April 27th

1805
The U.S. Marines captured Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.

1865
The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred when there was an explosion aboard the Sultana; more than 1,400 people were killed.

1947
"Babe Ruth Day" was celebrated at Yankee Stadium.

1971
The final episode of "Green Acres" aired.

1983
Pitcher Nolan Ryan surpassed Walter Johnson’s strikeout record—one that had held since 1927.

2006
Construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

Birthdays
87 Jack Klugman Actor ("The Odd Couple," "Quincy")
77 Anouk Aimee Actress
77 Casey Kasem Radio announcer, voice actor
70 Judy Carne Actress
65 Cuba Gooding R&B singer
62 Ann Peebles R&B singer
61 Kate Pierson Rock singer (B-52s)
60 Herbie Murrell R&B singer (The Stylistics)
60 Douglas Sheehan Actor
58 Ace Frehley Rock musician (Kiss)
57 George Gervin Basketball Hall of Famer
50 Sheena Easton Singer, actress
47 James Le Gros Actor
44 Rob Squires Rock musician (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
33 Sally Hawkins Actress
30 zemekone Cigar Asylum Inmate
30 Travis Meeks Rock musician (Days of the New)
26 Ari Graynor Actress
25 Patrick Stump Rock musician (Fall Out Boy)
22 William Moseley Actor ("The Chronicles of Narnia" films)
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?? zitro_joe Cigar Asylum Inmate
?? ridmaster Cigar Asylum Inmate

81 Samuel Morse 4/27/1791 - 4/2/1872 American painter and developer of the telegraph
63 Ulysses S. Grant 4/27/1822 - 7/23/1885 18th president of the United States (1869-77) and Civil War general
67 Rogers Hornsby 4/27/1896 - 1/5/1963 Baseball Hall of Famer
41 Wallace Hume Carothers 4/27/1896 - 4/29/1937 American chemist; developed nylon
95 Walter Lantz 4/27/1899 - 3/22/1994 American film animator; creator of "Woody Woodpecker"
86 Enos Slaughter 4/27/1916 - 8/12/2002 Baseball Hall of Famer
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IBTP :-)
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April 27th

1947
"Babe Ruth Day" was celebrated at Yankee Stadium.
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Birthdays
87 Jack Klugman Actor ("The Odd Couple," "Quincy")
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30 zemekone Cigar Asylum Inmate
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95 Walter Lantz 4/27/1899 - 3/22/1994 American film animator; creator of "Woody Woodpecker"

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:-) :-) :-)
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Is that a Gracie shirt Gerry is wearing?
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April 28th

1758 James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, was born in Virginia.


1788 Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.


1789 The crew of the British ship Bounty mutineed, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.


1937 Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was born near the desert town of Tikrit.


1945 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed.


1967 Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.


1980 President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.


1988 The roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 peeled back during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu, killing a flight attendant and injuring 61 people.


1990 The musical "A Chorus Line" closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.


1994 Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had betrayed U.S.secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.


1996 President Bill Clinton gave 4 1/2 hours of videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners.


1999 The House rejected on a tie vote a measure expressing support for NATO's five-week-old air campaign against Yugoslavia and voted to limit the president's authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.


2001 A Russian rocket lifted off from Central Asia bearing the first space tourist, California businessman Dennis Tito.


2004 The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS' "60 Minutes II."

Birthdays:

83 Harper Lee
Author ("To Kill a Mockingbird")


79 James A. Baker III
Former secretary of state


68 Ann-Margret
Singer, actress


61 Marcia Strassman
Actress ("Welcome Back, Kotter")


60 Paul Guilfoyle
Actor ("CSI")


59 Jay Leno
Talk show host ("The Tonight Show")


57 Chuck Leavell
Rock musician


56 Kim Gordon
Rock musician (Sonic Youth)


56 Mary McDonnell
Actress


45 Barry Larkin
Baseball player


43 John Daly
Golfer


43 Too Short
Rapper


38 Simbi Khali
Actress ("3rd Rock from the Sun")


38 Bridget Moynahan
Actress


38 Chris Young
Actor


36 Jorge Garcia
Actor ("Lost")


36 Big Gipp
Rapper


36 Elisabeth Rohm
Actress ("Law and Order")


35 Penelope Cruz
Actress


31 Nate Richert
Actor ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")


28 Jessica Alba
Actress ("Dark Angel")


18 Aleisha Allen
Actress
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April 28th

1992
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”

Birthdays
41 - Daisy Berkowitz Rock musician (Marilyn Manson)
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April 29th

1429
Joan of Arc entered the city of Orléans. She would end its months-long siege and would become known as the "Maid of Orléans."

