[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]This was a thread I've seen before but it's been a long time since it appeared anywhere. So, I thought I'd see how it flies.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]April 17[SUP]th[/SUP][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1970 Apollo 13 returns to Earth [/FONT] [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1783 Colbert launches raid on Fort Carlos, Arkansas [h=4]Automotive[/h] 1964 Ford Mustang debuts at Worlds Fair [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1864 Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, begins [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion begins [h=4]Crime[/h] 1936 A single horsehair uncovers a murderer [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1815 Volcanic eruption kills 80,000 [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1790 Benjamin Franklin dies 1941 Yugoslavia surrenders 1969 Architect of Czechoslovakias Prague Spring resigns [h=4][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hollywood[/FONT][/h] 2002 General Hospital airs 10,000th episode [h=4]Literary[/h] 1885 Isak Dinesen is born 2014 Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at age 87 [h=4]Music[/h] 1960 Eddie Cochran dies, and Gene Vincent is injured, in a UK car accident [h=4]Old West[/h] 1882 Life of Billy the Kid arrives at Library of Congress [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1961 JFK waits for word on the Bay of Pigs invasion [h=4]Sports[/h] 1976 Mike Schmidt hits four consecutive homers [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1972 First antiwar protest of the year is conducted 1975 Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge [h=4]World War I[/h] 1917 Second Battle of Gaza [h=4][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]World War II[/FONT][/h] 1941 The Yugoslav army surrenders 1942 General Henri Giraud makes his great escape 1945 Americans seize 1,100 tons of uranium
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]April 21[SUP]st[/SUP][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, serif] 753 B.C. Rome founded [/FONT] [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1777 British attack Danbury, Connecticut [h=4]Automotive[/h] 1967 GM celebrates 100 millionth U.S.-made car [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1863 Steight’s Raid begins [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1953 Roy Cohn and David Schine return to U.S. [h=4]Crime[/h] 1992 Executions resume in California [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1930 Prisoners left to burn in Ohio fire [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1836 The Battle of San Jacinto 1918 Red Baron killed in action 1989 Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 1895 First movie projector demonstrated in United States [h=4]Literary[/h] 1816 Charlotte Bronte born [h=4]Music[/h] 1973 “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree” tops the U.S. pop charts and creates a cultural phenomenon. [h=4]Old West[/h] 1838 Naturalist John Muir is born [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1865 Lincoln’s funeral train leaves D.C. [h=4]Sports[/h] 1980 Rosie Ruiz fakes Boston Marathon win [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1965 Intelligence reveals North Vietnamese units in South Vietnam 1975 Thieu flees Saigon as Xuan Loc falls [h=4]World War I[/h] 1918 Red Baron killed in action [h=4]World War II[/h] 1945 Red Army overruns German High Command as it approaches the capital
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]April 22nd[/FONT] 1970 The first Earth Day [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1778 John Paul Jones leads American raid on Whitehaven, England [h=4]Automotive[/h] 1933 Rolls-Royce co-founder dies [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1863 Union raid cuts Mississippi telegraph wires [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1954 McCarthy Army hearings begin [h=4]Crime[/h] 1886 Seduction is made illegal 1934 An FBI agent is killed in a gangster raid [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1992 Sewers explode in Guadalajara [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1915 Germans introduce poison gas 1997 Fujimori orders assault on Japanese ambassador’s home [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 1937 Jack Nicholson born [h=4]Literary[/h] 1873 Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, is born [h=4]Music[/h] 1978 The Blues Brothers make their world premiere on Saturday Night Live [h=4]Old West[/h] 1889 The Oklahoma land rush begins [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1994 Former President Richard Nixon dies [h=4]Sports[/h] 2004 Pat Tillman killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1968 South Vietnamese have increased combat capabilities 1972 Antiwar demonstrations held [h=4]World War I[/h] 1915 Second Battle of Ypres begins [h=4]World War II[/h] 1944 Americans launch Operation Persecution in the Pacific 1945 Hitler admits defeat
