lunes, 25 de abril de 2011

On This Day: April 25

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On April 25, 1945, the United Nations Conference on International Organization began in San Francisco.
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On April 25, 1908, Edward R. Murrow, the influential American radio and television broadcaster during the industry's early years, was born. Following his death on April 27, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1792	Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by guillotine.
1859	Ground was broken for the Suez Canal.
1874	Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy.
1898	The United States declared war on Spain.
1901	New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.
1915	Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of World War I.
1945	U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.
1945	Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.
1959	The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.
1990	Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua, ending 11 years of leftist Sandinista rule.
1990	The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery.
1992	Islamic forces took control of most of the Afghan capital Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
2007	The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time, ending the day at 13,089.89.

Current Birthdays

Actor Al Pacino turns 71 years old today.

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Actress Renee Zellweger turns 42 years old today.

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1930	Paul Mazursky, Actor, director, turns 81
1932	Meadowlark Lemon, Basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), turns 79
1933	Jerry Leiber, Songwriter, turns 78
1942	Jon Kyl, U.S. senator, R-Ariz., turns 69
1945	Bjorn Ulvaeus, Singer (ABBA), turns 66
1946	Talia Shire, Actress, turns 65
1964	Hank Azaria, Actor, turns 47
1967	Jane Clayson, TV host, turns 44
1969	Gina Torres, Actress, turns 42
1970	Jason Lee, Actor ("My Name is Earl"), turns 41
1976	Tim Duncan, Basketball player, turns 35
1988	Sara Paxton, Actress, turns 23

Historic Birthdays

Edward R. Murrow4/25/1908 - 4/27/1965American radio and television broadcaster.Go to obituary »

59	Oliver Cromwell 4/25/1599 - 9/3/1658 English soldier and statesman; Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1653-8)
53	Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky 4/25/1840(O.S.) - 10/25/1893(O.S.) Russian composer
90	John Frank Stevens 4/25/1853 - 6/2/1943 American chief civil engineer of the Panama Canal (1905-7)
89	Howard Garis 4/25/1873 - 11/6/1962 American creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories
63	Guglielmo Marconi 4/25/1874 - 7/20/1937 Italian Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor (1909)
58	Wolfgang Pauli 4/25/1900 - 12/15/1958 Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1945)
91	William Brennan 4/25/1906 - 7/24/1997 American associate justice of the Supreme Court (1956-90)
82	Claude Mauriac 4/25/1914 - 3/22/1996 French novelist, journalist and critic
79	Ella Fitzgerald 4/25/1917 - 6/15/1996 American jazz singer