~- April Anecdotes — events in history
Syndicated by Tom Taggart, Ine. ” Ss ae le

April 01: ALL FOOL’S DAY (since 1832). ee
Discontent John Weymouth hikes icepack from Alaska to Siberia (1986)...
April 02: Mikhail Gorbachev visits Cuba to cool reception (1989), ce
-. Canada: Premier Bill Vander Zalm pulls his own plug (1991).
April 03: Jerusalem: Historical date for death of Jesus (29 BC), aka “The Christ”.
. USA: Pony Express Mail (1860); Bob Ford backshoots Jesse James (1882).
April 04: Social activist Martin Luther King, Jr. silenced in Memphis (1968). Ls
1991: U.S. Senators John Heinz and John Tower (April 5th) die in air accidents.
Apriv05: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME, 1992. | os |
April 06: Baseball ’92 opens in Toronto’s Skydome with Jack Morris versus Tigers.
April 07: Birth of William Wordsworth (1770) and Charles Fourier (1772).
- War Games: Soviet submarine fails to surface, 42 dead sailers (1989).
April 08: (EVENT OF THE MONTH))) Siddartha Gautama born again (563 BC),
April 09: Canadian Forces take Vimy Ridge (1917). .
Songwriter-activist Phil Ochs, age 35, gives all that he’s got to give (1976),
. British electorate cancel 13 years of Thatcherism (1992). |
April 11: Afro-American Jackie Robinson takes the field for Brooklyn Dodgers (1947)...
Death of Enver Hoxha (1985) and Erskine Caldwell (1987). ;
April.12; Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first human to orbit Earth in body (1961).
April 14: HMS Titanic challenges iceberg off Newfoundland (1912). re :
1986: Simone DeBeauvoir dies; Ronald Reagan silences Hannah Quaddafi, age one. -
April 15: Death of Abraham Lincoln (1865), Jean-Paul Sarte (1980) and Greta Garbo (1990).
Blows Against the Empire: Libyan gunboat attacks U.S. Coast Guard light (1986).
--- CAPITALISM DAY/USA (Treasury Police extortionists demand War Tribute).
April 17: 54°40' parallel extablished between Russian and British America (1824).
Bay of Pigs Invasion by U.S. (1961) provokes Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)... ©
Night Trip: Ravenna, Ohio sheriff’s deputies chase UFO to Pennsylvania (1966). :. a
FULL MOON, 1992. . one
April 18: Great Earthquake and firestorm bring down San Francisco, California (1906).
INDEPENDENCE DAY, ZIMBABWE (since 1980).
Seattle; Distraught Greenie shoots up Exxon gas station (1989).
April 19: Adolph Hitler born (1889); Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins (1943)...
War Games: USS Iowa torpedoes itself, 47 dead sailors (1989).
EASTER, 1992, ree
April 20: Manila: New People’s Army slays Colonel Rowe, American agent (1989). ie
April 21: Rome founded (753 BC); USA wars on Spain, Philippines, Cuba & Puerto Rico (1898).
Manfred Von Richthofen aka “The Red Baron” flames out (1918). - aoe
April 22: Birth of the Philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724); death of J. Farrou (1985).
EARTH DAY, 1992.
April 23; Birth (1564) and death (1616), resp. of William Shakespeare aka “The Bard.” a
April 24: Easter Rebellion in Ireland (1924); UFO and aliens in Socorro, New Mexico (1964). . 7
April 25: Inner Space: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) synthesized for science (1943).
April 26: Soviet fallibility (Murphy’s Law) proves itself at Chernobyl, Ukraine (1986).
April 27: U.S. President Reagan and Ferdinand Marcos parley to divvy the Loot (1986).
April 28: Birth of Saddam Hussein (1937); death of Benjamin Linder (1987), R.LP. Oe
- Ketchikan, Alaska: Multi-agency. police force tear apart Alaska Ferry M/V Taku (1987),
April 29: War's Over (1945): El Duce and The Fuhrer (April 30) bite bullet. _ a re
April 30: Vietnam whips the Evil Empire after 14 years of bloody warfare (1975). .
Bangladesh: Great Cyclone leaves 138,000 estimated dead hurnans (1991).
WALPURGIS EVE, ,

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