April 23 1564 William Shakespeare born [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1778 John Paul Jones burns Whitehaven, England [h=4]Automotive[/h] 1987 Chrysler buys luxury automaker Lamborghini [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1865 “Panic has seized the country,” writes Davis [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1945 Truman confronts Molotov [h=4]Crime[/h] 1969 Sirhan Sirhan receives death penalty [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1967 Soviet cosmonaut is killed [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1014 King Brian of Ireland murdered by Vikings [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 1986 Otto Preminger dies [h=4]Literary[/h] 1564 Birth and death of William Shakespeare celebrated [h=4]Music[/h] 1961 Judy Garland plays Carnegie Hall [h=4]Old West[/h] 1859 Byers publishes first Denver newspaper [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1791 James Buchanan is born [h=4]Sports[/h] 1954 Hank Aaron hits first home run of his MLB career [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1975 Ford says that war is finished for America [h=4]World War I[/h] 1915 Poet-soldier Rupert Brooke dies in Greece [h=4]World War II[/h] 1942 Germans begin “Baedeker Raids” on England
I remember the Bay of Pigs invasion, I was just entering High School. I was stated with JUSMAGTHAI in Thailand as Operation Eagle Pull came to an end and Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge. That was really the beginning of Cambodia's problems. Between 2-3 million Cambodians would either be killed by the KR or die of starvation and disease because of their harsh policies over the next 4 years. It was called the Killing Fields and the United States turned a blind eye to it all. It was left to the Vietnamese to stop the Killing Fields in 1979 with their invasion of Cambodia. Then we suddenly switch sides in that war and supported the Khmer Rouge, the very same people responsible for the death of 2-3 million of their own people out of a country of 7 million. There are times I will never understand our geopolitics.
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]April 24[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, serif] 1916 Easter Rebellion begins [/FONT] [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1781 Phillips and Arnold launch attack on Petersburg, Virginia [h=4]Automotive[/h] 1983 German endurance driver killed in crash [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1863 Union issues conduct code for soldiers [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1955 The Bandung Conference concludes [h=4]Crime[/h] 1922 Forensic evidence is introduced in Australia [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1908 Tornado flattens towns in Louisiana and Mississippi [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1800 Library of Congress established 1953 Churchill knighted 1980 Hostage rescue mission ends in disaster [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 1982 Jane Fonda’s first Workout video released [h=4]Literary[/h] 1940 Sue Grafton is born [h=4]Music[/h] 1962 Patti LaBelle makes her debut on the pop charts, sort of [h=4]Old West[/h] 1947 Author Willa Cather dies [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1945 Truman is briefed on Manhattan Project [h=4]Sports[/h] 1996 Penguins defeat Capitals in marathon hockey game [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1967 Westmoreland makes controversial remarks 1971 North Vietnamese attack South Vietnamese installations [h=4]World War I[/h] 1916 The Easter Rising begins in Dublin [h=4]World War II[/h] 1876 Erich Raeder, commander in chief of the German navy, is born on this day 1940 Britain begins its evacuation of Greece in Operation Demon
