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* Birthdays
B04011932 Gordon Jump, Actor, WKRP
B04011939 Ali MacGraw, Actress, in Pound Ridge NY
B04011945 Heather Young, Actrss, in Washington
B04011952 Annette O'Toole, Actress, in Houston Texas
B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04021908 Buddy Ebsen, Actor
B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B04021920 Jack Webb, actor (dum-de-dum-dum), just wants the facts
B04021924 Doris Day, girl next door, in Cincinnati, Ohio
B04021948 Emmylou Harris, singer, in Alabama
B04031783 Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle's biographer
B04031924 Marlon Brando, Actor
B04031942 Marsha Mason, Actrss, in St Louis Mo
B04031942 Wayne Newton, singer
B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
B04041895 Arthur Murray, dance instructor
B04041906 John Cameron Swayze, Timex licker and ticker
B04041932 Tony Perkins, Actor/Director
B04041949 NATO ("OTAN" in French), European defense alliance
B04041966 Nancy McKeon, Actress, in Queens NY
B04051856 Booker T Washington, pioneering educator
B04051908 Bette Davis, Actress, in Lowell, Mass, has famous eyes
B04051908 Mary Hemingway, Writer
B04051916 Gregory Peck, Actor
B04051922 Gale Storm, Actress, in Bloomington Texas
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
B04061866 Butch Cassidy, Outlaw
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061937 Merle Haggard, Singer
B04061944 Michelle Phillips, in Long Beach Calif
B04061952 Marilu Henner, in Chicago
B04071770 William Wordsworth, Poet, in England
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04071908 Percy Faith, musician
B04071927 James Garner, Actor
B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
B04071939 David Frost, TV Personality
B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola, Filmmaker
B04071951 Janis Ian, trials and tribulations of being at seventeen
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
B04081912 Sonja Henie, Ice skater, in Oslo Norway
B04081918 Betty Ford, First Lady
B04081940 John Havlicek, Celtics hoop star
B04081941 Peggy Lennon in Los Angeles
B04081947 Steve Howe.  Yes, he plays the guitar
B04081954 John Schneider, hazardous to Hazzard County
B04081954 Gary Carter, catches whatever New York throws
B04081963 Julian Lennon, Singer/John Lennon's Son
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electronics pioneer
B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
B04091895 Mance Lipscomb, Blues Musician
B04091905 J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator
B04091905 Ward Bond, Actor
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of first electronic computer (ENIAC)
B04091926 Hugh Hefner, made bunnies famous
B04091928 Tom Lehrer, satirist, proposed poisoning pigeons in the park
B04091939 Michael Learned, Actress, in Washington
B04091957 Seve Ballesteros, a young old duffer
B04091965 Paulina Porizkova, Sports Illustrated swimsuit covergirl
B04101794 Commodore Matthew C. Perry, naval leader
B04101829 William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher
B04101880 Frances Perkins, first woman in a Cabinet-level position
B04101915 Harry Morgan, Actor
B04101924 Chuck Connors, blasts his way across your TV screen
B04101932 Omar Sharif, Actor
B04101938 Dandy Don Meredith
B041019?? Claudette Nevins, in Birmingham Al
B04111862 Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice
B04111866 Carla Ford, Henry Ford's Wife
B04111893 Dean Acheson, statesman
B04111925 Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
B04111932 Joel Grey, entertainer
B04111939 Louise Lasser in New York City - Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!
B04121777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
B04121923 Ann Miller, Singer/Dancer, in Houston, Texas
B04121927 Jane Withers in Atlanta Georgia - Josephine the plumber
B04121947 David Letterman, TV Host
B04121950 David Cassidy, Shirley Jones' kid on TV and real life
B04131721 John Hanson, first US President under the Articles of Confederation.
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President from 1801 - 1809.
