On This Day

[Thomas Vieth]

You remind me of Jan O'Deigh in "The Gold Bug Variations"
Thomas
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Henry Musikar wrote:

> 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
> 
> Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
> Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
>