...Romulus founded Rome. (753 BC)
...the Battle of San Jacinto was fought just east of modern-day Houston. (1856)
...Mark Twain died. (1910)
...the Red Baron is shot down in the skies of Europe. (1918)
...James Dobson, Gary Condit, and Tony Danza were born. (1936, 48, 51)
...Bob Hope's radio program airs its last segment. (1955)
...the Seatle World's Fair opens. (1962)
...former Dallas Star Ed Belfour was born. (1965)
...Gummo Marx died. (1977)
...Tiananmen Square was filled with thousands of students. (1989)
Events courtesy of Wikipedia.org. For daily updates, bookmark The History Channel's "This Day in History" web page.
3 comments:
hurray for seattle! too bad for the red baron.
you missed some though:
friedrich frobel, founder of the kindergarden system was born in 1782.
queen elizabeth the second was born in 1926.
Yeah dude, you do this on April 21 and you miss the queen's birthday. That's all the Brits are talking about.
You know the funny thing about Europe? Their idea of a party is to have a walkabout (literally, the queen walks around) and then have a car show, which is cool, but it's like "check out this car" instead of having a birthday party, you know.
my favorite memory of the queen is that when i was at buckingham palace for the changing of the guard, the queen was actually out of town...and the band was playing "dancing queen."
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