sábado, 2 de abril de 2011

April 1

On April 1, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa during World War II.

On April 1, 1884, Florence Blanchfield, an American nurse who was the first woman to become a fully ranked officer of the U.S. Army, was born. Following her death on May 12, 1971, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1789	The U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York City; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first speaker.
1853	Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first U.S. city to pay its firefighters a regular salary.
1873	Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in Russia.
1918	Britain's Royal Air Force was established.
1933	Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
1960	The first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral.
1970	President Richard Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV.
1984	Singer Marvin Gaye, 44, was shot to death by his father.
1987	In his first major speech on the epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1999	A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 million computers worldwide.
2001	Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour armed standoff with police at his Belgrade villa.
2003	American troops rescued Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, where she had been held prisoner since her unit was ambushed nine days earlier.
2008	The Pentagon made public a legal memo dated March 14, 2003, that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President George W. Bush's wartime authority trumped any international ban on torture.
2009	Benjamin Netanyahu took office as Israel's prime minister for a second time.

Current Birthdays

Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff turns 63 years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer

Hillary Scott, Country singer (Lady Antebellum)

Country singer Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) turns 27 years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

1928	Jane Powell, Actress, turns 83
1932	Debbie Reynolds, Actress, turns 79
1938	Ali MacGraw, Actress, turns 73
1939	Rudolph Isley, R&B singer (The Isley Brothers), turns 72
1939	Phil Niekro, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 72
1947	David Eisenhower, Grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, turns 64
1949	Gil Scott-Heron, Jazz keyboardist, turns 62
1950	Samuel Alito, Supreme Court justice, turns 61
1952	Annette O'Toole, Actress, turns 59
1953	Barry Sonnenfeld, Director, turns 58
1971	Method Man, Rapper, turns 40
1973	Rachel Maddow, Broadcast journalist, turns 38
1982	Sam Huntington, Actor, turns 29

Historic Birthdays

Florence Blanchfield4/1/1884 - 5/12/1971American nurse and army officer.Go to obituary »

79	William Harvey 4/1/1578 - 6/3/1657 English physician; developed theory of blood circulation
61	Jean-Etienne Portalis 4/1/1746 - 8/25/1807 French lawyer; helped draft Napoleonic Code
83	Otto von Bismarck 4/1/1815 - 7/30/1898 German statesman; first chancellor of German Empire (1871-90)
58	Jorge Isaacs 4/1/1837 - 4/17/1895 Colombian poet and novelist
59	Edwin Austin Abbey 4/1/1852 - 8/1/1911 American-English painter and illustrator
50	Edmond Rostand 4/1/1868 - 12/2/1918 French dramatist; wrote "Cyrano de Bergerac"
69	Sergey Rachmaninoff 4/1/1873 - 3/28/1943 Russian composer and piano virtuoso
56	Edgar Wallace 4/1/1875 - 2/10/1932 English novelist, playwright, and journalist
47	Lon Chaney 4/1/1883 - 8/26/1930 American silent film actor
60	Whittaker Chambers 4/1/1901 - 7/9/1961 American journalist; accuser in the Alger Hiss case