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04131907 Harold Stassen, perpetual candidate for President
B04131909 Madalyn Murray O'Hair
B04131933 Shani Wallis in Ireland, singer
B04131970 Ricky Schroder, Actor "Silver Spoons"
B04141844 Antole France in France, novelist
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
B04141904 Sir John Gielgud, British actor and singer
B04141918 Mary Healy in New Orleans
B04141925 Rod Steiger, actor
B04141935 Loretta Lynn, Singer, in Kentucky, a coal miner's daughter
B04141941 Julie Christie, Actress, in Assam India
B04141941 Pete Rose, manager for Cincinnati baseball team, Charlie hustle
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, painter and visionary
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
B04151922 Harold Washington, mayor of Chicago, Illinois
B04151933 Elizabeth Montgomery in Hollywood California, Bewitching
B04151933 Roy Clark, country singer
B04151939 Claudia Cardinale in Tunisia
B04151966 Samantha Fox, Singer, in England
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, comedian, movie director, retired PC salesman
B04161921 Peter Ustinov, Actor
B04161924 Henry Mancini, master of mellow music
B04161925 Edie Adams in Kingston Pa
B04161935 Bobby Vinton, The Polish prince of song
B04161939 Dusty Springfield in London England
B04171837 John Pierpont Morgan, finances the US
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
B04171923 Harry Reasoner, CBS News correspondent
B04171934 Don Kirshner, inventor of bubblegum music
B04171951 Olivia Hussey in Buenos Aires
B04181820 Franz von Suppe, composer
B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
B04181882 Leopold Stokowski, conductor
B04181922 Barbara Hale, Actress, William Katt's mom.
B04181946 Hayley Mills in London England, actress
B04181948 Catherine Malfilano in New York
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04191930 Hugh O'Brian, Actor
B04191932 Jayne Mansfield in Pennsylvania
B04191935 Dudley Moore, Actor
B04191949 Paloma Picasso
B04201889 Adolf Hitler in Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany
B04201893 Harold Lloyd, early film comedian.
B04201914 Lionel Hampton, musician
B04201920 John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
B04201924 Nina Foch in Netherlands
B04201941 Ryan O,Neal, actor
B04201949 Jessica Lange in Cloquet Minnesota, actress
B04211916 Anthony Quinn, Actor/Sculptor
B04211918 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
B04211926 Elizabeth II, Queen of England
B04211932 Elaine May in Philadelphia
B04211932 Meadowlark Lemon, retired Harlem Globetrotter
B04221451 Queen Isabella I, funded Christopher Columbus
B04221870 Vladimir I Lenin, Soviet revolutionary
B04221904 J Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project physicist
B04221908 Eddie Albert, Actor, farmed the Haney Place
B04221926 Charlette Rae, Actress
B04221937 Jack Nicholson, Actor
B04221938 Glen Campbell, the Wichita Lineman that dreamed of Galveston
B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard
B04231928 Shirley Temple Black, Santa Monica Calif, child actress & ambassador
B04231936 Roy Orbison, sings about his Little Woman
B04231940 Lee Majors, washed hands of Farrah Fawcett
B04231949 Joyce DeWitt in Wheeling WV
B04231960 Valerie Bertinelli aka Mrs Eddie Van Halen in Wilmington Delaware
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
B04241815 Anthony Trollope in England, poet
B04241934 Shirley MacLaine, Actress, in Richmond Virginia (this time)
B04241936 Jill Ireland in London England
B04241942 Barbra Streisand, Singer/Actress
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04251918 Ella Fitzgerald, Singer
B04251923 Melissa Hayden in Toronto
B04251930 Paul Mazursky
B04251932 Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotter
B04251940 Al Pacino, Actor
B04251946 Talia Shire in New York City
B04261895 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuerher, only one at Spandau prison
B04261900 Charles Richter (Richter Scale of earthquake measurement)
B04261906 Gracie Allen, Comedienne
B04261936 Carol Burnett, Comedienne/Actress, in San Antonio
B04261942 Bobby Rydell, Singer
B04261943 Gary Wright, the dream weaver
B04261948 Stevie Nicks in California of Fleetwood Mac
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse, invented a data-transmission code
B04271822 Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President from 1869 - 1877.
B04271900 Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator
B04271922 Jack Klugman, Actor
B04271939 Judy Carne in England
B04271959 Sheena Easton in Glascow Scotland, rides the morning train
B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President from 1816 - 1824.
