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Post by dirtygirldiva on Mar 20, 2009 19:28:36 GMT
1975 - Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
May 3
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Post by peach on Mar 20, 2009 22:50:57 GMT
3 May 1903, Bing Crosby ( aka Harry Lillis Crosby) singer/actor born in Tacoma WA.
10 June
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Mar 21, 2009 11:52:28 GMT
10 June 2002 - the first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans was carried out by Kevin Warwick in the UK.
21 March
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Post by peach on Mar 24, 2009 2:21:43 GMT
21 March 1969, John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton).
1 April
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Mar 24, 2009 15:21:37 GMT
April Fools Day!
Tower of Pisa: The Dutch television news reported once in the 1950s that the Tower of Pisa had fallen over. Many shocked people contacted the station.
June 17
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Mar 24, 2009 17:00:54 GMT
17 June 1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
23 January
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Mar 25, 2009 17:34:45 GMT
On January 23, 1863, the Washington Territorial Legislature establishes the county of Ferguson, more or less in the location of present-day Yakima and Kittitas counties.
6 March
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Mar 26, 2009 11:11:58 GMT
6 March 1964 - Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1 August
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Mar 26, 2009 15:50:47 GMT
30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
October 30
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Mar 27, 2009 10:23:49 GMT
30 Oct 1925, John Logie Baird created Britain's first television transmitter.
29 March
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Post by peach on Mar 28, 2009 3:32:09 GMT
29 March 1989, the junk bond king Michael Milken, was indicted in New York for racketeering, (some things never change)
30 April
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Mar 28, 2009 11:36:46 GMT
On 30 April 1927, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Graumann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
1 July
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Post by peach on Mar 31, 2009 1:12:07 GMT
1 July 1898, Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
7 September
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Mar 31, 2009 19:04:23 GMT
7 Sep 1979, the Chrysler Corporation asked the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy. (Some things never change, Part 2)
15 February
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Post by peach on Apr 4, 2009 2:45:57 GMT
15 February 1965, John Lennon passes his driving test.
21 July
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