Summoned at 12:15am on Saturday, April 27, 2024
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birth: | Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist |
histo: | Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521 |
holid: | Independence Day in Togo |
events: | 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded. (1565) Germany's liability is declared to be 6.65 billion pounds by the Reparations Commission (1921) Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated. (1897) Quang Tri is cut off from the rest of South Vietnam by North Vietnamese troops (1972) The Scots are defeated at Dunbar (1296) The accession of David I of Scotland (1124) The state of Israel, is recognized by the British government (1950) US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment. (1937) founding of the Second Republic, in Austria. (1945) |
gdead: | Fillmore East, NYC w/ Beach Boys (1971) |
literature: | John Milton sells his rights to "Paradise Lost" for a total of 10 pounds (1667) |
lives: | Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist (1927) Edward Whymper, artist and mountaineer, first man to climb the Matterhorn, is born (1840) Gypsy Rose Lee, American entertainer and author, dies (1970) Jack Klugman, actor (1922) Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, dies (1656) Judith Blegen, opera singer (1941) Judy Carnes, actress (1939) Louis Victor de Broglie born, physicist (1774) Magellan killed (Philippines, 1521) Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet, dies in Concord, Massachusetts (1882) Samuel F. B. Morse (1791) Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877) (1822) Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon. (1896) |
world: | Independence Day (Togo) |