leo Frank, American victim of lynching (d. 1915)
April 17, 1885 – Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish author (d. 1962)
April 17, 1890 – Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider (d. 1931)
April 17, 1891 – George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (d. 1965)
April 17, 1896 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (d. 1999)
April 17, 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d. 1975)
April 17, 1902 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (d. 1974)
April 17, 1903 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
April 17, 1903 – Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975)
April 17, 1905 – Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987)
April 17, 1906 – Sidney R. Garfield, American physician (d. 1984)
April 17, 1909 – Alain Poher, French politician (d. 1996)
April 17, 1910 – Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician (d. 1990)
April 17, 1910 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
April 17, 1911 – Lester Rodney, American journalist (d. 2009)
April 17, 1912 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-born actress and singer, naturalized citizen of the United States
April 17, 1914 – George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984)
April 17, 1915 – Joe Foss, United States Marine and politician (d. 2003)
April 17, 1915 – Martin Clemens, Scottish guerilla fighter (d. 2009)
April 17, 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, A Sri Lankan politician and the world’s first female head of government (d. 2000)
April 17, 1916 – Helenio Herrera, French footballer player and manager (d. 1997)
April 17, 1917 – Bill Clements, American politician
April 17, 1918 – William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
April 17, 1919 – Gilles Lamontagne, French Canadian politician
April 17, 1919 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer
April 17, 1923 – Lindsay Anderson, English film director (d. 1994)
April 17, 1923 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist (d. 1991)
April 17, 1923 – Solly Hemus, American baseball player
April 17, 1925 – Erich Göstl, German War Hero (d. 1990)
April 17, 1926 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
April 17, 1928 – Cynthia Ozick, American writer
April 17, 1929 – James Last, German band leader
April 17, 1929 – Peggy McKercher, 11th Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan)
April 17, 1929 – Michael Forest, American actor
April 17, 1930 – Chris Barber, British jazz band leader
April 17, 1934 – Don Kirshner, American composer (d. 2011)
April 17, 1937 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive
April 17, 1938 – Ben Barnes, American politician
April 17, 1938 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism
April 17, 1940 – Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983)
April 17, 1940 – John McCririck, English television horse racing pundit
April 17, 1940 – Anja Silja, German soprano
April 17, 1942 – David Bradley, British actor
April 17, 1942 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician
April 17, 1947 – Linda Martin, Irish singer
April 17, 1947 – Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player
April 17, 1948 – Jan Hammer, Czech composer
April 17, 1950 – L. Scott Caldwell, American actress
April 17, 1950 – Bruce McNall, American former NHL team owner
April 17, 1951 – Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress
April 17, 1951 – Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player


April 17, 1952 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian warlord (d. 2000)
April 17, 1954 – Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver
April 17, 1954 – Rowdy Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler
April 17, 1954 – Michael Sembello, American musician
April 17, 1954 – Lester Square, Canadian musician
April 17, 1955 – Pete Shelley, British musician
April 17, 1957 – Nick Hornby, English author
April 17, 1957 – Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress
April 17, 1959 – Sean Bean, English actor
April 17, 1961 – Boomer Esiason, American football player and commentator
April 17, 1961 – Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader
April 17, 1963 – Joel Murray, American actor
April 17, 1964 – Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle)
April 17, 1964 – Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player
April 17, 1964 – Lela Rochon, American actress
April 17, 1965 – William Mapother, American actor
April 17, 1965 – Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner
April 17, 1966 – Vikram, Indian actor
April 17, 1967 – Marquis Grissom, American baseball player
April 17, 1967 – Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born Scottish actor
April 17, 1967 – Kimberly Elise, American actress
April 17, 1967 – Timothy Gibbs, American actor
April 17, 1967 – Liz Phair, American musician/songwriter
April 17, 1967 – Leslie Bega, American actress
April 17, 1968 – Prince Maurits of the Netherlands
April 17, 1970 – Redman, American rapper
April 17, 1972 – Gary Bennett, American baseball player
April 17, 1972 – Tony Boselli, American football player
April 17, 1972 – Jennifer Garner, American actress
April 17, 1972 – Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
April 17, 1972 – Jarkko Wiss, Finnish Footballer
April 17, 1972 – Terran Sandwith, Canadian ice hockey player
April 17, 1972 – Claire Sweeney, English actress
April 17, 1973 – Brett Maher, Australian basketballer
April 17, 1973 – Theo Ratliff, American basketball player
April 17, 1973 – Kaihō Ryōji, Japanese sumo wrestler
April 17, 1974 – Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls)
April 17, 1974 – Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth)
April 17, 1975 – Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor
April 17, 1975 – Travis Roy, American hockey player
April 17, 1976 – Monet Mazur, American actress and musician
April 17, 1976 – Alex Nesic, American actor
April 17, 1976 – Aňa Geislerová, Czech actress
April 17, 1977 – Chad Hedrick, American speed skater
April 17, 1977 – Sizzla, Jamaican dancehall artist
April 17, 1977 – Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon)
April 17, 1978 – Lindsay Hartley, American actress
April 17, 1978 – Loukas Louka, Greek-Cypriot footballer
April 17, 1978 – Jason White, Scottish rugby player
April 17, 1979 – Eric Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player
April 17, 1979 – Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor
April 17, 1980 – Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer/boxer
April 17, 1980 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
April 17, 1980 – Nicholas D’Agosto, American television and film actor
April 17, 1981 – Wayne Lydon, American baseball player
April 17, 1981 – Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer
April 17, 1981 – Ryan Raburn, American baseball player
April 17, 1982 – Lee Jun Ki, South Korean actor and model
April 17, 1982 – Brad Boyes, Canadian hockey player
April 17, 1983 – Stanislav Chistov, Russian hockey player
April 17, 1983 – Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player
April 17, 1983 – Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
April 17, 1984 – Jed Lowrie, American baseball player
April 17, 1985 – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
April 17, 1990 – Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
April 17, 1995 – Paulie Litt, American actor
April 17, 1996 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress

DIED APRIL 17TH:
April 17, 326 – Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
April 17, 485 – Proclus, Greek philosopher (b. 412)
April 17, 617 – Donnán of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg
April 17, 1080 – King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
April 17, 1427 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
April 17, 1539 – George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
April 17, 1574 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (b. 1500)
April 17, 1680 – Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (b. 1656)
April 17, 1695 – Sor Juana, Mexican writer
April 17, 1696 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (b. 1626)
April 17, 1711 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678)
April 17, 1713 – David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (b. 1648)
April 17, 1742 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664)
April 17, 1761 – Thomas Bayes, English mathematician
April 17, 1764 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (b. 1681)
April 17, 1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, diplomat, and printer (b. 1706)
April 17, 1799 – Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728)
April 17, 1843 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
April 17, 1849 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (b. 1777)
April 17, 1873 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (b. 1783)
April 17, 1882 – George Jennings Sanitary engineer (b. 1810)
April 17, 1892 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
April 17, 1902 – Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822)
April 17, 1921 – Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (b. 1860)
April 17, 1930 – Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
April 17, 1936 – Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch Prime Minister (b. 1873)
April 17, 1937 – Yi Sang, Korean poet (b. 1910)
April 17, 1941 – Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899)
April 17, 1942 – Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
April 17, 1944 – J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1867)
April 17, 1954 – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist (b. 1900)
April 17, 1960 – Eddie Cochran, American musician (b. 1938)
April 17, 1967 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
April 17, 1975 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (b. 1888)
April 17, 1976 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
April 17, 1977 – William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
April 17, 1983 – Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (b. 1939) (Mountain)
April 17, 1984 – Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
April 17, 1985 – Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
April 17, 1987 – Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901)
April 17, 1987 – Dick Shawn, Actor and Comedian (b. 1923)
April 17, 1988 – Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (b. 1900)
April 17, 1990 – Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (b. 1936)
April 17, 1993 – Turgut Ozal, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)
April 17, 1994 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
April 17, 1995 – Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (b. 1928)
April 17, 1996 – Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (b. 1905)
April 17, 1997 – Allan Francovich, American documentarian (b. 1941)
April 17, 1997 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983–1993) (b. 1918)
April 17, 1998 – Linda McCartney, American designer and photographer (b. 1941)
April 17, 2003 – Robert Atkins, American dietician (b. 1930)
April 17, 2003 – H. B. Bailey, American racing driver (b. 1936)
April 17, 2003 – Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (b. 1932)
April 17, 2003 – Earl King, American musician and songwriter (b. 1934)
April 17, 2003 – Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1910)
April 17, 2004 – Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (b. 1908)
April 17, 2004 – Soundarya, Indian actress (b. 1971)
April 17, 2006 – Scott Brazil, American television producer and director. (b. 1955)
April 17, 2007 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (b. 1910)
April 17, 2007 – Gil Dobrică, Romanian singer (b. 1946)
April 17, 2008 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
April 17, 2008 – Danny Federici, American organ player (E-Street Band) (b. 1950)

