March 30th in History
Vincent van Gogh is born! So are Céline Dion, M. C. Hammer, Warren Beatty, and Goya; the Queen Mother, Maxfield Parrish, and Jimmy Cagney die. Also, the Sixth Coalition takes Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate; the Crimean War ends, the US buys Alaska, Reagan is shot, and Jeopardy! premiers! Happy Pencil Day!
Read MoreApril 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!
Read MoreApril 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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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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