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04-19-2011, 05:38 AM
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Tamara Braun
Born: Tamara Braun 18th April 1971 Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Known For : Best known currently as Reese in the ABC daytime drama All My Children. She has played other characters in daytime soaps including Carly Corinthos from 2001-2005 in the American daytime drama General Hospital and as Ava Vitali on Days of our Lives in 2008. She has also featured as a guest star in a number of other TV Dramas including Without A Trace, House, Cold Case and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Conan O'Brien
Born: Conan Christopher O'Brien 18th April 1963 Massachusetts, U.S.
Known For : Conan O'Brien is best known as the host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. What many may not know is before pursuing a career as a TV host he was a writer and produced several episodes for the popular animated series The Simpsons and earlier in the late 80's a writer for Saturday Night Live SNL for three years. It has been announced he will become the host of the "Tonight Show" taking over from Jay Leno on June 1st 2009.
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1995 U.S.A. Oklahoma Bombing
1995 : A truck full of explosives destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people. ( In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and on June 11, 2001 , he was executed by lethal injection.)
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1943 Poland Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1943 : On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, the police and SS auxiliary forces entered the Ghetto under the command of SS-Oberführer Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg, planning to clean out insurgents who had begun an uprising in January. But Jewish insurgents, who shot and launched Molotov cocktails and hand grenades at them from alleyways forced them to halt the exercise and withdraw. SS-Oberführer Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg was replaced by Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop who proceeded with a better organized assault that included artillery support and on April 29, 1943, the Jewish resistance was crushed. Following two years of misery for thousands of Jews forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazi's where they had been starved, and living with disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps which had dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to approximately 71,000. The Nazi's planned effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the Treblinka extermination camp caused the Jewish people to begin a revolt against the Nazi's beginning on January 18, 1943.
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1993 U.S.A. Waco Cult Assault
1993 : An assault on the Waco cult headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas ends in a deadly fire ( believed to have been started by those inside ) and ends with the death of 70 cult members including the cults leader Mr Koresh. The buildings have been surrounded since February when four agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) were killed as they attempted to arrest Mr Koresh on firearms charges.
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1897 U.S.A. Boston Marathon
19th April 1897 : The Worlds oldest annual marathon run in Boston, Massachusetts, United States races for the first time. The Boston Marathon ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events with an average of 20,000 taking part. The marathon is one of five members of the World Marathon Majors which include the cities of Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City.
1927 U.S.A. Mae West
1927 : Mae West was sentenced for an obscene stage performance to ten days in a work house and fined $500
1928 China Civil war
1928 : The combined nationalist Northern Armies under Chiang continue drive onto Peking as part of the Civil war continuing in China
1936 German German Military
1936 : In the biggest show of military strength since World War 1 Germany pays homage to Hitler with a show of 300 tanks
1940 U.S.A. Jimmy Dorsey
19th April 1940 : Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra record the song "Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga."
1942 France Vichy Government
1942 : The New Vichy Government Headed by Pierre laval at the bidding of his German masters in an attempt to bring the insurgent french people back into line with Nazi ruling by promising to protect the people from the Nazi Regime by gaining concessions
1945 U.S.A. "Carousel"
1945 : The popular musical "Carousel" opens at the prominent Majestic Theatre in New York City. The production was based on the 1909 play by Ferenc Molnar about a man named Liliom and his lover, Julie.
1956 Monaco Grace Kelly
1956 : Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier start their honeymoon on Deo Javante II 138ft Yacht but due to heavy seas spent the night in the harbor.
1969 U.S.A. Students Occupy Willard Straight Hall
19th April 1969 : Militant black students at Cornell Univ. use force to take over Willard Straight Hall demanding a black studies program, after a deal was reached with the administration the news showed students leaving the hall carrying rifles although they were never used.
1972 The Moon Lunar Rover Apollo 16
19th April 1972 : Apollo 16 the fifth mission to land on the Moon with astronauts John W Young and Charles M Duke are preparing to descend from lunar orbit and land on the moons surface in the Descartes Mountains, When landed they drove an electric powered Lunar Rover to explore fully the Descartes Plateau. Young and Duke spent three days exploring the Descartes highland region and testing the Lunar Rover getting up to a top speed of eleven miles per hour which still stands as the record speed for any wheeled vehicle on the Moon.
1987 U.S.A. The Simpsons
1987 : The Simpsons which had originally been created as a series of shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show with the first showing on April 19, 1987.
2001 South Africa Aids Drugs Profit Before The Lives Of Millions
2001 : The world's biggest pharmaceutical companies bring legal action to fight legislation which would allow generic versions of their patented drugs being made in or imported to South Africa. Following uproar around the world and the pharmaceutical industry accused of putting profit before the lives of millions of people in the developing world, they have backed out of the court battle over cheap, non-branded anti-Aids drugs and also after dropping the case, agree to sell Aids drugs at cost price in developing countries - a discount of up to 90%.