1864
The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

1916
The Easter rebellion in Ireland ended with the surrender of Irish nationalists.

1945
American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp.

1945
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. The couple killed themselves the next day.

1961
ABC’s "Wide World of Sports" premiered.

1967
After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

1978
Japan's Naomi Uemura, traveling by sled dog, became the first person to reach the North Pole alone.

1979
The final episode of "Battlestar Galactica" was aired on ABC.

1980
Film director Alfred Hitchcock died at age of 80.

1981
Steve Carlton, of the Philadelphia Phillies, became the first left-handed pitcher in the major leagues to get 3,000 career strikeouts.

1981
Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England over five years.

1986
Pitcher Roger Clemens set a major league baseball record by striking out 20 batters in a regular nine-inning game. He repeated his feat in 1996.

1992
A Los Angeles jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating Rodney King. Massive rioting and looting ensued.

1997
The first joint U.S.-Russian space walk was made by Jerry Linenger and Vasily Tsibliyev from space station Mir.

2002
Darryl Strawberry was sentenced to 18 months in prison for violating his probation on a 1999 conviction on drug and solicitation of prostitution charges.

2004
Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.

Birthdays
92 Celeste Holm Actress
81 Carl Gardner R&B singer (The Coasters)
76 Keith Baxter Actor
76 Rod McKuen Poet
75 Luis Aparicio Baseball Hall of Famer
75 Otis Rush Blues musician
66 Duane Allen Country singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
65 Richard Kline Actor and director
62 Tommy James Singer (The Shondells)
59 Wayne Secrest Country musician (Confederate Railroad)
55 Jerry Seinfeld Actor, comedian ("Seinfeld")
54 Leslie Jordan Actor
54 Kate Mulgrew Actress ("Star Trek: Voyager")
52 Daniel Day-Lewis Actor
51 Michelle Pfeiffer Actress
51 Eve Plumb Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
51 Gary Cohen Sports broadcaster
49 Phil King Rock musician
46 Stephanie Bentley Country singer
46 Mike Babcock Hockey coach
41 Carnie Wilson Singer (Wilson Phillips)
39 Uma Thurman Actress
39 Andre Agassi Tennis player
39 Master P Rapper
37 James Bonamy Country singer
36 Mike Hogan Rock musician (The Cranberries)
31 Tyler Labine Actor ("Reaper")
24 Zane Carney Actor
?? skullnrose Cigar Asylum Inmate
?? The Professor Cigar Asylum Inmate

63 Alexander II 4/29/1818 - 3/13/1881 Russian emperor (1855-81); emancipated the serfs in 1861
88 William Randolph Hearst 4/29/1863 - 8/14/1951 American newspaper publisher
88 Harold Urey 4/29/1893 - 1/5/1981 American Nobel-Prize winning chemist (1934); helped develop the atom bomb
75 Duke Ellington 4/29/1899 - 5/24/1974 American composer, bandleader and pianist; a founder of big-band jazz
87 Hirohito 4/29/1901 - 1/7/1989 Japanese emperor (1926-89 )
72 George Allen 4/29/1918 - 12/31/1990 Hall of Fame football coach
49 Dale Earnhardt, Sr. 4/29/1951 - 2/18/2001 Race car driver
3 Barbaro 4/29/2003 - 1/29/2007 Thoroughbred race horse, 2006 Kentucky Derby
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Current computer problems are stifling my usual photo ops....but there is one that couldn't wait until the computer gets fixed later in the week! :-)

April 29th

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Thanks Ryan. :-)
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1492
Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

1789
George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.

1803
France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

1812
Louisiana became the 18th state in the United States.

1859
The novel "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens was first published in serial form in a literary magazine.

1900
Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory.

1939
Lou Gehrig played his last game with the New York Yankees. He had played in 2,130 consecutive games.

1939
U.S. commercial television made its official debut at the New York World’s Fair.The signal was transmitted from the Empire State Building.

1945
Adolf Hitler and his newly married mistress Eva Braun committed suicide.

1975
The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam.

1975
ABC aired the pilot episode of "Starsky and Hutch."

1992
The final episode of "The Cosby Show" aired on NBC.

1993
Monica Seles was stabbed by Gunter Porsche. Porsche had run out onto the court after her match and stabbed Seles in the upper back.

