miércoles, 13 de abril de 2011

April 13

On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)
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On April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett, the Irish-born author, critic, and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, was born. Following his death on Dec. 22, 1989, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1598	King Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes, granting rights to the Protestant Huguenots.
1742	George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" was first performed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland.
1870	The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City.
1954	Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron made his major league debut with the Milwaukee Braves.
1964	Sidney Poitier became the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award, for "Lilies of the Field."
1970	Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.
1986	Pope John Paul II visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind.
1990	The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, a massacre the Soviets had previously blamed on the Nazis.
1997	Tiger Woods, 21, became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first person of African heritage to claim a major golf title.
1999	Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of a man whose assisted suicide in 1998 was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes."
2005	Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks.

Current Birthdays

R&B singer Al Green turns 65 years old today.

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Golfer Davis Love III turns 47 years old today.

AP Photo/Marco Garcia

1933	Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Former U.S. senator, R-Colo., turns 78
1935	Lyle Waggoner, Actor, turns 76
1939	Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet, turns 72
1937	Lanford Wilson, Playwright, turns 74
1939	Paul Sorvino, Actor, turns 72
1944	Jack Casady, Rock musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna), turns 67
1950	Ron Perlman, Actor, turns 61
1951	Peabo Bryson, R&B singer, turns 60
1951	Max Weinberg, Rock musician (E Street Band), turns 60
1957	Gary Kroeger, Actor, comedian, turns 54
1960	Bob Casey, U.S. senator, D-Pa., turns 51
1963	Gary Kasparov, Chess champion, turns 48
1964	Caroline Rhea, Actress, comedian, turns 47
1970	Ricky Schroder, Actor, turns 41

Historic Birthdays

Samuel Beckett4/13/1906 - 12/22/1989Irish-born author, critic, and playwright; won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature.Go to obituary »

40	Peter Faber 4/13/1506 - 8/1/1546 French Jesuit theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
83	Thomas Jefferson 4/13/1743 - 7/4/1826 President of the United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence
61	Sir Thomas Lawrence 4/13/1769 - 1/7/1830 English portrait painter and draftsman
80	Eli Terry 4/13/1772 - 2/26/1852 American clockmaker and an innovator in mass production
59	Sir William Benett 4/13/1816 - 2/1/1875 English pianist, conductor and composer
81	Martinez Gonzalez 4/13/1871 - 2/19/1952 Mexican poet, physician and diplomat
86	Gyorgy Lukacs 4/13/1885 - 6/4/1971 Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer and literary critic
77	John Hays Hammond Jr. 4/13/1888 - 2/12/1965 American inventor; developed radio remote control
81	Sir Robert Watson-Watt 4/13/1892 - 12/5/1973 Scottish physicist; knighted for his role in the development of radar
65	John Braine 4/13/1922 - 10/28/1987 English novelist; one of the "Angry Young Men"