B04281878 Lionel Barrymore, actor
B04281930 James Baker III, Reagan's Treasury Secretary
B04281932 Carolyn Jones in Amarillo Tx
B04281941 Ann-Margaret, Actress, in Valsjobya Sweden
B042819?? Marcia Strassman in New York City
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
B04291897 Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
B04291899 Duke Ellington, musician
B04291901 Emperor Hirohito, Japanese leader
B04291933 Rod McKuen, poet and owner of over a thousand Compact Discs
B04291947 Tommy James, cri-im-son and clo-o-ver o-o-ver and o-o-ver
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
B04301912 Eve Arden, "Our Miss Brooks," in California, actress
B04301925 Cloris Leachman, Actress, in Des Moines Iowa
B04301933 Willie Nelson, Singer, "On the Road Again"
B04301944 Jill Clayburgh, Actress
B04301949 Perry King, Actor

* Events
E04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$" symbol.
E04011863 First wartime conscription law in US goes into effect.
E04011889 The first dishwashing machine is marketed in Chicago.
E04011935 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY.
E04011939 US recognizes Franco govt in Spain at end of the Spanish civil war.
E04011945 American forces launch the invasion of Okinawa during WW II.
E04011954 First army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, NC
E04021513 Ponce de Leon lands near what is now St Augustine, Fla.
E04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations & authorizes US Mint
E04021865 Jefferson Davis flees Yankee aggressors at Richmond, Virginia
E04021935 Sir Watson-Watt granted a patent for RADAR
E04021956 TV Soaps,  "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieree.
E04021972 Argentina seizes the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands.
E04021972 TV show "Dallas" premieres.
E04031848 Thomas Douglas becomes first San Francisco public teacher.
E04031865 Yankee aggressors occupy Richmond, Virginia.
E04031882 Jesse James is shot to death in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
E04031910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt. McKinley climbed.
E04031936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed.
E04031948 Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan (Aid to Europe.)
E04031974 Russians' Soyuz 14 is launched.
E04041818 Congress mandates 13 stripes for  US flag.
E04041841 William Henry Harrison, President, dies of pneumonia.
E04041887 Susan Salter (Argonia, KS), first U S woman mayor.
E04041902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million.
E04041968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
E04041969 Dr Denton Cooley implants first temporary artificial heart.
E04041974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home run record.
E04051614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
E04051621 Mayflower leaves on return trip to England.
E04051792 George Washington casts first Presidential veto ever.
E04051951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death.
E04051975 Russians' Soyuz 18A tries to lift-off.
E04051975 Taiwan's leader Chang Kai-shek dies.
E04051976 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at 72.
E04051983 Sixth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 is launched.
E04061663 Kings Charles II signs the Carolina Charter.
E04061830 Joseph Smith organizes the Mormon Church in Fayette, NY.
E04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
E04061896 The first modern Olympic Games are opened in Greece.
E04061917 US declares war on Germany (WWI.)
E04061926 Four planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
E04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
E04061984 Eleventh Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 is launched.
E04071927 Using phone lines, TV is sent from Washington DC to New York City.
E04071933 Prohibition ends, Utah(!) 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
E04071948 World Health Organization is established.
E04071953 First jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east.)
E04071959 First astronauts - selection announced by NASA.
E04071959 Radar first bounced off sun, Stanford California.
E04071966 United States recovers a H-bomb that it lost off the coast of Spain.
E04071977 Consumer Product Safety Commission bans "TRIS" flame-retardant.
E04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
E04081730 First Jewish congregation in United States consecrates synagogue.
E04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.
E04081935 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress.
E04081952 President Harry Truman seizes steel industry to avoid a strike.
E04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
E04081986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California.  Make his day.
E04091833 First tax-supported public library, at Peterborough, NH.
E04091865 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
E04091942 American and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan.
E04091950 Bob Hope makes his first TV appearance.
E04091953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
E04091965 First game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition.
E04091967 First Boeing 737 rolls out in Seattle.
E04091980 Russians' Soyuz 35 is launched.