1997
The television series "Ellen" made TV history when its lead character "came out" as a lesbian.

Birthdays
83 Cloris Leachman Actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Phyllis")
76 Willie Nelson Country singer
71 Gary Collins Talk show host
69 Burt Young Actor
66 Bobby Vee Singer
65 Jill Clayburgh Actress
61 Perry King Actor
56 Merrill Osmond Singer (The Osmonds)
50 Paul Gross Actor
48 Isiah Thomas Basketball Hall of Famer
47 Robert Reynolds Country musician (The Mavericks)
46 Michael Waltrip Race car driver
44 Adrian Pasdar Actor ("Heroes")
40 Clark Vogeler Rock musician
38 Chris Henderson Rock musician (3 Doors Down)
38 Carolyn Dawn Johnson Country singer
37 Lisa Dean Ryan Actress
36 Jeff Timmons R&B singer (98 Degrees)
34 Elliott Sadler Race car driver
34 Johnny Galecki Actor ("The Big Bang Theory")
27 Kirsten Dunst Actress
?? j-easy Cigar Asylum Inmate

82 Al Lewis 4/30/1923 - 2/3/2006 Actor best known for his role as "Grandpa" on the television series The Munsters
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Interested info. as always Ryan. Thanks. :-)
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May 1st

1707
The Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.

1751
The first cricket match is played in America.

1915
The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second and final crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.

1930
The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.

1931
The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. Click to see the current tallest.

1941
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.

1948
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.

1950
Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.

1951
Mickey Mantle hit his first home run.

1960
The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory.

1961
The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.

1967
Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)

1971
Amtrak went into service, combining and streamlining the operations of 18 intercity passenger railroads.

1988
The final episode of "Magnum, p.i." aired.

1991
44-year-old Texas fireballer Nolan Ryan hurled his seventh and final no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. That same day, Oakland's Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record.

1992
On the third day of the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King appeared in public to appeal for calm, asking "Can we all get along?"

2008
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted of being the "D.C. Madam," hanged herself in Tarpon Springs, Fla.

Birthdays
84 Chuck Bednarik Football Hall of Famer
80 Sonny James Country singer
67 Stephen Macht Actor
64 Rita Coolidge Singer
63 Nick Fortuna Rock musician (The Buckinghams)
60 Douglas Barr Actor, director
60 Paul Teutul, Sr. Founder of Orange County Choppers
58 Dann Florek Actor ("Law and Order: SVU")
48 Marilyn Milian Judge on The People's Court
47 Maia Morgenstern Actress
44 Wayne Hancock Country singer
43 Charlie Schlatter Actor
42 Tim McGraw Country singer
41 Johnny Colt Rock musician (Train)
41 D'Arcy Rock musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
40 Wes Anderson Director
37 Julie Benz Actress ("Dexter," "Angel")
37 Cory Morrow Country singer
33 Darius McCrary Actor

51 Calamity Jane 5/1/1852 - 8/1/1903 Frontierswoman and professional scout best known for her claim of being a pal of Wild Bill Hickok
79 Kate Smith 5/1/1907 - 6/17/1986 American radio and television singer
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"2008
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted of being the "D.C. Madam," hanged herself in Tarpon Springs, Fla."

Listen Jeane is gone and nothing we can say will bring her back...
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Awesome. Thanks, Admiral. :-) salute:
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May 2nd

1519
Artist Leonardo da Vinci died.

1885
Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.

1932
Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.

1939
Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.

1945
The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.

1946
The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.

1955
Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

1969
The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.

1972
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI for 48 years, died at age 77.

1994
Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.

1997
The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.

Birthdays
85 Theodore Bikel Actor
73 Engelbert Humperdinck Singer
64 R.C. Bannon Country singer
64 Bianca Jagger Actress
63 Lesley Gore Singer
63 David Suchet Actor
61 Larry Gatlin Country singer
59 Lou Gramm Rock singer (Foreigner)
57 Christine Baranski Actress
47 Elizabeth Berridge Actress
47 Ty Herndon Country singer
40 Todd Sucherman Rock musician (Styx)
37 Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Actor, wrestler
34 David Beckham Soccer player
32 Jenna Von Oy Actress
26 Gaius Charles Actor ("Friday Night Lights")
24 Lily Allen Singer
24 Sarah Hughes Figure skater
19 Kay Panabaker Actress
?? CigarDoc Cigar Asylum Inmate
?? stevieray Cigar Asylum Inmate

67 Catherine II, called Catherine the Great 5/2/1729 - 6/11/1796 reigned as Empress of Russia
86 Henry Martyn Robert 5/2/1837 - 5/11/1923 American army officer; author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
63 Eddie Collins 5/2/1887 - 3/25/1951 Baseball Hall of Famer
25 Manfred Richthofen 5/2/1892 - 4/21/1918 German fighter pilot in World War I; known as the "Red Baron"
94 Benjamin Spock 5/2/1903 - 3/15/1998 American pediatrician; wrote influential child-rearing books
74 Bing Crosby 5/2/1903 - 10/14/1977 Singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.
41 Ray Traylor aka Big Boss Man 5/2/1963 - 9/22/2004 Professional wrestler
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May 3rd

1802
Washington, D.C., was incorporated.

1936
Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) made his major league debut. He got three hits.

1937
Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.

1979
Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.

1986
At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.

1986
The final episode of "Crazy Like a Fox" was aired on CBS.

1991
The final episode of "Dallas" aired on CBS.

1999
Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale.

2000
The final episode of "Party of Five" aired on FOX.

2003
New Hampshire’s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain, collapsed in the state’s Franconia Mountains.

Birthdays
83 Ann B. Davis Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
75 Frankie Valli Singer (The Four Seasons)
63 Greg Gumbel Sports announcer
59 Mary Hopkin Singer
58 Christopher Cross Singer
52 Cactus Moser Country musician (Highway 101)
46 kaisersozei Cigar Asylum Inmate
41 Shane Minor Country singer
39 Bobby Cannavale Actor ("Cupid," "Third Watch")
38 Damon Dash Actor, producer
38 John Hopkins Country musician (Zac Brown Band)
38 John Neff Country musician (Drive-By Truckers)
37 Stonewall Cigar Asylum Inmate
36 Brad Martin Country singer
36 No1der Cigar Asylum Inmate
34 Dule' Hill Actor ("The West Wing")
32 Eric Church Country singer
25 Cheryl Burke Dancer ("Dancing with the Stars")
22 Savvy Cigar Asylum Inmate
19 Jill Berard Actress

88 Stu Hart 5/3/1915 - 10/16/2003 Professional wrestler, promoter and trainer. Stu also founded Stampede Wrestling, a promotion based in Calgary, Alberta, and was the father of famous wrestlers Bret and Owen Hart
67 Sugar Ray Robinson 5/3/1921 - 4/12/1989 American boxer; world champion six times between 1946 and 1960
73 James Brown 5/3/1933 - 12/25/2006 Prolific singer, songwriter, dancer and bandleader, Brown was a pivotal force in the music industry
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1626
Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for 24 worth of cloth and brass buttons.

1776
Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

1886
The Haymarket Square riot broke out as a result of a labor demonstration.

1932
Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion.

1959
The first Grammy Awards were held.

1961
Civil rights activists, called "freedom riders," left Washington, DC for New Orleans.

1970
Four Kent State University students were shot down by National Guard members during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration.

1998
The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years for his series of bombings that killed three and injured 23.

1999
The final episode of "NewsRadio" aired on NBC.

Birthdays
72 Dick Dale Rock musician
72 Mr. Fuji Professional wrestler/manager
67 Nick Ashford Singer, songwriter (Ashford and Simpson)
65 Peggy Santiglia Singer
62 Richard Jenkins Actor
60 Stella Parton Country singer
59 Hilly Hicks Actor, minister
59 Darryl Hunt Rock musician (The Pogues)
58 Jackie Jackson Singer
58 Mick Mars Rock musician (Mötley Crüe)
56 Oleta Adams R&B singer
50 Randy Travis Country singer
48 Mary McDonough Actress ("The Waltons")
42 Ana Gasteyer Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
39 Will Arnett Actor
37 Mike Dirnt Rock musician (Green Day)
37 Chris Tomlin Singer
30 Lance Bass Singer ('N Sync)
15 Alexander Gould Actor ("Weeds," "Finding Nemo")

75 Bartolomeo Cristofori 5/4/1655 - 1/27/1731 Italian harpsichord maker; credited with the invention of the piano
73 Sir William Cooke 5/4/1806 - 6/25/1879 English inventor; helped develop electric telegraphy
54 Dory Funk 5/4/1919 - 6/3/1973 Professional wrestler
63 Audrey Hepburn 5/4/1929 - 1/20/1993 Belgian-born motion-picture and stage actress
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1932
Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion.
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1999
The final episode of "NewsRadio" aired on NBC.
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