04-25-2006, 05:40 AM
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Location: Maryland
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April 25th
1599 ~ Birthday of Oliver Cromwell, Military Leader & Politician.
1719 ~ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was published.
1792 ~ The French national anthem, “La Marseillaise” was composed.
1840 ~ Birthday of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Composer.
1900 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Pauli, Physicist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1945.
1915 ~ Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to remove the Ottoman Turkish Empire from WWI.
1917 ~ Birthday of Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz Singer.
1945 ~ The United Nations was organized in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.
1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson published MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF NUCLEIC ACIDS: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1980 ~ Tehran hostage rescue mission failed.
Feastdays & Holidays
Australia, New Zealand ~ ANZAC Day
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