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International Conference: TITAN from Discovery to Encounter, Noordwijk, The Nethelands
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Apr/
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3rd Astrobiology Science Conference, Mountain View, California
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Apr/
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Meeting: Nearby Large-Scale Structures and the Zone of Avoidance, Cape Town, South Africa
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Apr/
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20th National Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Apr/
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The Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2004, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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Apr/
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Ground System Architectures Workshop, Manhatten Beach, California
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Apr/
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5th Internatinal Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2004), Toulouse, France
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Apr/
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International Conference: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Litomysl, Czech Republic
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Apr/
1:
Genesis, End of Science Collection
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Apr/
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Meeting on Magnetosphere Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial & UK Solar Physics 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Apr/
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Events that occurred on this day:
1621 The Pilgrim-Wampanoag peace treaty
1924 Hitler sent to Landsberg jail
1970 Gremlins created
1865 Battle of Five Forks
1948 Soviets stop U.S. and British military trains
1924 Beer Hall Putsch secures Hitler's rise to power
1916 Lewis Selznick Pictures founded
1816 Jane Austen declines royal writing advice
1877 Discoverer of Tombstone begins prospecting
1972 North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive
1992 The House Banking Scandal
1945 U.S. troops land on Okinawa
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Apr/
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Comet Chiron Closest Approach To Earth
On February 14, 1996, the enigmatic object Chiron reached perihelion inside the orbit of Saturn and on April 1 will reach perihelion opposition, its closest approach to Earth.
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RAF FOUNDED:
April 1, 1918
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry.
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Apr/
2:
International Children's Book Day (International)
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Apr/
2:
Reconciliation Day (United States of America)
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Apr/
2:
Meeting: Nearby Large-Scale Structures and the Zone of Avoidance, Cape Town, South Africa
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Apr/
2:
The Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2004, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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Apr/
2:
Meeting on Magnetosphere Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial & UK Solar Physics 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Apr/
2:
5th Internatinal Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2004), Toulouse, France
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Apr/
2:
International Conference: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Litomysl, Czech Republic
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Apr/
2:
Mercury Occults TYC 0628-00553-1 (9.8 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
2:
The Great Moonbuggy Race, Huntsville, Alabama
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Apr/
2:
45th Anniversary (1959), Selection Of The Mercury 7 Astronauts
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Apr/
2:
ARGENTINA INVADES FALKLANDS:
April 2, 1982
Argentina invades the Falklands Islands, a British colony since 1892 and British possession since 1833. Argentine amphibious forces rapidly overcame the small garrison of British marines at the town of Stanley on East Falkland and the next day seized the dependent territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich group. The 1,800 Falkland Islanders, mostly English-speaking sheep farmers, awaited a British response.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1513 Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1917 Jeannette Rankin assumes office
1956 The Sloan Era
1865 Union captures Petersburg line and General Hill is killed
1989 Gorbachev begins visit to Cuba
1800 Weeks' trial sheds light on early procedure
1902 First movie theater opens
1805 Hans Christian Andersen is born
1902 First woman judge dies in Wyoming
1972 North Vietnamese troops capture part of Quang Tri
1792 Minting the Mint
1941 "The Desert Fox" recaptures Libya
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Apr/
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International Conference: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Litomysl, Czech Republic
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Apr/
3:
The Great Moonbuggy Race, Huntsville, Alabama
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Apr/
3:
Venus Crosses the Pleiades (M45)
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Apr/
3:
UNABOMBER ARRESTED:
April 3, 1996
At his small wilderness cabin near Lincoln, Montana, Theodore John Kaczynski is arrested by FBI agents and accused of being the Unabomber, the elusive terrorist blamed for 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during an 18-year period.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1860 Pony Express mail service begins
1882 Jesse James shot in the back
1936 Bruno Hauptmann executed
1948 Truman signs Marshall Plan
1996 Ron Brown killed in plane crash
1996 Art Car
1865 Richmond captured
1948 Truman signs Foreign Assistance Act
1882 Jesse James is murdered
1990 Singer Sarah Vaughan dies
1955 ACLU says it will contest obscenity of HOWL
1817 Texas Ranger "Big Foot" Wallace born
1972 Nixon orders response to North Vietnamese invasion
1974 Tricky Dick vs. The Tax Man
1942 Japanese launch major offensive against Bataan
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DR. KING IS ASSASSINATED:
April 4, 1968
Just after 6 p.m. on this day, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
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Apr/
4:
Daylight Saving
Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (North America)
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Apr/
4:
Asteroid 2001 HB Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 5790 Nagasaki Closest Approach To Earth (1.859 AU)