2005 Vatican Pope Benedict XVI
2005 : Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected as the successor to Pope John Paul II The new Pope has taken the name Pope Benedict XVI and is the head of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.
This Day In History For Tomorrow April 20th Day After April 21st Or You Can Use Our Calendar at the top of the page to find the day or month you are looking for
2006 Italy Romano Prodi is confirmed as Italian Prime Minister
2006 : Italy's supreme court has ruled that Romano Prodi was won the country's general election, after the result was challenged by the standing Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi made no comment on the ruling, but his aides have said that he is still refusing to concede defeat. The supreme court has confirmed a narrow win for the center-left opposition leader, nine days after polls closed. It has been thoroughly reviewing the disputed ballots.
2008 Iraq Moqtada Sadr threatens the use of severe tactics against the Baghdad government
2008 : The Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr has said that he'll wage "open war" on the Baghdad government if it doesn't stop its operations against his insurgents. Sadr warns that this will be the government's "last warning", and he has urged it to take "the path of peace". His statement comes as Iraqi troops, with U.S. support, clash with his forces in Baghdad.
2008 Saudi / U.S.A. The publication of Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia
2008 : The Human Rights Watch group has said that Saudi women are being kept in perpetual childhood so that male relatives can exercise "guardianship" over them. The New York-based group says that they have to obtain permission from male relatives to work, travel, study, marry or even receive health care. The group's report, Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia has been published today, and draws on more than one hundred interviews with Saudi women. It says that they are denied the legal right to make trivial decisions for their children, and that they can't open bank accounts for them, enroll them in school, obtain school files or travel with them without written permission from their fathers.
2010 United States American is charged with funding terrorist activities
2010 : An American businessman has been sentenced to ten years in prison for trying to send money to an Afghan militant training camp. Abdul Alishtari had admitted charges of financing terrorism at an earlier hearing in New York. A United States District Judge has said that he was facilitating the transfer of $152,500, believing that it would be used in Afghanistan and Pakistan to train terrorists, and understood that these funds would be used to purchase equipment needed at a terrorist training camp. The man with whom he was working to transfer the money was actually an undercover law enforcement officer.
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Tamara Braun
Born: Tamara Braun 18th April 1971 Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Known For : Best known currently as Reese in the ABC daytime drama All My Children. She has played other characters in daytime soaps including Carly Corinthos from 2001-2005 in the American daytime drama General Hospital and as Ava Vitali on Days of our Lives in 2008. She has also featured as a guest star in a number of other TV Dramas including Without A Trace, House, Cold Case and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Conan O'Brien
Born: Conan Christopher O'Brien 18th April 1963 Massachusetts, U.S.
Known For : Conan O'Brien is best known as the host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. What many may not know is before pursuing a career as a TV host he was a writer and produced several episodes for the popular animated series The Simpsons and earlier in the late 80's a writer for Saturday Night Live SNL for three years. It has been announced he will become the host of the "Tonight Show" taking over from Jay Leno on June 1st 2009.
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1995 U.S.A. Oklahoma Bombing
1995 : A truck full of explosives destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people. ( In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and on June 11, 2001 , he was executed by lethal injection.)
VMrYeMTXifc
1943 Poland Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1943 : On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, the police and SS auxiliary forces entered the Ghetto under the command of SS-Oberführer Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg, planning to clean out insurgents who had begun an uprising in January. But Jewish insurgents, who shot and launched Molotov cocktails and hand grenades at them from alleyways forced them to halt the exercise and withdraw. SS-Oberführer Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg was replaced by Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop who proceeded with a better organized assault that included artillery support and on April 29, 1943, the Jewish resistance was crushed. Following two years of misery for thousands of Jews forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazi's where they had been starved, and living with disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps which had dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to approximately 71,000. The Nazi's planned effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the Treblinka extermination camp caused the Jewish people to begin a revolt against the Nazi's beginning on January 18, 1943.
8bjY6L_MUkY
1993 U.S.A. Waco Cult Assault
1993 : An assault on the Waco cult headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas ends in a deadly fire ( believed to have been started by those inside ) and ends with the death of 70 cult members including the cults leader Mr Koresh. The buildings have been surrounded since February when four agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) were killed as they attempted to arrest Mr Koresh on firearms charges.
_iCfvhl9NXw
1897 U.S.A. Boston Marathon
19th April 1897 : The Worlds oldest annual marathon run in Boston, Massachusetts, United States races for the first time. The Boston Marathon ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events with an average of 20,000 taking part. The marathon is one of five members of the World Marathon Majors which include the cities of Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City.
