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April 13 1990:
The Soviet government officially accepts blame for the Katyn Massacre of World War II, when nearly 5,000 Polish military officers were murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest. The admission was part of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's promise to be more forthcoming and candid concerning Soviet history. |
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13 April 1983
----------------------------------------Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago  |
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April 14 1865:
John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. |
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April 15, 1689:
----------------------------------------French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain |
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April 15 1912:
The RMS Titanic, billed as “unsinkable,” sinks into the icy waters of the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, killing 1,517 people. |
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April 15 1989
----------------------------------------96 Liverpool football fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster. [Edit 1 times, last edit by pcwr at Apr 15, 2009 10:42:42 PM] |
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16 April 1972:
----------------------------------------In America, NASA launces the lunar mission, Apollo 16. |
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April 16 1943:
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual sensations and hallucinations. In his notes, he related the experience: "Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away." |
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On April 17:
1970 - The astronauts of Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the Pacific, after four days in a crippled spacecraft. |
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April 17, 1704
----------------------------------------1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell |
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