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Apr/
4:
Venus Occults HIP 17900 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 110 Lydia Occults TYC 1261-00611-1 (7.1 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
4:
Passion Sunday (Christianity)
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Apr/
4:
Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (North America)
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Apr/
4:
Express AM-1 Proton K Launch
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Events that occurred on this day:
1841 President Harrison dies after one month in office
1918 Second Battle of the Somme ends
1949 NATO established
1944 Actor and car racer Craig T. Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington
1865 President Lincoln in Richmond
1949 NATO pact signed
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
1969 Smothers Brothers cancelled
1928 Maya Angelou is born
1843 Yellowstone photographer William Jackson is born
1967 Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks out against the war
1812 Madison's Embargo
1884 Yamamoto Isoroku, Japan's mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack, is born
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Apr/
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Spirit Mars Rover, End of Primary Mission
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Apr/
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Asteroid 2632 Guizhou Occults HIP 57380 (4.0 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 449 Hamburga Occults HIP 96488 (7.8 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 14967 Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.926 AU)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (2.072 AU)
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Apr/
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Comet C/2002 L9 (NEAT) Perihelion
Comet C/2002 L9 (NEAT) Perihelion
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POCAHONTAS MARRIES JOHN ROLFE:
April 5, 1614
Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia. The marriage ensured peace between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians for several years.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to die
1955 Winston Churchill resigns
1992 Abortion rights advocates march on Washington
1988 Tracy Chapman released the single "Fast Car" from her self-titled first album
1862 Siege of Yorktown begins
1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to death for spying
1994 Kurt Cobain commits suicide
1931 Fox drops John Wayne
1859 Darwin sends first three chapters of The Origin of Species to his publisher
1976 Howard Hughes dies
1972 North Vietnamese launch second front of Nguyen Hue Offensive
1894 The Life of the Miner
1945 Tito signs "friendship treaty" with Soviet Union
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Apr/
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Venus Occults TYC 1813-00193-1 (10.0 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
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Comet C/2002 L9 (NEAT) Perihelion (7.033 AU)
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Apr/
6:
Passover (First day of Passover United States of America)
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Apr/
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National Tartan Day (United States of America)
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OLYMPIAD REBORN:
April 6, 1896
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1830 Mormon Church established
1909 Peary's expedition reaches North Pole?
1917 America enters World War I
1898 Winton Car Company, International
1862 Battle of Shiloh begins
1990 U.S. and Soviet negotiators make progress
1922 A case of blatant murder
1930 Will Rogers' radio show premieres
1895 Oscar Wilde arrested
1832 Black Hawk War begins
1972 U.S. forces respond to North Vietnamese offensive
1808 The Fur King
1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Apr/
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World Health Day (International)
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TITO IS MADE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE:
April 7, 1963
A new Yugoslav constitution proclaims Tito the president for life of the newly named Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1953 Hammarskjýld elected U.N. head
1994 Rwandan massacres begin
1922 Sig Speeds
1862 Battle of Shiloh concludes
1954 Eisenhower gives famous "domino theory" speech
1994 Absence of international aid for the genocide in Rwanda
1891 P.T. Barnum dies
1770 William Wordsworth is born
1805 Lewis and Clark depart Fort Mandan
1975 North Vietnamese forces begin preparations for final offensive
1934 Congress and Crops
1939 Italy invades Albania
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Apr/
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Maundy Thursday (Christianity)
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Apr/
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40th Anniversary (1964), Gemini 1 Launch (Unmanned)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 3232 Brest Occults HIP 67953A & B (6.7 & 7.3 Magnitude Stars)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 2004 EH1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 3255 Tholen Closest Approach To Earth (2.080 AU)
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Apr/
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Mars Occults TYC 1830-00762-1 (12.0 Magnitude Star)
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B.C. GAUTAMA BUDDHA IS BORN:
April 8, 563
On this day, Buddhists celebrate the commemoration of the birth of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, thought to have lived in India from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C. Actually, the Buddhist tradition that celebrates his birthday on April 8 originally placed his birth in the 11th century B.C., and it was not until the modern era that scholars determined that he was more likely born in the sixth century B.C., and possibly in May rather than April.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1935 WPA established by Congress
1953 Kenyatta jailed for Mau Mau uprising
1974 Aaron sets new home run record
1910 Los Angeles Motordome, the first speedway with a board track
1864 Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana
1950 McCarthy publicly attacks Owen Lattimore
1899 The first woman is executed in the electric chair
1994 Kurt Cobain dies
1944 Barbara Kingsolver is born
1842 Elizabeth Bacon Custer is born in Michigan
1972 North Vietnamese forces open a third front
1952 Truman's Steel Seizure
1945 Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged
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Apr/
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Asteroid 11247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (2.645 AU)
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Apr/
