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Old 04-25-2011, 01:09 AM   #31
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April 25th

1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine, and the La Marseillaise is composed [presumably no connection 'tween the two]

1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal....

1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins....

1980 - Tehran hostage rescue mission fails.

2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end.....

1284 – Birth of King Edward II of England and, in 1940 of Al Pacino....

1995 – Death of Ginger Rogers.....
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Old 04-25-2011, 05:32 AM   #32
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Old 04-25-2011, 07:18 AM   #33
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On this day in American Legal History

April 25, 1938: Supreme Court overturns century of federal case law in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
Monday 25 April 2011

In Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), the Supreme Court held that federal courts must apply state law when hearing state law claims under diversity jurisdiction. ''Diversity jurisdiction'' refers to the ability of a federal court to hear civil claims brought under state law where the parties are citizens of different states. This ruling overturned almost a century of federal civil procedure law and established the modern law of diversity jurisdiction for U.S. federal courts.

as an aside, today is also my dear Lady's birthday, which is really all I care about today
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1945 - Delegates met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.
1953 -The Francis Crick and James Watson article describing the double helix of DNA is published in the magazine Nature.
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2011. Monday of the Angel in Italy.
It takes the name from the fact that in this day it is remembered the meeting of the angel with the women who went to the sepulchre. It is a holiday in these places.
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April 26th ....

1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli...

1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth....

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Guernica...

1986 – Chernobyl....

570 – Birth of Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20..

1970 – Death of Gypsy Rose Lee....
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So Muhammed is Gypsy Rose Lee reincarnated???
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Old 04-26-2011, 11:49 AM   #38
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So Muhammed is Gypsy Rose Lee reincarnated???



Surely better her than John Wilkes Booth ?
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Old 04-27-2011, 03:20 AM   #39
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1296 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.

1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.

1865 – The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River

Freedom Day (South Africa).....
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1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.

1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

1922 – Birth of Alistair MacLean and, in 1974 of Penélope Cruz...
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April 28th - 1921: Jose Raul Capablanca becomes the third chess world champion.
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Old 04-29-2011, 04:28 AM   #42
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April 29th

1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.....

1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia..

1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops......

1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast.....

1899 – Birth of Duke Ellington.

1980 – Death of Alfred Hitchcock.....
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One supposes we could also add the wedding of the Crown Prince to that list. Heaven knows enough of my paralegals have been distracted enough by it today.
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actually William is not the Crown Prince - that's Charles - William is the one after .... and is not a title we use in the UK ....
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actually William is not the Crown Prince - that's Charles - William is the one after .... and is not a title we use in the UK ....
Fair enough. Though I do know my share of Brits who wish Charles would just abdicate in favor of William when the time comes. Forgive my ignorance in terminology though.
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