04-21-2006, 05:25 AM
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Location: Maryland
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April 21st
1649 ~ The Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.
1816 ~ Birthday of Charlotte Brontė, Author.
1838 ~ Birthday of John Muir, Environmentalist.
1912 ~ The New York Giants and New York Yankees played an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
1918 ~ German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron, was shot down and killed.
1926 ~ Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1944 ~ Women in France were enfranchised.
1946 ~ Death of John Maynard Keynes, Economist.
1986 ~ Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
1992 ~ The first extrasolar planets were announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
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