[middbrew]

1876 - The first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.”

[glwerry]

50 years ago today, George Chuvalo took Muhammed Ali to a full 15 rounds. He be Canadian, just like BB.
Nobody had ever taken Ali the entire distance.

George is just the coolest guy going. He lost TWO sons to substance abuse - so he tours the country speaking about substance abuse, instead of collapsing in and feeling sorry for himself.

Classy.

[middbrew]

50 years ago today, George Chuvalo took Muhammed Ali to a full 15 rounds. He be Canadian, just like BB.
Nobody had ever taken Ali the entire distance.

George is just the coolest guy going. He lost TWO sons to substance abuse - so he tours the country speaking about substance abuse, instead of collapsing in and feeling sorry for himself.

Classy.

Very classy, indeed.

[middbrew]

1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling. In an attempt to lift the state out of the hard times of the Great Depression, the Nevada state legislature votes to legalize gambling.

[middbrew]

1854 - The Republican Party is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin. Former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories.

[middbrew]

1998 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves use of the drug Viagra, an oral medication that treats impotence.

[CrackberryQ]

Also 1998 graduated uni!

Yaay!

U can delete the post...

[CivilDissident]

1964 - A 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, killing 117 and producing a 50-ft tsunami that traveled over 8,000 miles.

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[middbrew]

1889 - The Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers.

[mrlahjr]

1976 - Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

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[middbrew]

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motelin Memphis, Tennessee.

[CivilDissident]

1983 - Sally Ride became the first US woman in space aboard the Challenger shuttle #XX

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[middbrew]

1859- Mark Twain receives steamboat pilot's license. On this day in 1859, a 23-year-old Missouri youth named Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s license. Clemens had signed on as a pilot’s apprentice in 1857 while on his way to Mississippi.

[middbrew]

1861 - The United States Civil War begins. The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay.

[Uzi]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/55-...human-in-space

[middbrew]

1964 - Ford Mustang debuts at the World's Fair. The Ford Mustang, a two-seat, mid-engine sports car, is officially unveiled by Henry Ford II at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York, on April 17, 1964. That same day, the new car also debuted in Ford showrooms across America and almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up.

[middbrew]

2014 - Mt Everest sees its single deadliest day. 16 Nepali mountaineering guides, most of them ethnic Sherpas, are killed by an avalanche on Mt. Everest, the Earth’s highest mountain. It was the single deadliest accident in the history of the Himalayan peak, which rises more than 29,000 feet above sea level.

[CivilDissident]

April 20th, 2010 -
An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.

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[mrlahjr]

I was born. Today is my birthday. 🎂 🎉💃

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[middbrew]

1945 - Holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich.

[mrlahjr]

1945 - Holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler�s dreams of a �1,000-year� Reich.

Hmmmm.......not long after his birthday on April 20th.

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[CivilDissident]

May 1st, 1941-
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premiered in New York.

"...Rosebud..."

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[middbrew]

1934 - A massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the parched Great Plains region of the United States as far east as New York, Boston and Atlanta.

[mrlahjr]

1858 Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

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[middbrew]

1954 - Brown v. Board of Ed is decided. In a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional.