What happened in History on this date

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-21-1738    

George "I cannot tell a lie" Washington nicks the bark on his father's prize young English cherry tree with his new hatchet, bringing about its eventual demise. When queried by his father, George humbly admits the deed, gaining his, and the world's, everlasting trust. Thrilled by his success, George runs two miles through the woods to tell his neighbor and friend Lucifer Williams that William's strategy of "gaining credence by admitting guilt" actually works. Washington grows up to become a master of military deception and first President of the United States.

4-21-1975    

A young Madelaine McMasters proudly exclaims "Look Mom, no hands!" just moments before being rushed indoors to have asphalt stains scraped off her front teeth.

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maddy if i had an imagination like u i would be dangerous lol great stuffs.

[Phil Deakins]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-22-2162

    The failure of laws to keep up with technology, and the perils of long term space travel collide head on when, two years into Earth's first interstellar space mission, ship's chef Mortimer "MmmMmmGood" McKinnen poisons his crewmate Lumbar "Ptooey" Swiggenton, who just never appreciated his cooking. McKinnen is sentenced to death by hanging, a process that lasts nearly 26 years, ending as the ship finally enters the atmosphere of Cygnus Centauri 3 and experiences gravity for the first time since launch.

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I love that one lol

[emmettcullen93]

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4-23-12    user emmettcullen recieves news from his high school teacher that he has accomplished a achievement. top 20% in the nation on a finance exam. no big deal but i love to show my achievements.

4-23-19    today user hippie bowman will finally reach the outer area of the atmostpher of a unknown planet while taking a tour with his freinds. linden labs will soon ban outer space travel 3 days later and declare hippie bowman the one and only to travel in the outer realms of the grid. in other news it will have a very rainny day in Seattle and the baseball team New York Yankees will have a record of 0-17 not winning a single game.

4-23-44   user hippie bowman will decide to run for linden inworld president of the grid and suprisingly recieve 95% vote from all regualer members and residents of the grid. his main goal is to reestablish outer space travel on the grid which was banned just 3 days less of 25 years ago. in other news german and french troops drive into spain to pick up enough troops to travel to america and begin the fourth world war. all four nations are on the same side of the war against italy, brazil, iraq, china, and japan. the war is on size of there computer drives and why there systems cannot handle the newest viewer. for sl...... viewer 35.    phoniex...   5.6.3.2500     firestorm.... 6.7.7.45400    america and allies will find that they will win and control all of the worlds computers.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Phil Deakins wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-22-2162

    The failure of laws to keep up with technology, and the perils of long term space travel collide head on when, two years into Earth's first interstellar space mission, ship's chef Mortimer "MmmMmmGood" McKinnen poisons his crewmate Lumbar "Ptooey" Swiggenton, who just never appreciated his cooking. McKinnen is sentenced to death by hanging, a process that lasts nearly 26 years, ending as the ship finally enters the atmosphere of Cygnus Centauri 3 and experiences gravity for the first time since launch.

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I love that one lol

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Me too Phil!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

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emmettcullen93 wrote:

mmmm

4-23-12    user emmettcullen recieves news from his high school teacher that he has accomplished a achievement. top 20% in the nation on a finance exam. no big deal but i love to show my achievements.

4-23-19    today user hippie bowman will finally reach the outer area of the atmostpher of a unknown planet while taking a tour with his freinds. linden labs will soon ban outer space travel 3 days later and declare hippie bowman the one and only to travel in the outer realms of the grid. in other news it will have a very rainny day in Seattle and the baseball team New York Yankees will have a record of 0-17 not winning a single game.

4-23-44   user hippie bowman will decide to run for linden inworld president of the grid and suprisingly recieve 95% vote from all regualer members and residents of the grid. his main goal is to reestablish outer space travel on the grid which was banned just 3 days less of 25 years ago. in other news german and french troops drive into spain to pick up enough troops to travel to america and begin the fourth world war. all four nations are on the same side of the war against italy, brazil, iraq, china, and japan. the war is on size of there computer drives and why there systems cannot handle the newest viewer. for sl...... viewer 35.    phoniex...   5.6.3.2500     firestorm.... 6.7.7.45400    america and allies will find that they will win and control all of the worlds computers.