April 25 [h=4] Lead Story[/h] 1983 Andropov writes to U.S. student [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1781 Cornwallis retreats from Guilford Courthouse [h=4]Automotive[/h] 2001 Italian Formula One driver dies in crash [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1864 Confederates overwhelm Union at Marks’ Mills [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1983 Andropov writes to an American fifth-grader [h=4]Crime[/h] 1989 A father is exonerated after 21 years [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1980 Air tragedy hits Canary Islands [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal 1990 Space telescope in orbit [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 1995 Ginger Rogers dies [h=4]Literary[/h] 1719 Robinson Crusoe is published [h=4]Music[/h] 1917 Ella Fitzgerald is born [h=4]Old West[/h] 1831 A play lionizing Davy Crockett opens [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1947 Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley [h=4]Sports[/h] 1964 Maple Leafs win third Stanley Cup in a row [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1964 Johnson announces appointment of Westmoreland 1972 North Vietnamese Army close to cutting South Vietnam in two [h=4]World War I[/h] 1915 Allies begin invasion of Gallipoli [h=4]World War II[/h] 1945 Americans and Russians link up, cut Germany in two
April 26 [h=4]Lead Story[/h] 1954 Polio vaccine trials begin [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1711 David Hume is born [h=4]Automotive[/h] 2009 Chrysler and autoworkers’ union agree to a deal [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1865 Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth dies [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1954 Geneva Conference begins [h=4]Crime[/h] 1913 Girl murdered in pencil factory [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1986 Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1937 Nazis test Luftwaffe on Guernica 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 1986 Maria Shriver marries Arnold Schwarzenegger [h=4]Literary[/h] 1888 Anita Loos is born [h=4]Music[/h] 1977 Studio 54 opens 2013 Country music star George Jones dies [h=4]Old West[/h] 1798 James Beckwourth is born [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1984 Reagan visits China [h=4]Sports[/h] 1918 Olympic track star Fanny Blankers-Koen is born [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1971 U.S. troop strength in South Vietnam at five-year low 1972 Nixon announces additional troop withdrawals [h=4]World War I[/h] 1915 Allies sign Treaty of London [h=4]World War II[/h] 1894 Rudolf Hess is born
April 27 4977 Universe is created, according to Kepler [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1773 Parliament passes the Tea Act [h=4]Automotive[/h] 2009 GM announces plans to phase out Pontiac [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1865 Union soldiers die in steamship explosion [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1978 Afghan president is overthrown and murdered [h=4]Crime[/h] 1997 Cunanan begins his killing spree [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1521 Magellan killed in the Philippines 1805 To the shores of Tripoli 1994 South Africa holds first multiracial elections [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 1993 D.A. announces negligence caused Brandon Lee’s death [h=4]Literary[/h] 1667 John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost [h=4]Music[/h] 1963 High school freshman Little Peggy March earns a #1 hit with “I Will Follow Him” [h=4]Old West[/h] 1813 Explorer Zebulon Pike dies [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1822 President Grant is born [h=4]Sports[/h] 1956 Rocky Marciano retires as world heavyweight champion [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1968 Humphrey announces his candidacy 1972 North Vietnamese attack outskirts of Quang Tri [h=4]World War I[/h] 1916 British attempt to bargain with Turks over Kut [h=4]World War II[/h] 1941 German forces enter Athens
April 28 1945 Benito Mussolini executed [h=4]American Revolution[/h] 1776 Colonel McIntosh writes to Washington [h=4]Automotive[/h] 1916 Ferruccio Lamborghini born [h=4]Civil War[/h] 1810 Union general who advocated for black troops is born [h=4]Cold War[/h] 1965 U.S. troops land in the Dominican Republic [h=4]Crime[/h] 2011 Jaycee Dugard’s kidnappers plead guilty [h=4]Disaster[/h] 1995 Gas pipe explodes in South Korea [h=4]General Interest[/h] 1789 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty 1969 De Gaulle resigns as leader of France 1977 Red Army Faction trial ends 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in Australia [h=4]Hollywood[/h] 2004 Comcast abandons bid to buy Disney [h=4]Literary[/h] 1925 T.S. Eliot accepts a job at Faber and Faber publishers [h=4]Music[/h] 1965 My Name is Barbra is Barbra Streisand’s debut television special [h=4]Old West[/h] 1897 Chickasaw and Choctaw abandon communal lands [h=4]Presidential[/h] 1758 President Monroe is born [h=4]Sports[/h] 1967 Muhammad Ali refuses Army induction [h=4]Vietnam War[/h] 1970 Nixon approves Cambodian incursion 1972 North Vietnamese press South Vietnamese at Hue and Kontum [h=4]World War I[/h] 1915 International Congress of Women opens at The Hague