E04091983 Sixth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 returns to Earth.
E04101790 US Patent system established.
E04101866 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals organized.
E04101882 Matson founds his shipping company, serving San Francisco & Hawaii.
E04101912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage.
E04101916 First professional golf tournament held.
E04101930 Synthetic rubber first produced.
E04101932 Paul von Hindenburg elected German president (Hitler is second.)
E04101953 House of Wax, first feature-length 3-D movie, released in New York.
E04101963 Nuclear submarine USS Thresher sinks, claiming 129 lives.
E04111814 Napoleon Bonaparte thrown out, banished to island of Elba.
E04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
E04111898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration.
E04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball.
E04111951 President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur.
E04111953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes first at Health, Education, and Welfare.
E04111961 Israel begins the Adolf Eichmann trial.
E04111970 Apollo 13 blasts off with defective Beech-built oxygen tank.
E04121861 Civil War begins as Southern army tries to take Fort Sumter.
E04121898 Army transfers San Francisco's Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
E04121938 First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY.
E04121945 FDR dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga.
E04121955 Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; four billion dimes marched.
E04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
E04121970 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mantle and DiMaggio.
E04121981 First launch of the Space Shuttle  "Columbia."
E04131796 The first elephant arrives in the U.S. from Bengal, India.
E04131865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins.
E04131902 JC Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyo.
E04131940 First pole vaulter to clear 15 feet, C Warmerdam, Berkeley, Ca.
E04131943 FDR dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.
E04131961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid.
E04131966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747's.
E04131970 Apollo 13's Beech-built oxygen tank explodes.
E04131975 Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters for the fifth time.
E04131976 $2 bill is re-introduced as United States currency.
E04131984 Eleventh Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 returns to Earth.
E04141817 First American school for the deaf (Hartford, Connecticut)
E04141828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
E04141860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
E04141865 Abraham Lincoln is assasinated in Ford's Theater.
E04141894 First motion picture is shown in NY City.
E04141945 Tokyo incendiary raids, using B-29's, damage Imperial Palace.
E04141981 First Space Shuttle - Columbia 1 returns to Earth.
E04151865 President Lincoln dies, 7:22 am, John Wilkes Booth responsible.
E04151923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
E04151928 Alioto's on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf opens for business.
E04151941 First helicopter flight of one hour duration, Stratford, Ct.
E04151952 First B-52 prototype test flight.
E04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
E04161789 George Washington heads off for first Presidential inauguration.
E04161818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot ammendment (unarmed US-Canada border.)
E04161912 Harriet Quimby flies the English Channel, first woman to do so.
E04161917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution.
E04161935 First broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly."
E04161947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated, NY city.
E04161962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS news.
E04171492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies.
E04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
E04171861 Virginia votes to leave the Yankee United States.
E04171869 First pro baseball games - Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15.
E04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing.)
E04171961 US invades Cuba's Bay of Pigs, ends in failure.
E04171970 Paul McCartney's first solo album "McCartney."
E04181775 'The British are Coming!' declares Paul Revere from horseback.
E04181869 First International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
E04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 700 die
E04181946 League of Nations goes out of business, replaced by the UN.
E04181949 Irish Republic comes into existence.
E04181950 First transatlantic jet passenger trip.
E04181956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco (civil ceremony.)
E04181979 TV Show "Real People" premieres.
E04191782 The Netherlands recognizes the new United States.
E04191933 U S leaves the gold standard.
E04191934 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie, "Stand Up And Cheer."
E04191943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at the Warsaw Ghetto.
E04191945 Rogers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway.
E04191982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery.
E04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element Radium.
E04201912 Fenway Park opens, Red Sox beat Yankees 7-6 in 11.
E04201940 First electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, Pa.
E04201945 US 7th Army captures German city of Nuremberg.
E04201971 Supreme Court first upholds busing for school racial desegragation.
E04201977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres.
E04201978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace.
E04211789 John Adams sworn in as first U S Vice President.
E04211828 Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary.
E04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
E04211898 Spanish American war begins.
