martes, 12 de abril de 2011

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ON THIS DAY

April 12

On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S Truman became president.
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On April 12, 1903, Jan Tinbergen, the Dutch economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work with econometric models, was born. Following his death on June 9, 1994, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1606England adopted the Union Jack as its flag.
1861The Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
1877The catcher for Harvard's baseball team, James Tyng, wore a modified fencing mask behind the plate. It is believed to be the first time a catcher's mask was used during a game.
1955The Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective.
1961Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a safe landing.
1981The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight.
1983Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first African-American mayor.
1999U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2002Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later.)
2004Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run to tie Willie Mays for third on baseball's career list. (Bonds is now the career leader in home runs.)
2009American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. Navy snipers who shot and killed three of the hostage-takers.

Current Birthdays

Herbie Hancock, Jazz musician
Jazz musician Herbie Hancock turns 71 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
Claire Danes, Actress
Actress Claire Danes turns 32 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
1933Montserrat Caballe, Opera singer, turns 78
1942Frank Bank, Actor ("Leave it to Beaver"), turns 69
1944John Kay, Rock singer (Steppenwolf), turns 67
1946Ed O'Neill, Actor ("Married ... With Children"), turns 65
1947Tom Clancy, Author, turns 64
1947Dan Lauria, Actor ("The Wonder Years"), turns 64
1947David Letterman, Talk show host, turns 64
1949Scott Turow, Author, turns 62
1950David Cassidy, Actor, singer ("The Partridge Family"), turns 61
1956Andy Garcia, Actor, turns 55
1957Vince Gill, Country musician, turns 54
1964Amy Ray, Folk singer, musician (Indigo Girls), turns 47
1971Nicholas Brendon, Actor ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), turns 40
1971Shannen Doherty, Actress, turns 40
1979Jennifer Morrison, Actress ("House M.D."), turns 32
1987Brendon Urie, Rock musician (Panic at the Disco), turns 24
1994Saoirse Ronan, Actress ("Atonement," "The Lovely Bones"), turns 17

Historic Birthdays

74Joachim Camerarius 4/12/1500 - 4/17/1574
German Lutheran theologian
54Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford 4/12/1550 - 6/24/1604
English poet and patron of the Oxford's Men acting company
75Henry Clay 4/12/1777 - 6/29/1852
American politician; U.S. congressman and senator (1806-52)
89John Strachan 4/12/1778 - 11/1/1867
Scottish-born Canadian educator and first Anglican bishop of Toronto
85Grenville Dodge 4/12/1831 - 1/3/1916
American engineer; chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad (1866-70)
72Sir James Mackenzie 4/12/1853 - 1/26/1925
Scottish cardiologist; pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmia
93Imogen Cunningham 4/12/1883 - 6/24/1976
American photographer of plants and portraits
78Lily Pons 4/12/1898 - 2/13/1976
French coloratura soprano
78Pete Desjardins 4/12/1907 - 5/6/1985
American diver; 1928 Olympic medallist

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