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Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 18 April 30, 2012 Page: 5
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                         Today in History
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Today in History
By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net

One of neat things you saw on BBS systems in 90's was the "Today in History
Door".  I've been working on one for my bbs, and hopefully that task will be
done sooner than later :)

In the meantime though, I've started pulling in some data that I can use for
the door data files.  Here's a collection for April 30th:

Today's Famous Dates in History

APRIL 30th:

0030 - Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. 0311 - The Diocletianic Persecution of
Christians in the Roman
       Empire ends.
0313 - Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II
       and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
0313 - Licinius unified the whole of the eastern empire under his
       own rule.
1006 - Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded
       history, appears in the constellation Lupus.
1250 - King Louis IX of France was ransomed for one million
       dollars.
1492 - Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of
       exploration.
1527 - Henry VIII and King Francis of France signed the treaty of
       Westminster.
1563 - All Jews were expelled from France by order of Charles VI. 1725 - Spain
withdrew from Quadruple Alliance. 1789 - George Washington took office as first
elected U.S.
       president.
1803 - The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for
       $15 million.
1812 - Louisiana admitted as the 18th U.S. state. 1849 - The republican patriot
and guerrilla leader Giuseppe
       Garabaldi repulsed a French attack on Rome.
1864 - Work began on the Dams along the Red River. The work would
       allow Union General Nathaniel Banks' troops to sail over the
       rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana.
1889 - George Washington's inauguration became the first U.S.
       national holiday.
1900 - Hawaii was organized as an official U.S. territory. 1900 - Casey Jones
was killed while trying to save the runaway
       train "Cannonball Express."
1927 - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first
       celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's
       Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1930 - The Soviet Union proposed a military alliance with France
       and Great Britain.
1939 - The first railroad car equipped with fluorescent lights was
       put into service.  The train car was known as the "General
       Pershing Zephyr."
1939 - Lou Gehrig played his last game with the New York Yankees. 1940 - Belle
Martell was licensed in California by state boxing
       officials.  She was the first American woman, prizefight
       referee.
1943 - The British submarine HMS Seraph dropped 'the
       man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false
       invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been
       married for one day.  One week later Germany surrendered
       unconditionally.
1945 - Arthur Godfrey began his CBS radio morning show "Arthur
       Godfrey Time." It ran until this day in 1972.
1947 - The name of Boulder Dam, in Nevada, was changed back to
       Hoover Dam.
1948 - The Organization of American States held its first meeting
       in Bogota, Colombia.
1953 - The British West Indian colonies agreed on the formation of
       the British Caribbean Federation that would eventually become a
       self-governing unit in the British Commonwealth.
1964 - The FCC ruled that all TV receivers should be equipped to
       receive both VHF and UHF channels.
1968 - U.S. Marines attacked a division of North Vietnamese in the
       village of Dai Do.
1970 - U.S. troops invaded Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese
       Army base areas.  The announcement by U.S.  President Nixon led
       to widespread protests.
1972 - The North Vietnamese launched an invasion of the South. 1973 - U.S.
President Nixon announced resignation of Haldeman,
       Ehrlichman, and other top aides.
1975 - Communists North Vietnamese troops entered the Independence
       Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon.  11 Marines lifted off of
       the U.S.  Embassy were the last soldiers to evacuate.
1980 - Terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London. 1984 - U.S. President
Reagan signed cultural and scientific
       agreements with China.  He also signed a tax accord that would
       make it easier for American companies to operate in China.
1991 - An estimated 125,000 people were killed in a cyclone that
       hit Bangladesh.
1993 - Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a tennis match
       in Hamburg, Germany.  The man called himself a fan of second-
       ranked Steffi Graf.  He was convicted of causing grievous
       bodily harm and received a suspended sentence.
1998 - NATO was expanded to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech
       Republic.  The three nations were formally admitted the
       following April at NATO's 50th anniversary summit.
1998 - United and Delta airlines announced their alliance that
       would give them control of 1/3 of all U.S.  passenger seats.
1998 - In the U.S., Federal regulators fined a contractor $2.25
       million for improper handling of oxygen canisters on ValuJet
       that crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1996.
2002 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was overwhelmingly
       approved for another five years as president.

I'm going to try to start going through older Fidonews issues as well, for a
"Today in Fidonet History" door.  That should take a while to collect data and
organize it though :)



FIDONEWS  Vol 29 No 18           Page  5         April 30, 2012





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