APRIL 17TH MEMORABLE EVENTS:
April 17, 69 – After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
April 17, 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book’s pilgrimage to Canterbury.
April 17, 1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
April 17, 1521 – Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
April 17, 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
April 17, 1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
April 17, 1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
April 17, 1861 – American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the United States.
April 17, 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
April 17, 1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
April 17, 1895 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
April 17, 1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the “right to free contract” is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
April 17, 1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
April 17, 1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
April 17, 1924 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed by the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
April 17, 1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
April 17, 1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
April 17, 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
April 17, 1946 – Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
April 17, 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
April 17, 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
April 17, 1964 – The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World’s Fair.
April 17, 1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
April 17, 1964 – Shea Stadium opens.
April 17, 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
April 17, 1969 – Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
April 17, 1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
April 17, 1971 – The People’s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
April 17, 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
April 17, 1973 – German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded.
April 17, 1975 – The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
April 17, 1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
April 17, 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
April 17, 1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
April 17, 2006 – Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.

MEMORABLE QUOTE:

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” (Benjamin Franklin)

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What is the Dow 30?

April 14, 2011 By
The Dow 30

The Dow 30

Novice investors are often confused as to what exactly the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is and which stocks form part of this renowned stock market index. The financial media refer to the index by many names, including simply “the Dow“, or “the Dow Jones”, the “Dow 30″. The index was originally created by Charles Dow, editor at the Wall Street Journal an co-founder of Dow Jones & Company. In a nutshell, the index shows how 30 large, publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market.


CURRENT DOW JONES COMPONENTS (as of April, 2011):

The Dow Jones Industrial Average currently consists of the following 30 major American companies. Each companies ticker symbol is shown in parentheses after the corporate name.

3M (MMM)
Alcoa (AA)
American Express (AXP)
AT&T (T)
Bank of America (BAC)
Boeing (BA)
Caterpillar (CAT)
Chevron Corporation (CVX)
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
Coca-Cola (KO)
DuPont (DD)
ExxonMobil (XOM)
General Electric (GE)
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
The Home Depot (HD)
Intel (INTC)
IBM (IBM)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
Kraft Foods (KFT)
McDonald’s (MCD)
Merck (MRK)
Microsoft (MSFT)
Pfizer (PFE)
Procter & Gamble (PG)
Travelers (TRV)
United Technologies Corporation (UTX)
Verizon Communications (VZ)
Wal-Mart (WMT)
Walt Disney (DIS)

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10 Famous Boxer Nicknames

April 13, 2011 By
Boxer Nicknames

Boxer Nicknames

You may or may not remember the names on the list below, but all of them went down in history as some of the most ferocious pugilists the world of boxing has ever witnessed, way before the “Pretty Boy”, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. or “Pac-Man”, Manny Pacquiao.

So, here we go:

1. Primo Carnera, “The Ambling Alp”. Primo Carnera (October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967) was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion.

2. Rocky Marciano, “The Brockton Blockbuster”. Rocky Marciano (September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was an Italian-American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. When he retired he became the only heavyweight champion to finish his career undefeated. Marciano was also nicknamed “The Rock from Brockton”.

3. Joe Louis, “The Brown Bomber”. Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time.

4. Gene Tunney, “The Fighting Marine”. James Joseph “Gene” Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927.

5. James J. Corbett, “Gentleman Jim”. James John “Gentleman Jim” Corbett (September 1, 1866 – February 18, 1933) was an Irish-American heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan.

6. Max Baer, “The Livermore Larruper”. Maximilian Adelbert “Max” Baer (February 11, 1909 – November 21, 1959) was an American boxer of the 1930s, one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World, actor, entertainer, professional wrestler and referee.

7. Muhammad Ali, “The Louisville Lip”. Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers. Ali carried several additional nicknames like “The Greatest” and “The Champ”.

8. Jack Dempsey, “The Manassa Mauler”. William Harrison “Jack” Dempsey (“The Manassa Mauler”) (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey’s aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history.

9. Stanley Ketchel, “The Michigan Assassin”. Stanislaw Kiecał (September 14, 1886 – October 15, 1910), better known in the boxing world as Stanley Ketchel, was a Polish American boxer who became one of the greatest world middleweight champions.

10. Georges Carpentier, “The Orchid Man”. Georges Carpentier (pronounced car-pun-tee-eh) (January 12, 1894 – October 28, 1975) was a French boxer. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the “Orchid Man”, he stood 5 feet 11½ inches (1.816 m) and his fighting weight ranged from 125 to 175 pounds (57 to 79 kg). Carpentier was known for his speed, his excellent boxing skills and his extremely hard punch.

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