Post by IRiS on Apr 27, 2009 9:30:34 GMT -5
It's April's ending week! Celebrate the end of April's showers, which is awakening May's beatiful flowers!
Events
[li]1994 - 29.0 degrees C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
[/li][li]1984 - Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
[/li][li]1981 - 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL
[/li][li]1984 - Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings.
[/li][li]1990 - Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10.
[/li][li]1961 - NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays.
[/li][li]1994 - 7th longest NHL game: New Jersey Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 minutes 43 seconds)
[/li][li]1997 - Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73 .
[/li][li]2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, conductor, commissioned new works, enlarged cello repertoire more than any cellist, considered greatest cellist of 20th century, died of intestinal cancer.
April the 28th
[/li][li]1996 - "Big," opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 193 performances.
[/li][li]1990 - "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 6,137 performances.
[/li][li]1202 - King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France.
[/li][li]585 - War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse.
[/li][li]357 - Emperor Constantius II visits Rome.
[/li][li]1901 - 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) and Netherlands (0).
[/li][li]1952 - WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
[/li][li]1964 - Japan joins OECO
[/li][li]1968 - 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old.
[/li][li]1983 - NASA launches Geos-F
April the 29th
[/li][li]1991 - Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100 people.
[/li][li]1988 - "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols.
[/li][li]1853 - Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth
[/li][li]1856 - Peace between England and Russia.
[/li][li]1862 - 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi.
[/li][li]1957 - 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
[/li][li]1965 - Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die.
[/li][li]1965 - Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam.
[/li][li]1986 - 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library.
[/li][li]1985 - 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
April the 30th
[/li][li]Ending of April
[/li][li]1997 - 42 million watch "Ellen"
[/li][li]1992 - 208th and final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV (I love Bill Cosby (: )
[/li][li]1997 - Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes.
[/li][li]1990 - U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) returns from space.
[/li][li]1803 - U.S. doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase
[/li][li]1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
[/li][li]1919 - Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings (GO PHILZ)
[/li][li]1945 - U.S. troops attack the Elbe.
[/li][li]1961 - 1st shuttle flights between Washington D.C., Boston and New York City begin (Eastern)
May the 1st
[/li][li] Beginning of May
[/li][li]1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
[/li][li]1986 - Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph.
[/li][li]1986 - Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
[/li][li]1786 - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
[/li][li]1544 - Turkish troops occupy Hungary
[/li][li]1915 - German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight
[/li][li]1914 - China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
[/li][li]1908 - World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama.
[/li][li]1969 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000.
[/li][li]1968 "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 215 performances
May the 2nd
[/li][li] IRiS's / Passi's B-Day!! Whheeeee! *pulls out balloons*
[/li][li]1997 - Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating
[/li][li]1995 - Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
[/li][li]1994 - Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
[/li][li]1985 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
[/li][li]1983 - 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
[/li][li]1878 - U.S. stops minting 20 cent coin.
[/li][li]1906 - 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8
[/li][li]1905 - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
[/li][li]1904 - 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08.
[/li][li]1903 - 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09.
[/li][li]1902 - 1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon.
[/li][li]1519 - Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67.
May the 3rd
[/li][li]1986 - 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8.
[/li][li]1994 -U.S. space probe Clementine launched
[/li][li]1982 - New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
[/li][li]1944 - Meat rationing ends in U.S.
[/li][li]1808 Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
[/li][li]1802 Washington D.C. incorporates as a city
[/li][li]1945 - German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
[/li][li]1943 - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
[/li][li]2009 - daD's Weekly Lounge Closes Tonight. (:
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Have a great week! And Enjoy your welcome into May!
-- 'IRiS
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Have you been seeing that? Or is my comp just glitching?
