On This Date In 1605 Pope Leo XI (2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year. He died on the 27th day of his pontificate, and was succeeded by Pope Paul V.
On This Date In 1621 At the Plymouth settlement in present-day Massachusetts, the leaders of the Plymouth colonists, acting on behalf of King James I, made a defensive alliance with Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags. It was the first treaty between a Native American tribe and a group of American colonists.
On This Date In 1700 English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other.
On This Date In 1789 The first U.S. House of Representatives, meeting in New York City, reached quorum and elected Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg as its first speaker.
On This Date In 1854 "Hard Times - For These Times" (commonly known as Hard Times) was first published, and was the tenth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was serialised, every week, between April 1 and August 12, 1854. It sold well, and a complete volume was published in August, totalling 110,000 words.
On This Date In 1865 The Battle of Five Forks was fought in the southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County, during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle, sometimes referred to as the "Waterloo of the Confederacy," pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Pickett's loss at Five Forks triggered Lee's decision to abandon his entrenchments around Petersburg and begin the retreat that led to his surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9.
On This Date In 1873 The RMS Atlantic struck an underwater rock called Marr's Head 50 metres from Meagher's Island, Nova Scotia, quickly filled with water and flipped on its side. 535 people died, leaving only 371 survivors.
On This Date In 1877 Ignoring the taunts of fellow miners who said he would only find his own tombstone, prospector Edward Schieffelin began his search for silver in the area of present-day southern Arizona. Later that year, Schieffelin was not only alive and well, but had found one of the richest silver veins in the West. He named it the Tombstone Lode.
On This Date In 1918 The Royal Air Force (RAF) was 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.
On This Date In 1919 The 1919 Stanley Cup Final ice hockey play-off series to determine the 1919 Stanley Cup champion ended with no champion decided, being suspended after five games had been played due to an outbreak of Spanish Influenza. This was the first and only time since its donation in 1893 that the Stanley Cup was not awarded after the playoffs began.
On This Date In 1937 At the 1937 Masters, Byron Nelson caught and passed Ralph Guldahl for his first major championship victory and his third PGA Tour win.
On This Date In 1939 The Spanish Civil War, a major conflict that devastated Spain from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, ended this day.
On This Date In 1942 The Second World War commenced in Borneo at the end of 1941, after several years of mounting regional tension. This is the day Japanese Imperial Forces gained control of Borneo Island.
On This Date In 1945 After suffering the loss of 116 planes and damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops of the 10th Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner Jr., landed on the southwest coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, 350 miles south of Kyushu, the southern main island of Japan.
On This Date In 1946 An undersea earthquake off the Alaskan coast triggered a massive tsunami that killed 159 people in Hawaii.
On This Date In 1948 Soviet troops stop U.S. and British military trains traveling through the Russian zone of occupation in Germany and demand they be allowed to search the trains. British and U.S. officials refused the Soviet demand, and the problems associated with the Soviet, British, and U.S. occupation of Germany grew steadily more serious in the following months, as the Cold War continued to develop.
On This Date In 1963 The ABC television network air the premiere episode of General Hospital, the daytime drama that would become the network’s most enduring soap opera, and the longest-running serial program produced in Hollywood. On the same day, rival network NBC debuted its own medical-themed soap opera, The Doctors.
On This Date In 1970 President Richard Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio. Nixon, who was an avid pipe smoker, indulging in as many as eight bowls a day, supported the legislation at the increasing insistence of public health advocates.
On This Date In 1976 Apple was founded. When Apple was originally founded as a partnership on April Fools' Day 1976, there were three founders: Woz, Jobs, and a fellow by the name of Ronald Gerald Warne, 41. Read more here: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Confidential-2-0-Definitive-Colorful/dp/1593270100
On This Date In 1981 ”Reckoning”, a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead, was released.
On This Date In 1984 Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th birthday.
On This Date In 1989 Through the 8th of April the Fourth International Special Olympics Winter Games were held in Reno, Nevada, and Lake Tahoe, California. More than 1,000 athletes from 18 countries participated.
On This Date In 1993 Race car driver and owner Alan Kulwicki, who won the 1992 National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Winston Cup championship by one of the tightest margins in series history, was killed in a plane crash near Bristol, Tennessee, where he was scheduled to compete in a race the following day.
On This Date In 1998 Coretta Scott King called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x91580
On This Date In 2001 A mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) called the Hainan Island incident.
On This Date In 2004 Sen. Robert Byrd cast his 17,000th Roll Call vote (and became the first to do so) against a "motion to invoke cloture on the committee substitute to H.R. 4." (In English, he voted against welfare reform.). http://soulofthesenate.org/timeline.html#2004
On This Date In 2007 ”Buffalo”, a live album by Frank Zappa, was released as a two-CD set. It is the second installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete live shows of Zappa's (the first release being FZ:OZ).
On This Date In 2009 NATO membership was enlarged to 28 with the entrance of Albania and Croatia.
On This Date In 2010 John Forsythe, the debonair actor whose matinee-idol looks, confident charm and mellifluous voice helped make him the star of three hit television series, including ABC’s glamour soap “Dynasty,” died of complications from pneumonia. He was 92. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/television/03forsythe.html?_r=1
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Happy Birthday Jonathan Haze (1929), Debbie Reynolds (1932), Don Hastings (1934), Jimmy Cliff (1948), John Abizaid (1951), Jennifer Runyon (1960), Jessica Collins (1971), Juuso Riksman (1977), and Grant Cooper (1985).
RIP Edward Clark (1815 - 1880), Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924), Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918), Alberta Hunter (1895 - 1984), and Gordon Jump (1932 - 2003).
Quotes:
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand
Courtesy YouTube et al:
The first 12 hours of a U.S. dollar collapse! http://inflation.us < Fiction (?)
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Bring on the new season! And may it always sound so sweet!
On The Lighter Side
Military Cargo Plane
A military cargo plane, flying over a populated area, suddenly loses power and starts to nose down. The pilot tries to pull up, but with all their cargo, the plane is too heavy. So he yells to the soldiers in back to throw things out to make the plane lighter. They throw out a pistol. "Throw out more!" shouts the pilot. So they throw out a rifle. "More!" he cries again. They heave out a missile, and the pilot regains control.
He pulls out of the dive and lands safely at an airport. They get into a jeep and drive off. Pretty soon they meet a boy on the side of the road who's crying. They ask him why he's crying and he says "A pistol hit me on the head!"
They drive more and meet another boy who's crying even harder. Again they ask why and the boy says, "A rifle hit me on the head!"
They apologize and keep driving. They meet a boy on the sidewalk who's laughing hysterically. They ask him, "Kid, what's so funny?" The boy replies, "I sneezed and a house blew up!"
He pulls out of the dive and lands safely at an airport. They get into a jeep and drive off. Pretty soon they meet a boy on the side of the road who's crying. They ask him why he's crying and he says "A pistol hit me on the head!"
They drive more and meet another boy who's crying even harder. Again they ask why and the boy says, "A rifle hit me on the head!"
They apologize and keep driving. They meet a boy on the sidewalk who's laughing hysterically. They ask him, "Kid, what's so funny?" The boy replies, "I sneezed and a house blew up!"
Your time, your place, the wealth of experience, and the desire for more…strive always for the new memories to be made and shared!
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