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OH that is good Emmett!

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

lol

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-23-65,000,000BC   The Tertiary period kicks off with a bang when dinosaur astronomer Tyrone "Dr. T" Rex fails to detect the approaching Chicxulub asteroid. Archaeologists eventually discover that Dr. Rex's oversight was likely the result of pushing his telescope off course with his nose every time he reached for the focus knob with his too-short arms.

4-23-2011    Facebook's chat support lines are swamped when users of the game "Farmville" report the mysterious appearance of crop circles.

4-23-2013    The TSA suffers yet another embarrassment when it is revealed that airport full body scanners appear to show that everyone is actually Rick Astley.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-23-65,000,000BC

   The Tertiary period kicks off with a bang when dinosaur astronomer Tyrone "Dr. T" Rex fails to detect the approaching Chicxulub asteroid. Archaeologists eventually discover that Dr. Rex's oversight was likely the result of pushing his telescope off course with his nose every time he reached for the focus knob with his too-short arms.

4-23-2011    

Facebook's chat support lines are swamped when users of the game "Farmville" report the mysterious appearance of crop circles.

4-23-2013

    The TSA suffers yet another embarrassment when it is revealed that airport full body scanners appear to show that everyone is actually Rick Astley.

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LOL!  I just love it!  Rick Astley!  HEHE!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Happy Tuesday April the 24th!  Today is my partner LadySues Birthday!  YAY!  I love you LadySue.  Here is todays history lesson for April the 24th!

• 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
• 1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
• 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
• 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
• 1862 – American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Abbott declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• 1898 – The Spanish-American War: Abbott declares war on Spain.
• 1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
• 1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
• 1907 – Al Ahly was founded.
• 1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
• 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
• 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
• 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
• 1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
• 1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
• 1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
• 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
• 1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
• 1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
• 1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
• 1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
• 1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
• 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
• 1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
• 1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
• 1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
• Shuttle mission STS-31 lifts off, carrying Hubbleinto orbit.

• 1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
• 1993 – An IRAbomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
• 1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
• 2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminatingweapons of mass destruction.
• 2005 – CardinalJoseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
• 2005 – Snuppy, the world's first cloneddog, is born in South Korea.
• 2006 – King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
• 2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.

 

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

4-24-1935 emmett cullen is mauled by a bear in Gatlinburg, Tennessee . only to be found by his wife. Rosalie.

[Parhelion Palou]

Today is the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the man who designed the modern zipper. Today's Google Doodle is about him.

 

[Hippie Bowman]

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Parhelion Palou wrote:

Today is the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the man who designed the modern zipper. Today's Google Doodle is about him.

 

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YAY Parhelion!  Thank you for sharing that!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good day all!  Its the 25th of April!  Here is today in history!

 

• 404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
• 1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
• 1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
• 1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
• 1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
• 1792 – La Marseillaise (the Frenchnational anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
• 1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
• 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
• 1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
• 1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
• 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
• 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Forces under UnionAdmiralDavid Farragutdemand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
• 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
• 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobilelicense plates.
  
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  Anzac Beach – Australian and New Zealand forces invade Turkey
• 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
• 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
• 1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
• 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A"League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
• 1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
• 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic booksuperheroes of all time.
• 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
• 1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
• 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
• 1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
• 1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
• 1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
• 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
• 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North AmericanGreat Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
• 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
• 1965 – Teenage sniperMichael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
• 1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest ofKontum.
• 1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
• 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South VietnamesecapitalSaigon, the AustralianEmbassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the firstAustralian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
• 1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
• 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
• 1983 – American schoolgirlSamantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
• 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
• 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• 2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
• 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
• 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
• 2005 – 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
• 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
• 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.

