February 7th in History

Pinocchio premiers, NeXT merges with Apple, and Mississippi outlaws slavery! Sir Thomas More, John Deere, Charles Dickens, Buster Crabbe, and Chris Rock are born; Henry Steinway and Anne Morrow Lindbergh die. Happy e Day!

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April 23rd in History

New Coke is released! (It does not go well.) It's the birthday of Max Planck, Shirley Temple, Roy Orbison, Sandra Dee, and Timothy McVeigh; Saint George, Aethelred the Unready, William Shakespeare, Buster Crabbe, and Boris Yeltsin died. Happy Vinalia Urbana!

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April 24th in History

Always look a gift horse in the mouth! Troy falls to the Greeks and Annie Oakley joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. It's the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Sue Grafton, and Barbra Streisand; Daniel Defoe, Bud Abbott, and Wallis Simpson die. Happy Kapyong Day!

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April 25th in History

Off with their heads! First execution by guillotine, Battle of Gallipoli begins, and Crick and Watson publish the double helix structure of DNA. It's the birthday of Oliver Cromwell, Marconi, Edward R. Murrow, Ella Fitzgerald, Meadowlark Lemon, and Al Pacino; Ginger Rogers and Bobby "Boris" Pickett die. Happy World Penguin Day!

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