E04211918 The Red Baron (von Richthofen) shot down and killed in World War I air battle.
E04211940 Quiz show "Take It or Leave It" first asked the $64 question on CBS.
E04211967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC.
E04211977 Broadway play "Annie," opens, first of 2377 performances.
E04221509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England.
E04221769 Madame Du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress.
E04221915 First use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in World War I.
E04221952 First atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada.
E04221964 New York World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens.
E04221970 First Earth Day.
E04221976 Barbara Walters becomes first female nightly network news anchor.
E04231789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York.
E04231954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits the first of his 755 homers.
E04231962 First American satellite to reach moon launched from  Cape Canaveral
E04231967 Russia launches first Soyuz mission.
E04231968 The United Methodist Church founded.
E04231969 Sirhan B. Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy.
E04231985 New Coke debuts, many say it tastes too much like Pepsi.
E04241897 First reporter, William Price, assigned to White House.
E04241898 Spain declares war on US, rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
E04241944 First Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump."
E04241953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
E04241961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following the Bay of Pigs.
E04241962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for the first time:  CA to MA.
E04241967 Cosmonaut Komarov is the first to die in space aboard Russians' Soyuz I.
E04241970 China PR launchs first satellite transmitting song `The East is Red.'
E04251859 Ground broken for the Suez Canal.
E04251898 U S declares war on Spain, reciprocating from the day before.
E04251945 US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on the Elbe River
E04251954 Bell labs announces the first solar battery - NY city.
E04251957 First experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated.
E04251959 Saint Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping.
E04251960 First submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton.)
E04261865 John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, killed.
E04261887 Huntsville Electric Company established to sell electricity.
E04261937 German-made planes destroy Basque town of Guernica in Spain.
E04261944 First B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.
E04261982 Argentina surrender to Britain on South Georgia, near Falkland Island.
E04261983 Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for the first time.
E04261984 Jazz piano great Count Basie dies at age 79.
E04271565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
E04271805 United States Marines attack the shores of Tripoli.
E04271865 Steamer Sultana, explosion kills 1450 Union prisoners.
E04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
E04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
E04271945 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
E04271946 First radar installation aboard a commercial ship completed.
E04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs; Captain Bligh adrift
E04281914 W.H. Carrier patents the design of his air conditioner.
E04281919 First successful parachute jump is made.
E04281942 "World War II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll.
E04281945 Fascist leader Mussolini & mistress captured, tried, and shot.
E04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
E04281977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets.
E04281980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns.
E04291861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from the Union.
E04291862 New Orleans falls to Union forces during the Civil War.
E04291900 Casey Jones rides to his death on the Cannonball Express.
E04291945 America liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany.
E04291946 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
E04291957 First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va.
E04291971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration.
E04301789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of the U.S.
E04301942 First submarine built on Great Lakes launched, "Peto",Manitowoc, Wi.
E04301945 Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide.
E04301947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover.
E04301955 Element Mendelevium announced - element 101.
E04301970 Inger Stevens dies at age 35.
E04301973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al.
E04301973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love."
* Celebrations
C0401     April Fool's Day... but you knew that!
C0401-5   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
C0401-6   Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
C0402     International Children's Book Day observed.
C0402-5   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
C0402-6   Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
C0403-5   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
C0403-6   Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
C0404-5   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
C0404-6   Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
C0405-5   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
C0405-6   Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
C0406-6   Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
C0408     Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
C0411     Barber Shop Quartet Day.
C0415     Income Taxes are due today.  Keep the IRS happy...
C0415-1   Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
C0415-3   The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
C0416-1   Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
C0416-3   The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
C0417-1   Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
C0417-3   The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
C0418-1   Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
C0418-3   The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
C0419-1   Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
C0419-3   The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
C0420-1   Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
C0420-3   The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
C0421-1   Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
C0421-3   The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
C0422     Earth Day.
C0423     National Secretary Day.
C0424-2   Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
C0425-2   Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
C0425     Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
C0426-2   Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
C0427-2   Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
C0427     Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
C0428     Kiss Your Mate Day
C0428-2   Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
C0429     The Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan
C0429-2   Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
C0430-2   Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA