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| April 1: April Fool's day April 1: First day of Passover April 1: Maundy Thursday April 2: Velcro is introduced, 1978 April 2: Dr. Demento's Birthday April 2: Good Friday April 3: Asteroid misses earth by only 500,000 miles, 1989 |
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| April 4: Easter April 4: Winston Smith commits thoughtcrime by starting a diary with the words "Down with Big Brother", 1984 April 4: Spring Forward (2 AM) April 5: Tomb-Sweeping Day in Taiwan April 6: Twinkies invented, 1930 April 6: Admiral Peary reaches North Pole but fails to locate Santa's workshop, 1909 April 7: Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD, 1943 April 7: Donald Barthelme's Birthday April 8: Buddha's birthday in Japan April 9: Civil War ends, 1865 April 9: Tom Lehrer's Birthday April 10: Buchenwald Liberation day, 1945 April 10: Paul McCartney quits the Beatles, 1970 |
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| April 11: Apollo 13 oxygen
tank rupture, 1970 April 12: David Letterman's Birthday April 12: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 April 13: Thomas Jefferson's birthday April 13: Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) April 14: Abe Lincoln assassinated, 1865 April 14: Dungeons & Dragons invented, 1974 April 14: The Titanic hits an iceberg, 11:40 pm, 1912 April 15: The Titanic sinks, 2:20 am, 1912 April 15: Taxes due! April 15: First McDonald's opens, 1955 April 17: Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961 April 18: San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 April 19: Branch Davidian compound assaulted, 1993 |
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| April 19: Oklahoma City
federal building bombing, 1995 April 19: Patriot's Day April 19: The Boston Marathon April 20: 420 Day: A day of protest by potsmokers, in Oklahoma and elsewhere, among whom "420" is a code word for the smoking of marijuana. April 21: Taurus phase starts April 21: Secretary's Day April 22: Earth Day April 22: Take our Daughters to Work day April 23: New Coke debuts, 1985 April 24: Loss of Vladimir Komarov in Soyuz 1 parachute system failure, 1967 |
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| April 25: Launch of Hubble
Space Telescope aboard Discovery, 1990 April 26: Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, 1986 April 28: Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789 April 29: Jerry Seinfeld's birthday April 29: Rodney King verdict riots, 1992 April 30: Beltane April 30: Hilter's suicide, 1945 April 30: National Arbor Day |
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| May 1: May Day May 1: The Kentucky Derby May 1: The million marijuana march, in New York City |
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| May 3: Lumpy Rug Day: a day
to encourage the custom of teasing bigots for shoving unwelcome
facts under the rug May 4: Four Kent State students shot by the National Guard, 1970 May 4: Manhattan bought for $24 worth of junk jewelry, 1626 May 5: Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) May 5: Liberation Day in the Netherlands May 5: One year until Ice: The Ultimate Disaster (5/5/2000) by R.W. Noone May 6: Burning of the Hindenburg, 1937 May 7: The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915 May 8: Joan of Arc day (France) May 8: National Bake Sale & Garage Sale day May 8: Victory in Europe Day, 1945 |
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| May 9: Sale of Birth Control
Pills approved, 1960 May 9: Mother's day May 10: Driving of Golden Spike marks completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869 May 11: Salvador Dali's Birthday May 12: National Receptionists and Grave Shift Workers day May 14: Lewis & Clark expedition begins, 1804 May 15: L. Frank Baum's Birthday May 15: Armed Forces Day |
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| May 16: Wear Purple for Peace
Day (the First Intergalactic Holiday) May 17: Rubber Bands patented, 1845 May 18: National Visit Your Relatives day May 20: Jimmy Stewart's Birthday May 21: Originally announced release date for Star Wars Episode 1 (actual release date: May 19, 1999) May 21: Gemini phase starts May 22: Great Train Robbery, 1868 |
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| May 24: Victoria day in Canada May 25: African Liberation Day May 26: Casinos first opened in Atlantic City, 1978 May 27: Pop-up toaster patented, 1919 May 28: Batman comic first published, 1939 May 29: Edmund Hillary reaches top of Mount Everest, 1953 May 30: First automobile accident, 1896 May 31: Memorial day |
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| June 1: The Beatles release
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", 1967 June 2: First White House Wedding, 1886 June 4: Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989 June 5: First AIDS case reported, 1981 June 5: World environment day |
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| June 6: National Yo-Yo day June 6: D-Day, 1944 June 8: Death of the prophet Mohammed, 632 June 9: Writer's Rights Day June 10: Maurice Sendak's birthday June 10: Six Day War ended, 1967 June 11: King Kamehameha Day in Hawaii June 12: Interracial Marriage Day June 12: Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson murdered, 1994 |
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| June 13: Pioneer 10: "The
spacecraft has left the solar system." (1983) June 14: Flag Day June 15: Magna Charta Day in England June 16: Bloomsday - Ulysses takes place on this day, 1904 June 16: Valentina Tereshkova - first woman in space, 1963 June 17: Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775 June 17: The Watergate burglary, 1972 June 18: Paul McCartney's Birthday June 18: M.C. Escher's Birthday June 19: Juneteenth (Slaves declared free in Texas, 1865) June 19: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for selling nuclear secrets, 1953 |
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| June 20: Bald Eagle Day June 20: Father's day June 20: Gemini Phase ends June 21: Cancer Phase begins June 21: First Day of Summer / Summer Solstice 3:49 pm June 21: Flag-burning ruled as Free Speech, 1989 June 22: Cross-burning ruled as Hate Crime, 1992 June 22: Doughnuts invented, 1847 June 23: John Wayne Bobbilt lives every man's worst nightmare, 1993 June 24: Midsummer's Day (A good night for dreaming) June 25: Custer's Last Stand, 1876 June 25: Official Prayers in public schools ruled unconstitutional, 1962 June 26: Bicycle patented, 1918 June 26: Patent 4,936,585 ("Method of Manipulating and Interpreting Playing Pieces") issued for Icehouse, 1990 |
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| June 27: First UFO sighting,
1947 June 27: Stonewall Inn Incident, 1969 (Patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, fought with police during a raid; considered a landmark of the modern gay rights movement) June 28: Start and End of WWI (1914-1919) June 29: Death penalty banned, 1972 (rescinded, July 2, 1976) June 30: Meteorite smashes into Siberia, 1908 June 30: Soyuz-11 Airlock Malfunction: 3 cosmonauts become first humans to die in space, 1971 |
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