On This Day

[fuhrel at ccrouter.ccsn.nevada.edu]

     And in 1966 on this day, surely no coincidence, Richard Farina was 
     killed.
     
     Bob Fuhrel


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Subject: On This Day
Author:   "Henry Musikar" <gravity at nicom.com> at SMTP-CCSN
Date:    4/30/97 11:26 AM


Why is this day, April 30, different from all other days?:
     
 In 311, Galerius Valerius Maximianus issued an edict under which 
 Christians were legally recognized in the Roman Empire.  
     
 In 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as America's first 
 president.  
     
 In 1803, France agreed to sell Louisiana to America, the formal 
 handover taking place in December, and on this day in 1812 it joined 
 the United States as the 18th state.  
     
 In 1900, American railroad engineer Casey Jones died saving 
passengers as the Cannonball Express was about to crash.  
     
 In 1934, under a new constitution in Austria, a dictatorship was set 
 up under Engelbert Dollfuss.  
     
 In 1945, Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in 
 his underground bunker in Berlin; Russian troops penetrated Berlin, 
 capturing the Reichstag and other government buildings.  
     
 In 1973, President Nixon made a television statement on Watergate 
 accepting responsibility for the bugging that took place at the 
 Washington apartment complex in 1972.  
     
 In 1974, Nixon handed over partial transcripts of tape recordings to 
 the impeachment inquiry.  
     
 In 1975, in South Vietnam, President Minh announced an unconditional 
 surrender to the Vietcong, ending the 20th Century's longest 
 conflict.  
     
 In 1980, in London, armed gunmen seized the Iranian Embassy demanding 
 the release of political prisoners in Iran. The siege lasted six 
 days.  
     
 In 1990, American hostage Frank Reed was freed in Lebanon after 
 nearly four years in the hands of pro-Iranian kidnappers.  
     
 In 1997, reclusive, NBA winning, pomo author Thomas Ruggle's 
Pynchon's much anticipated novel Mason & Dixon is released
     
AsB4,
Henry Musikar
     
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