1927 U.S.A. Mae West
1927 : Mae West was sentenced for an obscene stage performance to ten days in a work house and fined $500
1928 China Civil war
1928 : The combined nationalist Northern Armies under Chiang continue drive onto Peking as part of the Civil war continuing in China
1936 German German Military
1936 : In the biggest show of military strength since World War 1 Germany pays homage to Hitler with a show of 300 tanks
1940 U.S.A. Jimmy Dorsey
19th April 1940 : Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra record the song "Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga."
1942 France Vichy Government
1942 : The New Vichy Government Headed by Pierre laval at the bidding of his German masters in an attempt to bring the insurgent french people back into line with Nazi ruling by promising to protect the people from the Nazi Regime by gaining concessions
1945 U.S.A. "Carousel"
1945 : The popular musical "Carousel" opens at the prominent Majestic Theatre in New York City. The production was based on the 1909 play by Ferenc Molnar about a man named Liliom and his lover, Julie.
1956 Monaco Grace Kelly
1956 : Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier start their honeymoon on Deo Javante II 138ft Yacht but due to heavy seas spent the night in the harbor.
1969 U.S.A. Students Occupy Willard Straight Hall
19th April 1969 : Militant black students at Cornell Univ. use force to take over Willard Straight Hall demanding a black studies program, after a deal was reached with the administration the news showed students leaving the hall carrying rifles although they were never used.
1972 The Moon Lunar Rover Apollo 16
19th April 1972 : Apollo 16 the fifth mission to land on the Moon with astronauts John W Young and Charles M Duke are preparing to descend from lunar orbit and land on the moons surface in the Descartes Mountains, When landed they drove an electric powered Lunar Rover to explore fully the Descartes Plateau. Young and Duke spent three days exploring the Descartes highland region and testing the Lunar Rover getting up to a top speed of eleven miles per hour which still stands as the record speed for any wheeled vehicle on the Moon.
1987 U.S.A. The Simpsons
1987 : The Simpsons which had originally been created as a series of shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show with the first showing on April 19, 1987.
2001 South Africa Aids Drugs Profit Before The Lives Of Millions
2001 : The world's biggest pharmaceutical companies bring legal action to fight legislation which would allow generic versions of their patented drugs being made in or imported to South Africa. Following uproar around the world and the pharmaceutical industry accused of putting profit before the lives of millions of people in the developing world, they have backed out of the court battle over cheap, non-branded anti-Aids drugs and also after dropping the case, agree to sell Aids drugs at cost price in developing countries - a discount of up to 90%.
2005 Vatican Pope Benedict XVI
2005 : Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected as the successor to Pope John Paul II The new Pope has taken the name Pope Benedict XVI and is the head of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.
This Day In History For Tomorrow April 20th Day After April 21st Or You Can Use Our Calendar at the top of the page to find the day or month you are looking for
2006 Italy Romano Prodi is confirmed as Italian Prime Minister
2006 : Italy's supreme court has ruled that Romano Prodi was won the country's general election, after the result was challenged by the standing Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi made no comment on the ruling, but his aides have said that he is still refusing to concede defeat. The supreme court has confirmed a narrow win for the center-left opposition leader, nine days after polls closed. It has been thoroughly reviewing the disputed ballots.
2008 Iraq Moqtada Sadr threatens the use of severe tactics against the Baghdad government
2008 : The Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr has said that he'll wage "open war" on the Baghdad government if it doesn't stop its operations against his insurgents. Sadr warns that this will be the government's "last warning", and he has urged it to take "the path of peace". His statement comes as Iraqi troops, with U.S. support, clash with his forces in Baghdad.
2008 Saudi / U.S.A. The publication of Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia
2008 : The Human Rights Watch group has said that Saudi women are being kept in perpetual childhood so that male relatives can exercise "guardianship" over them. The New York-based group says that they have to obtain permission from male relatives to work, travel, study, marry or even receive health care. The group's report, Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia has been published today, and draws on more than one hundred interviews with Saudi women. It says that they are denied the legal right to make trivial decisions for their children, and that they can't open bank accounts for them, enroll them in school, obtain school files or travel with them without written permission from their fathers.
2010 United States American is charged with funding terrorist activities
2010 : An American businessman has been sentenced to ten years in prison for trying to send money to an Afghan militant training camp. Abdul Alishtari had admitted charges of financing terrorism at an earlier hearing in New York. A United States District Judge has said that he was facilitating the transfer of $152,500, believing that it would be used in Afghanistan and Pakistan to train terrorists, and understood that these funds would be used to purchase equipment needed at a terrorist training camp. The man with whom he was working to transfer the money was actually an undercover law enforcement officer.
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Tony G...