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Asteroid 304 Olga Occults HIP 96202 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
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Partial Solar Eclipse
Partial Solar Eclipse
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FIRST ASTRONAUTS INTRODUCED:
April 9, 1959
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduces America's first astronauts to the press: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military test pilots, were carefully selected from a group of 32 candidates to take part in Project Mercury, America's first manned space program.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
1939 Marian Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial
1940 Germany invades Norway
1986 The State Of Renault
1865 Lee surrenders
1987 George Shultz condemns Soviet spying
1984 A husband attempts murder for money in England
1972 Jane Fonda wins Oscar
1859 Mark Twain receives steamboat pilot's license
1881 Billy the Kid convicted of murder
1969 "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty
1909 Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act passes
1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark
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Apr/
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Conference: Gamma-Ray Burst Physics Before Swift, State College, Pennsylvania
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Apr/
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Salvation Army Founders Day (United States of America)
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CHAPLIN RECEIVES OSCAR:
April 10, 1972
As part of his first visit to the United States in 20 years, British film pioneer Charlie Chaplin accepts an honorary Academy Award for his "incalculable" contribution to the art of filmmaking. Chaplin, once America's most successful movie star and director, had left the country under a storm of controversy in 1952.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1919 Zapata assassinated in Mexico
1942 Bataan Death March begins
1944 Henry Ford II named executive VP of the Ford Motor Company
1865 Lee's last orders
1971 U.S. table tennis team visits communist China
1834 A torture chamber is uncovered by arson
1970 McCartney announces Beatles breakup
1906 The Gift of the Magi is published
1933 Civilian Conservation Corps created
1970 Poll reveals that public approval of Vietnam policy is down
1816 Federal government go-ahead for second National Bank
1941 Croatia declares independence
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Conference: Gamma-Ray Burst Physics Before Swift, State College, Pennsylvania
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Events that occurred on this day:
1979 Idi Amin overthrown
1888 Power Marriage - Henry Ford and Clara Bryan
1862 Fall of Fort Pulaski, Georgia
1951 Truman relieves MacArthur of duties in Korea
1870 War is narrowly averted
1915 The Tramp: Charlie Chaplin's 3rd film and first comic masterpiece released
1931 Dorothy Parker resigns as drama critic for The New Yorker
1803 Talleyrand offers to sell Louisiana
1972 B-52s strike North Vietnamese positions
1941 The Fight Against Inflation - Office of Price Administration (OPA)created
1945 The U.S. army liberates Buchenwald concentration camp
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Apr/
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Asteroid 5050 Doctorwatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.662 AU)
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Apr/
12:
155th Anniversary (1849), de Gasparis' Discovery of Asteroid 10 Hygiea
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Apr/
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Asteroid 2001 GO2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.146 AU)
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FIRST MAN IN SPACE:
April 12, 1961
On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. Vostok 1 orbited Earth at a maximum altitude of 187 miles and was guided entirely by an automatic control system.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1861 The Civil War begins
1864 The Fort Pillow Massacre
1945 President Roosevelt dies
1981 First launching of the space shuttle
1888 Cecil Kimber, the founder of MG Born
1861 Fort Sumter fired upon
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
1633 Galileo is convicted of heresy
1954 Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"
1949 Legal thriller writer Scott Turow is born
1858 First gentile governor arrives in Utah
1975 U.S. Embassy in Cambodia evacuated
1937 Supreme Court National Labor Relations Act
1945 FDR dies
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Apr/
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Comet Howell Perihelion (1.368 AU)
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Apr/
12:
2004 Mitchell Symposium on Observational Cosmology, Texas
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Apr/
13:
Thomas Jefferson's Birthday (United States of America)
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Apr/
13:
Asteroid 5554 Keesey Closest Approach To Earth (1.696 AU)
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Apr/
13:
International Special Librarian's Day (International)
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Apr/
13:
Venus Occults PPM 93503 (11.6 Magnitude Star)
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Apr/
13:
Asteroid 5738 Billpickering Closest Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
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13:
TIGER WOODS WINS FIRST MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP:
April 13, 1997
In Augusta, Georgia, 21-year-old Tiger Woods wins the Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes. It was Woods' first victory in one of golf's four major championships (the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship, and the Masters).
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Events that occurred on this day:
1919 The Amritsar Massacre
1941 Japan and USSR sign nonaggression pact
1970 Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes
1925 Elwood Haynes (founder of Haynes Automobile Company) died in Kokomo, Indiana
1861 Fort Sumter surrenders
1990 Soviets admit to Katyn Massacre
1984 Mass murderer Christopher Wilder commits suicide
1964 Sydney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
1909 Eudora Welty, Southern writer is born in Jackson, Mississippi
1866 Butch Cassidy is born
1972 North Vietnamese launch major attack on An Loc
1852 Frank Winfield Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York
1939 USS Astoria attempts pre-war reconnaissance
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Apr/
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2004 Mitchell Symposium on Observational Cosmology, Texas
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13:
International Conference: TITAN from Discovery to Encounter, Noordwijk, The Nethelands
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