On This Day

[Henry Musikar]

Thanks. 

For those of you who haven't read "The Gold Bug Variations," 
as a NY Public Librarian, Jan maintains an answer board which 
includes historical trivia not unlike OTD.

On  2 May 97 at 10:14, Thomas Vieth <vietht at slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> 
wrote:

> 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
> > 
> 


AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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