"What a day this has been" April 15 in History

Richardo

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Fri Apr-15-05 09:21 AM
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"What a day this has been" April 15 in History

Forget Tax Day - that's small potatoes. REALLY bad things have happened on April 15th:

1865 - Lincoln dies of gunshot wound to the head
1912 - Titanic sinks
1942 - Kim Jong Il born
1945 - FDR buried

However, on the plus side:
1452 - DaVinci born
1945 - Peace treaty with Japan signed by Truman
1992 - Leona Halmsley goes to jail
1998 - Pol Pot dies

That is all. You may remain seated.

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BlueIris

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Fri Apr-15-05 09:23 AM
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1. Yikes. Well, April really IS the cruelest month, I guess. n/t

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johnnie

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Fri Apr-15-05 09:26 AM
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2. You forgot

1999 Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell finishes an eight-day promo tour around the world with a packed press conference in Milan. She presents her solo debut single, "Look At Me," and talks frankly about where she sees herself as an artist, the demons she exorcises through her songwriting, and her reasons for leaving the Spice Girls. :evilgrin:

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Richardo

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Fri Apr-15-05 09:28 AM
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3. Of course! How careless of me...

:banghead:

I still remember where I was when I heard about that press conference.

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johnnie

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Fri Apr-15-05 09:29 AM
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4. Me too

I remember where I was. I was right here looking for something to add to your thread.

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Dukkha

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Fri Apr-15-05 09:35 AM
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5. even more!

1792 - The Guillotine is first tested on human corpses.
1955 - The first McDonald's franchise opens in Des Plains, a suburb of Chicago.
1962 - Clara Blandick, the Auntie Em of the Wizard of Oz, takes an overdose of sleeping pills and ties a plastic bag around her head in a Hollywood hotel room.
1989 - 96 soccer fans are crushed to death at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, England.
1990 - Greta Garbo dead.
1990 - Mass food poisoning kills 150 people at an engagement party in Basti, Uttar Pradesh.

Don't leave the house today

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Richardo

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Fri Apr-15-05 09:36 AM
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6. That's terrible about Auntie Em - I never knew that she was a suicide

:cry:

(The other stuff is horrible, too.)

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beanball

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Fri Apr-15-05 06:31 PM
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7. 15 April 1947

Jackie Robinson sign up to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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