25 Apr 07 - Wednesday
Birthdays:
1599 Oliver Cromwell Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
1912 Gladys L Presley mother of Elvis
1918 Ella Fitzgerald Newport News VA, jazz singer (The First Lady of Song)
1932 Meadowlark [George] Lemon basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter)
1940 Al Pacino New York NY, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio)
1941 Chris Augustine rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1945 Björn Ulvaeus Gothenburg Sweden, guitarist/songwriter (ABBA)
1946 Talia [Rose Coppola] Shire Jamaica NY, actress (Adrian-Rocky,
Constanzia Corleone-Godfather)
1950 Steve Ferrone Brighton England, drummer (Average White Band)
This day:
1607 Don Juan Alvarez Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle
1684 Patent granted for the thimble
1719 Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek CO)
1898 US declares war on Spain over Cuba
1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa
1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin
1953 Scientists identify DNA
1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
1967 Abortion legalized in Colorado
1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington DC
1972 George Sanders actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65
1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to
set it on fire
1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1981 Dixie a mouse who lived 6½ years, dies
1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
1984 Rock group Wings disbands
1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
1993 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader
It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.
Ella Fitzgerald
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