Crazy Last Lap Crash in the NASCAR Nationwide Series @ Talladega - April 25th 2010

 

 

Peace!

 

 

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-25-2013   Danica Patrick wins at Talladega. Fans are stunned when Patrick emerges from the car after her victory lap wearing a Versace sequined gown and Jimmy Chou strappy sandals. She entered the car at the beginning of the race wearing the traditional race jumpsuit and helmet. Careful analysis of race footage later shows that Patrick changed clothes during the race and crossed the finish line while touching up her lipstick in the rear view mirror.

4-25-2025   James Cameron of Planetary Resources releases video imagery of the company's first successful "lasso" of a mineral rich asteroid. A robotic survey of the asteroid's surface reveals three volcanoes (two still active) some beobab trees and a single rose.

4-25-2025  During a post-mortem analysis of LL server code, open-source coders discover that SL's ubiquitous plywood boxes actually contain sheep.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-25-2013

  Danica Patrick wins at Talladega. Fans are stunned when Patrick emerges from the car after her victory lap wearing a Versace sequined gown and Jimmy Chou strappy sandals. She entered the car at the beginning of the race wearing the traditional race jumpsuit and helmet. Careful analysis of race footage later shows that Patrick changed clothes during the race and crossed the finish line while touching up her lipstick in the rear view mirror.

4-25-2025

   James Cameron of Planetary Resources releases video imagery of the company's first successful "lasso" of a mineral rich

asteroid

. A robotic survey of the asteroid's surface reveals three volcanoes (two still active) some beobab trees and a single rose.

4-25-2025

  During a post-mortem analysis of LL server code, open-source coders discover that SL's ubiquitous plywood boxes actually contain sheep.

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LOL! Sheep in those boxes huh!  LOL!

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

lolololol sheep in boxes that would be a good breedable. hehe

 back on the 23rd i posted.....

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4-23-12    user emmettcullen recieves news from his high school teacher that he has accomplished a achievement. top 20% in the nation on a finance exam. no big deal but i love to show my achievements.

4-23-19    today user hippie bowman will finally reach the outer area of the atmostpher of a unknown planet while taking a tour with his freinds. linden labs will soon ban outer space travel 3 days later and declare hippie bowman the one and only to travel in the outer realms of the grid. in other news it will have a very rainny day in Seattle and the baseball team New York Yankees will have a record of 0-17 not winning a single game.

4-23-44   user hippie bowman will decide to run for linden inworld president of the grid and suprisingly recieve 95% vote from all regualer members and residents of the grid. his main goal is to reestablish outer space travel on the grid which was banned just 3 days less of 25 years ago. in other news german and french troops drive into spain to pick up enough troops to travel to america and begin the fourth world war. all four nations are on the same side of the war against italy, brazil, iraq, china, and japan. the war is on size of there computer drives and why there systems cannot handle the newest viewer. for sl...... viewer 35.    phoniex...   5.6.3.2500     firestorm.... 6.7.7.45400    america and allies will find that they will win and control all of the worlds computers.

 

 

 

 

now today

4-26-19   linden labs bans outer space travel on the grid and declares the user Hippie Bowman as the only user to explore the outer realms of the grid. as for the yankees hmmmm 0-20 losing to the pitsburg pirates in a general game.

 

4-26-49 5 years and 3 days after Hippie Bowman decided to run for president of the grid and won he is forced to choose who his vice president will be and recieve approval from the linden family. so hippie you better start to think on who you will choose.

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  Today is April the 26th.  Here is todays history.

• 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
• 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
• 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown)
• 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
• 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
• 1805 – First Barbary War: United States MarinescapturedDerne under the command of First LieutenantPresley O'Bannon.
• 1865 – American Civil War: ConfederateGeneralJoseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to GeneralWilliam Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for most states.
• 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
• 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by GermanLuftwaffe.
• 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
• 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
• 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yama**bleep**a.
• 1946 – Naperville train disaster kills 47.
• 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
• 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South KoreaSyngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
• 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
• 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
• 1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
• 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
• 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
• 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
• 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officerWoo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
• 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
• 1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
• 1989 – People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
• 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
• 1994 – China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
• 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
• 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-26-1936    After appearing sullen and withdrawn at the dinner table, 17 year old Theodore "Two Ton" Tenson retires to his bedroom. An hour later, when queried by his mother, Tenson refuses to come out, saying he's "feeling blue". The phrase "feeling blue" would eventually become synonymous with depression.

4-26-1937    Theodore Tenson and his visibly pregnant girlfriend Beatrice "Blue" Bonette are married in a brief civil ceremony at City Hall. Parents of the bride and groom were present.

4-26-2013    Occupy Wall St protestors with extra time on their hands demand the recall of all Radio Flyer wagons because they neither have radios nor fly. Angry children hurl their wagons off rooftops onto the protesters yelling "Half right is not alright!"

[Hippie Bowman]

:matte-motes-nerdy:  Love this part.  Occupy Wall St protestors with extra time on their hands demand the recall of all Radio Flyer wagons.  :matte-motes-shocked:

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

LOL! :matte-motes-shocked:

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

 

4-26-2013    

Occupy Wall St protestors with extra time on their hands demand the recall of all Radio Flyer wagons because they neither have radios nor fly. Angry children hurl their wagons off rooftops onto the protesters yelling "Half right is not alright!"

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lol ill invent a radio flyer wagon with wings if they pay me. i owe a few ppl some cash so...... got to get it some how.

and btw im not going into protesting i will just build stuff inworld.

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Today is April the 27th.  Here is todays history lesson.

• 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
• 1296 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
• 1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
• 1521 – Battle of Mactan: ExplorerFerdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
• 1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
• 1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
• 1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
• 1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
• 1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
• 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• 1749 – First performance of Handel'sMusic for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
• 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
• 1810 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
• 1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
• 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
• 1861 – President of the United StatesAbraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
• 1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
• 1865 – The steamboatSultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
• 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
• 1909 – Sultan of Ottoman EmpireAbdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
• 1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
• 1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Airescopyrighttreaty.
• 1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
• 1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
• 1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
• 1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
• 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
• 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
• 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
• 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by GeneralMark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
• 1959 – The last Canadianmissionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
• 1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
• 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
• 1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
• 1974 – 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
• 1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
• 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
• 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
• 1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
• 1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
• 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the BritishHouse of Commons in its 700-year history.
• 1992 – Russia and 12 other former Sovietrepublics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
• 1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cupqualifying match against Senegal.
• 1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
• 1996 – The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
• 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
• 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
• 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
• 2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a SovietRed Armywar memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
• 2011 – A record 208 tornadoes touched down killing 346 people in the worst recorded outbreak in U.S. history. See April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak.

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-27-2010    "Peanuts" piano prodigy Schroeder celebrates the bicentennial of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" by playing it non-stop until Lucy goes away.

4-27-2012    Asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources offers failed presidential candidate Newt Gingrich a seat on their first mission. Company scientists explain to Gingrich that asteroids are vastly smaller than the Moon, on which Gingrich had planned to build a permanent base and declare US sovereignty. Gingrich immediately begins preparations by saving up all the little American flags that hold the olives in his martinis.

[ROB34466IIIa]

4-27-2012 Lucinda' s Bulloch' s attempting to moon other residents beyond scientific disbelief.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-27-2010

   "Peanuts" piano prodigy Schroeder celebrates the bicentennial of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" by playing it non-stop until Lucy goes away.

4-27-2012

   Asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources offers failed presidential candidate Newt Gingrich a seat on their first mission. Company scientists explain to Gingrich that asteroids are vastly smaller than the Moon, on which Gingrich had planned to build a permanent base and declare US sovereignty. Gingrich immediately begins preparations by saving up all the little American flags that hold the olives in his martinis.

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LOL!  I look forward to your post everyday Maddy!  BTW.  I can play Fur Elise on the piano from memory!  Was the very first song i memorized!  Woot!

 

Peace!