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April 23 1859
Beating a rival publisher by a mere 20 minutes, William Byers distributes the first newspaper ever published in the frontier boomtown of Denver, Colorado. |
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On April 23:
1985 - Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.) |
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April 23rd 1942 : Germans begin "Baedeker Raids" on England
http://history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6430 |
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On April 24:
1961 - The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_%28ship%29 |
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April 24th, 1980 : Hostage rescue mission ends in disaster:
http://history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=4948 |
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April 25:
1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party |
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April 26 1865:
John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. |
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April 27 1865:
An explosion on a Mississippi River steamboat kills an estimated 1,547 people, mostly Union soldiers returning home after the Civil War. Although this disaster near Memphis took a huge toll, it was barely noticed against the backdrop of the end of the Civil War, a conflict in which tens of thousands had died. |
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can't resist ...
----------------------------------------April 27, 2007 grid.org abrubtly ends their "demonstration" grid computing project. It did useful work for Oxford University for awhile, but that stopped sooner. Later workunits were of questionable validity. Many of us first crunched over there.
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April 27, 1773 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
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