Historical Fact Of The Day

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April 20th, 1912
Death of Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula).

 

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April 21th, 1959
Birth of Robert Smith.

April 21th, 1947
Birth of Iggy Pop (James Osterberg).

 

[Biff]

Not the luckiest day in History.
In 1889 Adolf Hitler was born on April, 20th in Braunau, Austria.

I abstain from posting a picture of him.

I kinda knew someone will come up with Hitler on April the 20th.
And yes, for the record, he was Austrian.

 

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April 22th, 1969
1st human eye transplant performed.

 

[MontanaFrank]

April 23rd, 2015

Spectacular night eruption of Calbuco Volcano in Chile. Most spectacular volcano eruption video I have seen in my 55 years. Hopefully will be remembered years later.

Edit: It's 2015 and not 2014 like I posted in original message.

 

[Dedpop]

^ Wow. Great one Frank.
Mesmerizing...

 

[Dedpop]

April 24th, 1989
Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day".

 

[workshed]

April 24th, 1990:

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched. Despite some early problems it became one of the most important scientific instruments ever deployed.

Just amazing.

 

[Dedpop]

AWESOME picture !

It looks so unreal.
On a "New Kids On The Block Day"

 

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April 25th, 1974
Pam Courson, Jim Morrison's girlfriend, died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27.

 

[Naildriver74]

Bruce Jenner is a woman. Why is this all over the news in the USA ? Does anyone really care?

 

[Naildriver74]

1792 Guillotine first used in France

 

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April 26th, 1982
Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles in broad daylight, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche.

He was not hurt. Thanks God.

 

[workshed]

Yikes, I saw the pic before I read the text. Had me worried there. Perhaps I'm still traumatized by the swimming briefs pic.

 

[Dedpop]

Yikes, I saw the pic before I read the text. Had me worried there. Perhaps I'm still traumatized by the swimming briefs pic.

All is well.

 

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April 27th, 1947
Birth of Ann Peebles in Missouri.

[video=youtube;XnAXHm42MNk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XnAXHm42MNk[/video]

 

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April 28th, 1967
Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title.

 

[Extork]

Who's muhammad Ali?

**guy in the middle background is showin his 'oh' face

 

[Dedpop]

April 29th, 1992
Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King.

History repeats itself.

 

[Extork]

Aplir 30 (some year)...

AARP was invented by some guy